@SFRuminations I’ve always wanted a good rendering of what it would be like to stand on #LarryNiven’s #ringworld’s surface. No artist’s impression or 3D #render I have been able to find has given me the experience I want; the ones that try to be physically accurate always seem to be rendered from a few thousand k’s above the surface. I want ground level, both in a lower flat-ish area and from a normal mountain. I want to see the horizon tilting up in the spinward and, er, widdershins directions, and the wall mountains to the sides. I want to see this from near the middle and nearer an edge. Surely these days this is possible!
At last: Scavengers Reign is coming on Max in October!
(no precise dates yet)
"When the Demeter ship suddenly reroutes and disappears, all passengers are presumed dead. Little do they know that there are survivors stranded on a mysterious foreign planet."
There’s a giant turtle, but no elephants. There’s a Broken Drum, but it’s in space. And there’s something wrong with the sky - but that one’s on us, we crashed our spaceship into it...
In #Ringworld , Larry Niven uses the Fleet of Worlds as a demonstration of a Klemperer rosette, which the reader is left believing is a long-term dynamically stable system, but it's not. Any slight instability will result in the collapse of the system.
Because it's the first "Universal Game Engine" released under the free #ORC license, the new #BasicRoleplaying is poised to become the #Linux / open source software of the #TTRPG world. You can do almost whatever you like with the text of the book, including copy it, subject to the license.
I love #GURPS too, but it's not free & open the way #BRP is - yet.
The closest I get to #BRP these days is #DeltaGreen. I keep eyeing up Pendragon again, and also #FriaLigan’s #Dragonbane which is plumbing the same roots.