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Jed Clayton:

Hallo.

Ich habe mir kürzlich Savage Worlds Explorer's Edition gekauft, weil ich schon so viel Gutes darüber gehört und gelesen hatte. Ich muss sagen, dass ich wirklich voll zufrieden damit bin. Ich halte SW für ein ausgezeichnet geschriebenes Regelbuch, aus vielen Gründen!

Von den offiziellen Hintergründen von Pinnacle interessiert mich am meisten das geplante "Slipstream" ...
Slipstream ist noch nicht erschienen, oder?
Auf der Website von Pinnacle (www.peginc.com) steht noch nichts dazu, nur der Titel wird ein paar mal beiläufig erwähnt. Meine Mail hat Pinnacle leider noch nicht beantwortet.

Wo finde ich News und Infos zu diesem Buch "Slipstream"? Was gibt es darüber schon an Infos, außer, dass es Sci-Fi/Space Opera sein soll und dass in der Explorer's Edition hinten das Cover zu sehen ist?

Selganor [n/a]:
Laut einem Plan von letztem Jahr soll es nach Sundered Skies erscheinen. Das Buch ist gerade "on a slow boat from china" unterwegs.

JS:
Die sollen dem Boot mal Dampf machen, denn das SciFi-Setting interessiert mich mal wieder brennend.
 ::)

Zornhau:
Mehr Information, worum es bei Slipstream überhaupt geht, findet man in der Ausgabe des SharkBytes Fanzines 1. Jahrgang, Ausgabe 2, Seite 4.


--- Zitat von: Selganor am  8.04.2008 | 08:55 ---Laut einem Plan von letztem Jahr soll es nach Sundered Skies erscheinen. Das Buch ist gerade "on a slow boat from china" unterwegs.
--- Ende Zitat ---
Du meinst mit "das Buch" sicherlich, daß die Sundered Skies Bücher unterwegs vom Druck in die Läden sind. Denn Sundered Skies soll ca. ab Mai in den Läden erhältlich sein.

Daß Slipstream überhaupt schon zum Drucker gegangen wäre, habe ich bisher noch nicht vermeldet gefunden. - Daher könnte das noch ein wenig dauern.

Dieses Jahr sollen neben Sundered Skies ja noch Weird Wars II (die Savage Worlds Ausgabe der beliebten Weird Wars II D20 Reihe von Pinnacle) und eben das besagte Slipstream herauskommen.

Zornhau:
Hier mal für diejenigen, die sich - wider Erwarten und wider ausdrückliche Empfehlung - nicht selbst diese exzellenten Fanzines für alle Savages herunterladen wollen, der Text zur Slipstream-Vorstellung vom Oktober 2004 (und, JA, dieses Setting ist neben Evernight 2 und Deadlands:Hell on Earth Reloaded wohl das LÄNGSTERWARTETSTE Savage-Setting. (Und wie die anderen beiden, also wie EN 2 und HoE:R liegt es ja schon seit Jahren geschrieben herum und modert. Gut daß es dieses Jahr endlich/hoffentlich das Licht der Rollenspielwelt erblicken darf.)

Hier der Artikel (SharkBytes ist ein frei verfügbares Fanzine. Dieser Artikel stammt aus Volume 1 (2004) Issue 2 (October) Page 4 - zu finden unter: http://www.sharkbytes.info/download.php):


--- Zitat ---Welcome to Slipstream!

A Brief Look at Life Beyond the Black Hole …

Well here it is—another teaser from Paul Williams, better known as Wiggy over on the Pinnacle Forums. You might
recognize him as the author of Pinnacle’s upcoming Savage setting book—Slipstream. If you spend any time on the PEG
Forums, you know that Wiggy likes to tease us. Well now he gets to do the same thing in the pages of Shark Bytes! So
pour a cup of coffee, sit back in your reading chair, and take a brief look at life beyond the Black Hole.
Just remember that all this stuff is subject to change pending editing and playtesting!

Hey! You with the blue fur and horns! You speak Streamer?

Great! Come over here a minute. Come on, I don't bite.
You look like you're fairly new here. You are? Well, in that
case, cash in some Slips and buy me a slug of Lil’ Brain Rot
and I'll give you a brief low down of what's what and who's
who. Time is money, so I'm gonna give you just the bare facts.
Let me introduce myself. Name's Jack Savage, but you can
call me Jack. I'm an Earthling. That means I'm from Earth, or at
least my grandpa was. No one's come from Earth since some
ark ships got sucked into a big old black hole a century back.
Me, I was born and raised on Simba. You ever been there?
Nice place, big open spaces, friendly locals. The locals? They're
called Lion Men.

They look like… you never seen a lion have you? Oh well,
they're taller than me, flat faces, furry, got these nasty
retractable claws they use for killing, and follow this strict code
of honor. My advice, don't upset one! They're cool if you treat
them right.

