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I've officially decided that I'm going to make my own gaming system.

With the sheer quantity of work and results that have been coming out of my work on Teltesh, it seems obvious to me that the next step is really a logical one. D&D's d20 system is proving problematic to me from an intellectual standpoint (a long, long rant there, but suffice to say for now that I see several critical flaws with its premises and implementation). For now, I'm tentatively naming my new system Multiverse (and hoping that name isn't taken by some other obscure gaming group).

This is all in part due to some of my goals for the future starting to crystallize in my mind. I plan on eventually starting a pdf publishing company that will do custom prints of available titles, with prices for books and pdfs varying for quality desired. If the pdf section makes sufficient money, expand into some full-time printing and go from there up to the final goals sitting in my mind these days. I know, I know - done to death in the business and no one makes a name that way... but I have other ideas floating around that I think might give my effort a boon that Wizo's can't/won't match and let me/us stand above the rest of the crowd. Though as soon as possible I'd get someone to make a reader that functions like a smoother Acrobat Reader but where it doesn't allow copying the product ad naueseum... it's not like this is going to make a ton of money out the door and piracy would leave me proper [FLOPPED] at start-up, since pirates don't give a [WOMBAT] who they're stealing from

Part of this, the gaming division of the company I'd like to form, would be divided into two different sections: one a d20 version of products, the other a Multiverse version. Simultaneous publication under both systems, but Multiverse would gradually gain material that wouldn't be possible (legally and from a rules standpoint) under the d20 version.

Multiverse itself will be a heavy variant on d20 - it'll keep the same dice setup and much of the same premises on checks, etc, but from there it'll be a parallel but very distinctly different system. The name for it stems from my plans on where to go after finishing the Teltesh CS - namely, releasing source expansions as modular, plane-based plug-n-play add-ons to the Teltesh CS's Multiverse (hence the name).

Nexus Media... it has a nice ring to it, I think. I'd love to be the one that started something akin to the literary/gaming world's equivalent of a Google-type workplace.