threedeesix Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Looks interesting... I wonder if they'll be available at a LFGS... Yup, I just told my FLGS to order them all as they come out for me. He'd getting them through Alliance Games Distribution. Rod Quote Join my Mythras/RuneQuest 6: Classic Fantasy Yahoo Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RQCF/info "D100 - Exactly 5 times better than D20" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trifletraxor Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hi Jason, how is the project going? Do you still expect to be finished in late April? Have playtesting started up? SGL. Quote Ef plest master, this mighty fine grub! 116/420. High Priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hi Jason, how is the project going? Do you still expect to be finished in late April? Have playtesting started up? Still writing content. Maybe May is more reasonable to expect, but that'll mostly be due to the time playtesting scenarios. Not yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaira Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hi Jason, Glad to hear Interplanetary is proceeding. Did you ever come across Leigh Brackett's work before? I'd never heard of her, and just got hold of a copy of her "Seas of Mars" in the Fantasy Masterworks series. Haven't read it yet, but it looks like classic pulp-era Sword & Planet stuff. Just thought I'd mention it just in case - I've also just "discovered" Clark Ashton Smith at my wizened age, believe it or not, and am having a ball (not that's he's Sword & Planet, mind ;-)). It's funny - I guess through him being fairly out of print for so long I'd just never come across him before. Same with Leigh Brackett - thanks be for series like Fantasy Masterworks! Cheers, Sarah Quote "The Worm Within" - the first novel for The Chronicles of Future Earth, coming 2013 from Chaosium, Inc. Website: http://sarahnewtonwriter.com | Twitter: @SarahJNewton | Facebook: TheChroniclesOfFutureEarth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Hi Jason, Glad to hear Interplanetary is proceeding. Did you ever come across Leigh Brackett's work before? I'd never heard of her, and just got hold of a copy of her "Seas of Mars" in the Fantasy Masterworks series. Haven't read it yet, but it looks like classic pulp-era Sword & Planet stuff. Just thought I'd mention it just in case - I've also just "discovered" Clark Ashton Smith at my wizened age, believe it or not, and am having a ball (not that's he's Sword & Planet, mind ;-)). It's funny - I guess through him being fairly out of print for so long I'd just never come across him before. Same with Leigh Brackett - thanks be for series like Fantasy Masterworks! Cheers, Sarah I'm somewhat familiar with Brackett's work, but don't currently have copies (and alas, the Fantasy Masterworks line isn't easily available in the States). I believe I've seen her works are online somewhere like Project Gutenberg, but can't remember where exactly. I am more familiar with CAS, though I agree he's not exactly applicable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tal Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I'm somewhat familiar with Brackett's work, but don't currently have copies (and alas, the Fantasy Masterworks line isn't easily available in the States). Amazon has Sea Kings and otherworldy tales used. It's a good book. I would also recomend the Ginger Star trilogy that was collected in the Book of Skaith. S.M. Stirling's Sky People is a good read as well. His next one, In the Court of the Crimson Kings, set on Mars is out around the begining of April. Quote 141/420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightlamp Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Planetary Romance is one of my favorite fiction genres. Interplanetary sounds fantastic, I'll definitely be ordering this! :thumb: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grif Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 1920s space flight? Stephen Baxter had a British astronaut from an alternate world state that the first manned orbital flight lifted off from Ceylon in the twenties; just suppose that the British Interplanetary Society had been formed a decade or so earlier, and had gotten financial backing (I'll put up links to stuff if anyone is interested). One plea: keep it fairly plausible: please use rockets, of "pulp" performance if you must, but not anti-gravity; that's already catered for with "Space:1889" and the like. I really like the idea of 1920s spaceflight; I could game out the whole history of the exploration of the pulp solar system! Grif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredj Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 1920s space flight? Stephen Baxter had a British astronaut from an alternate world state that the first manned orbital flight lifted off from Ceylon in the twenties; just suppose that the British Interplanetary Society had been formed a decade or so earlier, and had gotten financial backing (I'll put up links to stuff if anyone is interested). One plea: keep it fairly plausible: please use rockets, of "pulp" performance if you must, but not anti-gravity; that's already catered for with "Space:1889" and the like. I really like the idea of 1920s spaceflight; I could game out the whole history of the exploration of the pulp solar system! Grif That would be interesting to have rules for movement in areas where there is no gravity--except for spinning the spacecraft around. Might make for some interesting fumbles>:-> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 1920s space flight? Stephen Baxter had a British astronaut from an alternate world state that the first manned orbital flight lifted off from Ceylon in the twenties; just suppose that the British Interplanetary Society had been formed a decade or so earlier, and had gotten financial backing (I'll put up links to stuff if anyone is interested). One plea: keep it fairly plausible: please use rockets, of "pulp" performance if you must, but not anti-gravity; that's already catered for with "Space:1889" and the like. I really like the idea of 1920s spaceflight; I could game out the whole history of the exploration of the pulp solar system! Grif Apparently you're not familiar with the genre this sourcebook is about. Words like plausible aren't remotely applicable to interplanetary adventure stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grif Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Sorry, I shouldn't be trying to dictate your vision of what the game should be about. All I'm asking for is Flash Gordon-style rocketships! I've