No worries, was just seeing how the thread went. I think its one of those, the PCs come in and slow find out what the world is, or its a moot point, since they are magic users and its all magic to them. But someone from a SG1 or like team, or adventurers, it could be more than just that..
Dysen sphere for traveller or like RPGaming, but for a Doc Who or Sliders, alternate dimension or pocket one or ... Mike On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike replied to one of his old posts: > > Deus Ex Machine or a pocket dimension? Got some ideas on both. > > > > First is just "its exists cause I want it to exist". I being GOD aka > Deus.. > > Its a common ploy in Role Play Gaming, to make things happen that > logically > > should not have happened, but .. the person running the same did not see > or > > did not want to happen. Like their favorite Non Player Character dying, > it > > should not have happened, there for it did not happen and I don't care > what > > you the players thing, he was not killed, just wounded. (Knight of > Knee??). > > > > Pocket Dimension, hum.. Looped space time? > > > > Mike > > Hello Mike, > > I don't think I understand what you're talking about, especially since > the original thread is eight years old. I've saved mails from the last > century, too, but I only get them out when somebody asks. > > A deus ex machina is an unexpected out-of-context intervention to solve > the plot. The name comes from the special effects to get an ancient god > onto the stage. > > A dyson sphere is an artificial shell around a star, usually with some > sort of habitable inner surface. It is an enclosed setting, but the > surface area is enormous. Think of Niven's Ringworld -- a dyson sphere > has orders of magnitude more surface, even if not all can be used. > > Pocket universes differ in size, but the typical example is rather > small -- a couple of rooms, perhaps a garden. The TARDIS, or Death's > realm in the Discworld series. There are examples of larger pocket > universes, enclosing a solar system, but for practical purposes that > is the same as an absense or failure of FTL drives. You have a system > and you can putter around, but you can't leave. > > Three quite different contexts. Megastructure, microstructure, plot > device. So what do you have in mind? Post a campaign setting, an > adventure, a couple of NPCs ... > > Regards, > Onno > > PS -- Please do not cross-post my mails to other lists. > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poetry-L/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adulthumor-L/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Abrigon-World/ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
