You're right, Zojo. a) I am a professional writer, both game and other. I even have a membership in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to prove it! b) and c) Warriors' World is a V&V campaign which has been running more or less continuously (it's been on a bit of a hiatus for the last couple of years) since the early 1980s and so has a lot of history behind it.
It's the product of, geeze, I'd say at least six different GMs minimum, probably more when you factor in the branch campaigns; the current group has none of the original players left in it -- the last one drifted out of the group a few years back. The original GM, I am told by Kat and Joe, was a fellow by the name of Joel Steiglitz, who can still be found on the Net in various roleplaying forums. (I've never contacted him, as I never knew him, and I doubt he even knows that GURPS IST is based on one of his own campaign worlds.) When he created the campaign, he certainly didn't have the world-spanning setting we have now in mind -- the Warriors started as a little local team. It wasn't until a little while before I joined the game, circa 1985 or 1986, that the Warriors were contracted by the UN as their super-police when that august body grew concerned about the escalation of nuclear weapons and metahuman militaries, and sought to re-stabilize the world situation. By that time Joel and many of the other original players were gone, and a second generation had taken over the campaign and started leaving their mark on it; the only original player left was a fellow by the name of Frank Lazar, who stayed with the game all the way until the middle 1990s.
The campaign branched, with Alpha (London) remaining with the core group at Rutgers, and Beta (Tokyo) being (mostly) played at Stevens Institute in Hoboken; Delta (Sinai Peninsula) had a very brief incarnation around 1987, and there are even some notes in the big GM notebook for a Gamma branch, but no one seems to remember actually playing it, or even much about it. (Historical note: The inaugural adventure for Delta turned into my contribution to GURPS Supers Adventures, if anyone cares.)
Anyway, GMship for the branch games was more or less steady, but Alpha rotated through the members as first classes and later work allowed, and each of us have added a little bit of new material to the world. What we have now would certainly be unrecognizable to Joel and whoever else played in its earliest incarnations, although Kat and Helen's characters (and maybe Joe's) might well be recognizable to them. I doubt Joel could have envisioned where things would go when he first started the game twenty or so years ago...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
It's the product of, geeze, I'd say at least six different GMs minimum, probably more when you factor in the branch campaigns; the current group has none of the original players left in it -- the last one drifted out of the group a few years back. The original GM, I am told by Kat and Joe, was a fellow by the name of Joel Steiglitz, who can still be found on the Net in various roleplaying forums. (I've never contacted him, as I never knew him, and I doubt he even knows that GURPS IST is based on one of his own campaign worlds.) When he created the campaign, he certainly didn't have the world-spanning setting we have now in mind -- the Warriors started as a little local team. It wasn't until a little while before I joined the game, circa 1985 or 1986, that the Warriors were contracted by the UN as their super-police when that august body grew concerned about the escalation of nuclear weapons and metahuman militaries, and sought to re-stabilize the world situation. By that time Joel and many of the other original players were gone, and a second generation had taken over the campaign and started leaving their mark on it; the only original player left was a fellow by the name of Frank Lazar, who stayed with the game all the way until the middle 1990s.
The campaign branched, with Alpha (London) remaining with the core group at Rutgers, and Beta (Tokyo) being (mostly) played at Stevens Institute in Hoboken; Delta (Sinai Peninsula) had a very brief incarnation around 1987, and there are even some notes in the big GM notebook for a Gamma branch, but no one seems to remember actually playing it, or even much about it. (Historical note: The inaugural adventure for Delta turned into my contribution to GURPS Supers Adventures, if anyone cares.)
Anyway, GMship for the branch games was more or less steady, but Alpha rotated through the members as first classes and later work allowed, and each of us have added a little bit of new material to the world. What we have now would certainly be unrecognizable to Joel and whoever else played in its earliest incarnations, although Kat and Helen's characters (and maybe Joe's) might well be recognizable to them. I doubt Joel could have envisioned where things would go when he first started the game twenty or so years ago...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.