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The main page of The Unofficial Home Page of Eamon Games, a website created by Fredrik Ekman. It reads:

"EAMON is a computerized version of what are called 'Fantasy Role-Playing Games.' When you enter the universe of one of these games, you are no longer John (or Jane) Smith, mild-mannered computer hobbyist. Instead, you become a character in a land of adventure, doing almost anything you want to." (Quoted from the Eamon manual)

Eamon is a kind of text adventure system with strong elements of role-playing. It is special in that there are many different games using a common standard, so that it is possible to use the same character in several games. Abilities and some weapons can be brought over from one game to another.

There is no standard background in the Eamon world. One game may involve fighting dragons and orcs with swords and magic. Another may be a Science Fiction adventure with space ships and blazing laser guns. Another quote from the manual:

"Far away, at the dead center of the Milky Way, is the planet of Eamon. It doesn't orbit any suns--all of the suns orbit it. The shifting pulls of all of these great bodies bring strange forces to bear upon this planet; twisting light, tides, even the laws of science itself! Strange things happen there, and the citizens of Eamon must always be adaptable, for things are rarely what they seem, and even more rarely what they were yesterday!"

Eamon was originally created in 1980 by Donald Brown and further developed by John Nelson and Tom Zuchowski. The system...

www.lysator.liu.se/eamon/index.html

9 June 2012

Fredrik Ekman