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According to a Timeline Inc. release flyer posted on The Supply Bunker web-

site, a new, 4th Edition of The Morrow Project is due out sometime

before year's end (2nd Quarter 2004 is what's mentioned on the flyer). The

flyer also mentioned that this new edition would feature a revised timeline

as well as adding some new equipment for Morrow teams (I'd guess that

that would also include weapons that didn't exist at the time of the original

game's publication).

 

Just thought I'd pass this bit of news along, considering that Post-Apocalypse

games/campaigns appear to be one of the more popular topics to pop up on

the boards from time to time, and the fact that's it's been a while since a PA

thread of any sort has been on the boards.

 

Major Tom :hex:

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Sweet Googly-Moogly!

Thanks for the heads up! I recently bought 3rd edition MP + tons of adventures from Ebay. :( Morrow Project was the game with the most potential that we never could keep going for more than a few sessions (problem with players, not the game itself)!

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Sweet Googly-Moogly!

Thanks for the heads up! I recently bought 3rd edition MP + tons of adventures from Ebay. :( Morrow Project was the game with the most potential that we never could keep going for more than a few sessions (problem with players, not the game itself)!

 

You can also mail-order direct from Timeline. I don't have their new address

handy at the moment, but if you go to the Supply Bunker website (http://

thesupplybunker.net), and click on where it says "The Morrow Project",

you'll be taken right to the page where the contact info is.

 

Major Tom :cool:

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You can also mail-order direct from Timeline. I don't have their new address

handy at the moment, but if you go to the Supply Bunker website (http://

thesupplybunker.net), and click on where it says "The Morrow Project",

you'll be taken right to the page where the contact info is.

 

Major Tom :cool:

 

http://www.timelineltd.com/

 

I need to pick up Prime Base, The Ruins of Chicago, and 1 other I can't recall....

 

I have long wanted to do a Morrow/Fallout/Hero PBeM!

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http://www.timelineltd.com/

 

I need to pick up Prime Base, The Ruins of Chicago, and 1 other I can't recall....

 

I have long wanted to do a Morrow/Fallout/Hero PBeM!

 

Prime Base is a good buy, even if you don't use it for MP adventures.

the maps of Prime Base alone are worth it, as you could use them for

floorplans for supervillain bases in a Champions game (or even a Super-

Agent style campaign).

 

A word of warning, though: there's an adventure setting mentioned at the

very end of Prime Base called The Amerind Empire. When I ask-

ed about this setting a few months ago, though, one of the folks at Time-

line said that the writer who was originally going to do the project had other

projects to deal with, and that they didn't know when or if it would ever see

publication.

 

As for the idea of a Morrow HERO campaign, I've been thinking about that

myself. My research material right now consists of the following: TMP 3rd

Edition Rulebook (for right now, until I get a hold of 4th Ed.), FREd (also

until I get the revised rules), The Ultimate Bestiary, The Ultimate Martial

Artist, The Ultimate Vehicle, The Hero System Vehicle

Sourcebook and Star Hero. I may add to this list later, once Ive

had a chance to go through my non-HERO supplements.

 

One last thing before I finish this post: If you do look around the Supply

Bunker website, be sure to check out the section where the adventures

and articles submitted to the site are kept. There's one in particular that's

well worth taking a look at called "An Alternate End Of The World Scenario".

 

Major Tom :yes:

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I had not heard about the Marrow Project for years until it was a topic of discussion a couple of weeks ago withmy local gaming group

 

Now to hear about a Forth edition so soon afterwards is kinda weird.

 

I may get a copy

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Prime Base is a good buy, even if you don't use it for MP adventures.

the maps of Prime Base alone are worth it, as you could use them for

floorplans for supervillain bases in a Champions game (or even a Super-

Agent style campaign).

 

A word of warning, though: there's an adventure setting mentioned at the

very end of Prime Base called The Amerind Empire. When I ask-

ed about this setting a few months ago, though, one of the folks at Time-

line said that the writer who was originally going to do the project had other

projects to deal with, and that they didn't know when or if it would ever see

publication.

