Pyramid Wish List

Last Updated: December 3, 2008

Pyramid is a monthly PDF magazine that rotates its focus on three broad themes: Fantasy/Past, Modern (and Recent Past), and Space/Future. These three themes alternate every month, so that, for example, Fantasy/Past-themed issues will appear four times a year (every three months).

• Fantasy/Past consists, in GURPS terms, of TL0 through TL4 (approximately the dawn of time through 1700 or so). Besides most fantasy or medieval genres, it also covers genres such as Ancient Greece, Imperial Rome, the Age of Exploration, and most distant-past historical settings.
• Modern (and Recent Past) consists, in GURPS terms, of the TL5 through early TL8. Besides modern-day settings and adventures, it also includes genres such as Old West, Victorian, cliffhangers, World War II, atomic horror, Black Ops, spies, most superhero and In Nomine campaigns, and others. Zombies love this era.
• Space/Future consists, in GURPS terms, of late TL8 and beyond. It covers cyberpunk, space opera, imperial sci-fi, Transhuman Space, Reign of Steel, and other futuristic settings and ideas.

Note that, in many cases, genres blend or are of interest to multiple themes. For example, an issue devoted to martial arts might be categorized as a modern issue, but contributors would be welcome to include references to fantasy or near-future elements. (Every setting can use more Kung-Fu fighting!) Conversely, an issue devoted to futuristic gadgets and weapons might be based on real-world elements and thus might include notes for how to incorporate them into a modern campaign. Be creative; the more readers who can use an article, the better!

Based on our reader preferences, the vast majority of articles we're looking for will be GURPS or generic articles. We might be inspired to run the occasional non-GURPS, non-systemless article, but they'll be the exception, and such articles will need to be exceptional. Please feel free to send proposals for articles using other systems, but don't be offended if we don't think there will be enough of an audience for a particular piece.

Although we've assigned some issue numbers, and would like to run them in the rough order they run below, the exact order of "TBA" issues is subject to change; we might even end up canceling some of those issues if we don't get enough good submissions.

#3 (January 2009): Post-Apocalypse

Advice for campaigning in the badlands.

TBA: Magic on the Battlefield

This issue will focus on the effects and implications of magic on a fantasy battlefield. (It's possible to touch on the effects of magic on more modern warfare settings, but that should only be a tangential point to the fantasy angle . . . maybe no more than a third of the full article.) We'd love at least one good NPC and maybe even a write-up of a magic-based army (presumably antagonist). Read those Mass Combat rules!

TBA: Horror & Spies

From Black Ops to investigating Things Man Was Not Meant to Know . . . or playing Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and spying on humanity. This might be a good spot for a campaign framework or adventure-series idea, and/or possibly an adventure (maybe Black Ops?).

TBA: Colony Alpha

Fly across the galaxy, discover new worlds, and build a mall! This might be a good opportunity for a one-shot adventure (or the beginning of a campaign) that involves establishing a new colony. A lengthy piece about what is entailed to establish an interstellar colony would be great. (Or, perhaps, smaller pieces that detail specific issues and problems with such an organization.)

TBA: Urban Fantasy

Monsters in the alleys and spells in the boardrooms.

TBA: Cliffhangers!

Adventure in pulp worlds, and end everything with an exclamation point! (Writers: That was hyperbole; please do not use all exclamation points. Do use lots of hyperbole.)

TBA: Transhuman Space

News and tools from around the Transhuman Space solar system, circa 2100.

TBA: Crime and Grime

Medieval crime, punishment, and what happens when magic gets involved.

TBA: Action Locations!

Places to investigate, places to fight, places to explode minutes before the closing credits

TBA: Space Opera

Characters for swashbuckling between the stars.

TBA: Thaumatology

New twists on favorite Magic spells or magic in general.

TBA: PunchKICKdodge

Everything martial arts (especially GURPS Martial Arts)

TBA: Tech and Toys

New gear and equipment for a variety of future situations

TBA: Historic Exploration

From emerging from caves to first contact with Asia and North America.

TBA: Modern Exploration

From Cliffhangers to undersea exploration to the first tentative steps into space.

TBA: Space Exploration

From the first space colonies to the last great intergalactic discovery