New! Check out the Chameleon Reality Guide!

Alternate Realities is a generic, modular, copylefted role-playing system originally created by Carter Butts, Karim Nassar, and Brian Rayburn. Whether you are interested in science fiction or fantasy, story or simulation, AR can support your campaign. Key features of AR include:

• A generic, object oriented approach to game design
• Modular rule systems
• Adjustable levels of detail
• Nonlinear character development
• A cultural description system
• Full coverage of psycho-social character traits
• Essentially total expansion flexibility
• Freedom to copy and distribute freely
• An open and accessable design community

(A few words on the AR design philosophy are also out there, for those who are interested.)

Hopefully, with time a vast library of AR products will be available. At the moment, a variety of Reality Guides, Modular Rule Supplements, and Supporting Products are in development, so look for more stuff to show up here soon. (Check out the AR Project Bulletin Board for a full list; additional material is available in the Prerelease Archive as well.) Currently, the following AR goodies are available:

The Primary Reality Guide

Version 1.0 (Currently in Word 6.0 format (and zipped)); a postscript version and the PRG Online (live HTML) are available also.

PRG Experimental Releases: zipped PDF (thanks to Adam Coleman), tarred HTML, and zipped HTML, and Palm Pilot DOC (Requires a PalmPilot and DOC reader such as AportisDoc).

Reality Guides

In the works... (Why not write one?)

Chameleon v0.1 (beta) (Currently in PDF (normal and low-graphic) and postscript (normal and

Reality Supplements

In the works... (Why not write one?)

Modular Rule Supplements

In the works... (Why not write one?)

Supporting Products

The AR Player Pack, Version 1.0 (Currently in Word 6.0 format (and zipped)); a postscript version is available also, but currently exhibits problems with the two landscaped pages (we're working on this one).

Player Pack experimental release format: PDF (thanks to Adam Coleman)

The AR Mailing List, a resource for AR designers, players, and GMs.

The AR Mailing List Archives.

ARWG v0.01a, a utility for creating game worlds (DOS and general releases available)

Work in Progress

The Project Bulletin Board, which lists contacts and work in progress.

The Prerelease Archive, which contains samples of drafts and supplemental material.

Note to new players/GMs: A group will need at least one copy of the Primary Reality Guide to play. Getting the Player Pack is strongly recommended, as it contains character sheets, DRF tables, target webs, and other good stuff.

If you don't have Word or a postscript viewer, don't despair! We've assembled a page of links to utilities which should enable you to read our file formats. For the Primary Reality Guide, you can also try the PRG Online.

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