Anyway, here's what you need to know. Firstly, don't
worry about someone opening the doors of a rocket ship while
you're in space. Vacuum? My friend, there's no such thing as
vacuum here. Sure the air is thin and hard to breathe, but it
won't kill you. Some people can breathe the air like it's natural,
but you don't look like one of them. If you're worried, wear a
bubble helmet and buy some air tablets.

Fragments have the same gravity, no matter their size or
shape. No gravity in space though, so make sure you use
magnetic clamps or a tether, less you plan on taking up flying.
Nah, ships have got Graviton Compensators to stop you
drifting around while you're indoors. Yes, they work with the
door open. Don't worry so much. Space travel is safe, less you
meet a leviathan or space pirates of course.

This here universe is also pretty small. You can usually
reach a neighboring world in a couple of hours. 'Course, it
depends how fast your ship is. How many worlds? Well, we call
them fragments. 'cos that's what they are—fragments of bigger
worlds ripped apart by those black holes. I reckon we got
around 50 main worlds, but I've only been to half of them. You
got desert fragments, ice balls, tropical jungle, forests,
volcanoes, plains—the works! Just not on the same world. Each
fragment has a single terrain type.

Escape? I'm afraid there is no way out. A few souls try to
fly through the black hole each year, but most come back
crushed. And I don't mean mentally either. You, my friend, are
here for life.

You're gonna meet an awful lot of weirdoes. No offense
intended—you're pretty normal compared to some of the aliens
we got living here. Example? Well... the Septosians for one. A
Septosian is a giant slug with tentacles that can extend to
double their length. Makes for a nasty surprise when you're
standing ten feet away and one of them slaps you round the
face. You may also need a bubble helmet, 'cos they stink!

Worse still, they can fire off this gas that makes you heave like
you were pulling a loop at full speed.

Don't get caught by the Queen's agents. You never heard
of her! Man, you are new. Listen, she is bad news with a capital
EVIL. She's the big boss around here. Takes what she wants,
when she wants, especially males. Why? Damned if I know, but
I ain't volunteering to find out. No one knows where she lives,
and it's best kept that way. You go looking for trouble here and
you'll find it.

She's got three main types of followers. Topping the list are
the Handmaidens. These bitches are tough, packing advanced
weaponry and wearing some sort of super armor. You see one
of them, you run as fast as you can. They'll frag your ass as
soon as look at you. Next are the Primals. They're barbaric
primates, but they're mean sons of bitches. Lastly, there're the
Minions. These guys are all male Earthlings and fly her ships.
You psionic? You know, mind powers? You have? Best
keep that quiet. There's a price on your head whether you
know it or not. The Queen doesn't like psionicists. No, I ain't
asked her why. She doesn't mind mad scientists, though. You
know, nutters that try to recreate alien artifacts.

Here're some places to avoid. The Queen's forces interdict
Quan, Psidonia, and Xaq. You go there, you're gonna die
pretty fast. No, I don't know why they're blockaded, but they
are. You might want to avoid Arachnea as well. The Spider
Men got a nasty habit of eating anything they catch, and I mean
anything. One of them took a chunk out of a friend of mine
before they realized he was a Robot Man. Yep, a Robot Man.
Fully sentient machines. Damn clunky when they move, but
they're tough cookies.

Let's see… oh, yeah. There's this big area of space called
the Dust Cloud. In the middle somewhere is Stygia. No, I ain’t
ever been there. Just hear me out. These dark aliens called
Stygians live there. No one messes with them, not even the
Queen, 'cos they're real nasty. Best avoid the Dust Cloud,
though it means a longer trip.

You may have noticed the spiral of crud heading toward
the centre of the universe. That's the Graviton Wave, but we
just call it the Wave or the Slipstream. It carries small fragments
and space debris through Slipstream to the Graveyard at the
centre of the universe. Plenty of rich pickings in the Slipstream,
if you can avoid the meteor storms and asteroids that is.
Look my friend, time is pressing. I've got a cargo of alien
artifacts I'm hauling to Babel for some librarian. You any good
with a swivel mounted gun? My last gunner bit the dust on
Charadon. Got himself eaten by a Shark Man while diving for
gold pearls. Nasty business.

Common, my Angeli Scout Ship is just outside. Course
she's fast! I invested in some extra boosters I found on a
derelict. She's the fastest ship in the universe!

--- Ende Zitat ---


Mehr Details kennt eh kaum jemand. - Ob und was sich (außer der regeltechnischen Anpassung an SW:EX und ggf. Inspiration von Regelelementen aus den Pulp-Toolkits) noch alles daran getan hat, weiß man nicht.

Auf alle Fälle wäre mir noch vor Slipstream die - leider durch WizKids nicht mehr gewollte - Rocketmen-Rollenspielausgabe (im PotSM-Stil) vorher noch lieber gewesen.

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