Re: (GZG Encyclopedia) Hey how can I contribute?

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, John M. Atkinson wrote:

> Thomas Anderson wrote:
> 
> > and that's got some stuff. john atkinson has a list of unofficial
powers
> > somewhere, right john? 
> 
> Yeah, mine is up at
http://www.angelfire.com/va/basileus/unofficial.html

duly crosslinked. there is also an official powers page at:

http://members.xoom.com/rlyehable/gzg/NatStateGZG.html

which has some overlap with my list.

> I didn't know I was duplicating what someone else was doing.	

compartmentalisation! you work on a need-to-know basis, mr atkinson.
duplication is good, to some extent. what you miss, i catch, and vice
versa.

actually, your list is entirely novel powers; ones that were not
mentioned
in the canon. brian's list is of official powers. mine is of all the
known
powers (sort of). however, mine is just a list of links at present,
whereas yours has details. it's all sort of complementary.

> Also note that my current plan is put out an edition of the
> "Encyclopedia Rhomaioi" which will have articles from the Offical one
> edited to the extent necessary to fit in my little Empire.  It would
be
> too much shoehorning to fit it into the "Real Thing".

makes sense, given your somewhat liberal revision of the background :-).

seriously, though, i feel the Gzglverse should have the NRE in it
somewhere; they're too detailed (and well-publicised) a nation to miss
out. i don't suppose we could persuade you to write one or two more 
humiliating defeats and attacks of human weakness into your history?

Tom