Download or read book FSpace Roleplaying Net Rules v1 1 1 written by Martin Rait and published by FSpace Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a dirt cheap basic rulebook for FSpaceRPG. The Net Rules is just what you're looking for. This edition is a barebones edition with no embellishments for players who just want the minimum. It isn't suitable for use by a GM, or those players who want more than a casual reference. This edition contains basic outlines for: dice usage skill usage character generation skills personal combat system ballistic weapons aliens empires Intelligent Life article Modified Kardashev-2 Civilisation Classifications Communications and computer equipment.

Download or read book FSpace Roleplaying Psionic System v1 1 written by Martin Rait and published by FSpace Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FSpaceRPG is a science fiction roleplaying game in the classic mould. This guide is an overview of the psionic system in use by FSpaceRPG and provides recent expansions about rare talents and new equipment. Includes library data entries of relevance as well. Presented in a refreshed format compared to previous 1999 edition.

Download or read book FSpace Roleplaying Net Rules 2 0 written by Martin Rait and published by FSpace Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a dirt cheap basic rulebook for FSpaceRPG. The Net Rules is just what you're looking for. This edition is a barebones edition with no embellishments for players who just want the minimum. It isn't suitable for use by a GM, or those players who want more than a casual reference. This edition contains basic outlines for: Basic game mechanics Character generation Personal combat system Aliens Empires Intelligent Life article Modified Kardashev-2 Civilisation Classifications Communications and computer equipment Psionics Starship guidelines Mech distribution and distribution ARES Development Corporation Terran history

Download or read book Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality written by Woodrow Barfield and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual and augmented reality raise significant questions for law and policy. When should virtual world activities or augmented reality images count as protected First Amendment ‘speech’, and when are they instead a nuisance or trespass? When does copying them infringe intellectual property laws? When should a person (or computer) face legal consequences for allegedly harmful virtual acts? The Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality addresses these questions and others, drawing upon free speech doctrine, criminal law, issues of data protection and privacy, legal rights for increasingly intelligent avatars, and issues of jurisdiction within virtual and augmented reality worlds.

Download or read book Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing written by Coleman Charlton and published by Iron Crown Enterprises. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a Hero is tough. Especially if you're wasting your precious game time fighting silly rules instead of monsters. When it comes to designing characters, no system gives you more control over your character design than Rolemaster. Say goodbye to arbitrary limits and "you can't do that!", because with Rolemaster you can!

Download or read book Gaming the System written by David J. Gunkel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions—put forth by noted thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and Žižek—can help us explore and conceptualize recent developments in video games, game studies, and virtual worlds. Furthermore, Gunkel interprets computer games as doing philosophy, arguing that the game world is a medium that provides opportunities to model and explore fundamental questions about the nature of reality, personal identity, social organization, and moral conduct. By using games to investigate and innovate in the area of philosophical thinking, Gunkel shows how areas such as game governance and manufacturers' terms of service agreements actually grapple with the social contract and produce new postmodern forms of social organization that challenge existing modernist notions of politics and the nation state. In this critically engaging study, Gunkel considers virtual worlds and video games as more than just "fun and games," presenting them as sites for new and original thinking about some of the deepest questions concerning the human experience.

Download or read book Micro Sci Fi RPG written by and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to 1.75 Edition! The Micro Sci-Fi RPG system is an ultra-simple dark sci-fi roleplaying game that is designed specifically for solo play. Take on the role of a lone space traveller, scouting away missions, killing aliens, gathering credits, and becoming an interplanetary hero! These basic rules are the definitive rules for the system and are all you need to play any adventure for the system. They are considered the new 1.75 edition rules, but remain completely compatible with all the other game content in the system.

Download or read book Web and Internet Economics written by Tie-Yan Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2014, held in Beijing, China, in December 2014. The 32 regular and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions and cover results on incentives and computation in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and microeconomics.

Download or read book The State of Play written by Jack M. Balkin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy, trade, cheat, steal, and have every possible kind of adventure. Far more complicated and sophisticated than early video games, people now spend countless hours in virtual universes like Second Life and Star Wars Galaxies not to shoot space invaders but to create new identities, fall in love, build cities, make rules, and break them. As digital worlds become increasingly powerful and lifelike, people will employ them for countless real-world purposes, including commerce, education, medicine, law enforcement, and military training. Inevitably, real-world law will regulate them. But should virtual worlds be fully integrated into our real-world legal system or should they be treated as separate jurisdictions with their own forms of dispute resolution? What rules should govern virtual communities? Should the law step in to protect property rights when virtual items are destroyed or stolen? These questions, and many more, are considered in The State of Play, where legal experts, game designers, and policymakers explore the boundaries of free speech, intellectual property, and creativity in virtual worlds. The essays explore both the emergence of law in multiplayer online games and how we can use virtual worlds to study real-world social interactions and test real-world laws. Contributors include: Jack M. Balkin, Richard A. Bartle, Yochai Benkler, Caroline Bradley, Edward Castronova, Susan P. Crawford, Julian Dibbell, A. Michael Froomkin, James Grimmelmann, David R. Johnson, Dan Hunter, Raph Koster, F. Gregory Lastowka, Beth Simone Noveck, Cory Ondrejka, Tracy Spaight, and Tal Zarsky.

