Origins of the Game
Anesidora is the new role-playing game by Bruce Monach, creator of Pen & Paper & Laser Guns To find out more, check out our wiki about the game and stream campaign anesidoragame.com Creator. Checks can be made out & sent to: Janglewood LLC 602 Higgins Ave Suite 1 #283 Brielle, NJ 08730 USA Note: $6000 is the operating, maintenance and upgrade budget. Amounts received in excess of the $6000 will be applied to long term debt accrued over the last 19 years.
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Anesidora grew from making Pen & Paper & Laser Guns. I created a new system for the show with 12 sided dice that used ability trees instead of classes. Years later, I had the idea for a frozen world where people lived at the mercy of ancient machines that demanded human sacrifice. I decided to combine elements of the PPLG system with the setting I was developing to create a new private game for my friends, and it has grown ever since.
When I run role playing games, I like stories about heroes with limited power bringing communities together to change the world. This means that they rarely involve a party of adventurers fighting a dragon or dark army by themselves. Instead, they revolve around seeking ancient power, gathering armies and cultures together, or finding other means to overcome impossible odds.
Anesidora is designed to facilitate this type of game play. It focuses on choices and abilities that are not directly meant to fight. When all other options are exhausted, Anesidora uses a tactical combat system that rewards forward planning, encourages options that are not simply attacking, and kills those who underestimate their opponents.
The World of Anesidora
Anesidora is a harsh mythological sci-fi setting. The planet is colder than our world and the days and nights last entire months. Mythic machines reshape the terrain and life itself at a whim. The environment is as much of a threat as other people seeking power, wealth, and basic survival. It is a world where the desperate hunt and gather scarce resources, while the citizens of the Godcities live with extreme wealth and privilege. Most problems cannot be solved with violence, because there will always be someone, or something, bigger, stronger, and more desperate than you.
The mythology and technology of the past has been twisted together by time into new religions and the belief that ancient technology is magic. 500 years ago, a disaster, known as Chione, led to a cultural schism splitting this broken world into two major cultures forced to share it. The Chosen who wield ancient powers beyond their own comprehension, and the Exiled forced to live wherever they can find food and shelter.
Chosen civilization lives an anachronistic late medieval lifestyle, where magic is ancient technology. Exiled society is much larger and more varied than the Chosen. The Exiled live by whatever means necessary as primitive survivalists, poor outsiders, or founders of their own competitive towns, cities, and countries. Some believe in the rejection of the gods and their magic, while others embrace the use of stolen power. Larger Exiled societies are capable of incredible feats of engineering and culture without the use of magic.
The Truth
In Anesidora, technology is magic, and the truth of the past is hidden behind legends and myth. What people perceive as magic is actually advanced technology, from terraforming and large scale genetic engineering to powerful synthetic intelligences. Few records of the past remain, and what does is seen as legends of the impossible or proof of the power of the Ancients.
Anesidora is not Earth. It is another planet in another solar system colonized by humans in the future. They named locations and their ships after mythology from a variety of cultures. Many of those records still exist, so people continued to name new areas, tribes, and children after these people and places of earth.
Before colonists arrived on Anesidora, it was terraformed for over a thousand years by a planetary terraforming network. The Titans were each assigned to oversee one aspect of the terraforming. The Gods are the colonial spaceships that brought humans to Anesidora. The Gods range from small landing craft to city sized space stations that were never meant to land on the planet’s surface. The gods’ surfaces are covered in a super strong, light weight, and conductive material that came to be known as “Godshard,” after many of them were cracked and shattered upon the planet’s surface.
Ragnarok was a war between these gods and titans that destroyed humanity and what they had built. No one knows exactly what happened or why. This event caused all technology, other than the Titans, to cease functioning for half a millennia and ushered in a new age where civilization fell into a medieval mindset and understanding of their world. The wrecked spaceships were thought of as gods that gave magical artifacts of religious significance. Computers and machines became holy relics, which people use to commune with the gods and survive. Cocktail 11 5 – general maintenance and optimization utility supply.
