From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Feb 28 13:42:34 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NlquG-0003xw-UE for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:42:33 -0800 Received: from 128-177-28-49.ip.openhosting.com ([128.177.28.49] helo=oh-www1.lojban.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlqu0-0003sZ-B9 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:42:22 -0800 Received: from www-data by oh-www1.lojban.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlqty-00082T-O1 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:42:14 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:42:14 -0500 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Eclipse Phase Quick-Start Rules in Lojban? X-PHP-Script: www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-view_forum.php for 70.177.63.32 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Phil" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-archive-position: 17029 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojban-out@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Eclipse Phase Quick-Start Rules in Lojban? Author: Phil (I originally sent a version of this message to Robin Lee Powell; I'm sending it here at his suggestion, as it might be something that interests the community at large.) Eclipse Phase is a pretty groovy transhuman horror tabletop RPG, released under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA, for those who are curious). I'm a fan, and have done some copyediting work on some of their releases. Today, one of the creators posted regarding a Portugese translation of the quick-start rules: http://www.eclipsephase.com/blog It struck me that Lojban doesn't have (as far as I know) any works of this nature, rules for playing a game (or a tabletop RPG). I think it would be pretty cool to have such a thing. Another feather in the breadth of the utility of the language. (Plus, it's CC-licensed, so there's no worries about hosting it on the official Lojban website, angering the developers, and so on.) I pinged Robin on this, because he's on the mailing list for a game I work on (Endgame: Singularity), and I feel that the two have some similarities. I suspect many Lojban enthusiasts are into this sort of thing in an over-broad, general sense, if only going from my own tastes. :) Unfortunately, I happen to be nothing but the most rank novice with Lojban itself. Anyway, if there /is/ interest in doing a translation of the quick-start rules, it's entirely possible that I can convince one of the EP devs to provide the design files used so, in the end, there could be a professional-looking Lojban translation of the quick-start rules. And if there isn't interest, well, what the heck. It was worth a shot. ;) Phil B. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.