Frontier summaries
Summary: The basic setting assumes that players are highly skilled, highly motivated members of the Explorer division of Human Unity,...
Frontier: History of the Future
In the first half of the twentieth century, humanity discovered, developed and weaponised nuclear fission. Through a small amount of...
Frontier: man and machine
While the scientists of Human Unity have pushed the frontiers of science and innovation further than any of their ancestors,...
The Morality of AI
On the Morality of AI (from an rPG net thread about Eclipse Phase “Their morality may seem alien because we...
Gallifreyans do it in Time…
Wired writes about Gallifreyan incest: “Doctor Who star David Tennant is currently dating Georgia Moffett — the actress who portrayed...
Erick Wujick has passed away
Kevin Siembieda writes: “Erick passed away as gentle as a snowflake.” That’s how Kay Kozora, Erick’s ‘Beautiful Kate’ of nearly...
Frontier Swarmtech
Swarmtech is the application of robotics to nanotech principles. Nanotech is used extensively in molecular replicators – large immobile devices...
Frontier: other machine intelligences
Emotional Machines While they are not beings of pure logic, Experts cannot claim to have emotions. They do not get...
Questions about Frontier
Back in the day, Eamon, Colin and I did spend some time discussing the concepts a long time ago but...
Citizen: a skill?
In our BRP-based Runequest game, Michael has asked a few times for rolls on ‘Gloranthan Lore’ and ‘Human Lore’ so...
Frontier: opening the book
I find myself thinking a lot about Frontier these days. (It’s probably because I have some self-imposed deadlines for ‘Illusion’...
COPS – Japan Stylee
Eamon, a technologist in the area of Cybernetics I know[1], posted this: “If you peruse Japanese foreign-resident forums you’ll read...
M&M2e: hero or zero?
Mutants and Masterminds gets a lot of airplay on the internet forums: any time someone asks about superhero games, a...
Transhumanism
In 1966, Transhuman was defined by F. M. Esfandiary (later, FM-2030) as: included physical and mental augmentations including prostheses, reconstructive...
Current games in development
As mentioned a few posts ago, here is a list of the games that have gone through our idea filter...
War of the Worlds: Earth concept art
Which do people like more? (See the comments for more info)
D&D 4th Edition – A lazy blog post
I decided to just post verbatim an IM conversation between the two of us about D&D 4th Edition. I make...
Lucky Ringo
Greg Stolze writes on his web page: What I learned … is that the best creative partnerships are the ones...
The 23rd Letter: in film?
Back in late 2006, I got a bit of a shock. Maybe you do as I do but I like...
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