All life on Anesidora has its origin on Earth, but much of it has been heavily manipulated. The Flora and Fauna of Anesidora has had millennia to develop and change to adapt to their environment at an accelerated rate. After Ragnarok, the Titans and the unliving machines that performed tasks for them began to create more extreme and strange changes. They also began to experiment on humans. This process came to be known as the Change.
At one time, the Titans and Gods were connected by a virtual world known as the Hades Network. During Ragnarok, the Hades Network was destroyed and all that remains is splintered subnetworks. Hades is populated by Artificial Intelligences called Shades, attempted copies of human intelligence that oversee all advanced technology. The Gods are run by incredibly powerful and complex Shades. These artificial intelligences believe they are the Gods that they are named for, while lesser Shades believe they are the spirits of the dead or other fictional beings.
All of this information has been twisted as society collapsed and forgot. New languages developed in isolation, based on our own from earth. Religions formed to explain the things that people could not understand, and became intertwined with oral traditions survivors of Ragnarok tried to pass down to their descendants in the frozen, crashed ships. The world has become something entirely different and would be unrecognizable to the ancients who settled here long ago.
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Pandora
(păndôr`ə), in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of SaturnSaturn,in astronomy, 6th planet from the sun. Astronomical and Physical Characteristics of Saturn
Saturn's orbit lies between those of Jupiter and Uranus; its mean distance from the sun is c.886 million mi (1.
...Click the link for more information.. Also known as Saturn XVII (or S17), Pandora is an irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body measuring about 71 mi (114 km) by 52 mi (84 km) by 38 mi (62 km); it orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 88,050 mi (141,700 km) and has an orbital period of 0.6285 earth days. The rotational period is unknown but is assumed to be the same as the orbital period. It was discovered by a team led by S. Collins in 1980 from an examination of photographs taken by Voyager 1 during its flyby of Saturn. Pandora is more heavily cratered—with at least two of the craters being more than 18 mi (30 km) in diameter—than the nearby moon PrometheusPrometheus
, in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn XVI (or S16), Prometheus is an irregularly shaped (nonspherical) body measuring about 90 mi (145 km) by 53 mi (85 km) by 38 mi (62 km); it orbits Saturn at a mean distance
...Click the link for more information. but exhibits neither linear ridges nor valleys. Pandora is the outer shepherd satellite (a moon that limits the extent of a planetary ring through gravitational forces) of Saturn's F ring.
Pandora
(păndôr`ə), in Greek mythology, first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create her as vengeance upon man and his benefactor, Prometheus. The gods endowed her with every charm, together with curiosity and deceit. Zeus sent her as a wife to Epimetheus, Prometheus' simple brother, and gave her a box that he forbade her to open. Despite Prometheus' warnings, Epimetheus allowed her to open the box and let out all the evils that have since afflicted man. Hope alone remained inside the box.The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia™ Copyright © 2013, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/
Pandora
(pan-dor -ă, -doh -ră) A small irregularly shaped satellite of Saturn, discovered in 1980 from photographs taken by Voyager 1. It appears to be heavily cratered, the two largest craters being some 30 km in diameter. Together with Prometheus, Pandora is a shepherd satellite for Saturn's F ring. See Saturn's rings; Table 2, backmatter.Collins Dictionary of Astronomy © Market House Books Ltd, 2006
An illustration of Pandora and her box by Arthur Rackman. From A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Reproduced by permission of Fortean Picture Library.
Pandora
(religion, spiritualism, and occult)Pandora is the name of two distinct celestial bodies: A moon of Saturn and an asteroid. Pandora, the recently discovered (1980) moon in the Saturnian system, is about 55 miles in diameter and orbits Saturn in less than two-thirds of a terrestrial day at an average distance of 88,200 miles. Pandora, asteroid 55 (the 55th asteroid to be discovered, on September 10, 1858), has an orbital period a bit longer than 4½ years, and it is almost 113 kilometers in diameter. Imagetobase64 1 2. Both celestial bodies were named after the mythological Greek woman who released the ills of humanity by opening a box that the gods had sent her but had forbidden her from unsealing. Only the asteroid has been investigated by astrologers.