Download or read book Soldier s Companion written by Frank Chadwick and published by Heliograph. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long awaited reprint combines a good, solid set of 19th-century miniatures rules with the Victorian Science Fiction elements of Space: 1889 (r). While allowing for the addition of land juggernauts, combat tripods, and aerial flyers, the rules work just was well for a rag-tag British column fighting its way through the passes of the Northwest Frontier. Soldier's Companion covers the wealth of period military equipment and extensively details the major armies of Earth, Mars, Venus, and Lun

Download or read book Those Dark Places written by Jonathan Hicks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-07-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Hicks, published twice in the British Science Fiction Association's writer's magazine 'FOCUS' and the mission designer/dialogue writer of the mobile telephone game of acclaimed television show 'Battlestar Galactica', presents twelve short stories about the little people in the big universe. "I grew up with the grandiose science fiction tales, in books and on film, with great galaxy-spanning adventures or life-changing technologies," said Jonathan Hicks. "In this book I concentrate on the 'little guy', the people who work behind the scenes and those who get a less than stellar deal out of the supposed adventure travelling the galaxy and exploring new technologies offers." Click on the 'preview this book' under the cover picture above to find out more about these stories. Contains strong language and some violence

Download or read book Cognitive Processes and Economic Behaviour written by Marcello Basili and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the understanding of the cognitive foundations of economic behavior has become increasingly important. This volume contains contributions from such leading scholars as Adam Brandenburger, Michael Bacharach and Patrick Suppes. It will be of great interest to academics and researchers involved in the field of economics and psychology as well as those interested in political economy more generally.

Download or read book Planning the New Corporate Headquarters written by Bryant Putnam Gould and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to Neural Networks written by Kevin Gurney and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though mathematical ideas underpin the study of neural networks, the author presents the fundamentals without the full mathematical apparatus. All aspects of the field are tackled, including artificial neurons as models of their real counterparts; the geometry of network action in pattern space; gradient descent methods, including back-propagation; associative memory and Hopfield nets; and self-organization and feature maps. The traditionally difficult topic of adaptive resonance theory is clarified within a hierarchical description of its operation. The book also includes several real-world examples to provide a concrete focus. This should enhance its appeal to those involved in the design, construction and management of networks in commercial environments and who wish to improve their understanding of network simulator packages. As a comprehensive and highly accessible introduction to one of the most important topics in cognitive and computer science, this volume should interest a wide range of readers, both students and professionals, in cognitive science, psychology, computer science and electrical engineering.

Download or read book Computing and Combinatorics written by Lusheng Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2018, held in Qing Dao, China, in July 2018. The 62 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They deal with the areas of algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing.

Download or read book Stars Without Number Perfect Bound written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stars Without Number is a science fiction role-playing game inspired by the Old School Renaissance and the great fantasy and science-fiction games of the seventies and eighties. * Compatible with most retroclone RPGs * Helps a GM build a sandbox sci-fi game that lets the players leave the plot rails to explore freely * World building resources for creating system-neutral planets and star sectors * 100 adventure seeds and guidelines for integrating them with the worlds you've made * Old-school compatible rules for guns, cyberware, starships, and psionics * Domain rules for experienced characters who want to set up their own colony, psychic academy, mercenary band, or other institution

Download or read book Skype Bodies Screens Space written by Robyn Longhurst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the popularity of Skype with video many of us are still figuring out how to ‘do’ it. Interviews reveal that we can now run the programme but we are less certain about how to ‘perform’ in front of the webcam. Seeing ourselves in the box on the side can feel strange. We are not quite sure which bits of our bodies to display on the screen, how much to move around the room, or move the device around the room. Is it acceptable to use Skype with video at a funeral, in crowded spaces or while in bed? This book addresses how people are emotionally and affectually connecting with others audio-synchronously on the screen in a variety of different spatial contexts. Topics include Skype with video being used by grandparents to connect with grandchildren, friends and family using it for special occasions, and partners using it for romance and sex. Theories addressing bodies, gender, queerness, phenomenology and orientation inform the research. It concludes that while Skype does not offer some kind of utopian future, it does open up possibilities for existing power relations to be filtered through new lines of sight/site which are shaping what bodies can do and where.