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Ephemeris is a new science fiction RPG being designed by science fiction author/editor (and avid gamer) J Alan Erwine and avid gamer Josh Kviz for Nomadic Delirium Press.
Due out later this year, Ephemeris will give players the opportunity to play a variety of species and classes in a universe that the game masters and players help to create. As opposed to a lot of other SF RPGs, Ephemeris doesn't have set plotlines or set histories. You, the players, will determine the politics for your game. You'll decide which race is at war with which other race...or even if it will matter.
Ephemeris can be played on a grand galactic scale with massive wars, or it can follow the lives and adventures of a small group just trying to survive in a dangerous universe...you decide.
Over the next few months, this page will give you small glimpses into what we're creating. We'll post information about some of the classes, races, skills, and whatever else we feel like posting.
Tell all of your friends about us, and as we said, we're planning on having the initial rule book out later this year...and hopefully even more books shortly after that. We may even consider doing some fiction collections based on the game.
And before you ask, Webster's defines Ephemeris as: 1 a table giving the computed positions of a celestial body for every day of a given period 2 an astronomical almanac containing such tables
All materials on these MySpace pages pertaining to the game Ephemeris are copyrighted 2008 by Nomadic Delirium Press

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My Blog

Open forum for questions

This is an open blog entry for you the future players of the game to ask questions about the game. We'll do our best to answer all questions put forth.  The one question we can't really answer ri...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:26:00 GMT

The Culthan

Since so many people seem most interested in the Culthan, we thought we'd post a little more information about them...   The Culthan are often referred to as the mad race, although never to their...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:17:00 GMT

A Problem in Translation

A Problem in Translation is an illustrated chapbook written by Ephemeris co-creator J Alan Erwine and featuring illustrations from Ephemeris interior artist 7ARS. In many ways, A Problem in Translatio...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 12:40:00 GMT

Influences

We’ve gotten several questions about what influenced the game, so I thought I’d address that here.  Josh-please feel free to post your influences, other than me saying "Let’s do...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:21:00 GMT

The Soldier/Mercenary

As promised in a recent bulletin, we’re going to give you a little information about another class.  This time we’re going to look at the soldier/mercenary.  If you want somethin...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:06:00 GMT

A slightly deeper look at the Trader

As with the Bandit in the last blog, this entry gives you a little more detail about the Trader...probably the most important character in the Ephemeris world. So, here’s a glimpse... TRADER Bac...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:02:00 GMT

A slightly deeper look at the Bandit

In an earlier blog, we gave you a very brief look at the Bandit class in Ephemeris.  Now, we’d like to give you a slightly more detailed look.  Soon he’ll have weapons and equipm...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:59:00 GMT

The Trader

Probably the most important character class in the world of Ephemeris is the Trader.  They're the ones that keep everything running.  So, we thought we'd give you an early look at this chara...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:51:00 GMT

Questions about Ephemeris

This is an open blog where you can ask questions about the game.  We can't guarantee that we'll answer all of the questions...we might not have made decisions about some subjects, or we might be ...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:04:00 GMT

The Bandit

As promised, we're going to give you a look at some of what we're working on.  This is a very early look at one of the classes, the Bandit.  This is very early, and very rough, but we at lea...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:53:00 GMT