 

As for the idea of a Morrow HERO campaign, I've been thinking about that

myself. My research material right now consists of the following: TMP 3rd

Edition Rulebook (for right now, until I get a hold of 4th Ed.), FREd (also

until I get the revised rules), The Ultimate Bestiary, The Ultimate Martial

Artist, The Ultimate Vehicle, The Hero System Vehicle

Sourcebook and Star Hero. I may add to this list later, once Ive

had a chance to go through my non-HERO supplements.

 

One last thing before I finish this post: If you do look around the Supply

Bunker website, be sure to check out the section where the adventures

and articles submitted to the site are kept. There's one in particular that's

well worth taking a look at called "An Alternate End Of The World Scenario".

 

Major Tom :yes:

 

Tom, Dark Champions (when it comes out), and the Gadgets/Gear books would be useful for a Morrow Project game, IMO. Dark Champs should have a lot of those esoteric military weapons and the gadget book has a lot of high tech goodies no Morrow Team should be without!

 

I will check into that Supply Bunker! Thanks!

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Hey Boz,

 

Please include me in the list of possible invites if (and when), you ever get a PBeM of your own going.

 

Thanks,

 

Sav

 

 

It wouldn't be a proper game without the legendary player of Riccoco the Raccoon! :)

 

Of the many PCs it has been my honor with which to game, Riccoco is one of my all-time favorites!

 

Jason, if I ever run that game, you WILL play in it or suffer a Bozimithian wrath like no other!

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Tom, Dark Champions (when it comes out), and the Gadgets/Gear books would be useful for a Morrow Project game, IMO. Dark Champs should have a lot of those esoteric military weapons and the gadget book has a lot of high tech goodies no Morrow Team should be without!

 

I will check into that Supply Bunker! Thanks!

 

A word of warning before you go prowling around in the Supply Bunker web-

site, Bozimus: while a lot of the stuff is downloadable (HTML, TXT, and even

.pdf files), some of it is in .zip files that you'll need WinZip to open (I found

that out the hard way a couple of years ago when I downloaded some of

those particular files and tried to open them; needless to say, I was some-

what annoyed when I tried to open them up only to discover that I didn't

have the necessary utility to do so).

 

As far as Gadgets And Gear goes, I had thought of adding that to my research

list, but since a lot of the stuff seemed to be in the superheroic category, I

had decided not to include it at the time; I may give it another look to see

if there's anything in it that I can use after all. Two books that are going

on the list are Ultra-Tech (Revised) and Ultra-Tech 2 from the

GURPS system (oh yeah, I'm definitely going to be branded as a heretic for

this one... oh, well). I figure that there'll be some of the TL8 and TL9 stuff

that could be adapted to use in a PA HERO campaign with a little bit of work;

as a matter of fact, I think there's something on the Surbrook's Stuff web-

site that deals with that subject.

 

Major Tom :cool:

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A word of warning before you go prowling around in the Supply Bunker web-

site, Bozimus: while a lot of the stuff is downloadable (HTML, TXT, and even

.pdf files), some of it is in .zip files that you'll need WinZip to open (I found

that out the hard way a couple of years ago when I downloaded some of

those particular files and tried to open them; needless to say, I was some-

what annoyed when I tried to open them up only to discover that I didn't

have the necessary utility to do so).

 

As far as Gadgets And Gear goes, I had thought of adding that to my research

list, but since a lot of the stuff seemed to be in the superheroic category, I

had decided not to include it at the time; I may give it another look to see

if there's anything in it that I can use after all. Two books that are going

on the list are Ultra-Tech (Revised) and Ultra-Tech 2 from the

GURPS system (oh yeah, I'm definitely going to be branded as a heretic for

this one... oh, well). I figure that there'll be some of the TL8 and TL9 stuff

that could be adapted to use in a PA HERO campaign with a little bit of work;

as a matter of fact, I think there's something on the Surbrook's Stuff web-

site that deals with that subject.