read a fair bit of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Moorcock, Lin Carter, etc; you might be interested in this upcoming comic: Perils on Planet X Production Blog But, returning to the rocketships bit, what I'd like is a bit Leigh Brackett; action takes place on weird planets, swords more usual than guns, but there are spaceports, perhaps one per world, some adventurers get to rove about the solar system... Grif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredj Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I'm really looking forward to Interplanetary. I was just wondering: will there be "Create Your Alien" and "Create Your Own Spacecraft" sections in the rule book? I'm with Grif, too, on allowing the characters being able to zip around the solar system. Will there be any rules for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 I was just wondering: will there be "Create Your Alien" and "Create Your Own Spacecraft" sections in the rule book? Neither of these are planned. I'm with Grif, too, on allowing the characters being able to zip around the solar system. Will there be any rules for that? What kind of rules outside the BRP core book do you think would be essential for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredj Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Neither of these are planned. What kind of rules outside the BRP core book do you think would be essential for that? For some reason I had Planetary Romance confused with Space Opera:p But having things like ion storms and whatnot that could force the characters to land on a strange planet--or that they must persevere through to get to the strange planet of their choice--might be interesting. Maybe even throw in some weird effects like the characters start growing extra limbs>:-> Anyway, I will still be buying it when it comes out as I remember really enjoying Edgar Rice Burroughs's mars stories. And fantasy settings on other planets are great, as the skies the limit in what can be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threedeesix Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I think the main thing is in Planetary Romance/Adventure, how you get there is not important and the campaign really doesn't begin until your on the other world. There are many other possibilities of course but that would seem to be the most common. Rod Quote Join my Mythras/RuneQuest 6: Classic Fantasy Yahoo Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/RQCF/info "D100 - Exactly 5 times better than D20" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Last Conformist Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 I do think it's a bit odd to call a planetary romance game Interplanetary - the name suggests a focus on being between planets, ie. in space. Quote The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges - things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids - ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 I do think it's a bit odd to call a planetary romance game Interplanetary - the name suggests a focus on being between planets, ie. in space. The genre is also called interplanetary adventure, interplanetary romance, interplanetary stories, etc. I didn't necessarily want to use the "romance" label because the term is a bit dated, and I liked the punchiness of a one-word title. Planetary, however, has already been used for a long-running comic from DC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rust Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 I didn't necessarily want to use the "romance" label ... I am glad you did not use it, at least here in Germany "romance" is nowadays used for "love stories" only ... Quote "Mind like parachute, function only when open." (Charlie Chan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Last Conformist Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 The genre is also called interplanetary adventure, interplanetary romance, interplanetary stories, etc. . Unhelpfully so, I would argue, because the action is largely surface-bound (I suppose we might call it "epiplanetary" if we're hellbent for big word classicism). But my point is that the literal meaning of "interplanetary" is misleading. Someone reading, say, the title of this thread may quite naturally assume the name refers directly to the subject matter rather than to a genre label. I can't help but think this faciliated previous posters jumping to the conclusion the genre is space opera. Quote The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges - things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids - ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 As the book will feature: a) a campaign in which the characters are pitched in a dangerous battle across the solar system, including a stop on each planet and a cover undoubtedly featuring a iron-thewed warrior in jeweled battle harness, fighting a towering alien under an exotic sky ...I think the title is still appropriate. Remember that I've said there will be some space travel, it just won't be a focus, and it certainly won't involve (as I've said) teams of jumpsuited space corps officers rocketing around in a ship in defense of the Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rust Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 But my point is that the literal meaning of "interplanetary" is misleading. Someone reading, say, the title of this thread may quite naturally assume ... the genre is space opera. Not really, because true Space Opera would be "interstellar" ... Quote "Mind like parachute, function only when open." (Charlie Chan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredj Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Got any artwork to show us? Is there a lot of skin showing?>:-> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted May 12, 2008 Author Share Posted May 12, 2008 Got any artwork to show us? Is there a lot of skin showing?>:-> I'm just doing the words on this one, and I usually keep my clothes on when I write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredj Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 I'm just doing the words on this one, and I usually keep my clothes on when I write. Hehehe:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted May 12, 2008 Author Share Posted May 12, 2008 I'm just doing the words on this one, and I usually keep my clothes on when I write. Hehehe:lol: By "clothes", of course, I mean my bejeweled Martian battle-harness with concealed clasp-knife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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