The Primary Reality Guide lays down the "basic" rules for playing and GMing in the Alternate Realities system. Features of the PRG include:
The Primary Reality Guide is all you need to get started with AR, and it's copylefted (so you can make and distribute all the copies you want ;-) ). The PRG currently comes in three flavors:
(There's also a new experimental PDF version, for those with Acrobat readers. Thanks to Adam Coleman for encoding and sending it in! Let us know how you like this version, and what you think of moving towards Acrobat as a standard AR release format. Some users may also be interested in the HTML version of the PRG (zipped or tarred and gzipped)...great for gaming groups with laptop computers!)
All are version 1.0. The recommended flavor is Word 6.0, simply because that is the original, working version. The online version has all of the text of the other two, but due to the limitations of HTML (and of conversion technology) it lacks some of the formatting and features of the hardcopy.
Errata and proposed changes to the next version are available on the eponymous Errata and Change Page. Please send along any errors or suggestions which need to be addressed in future versions of the PRG.
Whichever version you choose, check out the Primary Reality Guide today, and let Alternate Realities become your own....
Carter Butts, ctb+@andrew.cmu.edu