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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>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>Time line</title>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Conception</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <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>
+ </listitem>
+ </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>
+ </listitem>
+ </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>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
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