 

Major Tom :cool:

 

I will steer clear of the zip files! Thanks!

Ultra-Tech was a cool GURPS book. I lent it to some rascal that never returned it and have now lost contact with the fellow... You won't ever hear me call you a heretic for using GURPS sourcebooks! :)

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As far as Gadgets And Gear goes, I had thought of adding that to my research

list, but since a lot of the stuff seemed to be in the superheroic category, I

had decided not to include it at the time; I may give it another look to see

if there's anything in it that I can use after all. Two books that are going

on the list are Ultra-Tech (Revised) and Ultra-Tech 2 from the

GURPS system (oh yeah, I'm definitely going to be branded as a heretic for

this one... oh, well). I figure that there'll be some of the TL8 and TL9 stuff

that could be adapted to use in a PA HERO campaign with a little bit of work;

as a matter of fact, I think there's something on the Surbrook's Stuff web-

site that deals with that subject.

 

Major Tom :cool:

 

I had the same impression with Gadgets and Gear, I ahve bought a few of the Champions line such as USPD becaues they seem useful for other genres but after flipping through G&G it didn't look very useful outside of supers.

 

As for the GURPS comment, I have quite a large number of GURPS books so you won't see any torches or pitchforks coming from my direction. In fact I'm rather looking forward to seeing what SJG does with GURPS 4th edition.

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Hmmm... It would seem that there are quite a few books that should be on my

research list, so here they are:

 

HERO System:

_________________________________

 

HERO System Rulebook, 5th Ed.

Danger International (3rd Ed.)*

Dark Champions (5th Ed.)

Gadgets and Gear (5th Ed.)

Star HERO (5th Ed.)*

Super-Agents (3rd Ed.)*

The HERO System Bestiary (5th Ed.)

The HERO System Vehicle Sourcebook

The Ultimate Martial Artist (5th Ed.)

The Ultimate Mentalist (4th Ed.)

The Ultimate Vehicle (5th Ed.)

 

GURPS:

_________________________________

 

Autoduel

Bestiary

Bio-Tech**

Covert Ops

High-Tech

Mecha**

Modern Firepower

Ogre**

Psionics

Reign of Steel**

Robots**

Special Ops

Ultra-Tech (Revised)

Ultra-Tech 2

Undead

Vehicles

Warriors

Wizards**

Y2K**

 

And last, but not least:

 

The Morrow Project (Core Rules/Setting Book)

 

*Danger International and Super-Agents are on the list primarily

for their sections on post-apocalypse campaign settings, while Star HERO

is on the list due to the section on the (game) effects of radiation on HERO

System PCs.

 

**Bio-Tech is on the list as an optional choice should the GM wish to

have the PCs meet a Dr. Moreau-type scientist and his/her associates, as

well as the results of their "humanimal" research. Mecha and Robots

are on the list to provide ideas as to how to design a (legal) HAAM-type suit

while Ogre and Reign of Steel not only provide additional info on

the game effects of radiation, but also provide examples of the sort of diseases

that PCs in a post-apocalypse campaign are likely to encounter in the course

of their adventures. Wizards is on the list solely to provide suggestions

on how to handle "Psi-mages" (known as "warlocks" in the post-apocalypse

world of TMP). Y2K is on the list due to the various "End of the World"

scenario possibilities.

 

Major Tom :think:

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I had the same impression with Gadgets and Gear, I ahve bought a few of the Champions line such as USPD becaues they seem useful for other genres but after flipping through G&G it didn't look very useful outside of supers.

 

As for the GURPS comment, I have quite a large number of GURPS books so you won't see any torches or pitchforks coming from my direction. In fact I'm rather looking forward to seeing what SJG does with GURPS 4th edition.

 

True, most of Gadgets and Gear is super-oriented, but what about that honkin' big section on powered armor? The sensory gadgets are useful too! Not to mention the communication gadgets.