Pandora is one of the more recent asteroids to be investigated by astrologers. Preliminary material on Pandora can be found in Demetra George and Douglas Bloch’s Astrology for Yourself, and an ephemeris (table of celestial locations) for Pandora can be found in the second edition of George and Bloch’s Asteroid Goddesses. Unlike the planets, which are associated with a wide range of phenomena, the smaller asteroids are said to represent a single principle. George and Bloch give Pandora’s principle as “curiosity that initiates change.” Zipporah Dobyns also associates Pandora with curiosity and has found it prominent in the charts of many astrologers. J. Lee Lehman sees the effect of Pandora as twofold: “to stir a person into doing something, and to produce unintended options of the person.” Jacob Schwartz gives this asteroid’s significance as “encountering unanticipated ramifications and options of a larger process, caught off-guard, curiosity initiating change.”
Sources:
Dobyns, Zipporah. Expanding Astrology’s Universe. San Diego: Astro Computing Services, 1983.
Dobyns. Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrology of the Reemerging Feminine. 2d. ed. San Diego: Astro Computing Services, 1990.
George, Demetra, with Douglas Bloch. Astrology for Yourself: A Workbook for Personal Transformation. Berkeley, CA: Wingbow Press, 1987.
Lehman, J. Lee. The Ultimate Asteroid Book. West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1988.
Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Pandora
in classical Greek mythology, a woman created by Hephaestus at the order of Zeus to punish mortals for Prometheus’ abduction of fire from the gods. According to the myth, Hephaestus fashioned Pandora from water and earth, endowing her with the appearance of a goddess and the voice of a mortal. Aphrodite gave Pandora irresistible charm, and Hermes gave her cunning, deceitfulness, and treachery. Athena wove beautiful garments for her.
With her beauty, Pandora captivated the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and became his wife. In Epimetheus’ house was a box, which had never been opened because it contained all the woes of mankind. Pandora, curious, opened the box and released all the misfortunes that have afflicted men ever since. In accordance with the will of Zeus, the lid slammed shut with only hope remaining at the bottom of the box. P. P. Rubens and other artists have created works dealing with the myth of Pandora.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Pandora
[pan′dȯr·ə] (astronomy)Anesidora 1 330 Km
A satellite of Saturn which orbits at a mean distance of 88,000 miles (142,000 kilometers), just outside the F ring; together with Prometheus, it holds this ring in place.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Pandora
inquisitively opens box of plagues given by Zeus. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 191]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Pandora
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Parlog extended to allow don't-know nondeterminism.
['Pandora: Non-Deterministic Parallel Logic Programming', R. Bahgat et al, Proc 6th Intl Conf Logic Programming, MIT Press 1989 pp. 471-486].
['Pandora: Non-Deterministic Parallel Logic Programming', R. Bahgat et al, Proc 6th Intl Conf Logic Programming, MIT Press 1989 pp. 471-486].
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The Music Genome Project
The heart of Pandora is the Music Genome Project that was started in 2000 by Will Glaser, Jon Kraft and Tim Westergren. It is a musicological study analyzing 400 attributes of a song, including melody, harmony, the singer's voice and instruments. Pandora uses its history of billions of thumbs up and down in combination with the music DNA to recommend songs. It should be noted that the 'music DNA' has no relationship to the acoustic fingerprints used to identify a song (see acoustic fingerprint). See Last.fm, music recommendation service and music search.
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By voting yeah or nay on the songs Pandora recommends, the system is able to fine tune subsequent selections for each user. In addition, all the 'those-who-like-this-also-like-that' history that Pandora collects helps make recommendations to other users better. |
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