Forgotten Futures IX: It's My Own Invention
A complete role playing game based on Victorian and Edwardian stories of weird science and engineering.
Source Material includes
- The Outlaws of the Air - George Griffith (complete novel)
- The World Peril of 1910 - George Griffith (complete novel)
- The Tachypomp and other stories - Edward Page Mitchell (stories)
- Silas P. Cornu's Dry Calculator - Henry A. Hering (short story)
- The Lady Automaton - E.E. Kellett (short story)
- A Corner In Lightning - George Griffith (short story)
- Patent Applied For - Bernard Owen (article)
- The New Wizard of the West - Chauncy Montgomery M'Govern (article)
- The White Magician - Rudolph De Cordova (article)
Role Playing Material includes
- The complete Forgotten Futures rules and rules summary, now in .pdf as well as HTML format.
- It's My Own Invention...
A collection of role playing settings based on stories, articles and novels about weird technology. Themes include flight (and a war against a supernatural foe), automata and calculating engines, space travel, and time travel.
Bonus Material includes:
- Ninety Miles An Hour - Herbert C. Fyfe (article)
- An Express of the Future - "Jules Verne" (actually Michel Verne - fiction)
- Pictures By Telegraph - Charles Emerson Cook (article)
- Guesses at Futurity - Fred T. Jane (futuristic sketches)
- The Newest Marvel of Science - Wm. H. Ward (article)
- Our Stereoscopic Gallery - The Royal Magazine (stereoscopic photographs)
- By Rail Across The Sea - Herbert C. Fyfe (Article)
- The Fastest Vessel Afloat - Cleveland Moffett (Article)
- The Ship That Flies - Gustav Levering (Article)
To date (10.1.05) more than £1460 has been raised for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Cancer Research Campaign. These charities have now merged as Cancer Research UK. There have also been some CDs sold in SF convention auctions, with the money going directly to the convention charity; another £40 or so has been raised this way for various charities.
Send payment to:
Marcus L. Rowland, 22 Westbourne Park Villas, London W2 5EA, United Kingdom, or order on-line via PayPal
Note: To minimise production and mailing costs this CD is supplied in a lightweight sleeve, not a jewel case, inside a padded mailing envelope.
The third Charity CD-ROM is also the distribution CD-ROM for Forgotten Futures IX. It contains complete rules, background, adventures and source material for role playing adventures related to weird science and gadgetry, as well as some bonus material from the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM. The contents are: