Agentorange Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Saw these mentioned in another thread and was sufficiently intrigued to buy. Forked out the extra cash for the POD version ( four books rolled into one ) which arrived today. Obviously haven't had much time to leaf through the book but so far I must say I'm very impressed. I've started reading the first one: Atomik Alienz and it's pretty good. It's not just a bunch of alien race stats, but a whole primer on planetary types, possible life form types, methods of movement, technology etc etc.. To give you a flavour here's a listing of topics covered in chapter one of Alienz ALL THESE WORLDS Galaxies like grains of sand The milky way Drakes equation Abundant life Stellar classification Planetary orbital dynamics The biozone Planetary attributes Planetary classifications The moon and sixpence Multi star system and there's four more chapters after that: Children of the stars, Alien civilisations, Xenobiogenesis, Alien races. And thats just the Aliens supplement. I can forsee some serious reading in the near future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pulpcitizen Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Any links or more general description about what these books are for, who publishes them and what they are compatible with? Any links? Quote Very slowly working towards completing my monograph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies2720 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 You can get them at www.pigames.net I bought the Magick (hate that spelling) and Grimoire books. I've only skimmed them, but already can tell that a lot of effort has gone into them. Organization also looks pretty good, but more of a review than that will have to wait until I have more time -- probably my next life. Steve Quote Bathalians, the newest UberVillians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threedeesix Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Any links or more general description about what these books are for, who publishes them and what they are compatible with? Any links? Years ago they started out as fan supplements for the Fuzion game system. Even those early version were very detailed and well thought out. After the author decided to go commercial with them he pulled all the Fuzion stats and made them generic, adding lots of additional stuff. I still own all the Fuzion versions but never picked up the generic stuff. But if the early stuff is any indication, they are well worth any reasonable investment. 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...
Nightshade Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Years ago they started out as fan supplements for the Fuzion game system. Even those early version were very detailed and well thought out. After the author decided to go commercial with them he pulled all the Fuzion stats and made them generic, adding lots of additional stuff. I still own all the Fuzion versions but never picked up the generic stuff. But if the early stuff is any indication, they are well worth any reasonable investment. Rod I also only have the Fuzion versions, but I'd tend to generally concur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skarl Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I believe it was me who brought these up and I really have to endorse the magic supplements for a fantasy game, these are the only Atomik add-ons that I own, but they are extremely helpful and give you a plethora of useful spells. Quote **************************************** But, when at the last the arm of Skarl shall cease to beat his drum, silence shall startle Pegana like thunder in a cave, and MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI shall cease to rest......Lord Dunsany Responsible for: https://ancientvaults.wordpress.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightshade Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Though as I mentioned in that thread, one should be aware that Atomik Magik is biased away from what we would consider tactical magic, in that only "hung" spells will typically be castable fast enough to be useful in combat unless you use a faster casting speed than the minimum case they mention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skarl Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 True, Nightshade. I use the 1st column for spell times with Prolonged varying as a ritual. This allows for a faster casting time and is a quick fix to spells taking more time to cast than we are generally used to. Quote **************************************** But, when at the last the arm of Skarl shall cease to beat his drum, silence shall startle Pegana like thunder in a cave, and MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI shall cease to rest......Lord Dunsany Responsible for: https://ancientvaults.wordpress.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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