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Email Sent Ah, I'd love to be one of those folks who replies with two words but I just can't. I've got to blather on and on a bit first. If anyone else gets the job, Julie is good to work with and Bards and Sages got my work with them out in a timely manor. Mark Charke

There are a couple of reasons I used the term "splicing" for Dark Splicing. I was originally thinking about splicing rope. You take two lengths of rope, or a single rope that has been cut, and you unbraid the rope and then braid it back together connecting the two ends. With magic you are taking...

Critizism is hard but it's also absolutely nessesary. I have been looking at Broken since 2002, so I'm real close to the work. Heck I -know- I fixed some of those mistakes, or at least put them on a list of things to fix. But things get lost and changed from version to version. I've been real...

I just got back from GenCon where a fan (whose name I DID write down but have still packed away) approached me with a few errors in the book. So I'll be fixing those up and updating the PDF and print versions. Mark Charke

As a fan of Waterworld I can see the similarities and the influence. I would pick Lady Anna Meinir to fill this role (she's described in Broken but she's not a mutant). She will be a reoccuring character, although I'm not sure she'll be on the Lost Moon. Explaining how she gets off would be...

That is a misunderstanding. The "print version" is the protrait version created for Lulu.com and that is the format you will get if you order a print copy of the book. (Lulu doesn't do an 8.5 x 11 landscape binding). I'm going to propose a "printer freindly" version to `Le - something with no...

Thanks for the review Bo! The portrait version was missing the bookmarks and I've sent `Le a corrected copy of the PDF. (It was build off the print-version which has no PDF bookmarks.) Also be aware that the Table of Contents and Appendix are all linked. You can click on any item to jump to the...

Well congratulations. I wish the PDF's were numbered so you could be sure. The book has a fair amount of crunch, IMHO. My focus was on providing the tools needed to work the environment. As for the graphics, well.. ...cry, I guess all the reviews can't be awesome. My artwork continues to improve...

Well you made me read the thing, so here are MY reviews! 1/5 = terrible, 3/5 = average, 5/5 = excellent. X-Men - 3/5 stars. (same) X-Men 2 - 3/5 stars. (vs your 5/5) I love the X-Men but I never felt the Weapon X project was handled properly. It almost should have been a solo Wolverine thing...

A Glome is the product of breeding between the gnomes and goblins in Pipedream. The pipedream was a sewer/water system that ended up in space. It was cared for by gnomes and populated by goblins and 40 years of close contact has produced a new race: Glomes. The Glome race is described near the...

As ever, thanks Luke! Mark Charke

Pax is in Seattle??? Cool. I didn't think to look that up. I've been meaning to visit WOTC and I live just north, near Vancouver. There is that vague possibility I could take you up on your offer. Vague, vague! I've got to sort out GenCon first and look into Pax and where I could stay down there...

Dragon*Con is Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA http://www.dragoncon.org/ I thought I'd add that bit after checking. It's a little too far away for me I'm afraid. Good luck with it though! Mark Charke

I get a heart attack everytime something like this gets posted but they just don't want writers or my Modula programing skills. But thanks for posting anyway! Perhaps a writing gig will come up (Cough, Luke Johnson, cough W.O.W. RPG). Mark Charke

www.BrokenSolaris.com is now online. Come watch Solaris go away when the book is released. The website has been upgraded with a number of easter eggs - the planet, for example, can be moved around - at least until it explodes. Mark Charke

I like the cover. That might sound a little cliche and used but there is a slew of bad art out there - clip art and non-art that is standing in as covers. Even with this short product, here we have a real decent cover to look at. I'll be grabbing the download as soon as I can find the other 4$...

Good points. This is one area of the book I want to leave as a surprise - but Gods and spellcasting are both important parts of Broken. Like everyone else, clerics have a hard time of it. Mark Charke

Broken: The Memory of Solaris Again thanks for the positive feedback! The (ex) planet's name is Solaris. There is no space traffic, although some is hinted at in the art. I'd like to think there is enough flavor. There are optional rules for restricting high level spells but the chief...

Thanks for the positive responce Alzrius! Broken takes a slightly different look at space than Spelljammer - it's almost zero kelvin and there is nothing to breath. With gossamer wing peices though, you could get a ship to sail on radiation currents and accelerate up to near the speed of light -...

No, I haven't picked up the companion. I'll have to look into that book! I stopped after getting the core book, focusing instead on Mutants and Mastermind stuff. Mark Charle