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  <title id="stchrono">Time line</title>

  <para>Here a short summary of the Arpeggii development, without

    any date however since I'm working on it sporadicly.</para>

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    <title>Time line</title>

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      <term>Conception</term>

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        <formalpara>

          <title>1997-1998.</title>

          <para>Arpeggii is born during this period.  I kept few

            trace of this part.  I remember that I knew exactly what I

            want (the basic principles that the Arpeggii must

            respect) without however knowing how to apply them.  I

            discovered <trademark>Simulacres</trademark> et kept its

            characteristics system, then <trademark>Marvel's Super

            Heroes</trademark> (with the help of François) who inspire

            me the harmonics system.  I knew already the open dice

            roll, with one dice only however, which came from

            <trademark>Ars Magica</trademark>, but I didn't know how

            to apply it.  It's by exploring probability curves in a

            statistic class that I find, luckily, the result of

            subtracting, making the Arpeggii dream possible.</para>

        </formalpara>

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    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>

      <term>First tries</term>

      <listitem>

        <formalpara>

          <title>Autumn 1998.</title>

          <para>The first tries of Arpeggii with players (big thanks

            to Charlot, Pat, Francis, Martin and Jean-Max).  The

            Arpeggii answer all expectations but show some

            deficiencies on the organisational level (character sheet,

            NPC preparation, etc.).  I should include those kind of

            informations in the next versions.</para>

        </formalpara>

      </listitem>

    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>

      <term>Harmonies is borned!</term>

      <listitem>

        <formalpara>

          <title>Winter 1999-Spring 2000</title>

          <para>The lost of an hard disk force me to rewrite completly

            the Arpeggii.  I get the opportunity to reorganise the

            manual and begin to think to publish it.  To help the

            exchange, I separate more clearly the basic rules and the

            advanced rules, which will became respectively the

            Harmonies and the Arpeggii while the complementary rules

            became the Other Chords.  This division will help me a lot

            to progress in the Arpeggii organisation.</para>

        </formalpara>

        <para>In November 1999, after the reading of the

          <email>createurs-jdr@yahoogroupes.fr</email> mailing list, I

          decide to modify my competency system to a more hierarchical

          one looking a more like the one find in <trademark

          class="copyright">FreeCiv</trademark> video game.  I have

          already make some tries (like the trunk competencies in

          version 0.1, which are similar to the one found in Greg

          Costikyan's <trademark>Paranoia</trademark>), but I didn't

          like the result.  The pre-requisite system please me more

          and represent for me a new step as important as the

          harmonics dice roll who allow me to apply easily the

          harmonics principle.</para>

        <para>In spring 2000, I also remove all rules which can be

          considered a copy from another game.  The supplementary work

          for new rules to replace the old one worth the efforts.  The

          new rules were simply better adapted to the Arpeggii,

          sometime even simpler to manage and more realistic.</para>

        <para>It's also during this period that the Arpeggii, mostly

          unfinished, will criticised and even play by other game

          masters than myself (many thanks to Arcor, Dragrad and Urzah

          for their comments).  I was expecting to finish this alpha

          phase for the next winter.  For this, all rules must be

          clearly determined.</para>

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    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>

      <term>Arpeggii Publication</term>

      <listitem>

        <formalpara>

          <title>Spring 2000-Spring 2003</title>

          <para>The beta phase, where I officially make the Arpeggii

            public.  This phase have for its main function to check if

            the Arpeggii really hit its target, to feed it with new

            ideas and to let people contribute to the Arpeggii

            Universe.  Briefly, it was the occasion to see if there

            were a market for the Arpeggii.

        </formalpara>

        <para>Olivier Hascoet's <trademark

          class=copyright>GHOST</trademark> share a lot with the

          Arpeggii, have bring a lot to the Arpeggii.  The wounds and

          combat system of the Arpeggii were greatly influence by his

          comments and there is a lot of chance that the craft

          system will also be done in collaboration.</para>

        <para>In september 2001, based on asking and from my own

          experience of LARP games like <trademark>Mind's Eye

          Theater</trademark>, I create a new Harmonies game for LARP

          called Opera.  This game will contribute a lot to the

          Arpeggii by the bias of the rock-paper-scissor rule.</para>

        <para>The possibility to combine in the Harmonies both the

          characters' evolution as well as the society evolution is

          born in this period too.  However, the know-how is still

          missing and I didn't know how I will combine both.</para>

        <para>This period is also the one of the first Harmonies

          Symphonies, mainly offered from external contributors.  An

          adaptation of Carolin J. Cherryh's work by <ulink

          url="http://jeanluc.donnadieu.free.fr/espace">Jean-Luc

          Donnadieu</ulink>, and another of the universe of <ulink

          url="http://www.tigres-volants.org"><trademark

          class="copyright">Tigres Volants</trademark></ulink> by

          Thomas Queste will be the first to be publish on the

          web.</para>

        <para>This period ends with the publishing of the English

          version of the Arpeggii, a very important decision since,

          although this open the Arpeggii to a larger public, also

          mean a lot more works to keep both version in

          synchronisation.</para>

      </listitem>

    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>

      <term>Version 1.0</term>

      <listitem>

        <formalpara>

          <title>Somewhere toward the end of time...</title>

          <para>Arpeggii 1.0 will be publish when I got enough

            material to cover at least three different themes from

            fantasy, which are Heroic Fantasy, Horror and

            Anticipation.  May be I will begin to approach some

            editors by this time.</para>

        </formalpara>

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