09-18-2011, 10:00 AM
Aldarron Wrote:D'oh I totally missed that! Thanks Jeff. Skein of Destiny? I haven't heard about that. Can you enlighten?
Sorry to be off-line for so long! It's been a very busy month, with a lot going on for Tekumel...
"Skein of Destiny" was Phil's unfinished RPG that he did after EPT; it was easy to play, and reasonably clear, but was shaping up to be something like 1,000 pages long in manuscript. What he'd done was discuss a topic, then give all the players' game information, then all the GMs' game information. While the game system / game engine worked very well in playtest, it was very difficult to follow the game flow. He then stopped working on it, and reorganized the material into the three volume format that "Swords and Glory" used. Unfortunately, he also added a lot more detail to the game system, and that really obscured the game engine and the game flow. "S&G" was never finished, due to Phil's issues with Lou Zocchi, but the later "Gardasiyal" was pretty much all of the unpublished parts of "S&G".
yours, Chirine