Worlds Beyond

[Conrad]

Originally Posted by Dredj

Oh. Btw, do the people at Chaosium read this forum much? I hope I'm not being too forward?

Dredj, you could always try e mailing Chaosium. I read a post on yogsothoth.com that said that it was none other than Frank Shewmake, the author of Worlds Beyond that told Chaosium about a box of unsold product he had. So the author might be contactable through Chaosium.

[ronnyquest]

Wow, I thought I was the only person who still remembers this game! I got a copy in 1989 from a friend and it has been one of my favorites since that time. Too bad there isn't any support material for the game.

[Dredj]

Originally Posted by Conrad

Dredj, you could always try e mailing Chaosium. I read a post on yogsothoth.com that said that it was none other than Frank Shewmake, the author of Worlds Beyond that told Chaosium about some boxes of unsold product he had. So the author might be contactable through Chaosium.

Thank you. I just might contact them very soon.

[Dredj]

Originally Posted by ronnyquest

Wow, I thought I was the only person who still remembers this game! I got a copy in 1989 from a friend and it has been one of my favorites since that time. Too bad there isn't any support material for the game.

Maybe you can email Chaosium, too

[Conrad]

Originally Posted by Dredj

Maybe you can email Chaosium, too

Dredj, did anything come of this?

[GerallKahla]

I've bought a copy of Worlds Beyond, and had to make a roll on the Resistance table for it's dated art.

Fortunately, I made it!

However, the *content* of the book is really cool. Maybe someone could commission some new art?

Very interested in hearing about contact with the authors!

[Simlasa]

I don't recall having much aversion to the art... it was nothing fancy but it didn't look like it came out of teenager's notebook either (yes, I'm aware some teenagers are very talented artists).

Mostly it reminded me of LBB Traveller... where the art, if there was any, was pretty utilitarian but seldom absolutely hideous.

I'd like to see Worlds Beyond get a new lease on life... but I kind of doubt there is much of an audience for it that isn't already satisfied with some version of Traveller.
The rest of the science fiction crowd is either on to transhuman backgrounds... or space-fantasy stuff like Dark Heresy and Fading Suns (I myself am impatiently awaiting more news about Interplanetary).

[rust]

Originally Posted by Simlasa

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I'd like to see Worlds Beyond get a new lease on life... but I kind of doubt there is much of an audience for it that isn't already satisfied with some version of Traveller.

I like and use both systems, BRP and Traveller, and I will "translate" the
excellent character generation lifepath system of Mongoose Traveller into
BRP as soon as the German edition of MGT has been published.

From what I did read on other forums, there are at least some people with
similar ideas, and who also would very much welcome something like an
updated Worlds Beyond as additional material for their SF roleplaying with
both BRP and Traveller.

[Dredj]

Originally Posted by Conrad

Dredj, did anything come of this?

Sorry, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Chaosium would've done something on their own with it. I don't think my input would have made much difference. We probably would need to petition them, or something, for the game to be released again

[Trifletraxor]

Originally Posted by rust

I like and use both systems, BRP and Traveller, and I will "translate" the excellent character generation lifepath system of Mongoose Traveller into BRP as soon as the German edition of MGT has been published.

Can you explain a bit about the char-gen lifepath system?

SGL.