[e23-announce] Alterations While You Wait

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    e23 News for August 17, 2011: Alterations While You Wait
    

[image: http://e23.sjgames.com/media/AVG3700-01.jpg ]    It's always struck me that the future is either unimaginably beautiful or terrifyingly bleak. On one hand we have the shimmering cities in Star Trek with ships flying through the stars and amazing alien creatures and a post-scarcity society. On the other hand we have Mad Max and Fallout and other post-apocalyptic scenarios. The color palette tends to be a bit more limited -- brown with a bit of red and often some particularly vivid greens -- and the world is a lot more brutal. It always calls to my mind Greg Costikyan's "realistic" post-nuclear winter "game" in the back of Murphy's Rules (roll 1d6 to figure out how long it takes you to die).

The scenario in Altered Earth ( http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=AVG3700-01 )  seems to be closer to the latter future than the former. Running on the familiar Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition ( http://e23.sjgames.com/search.html?gsys=Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons%204th%20Edition )  rules, this world includes the traditional favorites: mutant-infested sewers, powerful warlords, radioactive ruins, and powerful artifacts. Give the preview ( http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=AVG3700-01-PR )  a peek if you're not quite sold!


-- Samantha Smith
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