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Action Check: 13 Action Check Disclaimers Ta ble of Co ntent s Action Check is an on-line elec- tronic magazine dedicated to Cover Art: “Return” by Victor Egorov the Alternity Science Fiction Roleplaying Game. [email protected] This work is offered free of Page 3 Editorial [Neil Spicer] charge to all interested parties Rallying the Troops and is not to be sold in any form. It may be printed if dis- tributed free of charge. Page 4 The Reaction Score Letters from our readers This work supports the Alternity roleplaying line, specifically the Page 6 Hunter in the Dark [Robert W. Messina] Alternity Players Handbook and Gamemaster Guide. In addition A Star*Drive transmission adventure it supports the Campaign Set- TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS OF TABLE tings Star*Drive, Gamma Page 10 Supporting Cast [Neil Spicer] World, Dark*Matter, and Tan- gents by Wizards of the Coast, Samuel the Combat Spec for Star*Drive Inc. Alternity is a registered trademark of Wizards of the Page 14 Cyberdemons [Daryl Blasi] Coast, Inc. New xenoforms for Alternity Dark*Matter The staff is not associated with Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Page 23 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Stellar Ring [Neil Spicer] Wizards of the Coast, Inc.: An Alternity Star*Drive article. http://www.wizards.com Page 30 The Signal From Space [Pal Wilhelmsen] STAFF A generic far future Alternity adventure hook Publisher/Layout: Jeff Ibach Editor: Jim Sharkey Page 31 Gridsites [Jeff Ibach and Neil Spicer] Oracle and Submission Coordinator: Neil Spicer Websites of Alternity goodness Cover Design: Daryl Blasi Page 33 Ask the Oracle [Neil Spicer) Alternity Q&A HOW TO SUBSCRIBE E-Mail: actioncheck@hotmail. com BACK ISSUES www.alternity.net Action Check On-Line Magazine is published bimonthly by Jeff Ibach Issue #13, July-August 2001 2 Editorial: Rallying the Troops AActionction Check I’d like to take a few moments and borrow the editorial page from Jeff and Jim in EDITORIAL order to reflect on the Alternity community as it stands today. Back on March 3rd, Submissions 2000 all of us received the official notification that Alternity would indeed no longer receive support from Wizards of the Coast. No new products. No new submissions To submit an article to Ac- accepted for Dragon or Dungeon magazines. The ship had sailed. And the fans of tion Check magazine, read the game were left to deal with the aftermath. and follow the guidelines laid out at: Some people greeted the news with angry rants. Others calmly thanked the Alter- nity design team at Wizards and moved on. And still others decided to try and do www.alternity.net something to keep the game alive. Here at Action Check we definitely fall into that latter category. And, if you’re reading this, odds are you’re with us. In fact, that’s And send all submissions exactly what we want. For you to be with us. To take an active part in keeping the (in txt, rtf or doc) to: flame alive. [email protected] Action Check has approximately 250 subscribers on our mailing list. And, at last count, thousands of people have apparently downloaded our publications from Regular Features: www.alternity.net. So, it’s fairly clear that there are a lot of you out there. To me, this indicates that Alternity still has plenty of life left in it. And as long as you’re will- The Oracle: Ask your Alter- ing to be an active part of keeping it alive, the game will go on. nity rules questions to our all-knowing Oracle and Now Jeff, Jim, and I put a fairly significant amount of time into each issue…so much watch the answers appear! so that it can often interfere with our “normal” lives. Thus, we made a decision to cut things back to a bi-monthly schedule starting in May of 2001. Not only to de- Transmissions: adventure crease the demands on our time, but also so we could take the extra time to care- hooks, along the lines of fully review what goes into the e-zine and make it the highest quality material possi- those previously found in ble. In between our regular issues, we also planned to release the Dragon and Dragon Magazine for the Dungeon articles that Wizards of the Coast gave us permission to reprint. So far various campaign settings. we’ve done three of them: “Guns, Guns, Guns”, “Starships”, and “Transmissions.” All of these have been super-popular and we’ve gotten a number of requests for Gridsites: Alternity related more reprints. Web sites that deserve rec- ognition and serve a spe- But we need your help. Just because Wizards of the Coast granted us permission cific purpose. to