Heaven & Earth RPG 1e (Event Horizon, 1999)

[grodog]

Jay, you asked over in the Ragnarok thread:

Conceptually, this sounds a little like the thinking behind the diceless system we developed for our Heaven & Earth RPG in the late 1990s (with four PCs traits of Body, Mind, Heart, Soul, each with three stats under it) which was---naturally, given the tastes of the time---a fate-driven game engine supporting a meta-plot driven campaign setting

Ok so curiosity took hold and I had to google this. The only thing I found was reference to a Heaven and Earth RPG, I think in it's 3rd edition, about a small town in Kansas which has some weird stuff going on and the PCs play normal folks getting caught up in it all. Is this the same game?

The game has a slightly convoluted history, but in essence it's the same setting/campaign, but a different rules engine:

- 1e: My first RPG company, Event Horizon Productions, was founded with friends in Lawrence, Kansas, in January 1993-ish, in order to publish John Phythyon's Heaven & Earth RPG; that game was finally published, after a complete system redesign*, in early 1999, just 6 months before the company shut down
- 2e: John took the game to Guardians of Order when he went to work for them, and they redid the game using their in-house Tri-Stat system; when GOO folded, the property was eventually sold with the rest of GOO's assets, which were eventually parcelled out
- 3e: Abstract Nova bought H&E somewhere along the line, and began to publish material for it in

I wrote about this on the old version of the board, I think, but here's an RPG.net review that includes links back to our old web site for info/details: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/cla ... 1618.phtml and https://web.archive.org/web/19991013053 ... hrctr.html and https://web.archive.org/web/19991013022 ... /hear.html and https://web.archive.org/web/19991021210 ... efate.html

Allan.

[Necron 99]

Awesome Allan, thanks! I'll give them a read through.