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A game I suggested in http://www.eclipsephase.com/gm-screen-art-adventure-inspiration but perhaps best handled as its own thread: post a link to a picture, and write a short EP adventure synopsis, scene or gadget based on it. Some starters: ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2011-07-22 15:31 - 59 comments - 0 attachments

A small adventure idea, that can be played for laughs or dead serious. "Scholars say that all stories can be boiled down to three basic archetypes: 1. The voyage and the return. 2. A stranger comes to town. 3. Spaghetti can suddenly talk." ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-04-14 17:07 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

Another fun trick for quantum communications: retroactively enabling or disabling them. This is a real experiment, not just neat math: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/decision-to-entangle-effects-results-of-measurements-taken-beforeh ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-04-24 19:02 - 43 comments - 0 attachments

This scenario is based on one or more of the PCs having a serious but not too individually powerful enemy. The kind of enemy that gets added during character creation and then is promptly forgotten. Until, in this case, they send a posthumous revenge. ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-02-01 18:31 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Meat-eating furniture: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/07/133432897/meat-eating-furniture?sc=fb&cc=fp Biotech furniture of course requires sustenance... and not all of it is vegetarian. Re: Hungry furniture This. is. aw ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2011-02-09 14:43 - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Here is a short story by Paul Di Filippo about copyright, gerontocrats and murder. Obvious material for a little EP scenario: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2012/pdf1205.htm (Off Topic) ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-05-03 15:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Mars has some cool landforms, including spirals a 100 feet across: http://io9.com/5904905/why-are-there-spirals-on-the-surface-of-mars http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6080/449 The location is south-east of Elysium, just around ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-04-27 06:46 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Sometimes it is useful to have a quote, piece of dialog or turn of phrase as GM when describing things. This thread is for them. To start, from today's Schlock mercenary: - So i'm to go under the knife next, then? - No knife. Just nannies [ ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-12-04 07:47 - 22 comments - 0 attachments

I just came across the Wikipedia page for The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou and realized it would make a great name for a ship. Just before that I was looking at the Chain of Pappus , which might be a good leather bar for mathematicians. Of ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-03-26 15:58 - 6 comments - 0 attachments

Here is my writeup of the gatecrashing campaign I ran for the past few months: http://www.aleph.se/EclipsePhase/The%20Gate%20War.pdf Comments welcome. There is always room for improvement. Re: The Gate War Oh yeah. Thank you, Aren ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2012-04-13 19:09 - 17 comments - 0 attachments