reprint the articles, doesn’t mean we actually have them on hand to do so. We want to provide them to the Alternity community, but we need those of you that al- Creature Feature: Aliens, Creatures, Xenoforms, etc. ready have access to the various articles to scan them into an editable format like for the Alternity campaign a .JPG or .GIF and send them in. That way, we can actually publish them into a . settings. PDF and release them to everyone else. Futuretech: Gear, equip- Now Jeff has put out this call before…both via the Alternity mailing list and even ment, vehicles, weapons, www.alternity.net, the official Alternity fan-site on the web. But we’ve had no de- armor and other hardware pendable responses to those advertisements. So, I figured this was probably the for the Alternity game. best forum to state our need. If there are readers of Action Check out there that have the various Dragon magazine issues containing Ares articles on Alternity, Supporting Cast: NPC stats please scan them and send them in. If you have the Dungeon magazine issues for insertion in Alternity containing Alternity adventures, please scan them and send them in. Right now, games. All submissions we’d like to focus on providing the Dragon articles for the various Star*Drive races. must follow the Supporting So, if you have those, please take a moment to share them with the rest of the Alter- Cast Template in the Alter- nity community through Action Check. You can direct any and all scanned mate- nity GMG! rial to our regular submission email address: [email protected]. We’ll see that it gets properly formatted and that you receive credit for having aided our Reviews: of Alternity or re- cause. lated-use product. But a word of warning: If this attempt to secure the Alternity community’s assistance Special FX: New FX/Psi or once again fails to motivate people to support the game, the reprints may never mutations. see their way into the pages of Action Check. We don’t want that to happen. But, without your help, there’s very little we can do. So, please be proactive. Rally the Plus cartoons, details of troops. If you have a love for Alternity, do what you can to support not only its con- campaign ideas, star sys- tinued existence, but its growth as well. Thank you. tems, full adventures, etc. -- Neil Spicer, Action Check Coordinator 3 The Reaction Score Letters from our Readers THE REACTION SCORE after May would have been June-July, then Au- “Letters from Our Readers” gust-September, and so on. But the best-laid plans often go awry. For a number of reasons the May issue got stalled. Somewhere along the line, Awhile back, we solicited the Alternity community we decided that we’d just make it the May-June for some creative names for our “Letters” column. issue…in an effort to buy us more time. But we Though we didn’t get a lot of submissions, all of didn’t even make that deadline either. Finally, in them contained multiple titles for us to choose mid-July we released the May-June issue retroac- from. Ultimately, we went with a variation of REACTION SCORE SCORE REACTION tively. This means our next issue (this one, actu- Shawn Trudeau’s entry. He recommended ally) will be for July-August. It should have been “Reaction Check”, but we thought that sounded posted to www.alternity.net at least by the end of too much like “Action Check” and we wanted a August, and that will put us back on schedule for slightly different name than the title of the overall the foreseeable future. magazine. As a result, we chose to modify Shawn’s suggestion into “The Reaction Score”. We’re on our bimonthly schedule now. You Much like “Action Check”, it’s another generic should expect to see a new release every other Alternity phrase that cuts across all of the cam- month, sometime during that month. In other paign settings. In addition, we like the ring of it words, this issue represents the months of July since “Reaction Score” implies we’re “checking and August, and it came out in August. So follow- the score” with our readers for their “reactions” to ing that schedule further out, the next issue will our publication. be for September-October and will appear in the month of October. The exact date could be On that note, Jeff, Jim, and I would like to encour- sometime during the early half or the latter half of age anyone and everyone to submit letters to us the month, depending on the amount of material at [email protected], letting us know our editors have to review and any last minute what you liked, didn’t like, would have preferred changes that get introduced.
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