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True enough... I had forgotten about the powered armor/commo/sensor

sections of Gadgets and Gear. Maybe, just maybe, I could come up with

a reasonable HERO version of the HAAM Suit.

 

Looks like I'm going to be including Gadgets and Gear on my list after all...

 

Major Tom :eg:

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If you haven't checked it out yet (and if its still up), I did a LOT of work and conversions over a few years and posted my Wasteland Hero project on the web. It covers a lot of material to consider for a post-apoc game, I tried to keep it modular for whatever kind of game you'd want to run. There might be some useful stuff in it for you. I ran a very successful PBeM for a few years with the rules, and those posts are still available at the 'wastelandhero' room in yahoogroups. I haven't updated the material for a few years, and be advised that it is written for 4th edition... most of it is source material anyway, and therefore rules insensitive. Consider it a gift to use, steal, or ignore...

 

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/3440/rpgs.html

 

There's also a link to it in the 'Other Genre' Links. I always felt ripped off waiting for Bruce Harlick to give me the go-ahead to write this for Hero 4th, but such is life. Hope you enjoy it.

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The Wasteland HERO site was still up a few weeks ago when I checked it

out to give it the once-over. As far as making use of it in some form or

another, I may do just that. Thanks.

 

I also seem to recall one of the posters to one of the more recent PA threads

saying that he was close to having his own PA setting for HERO nearly ready,

but I haven't seen anything else on the boards about it since then, and I

forget who it was that posted that bit of info.

 

Major Tom :cool:

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kieth curtis has been doing PA-HERO for about as long as I have, so you might want to check out his site too. His stuff is much prettier and I think he actually keeps his up to date.

 

Plus, if I'm not mistaken, he springboards off of Thundaar the Barbarian! Gotta give him props for that!

 

I don't think that you need to buy Star Hero just for the radiation rules. There was an older copy of the Star Hero pre-writes on the old Red October BBS boards. I know the ROBBS is still up, but I don't know if it still has the Star Hero (1st ed?) documents.

 

>>OH! And don't forget to check out the Gamma World WebRing. There's a TON of source material from my brothers over there (where it all began for me).

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If you haven't checked it out yet (and if its still up), I did a LOT of work and conversions over a few years and posted my Wasteland Hero project on the web. It covers a lot of material to consider for a post-apoc game, I tried to keep it modular for whatever kind of game you'd want to run. There might be some useful stuff in it for you. I ran a very successful PBeM for a few years with the rules, and those posts are still available at the 'wastelandhero' room in yahoogroups. I haven't updated the material for a few years, and be advised that it is written for 4th edition... most of it is source material anyway, and therefore rules insensitive. Consider it a gift to use, steal, or ignore...

 

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/3440/rpgs.html

 

There's also a link to it in the 'Other Genre' Links. I always felt ripped off waiting for Bruce Harlick to give me the go-ahead to write this for Hero 4th, but such is life. Hope you enjoy it.

 

People like you, Surbrook, Bob Greenwade, Keith Curtis, Shelley MacIntyre really make the Hero system come alive by sharing your ideas via website! Kudos to all of you!

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The Wasteland HERO site was still up a few weeks ago when I checked it

out to give it the once-over. As far as making use of it in some form or

another, I may do just that. Thanks.

 

I also seem to recall one of the posters to one of the more recent PA threads

saying that he was close to having his own PA setting for HERO nearly ready,

but I haven't seen anything else on the boards about it since then, and I

forget who it was that posted that bit of info.

 

Major Tom :cool:

 

You might be thinking of me...

I hope that I didn't give the impression that I was close to running that game, for I am far too busy to currently run it. :( Running a Fallout/Morrow Project Hero PBeM is a dream of mine that keeps getting shoved to the back seat...

 

But if I ever do somehow manage to launch it, Major Tom, I will include your name with Peregrine and Sav's as invitees...

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