FORGOTTEN FUTURES
THE SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE ROLE PLAYING GAME

RULES - ABOUT THE AUTHOR

By Marcus L. Rowland
Copyright © 2005, portions Copyright © 1993-2002

---

---

Back to game index - Back to main index

Back to Some Other Game Systems

This document is copyright, but you are encouraged to make copies and print-outs as needed. You may make modifications for your own use, but modified versions MUST NOT be distributed. If you find any of these files useful you are asked to register.

The first release of these rules was originally converted to HTML by Stefan Matthias Aust, to whom many thanks.

This copy of the rules has been split into several separate files. A version consisting of a single large file is also provided. These documents should be accompanied by several files including larger versions of the game tables and a short summary of the main rules for the use of players.

APPENDIX - About the author

Marcus L. Rowland is a London-based technician. In his spare time he has been writing for games magazines and publishers since 1979. Notable works include the following game supplements and adventures:

• For Golden Heroes
  Queen Victoria And The Holy Grail (Games Workshop)

• For Call of Cthulhu
  Trail Of The Loathesome Slime (Games Workshop)
  Nightmare In Norway (Games Workshop)
  Bad Moon Rising (in The Great Old Ones, Chaosium)
  Honeymoon In Hell (in Blood Brothers, Chaosium)
  Fear Of Flying (in Fearful Passages, Chaosium)
  El Tigre, y la Piramede de Destruccion (in Blood Brothers 2, Chaosium)

• For The Judge Dredd Role Playing Game
  Judgement Day (Games Workshop)
  High Justice (Games Workshop: accepted but never published)

• For Space 1889
  Canal Priests Of Mars (Game Designers Workshop: published in a heavily abridged form not approved by the author; the complete version previously announced by Heliograph Inc. has now been cancelled.)

• Into the Detective's Casebook (card game, The Magellanica Co.)

• World Generator (Software: Shareware, later freeware; user registrations no longer accepted)
  Download World Generator, 142k zip file
  DOS program, CGA graphics, works (just) on modern PCs but don't expect too much!

• Forgotten Futures:
  A series of complete text-based RPGs based on scientific romances and other fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:
  Forgotten Futures I: The A.B.C. Files
  Forgotten Futures II: The Log Of The Astronef
  Forgotten Futures III: George E. Challenger's Mysterious World
  Forgotten Futures IV: The Carnacki Cylinders
  Forgotten Futures V: Goodbye Piccadilly
  Forgotten Futures VI: Victorian Villainy
  Forgotten Futures VII: Tsar Wars
  Forgotten Futures VIII: Fables and Frolics
  Forgotten Futures IX: It's My Own Invention
  The Forgotten Futures CD-ROM (now version 5.0)

  The first printed version of Forgotten Futures was published as a free booklet with Future Publishing's Arcane magazine in 1997. This booklet is now very rare. It consists of the summary rules and introductory adventure, both of which are on line and on the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM.

  From Heliograph Inc. for Forgotten Futures
  Forgotten Futures (expanded rules and introductory adventure)
  (ed.) Stories of Other Worlds and A Honeymoon In Space by George Griffith
  The Log of the Astronef - Space travel worldbook
  (ed.) Tsar Wars: The Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith
  (ed.) Tsar Wars: The Syren of the Skies by George Griffith
  Masters of the Graviton, the space travel adventures book, long on hold, has now been cancelled, and there are currently no plans for continued print publication of Forgotten Futures.

• Diana, Warrior Princess
  In print, illustrated by Aaron Williams, 116 pp from Heliograph Inc.

• Magazine credits include articles, adventures, and games in numerous issues of White Dwarf, Challenge, Different Worlds, Dagon, Concepts, Imagine, The Dragon, Dungeon Magazine, 2000 AD (board game, not credited as author), Fantasy Chronicles, Red Giant, Space Gamer, Games Trade Monthly, Games Review Monthly, New Scientist (not game-related), Strategy Plus, Role Player Independent, The Last Province, Journeys, Valkyrie, Ragnarok, Interactive Fantasy, Arcane, Odyssey, Pyramid On-Line, several computer magazines, and various other magazines and fanzines.

• Short fiction has appeared in shared world collections edited by the Midnight Rose collective and published by Roc Books; Temps, Euro Temps, and The Weerde 2. These books have only appeared in the UK at the time of writing. These stories should be published on the author's web site in 2005.

• Author of the Fantasy Games article in The Encyclopaedia of Fantasy and co-author of the equivalent article in The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction.

Back to Introduction