Greetings Adventurer.

As you can see, the library is having many of the sections indexed and reviewed for your pleasure. Don't mind the cataloguing bots as you stroll about the information aisles.  We welcome your contributions or assistance, after all, you are a part of this world.  The history of the world has been gathered together here for all to peruse.  As you read, you wil notice it takes the form of an encyclopedia, but also stories of adventurers and discussions of conceptual things.

This is a wiki for collaborative fiction, art and discussions of futuris

m within the context of a ficti

onal world.  Feel free to start any sort of page you desire.  From a description of the fictional village where you are from, a description of who you've always wanted to be, or a treatise on how alternative energy sources will affect the social interactions in future cities. 

(Almost) anything goes!! Welcome and we hope you find this a fun place to express your passion.

If you have never visited the Grand Library before, let me please suggest you start with these articles:

• Synopsis - a quick introduction on the nature of this encyclopedia project.
• Table of Contents - a categorical tree of subject topics
  • Here is the best place to start, introducing the main points of the world
  • It shows the full range of topics, and includes gaming discussion as well as planetary history, culture and a list of creatures or technologies.

• Adventures - playable fiction, playwrite your own adventure
  • Open-ended stories where you can create characters and explore, follow paths that have been written, or work on creating new ones
  • Start here if you want to explore and add to existing story lines
  • Most adventures follow a 'play your own adventure' format, others have tutorials
• Tags - Keyword list, navigat e documents by shared subject
• d20 Shashnimyn Supplement Guide - play this universe into as a OGL PNP gaming campaign
• VBAM - see the developments this universe has in the Victory by Any Means game system

If you have a specific subject that you are looking for, please use the Search function on the header bar. The tags listed in the bottom left box, at the end of each document will list all those connected to that keyword. The Linkers option will list all documents which are directly linked to that document.  The search functions as if the whole term was in quotes, so single words work better.

Mission statement / Objectives

    To build a positive, interactive, creative community in the context of a fantasy world.  To create a perpetual, open ended adventure game making use of the creative nature of traditional pen & paper RPGs while making use of the benefits of a computer-assisted environment.

     To explore human nature through creating an alien world, applying forward looking technologies and progressive thinking and reasoning how those would affect and develop culture.  To open discussion of principles to build a better tommorrow through allegory.  To educate youth in a fun explorative and expressive way.  To build a community that interacts on the basis of creativity and compassion, cooperation.  The game mechanics and website rewards will reflect these goals by rewarding with positive feedback and points for positivity and cooperation.  Any effort gains points as feedback.  Peers in the community may grant additional points, with no total limits, but diminishing returns

to specific individuals.  Friendships and long standing collaborations are also recognized and rewarded. As is reaching out to hose in need. 

     The community will start in wiki format and grow to include chat.  Adventures are community written to follow & expand the theme of the sci-fi fantasy world.  A near utopia with many social and technological differences from our own, differences meant for gameplay but also to encourage discussion of how an ideal system could work.

Rough below

Overview

This is the root page for the project. The project is a fictional encyclopedia set in the Shashnimyn universe as created by R. Aaron Ball and community. As such, do not hesitate to comment and contribute your own articles. Additions from outside sources will lead to increased momentum and goodness! ~: )

If you are using 3rd party material, ensure that you have permission, or back-link and cite religiously!  The sections which will be most up to date are those pages which can be accessed immediately by new players; things that are needed to dive into play right away.  The basic rules are story-based and simple, with skills and combat introduced by tutorial adventures.

Disclaimer

A personal apology to you all for how many dead ends there are.   This is by all means still a work in progress.

I am inserting links to new documents as I come across them based upon information I have thought of, written elsewhere, or mean to create. I made these links so that they would be in place when the article is created, rather than having to back search to link up. It is not my intention to make navigation frustrating.

I have over 300 pages of writing and diagrams in my notebooks about this world and ideas are constantly coming, so it's constantly growing.  I love feeback though, and contribution always picks up when there's an adventure to write or someone to discuss things with.

RAB ~: )