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[[File:Gnomon_Chronicles_Request_Permission.png|thumb|Request for Permission - code of ethics - ''The Gnomon Chronicles Game''. (Social media screenshot.)]]'''The Gnomon Chronicles Game''' is a role-playing game based on the [[Gnomon Chronicles]].

== Principles ==

The Gnomon Chronicles Game is a role-playing game.

Players interact with the game by posting to social media (currently Twitter).

The game takes place in the world of my imagination — which is to say the real world all bent out of shape by my wildest dreams.  

There is no "dungeon" as such, yet the game is like [[Gnomon Chronicles Game (nonfiction)]] — shared story-telling adventures.

=== Getting started ===

In order to act outside normal space-time, players require a Historical Figure — some real human being who lived (and is now dead).

Your HistFig is a personification of transcendent willpower, generally known as a [[transdimensional corporation]] (TC). This is the metaphor that connects your personal causal domain, as a player, to the Gnomon Chronicles.

Many of the effects which TC's can exert are similar to time travel.

To instantiate your TC, post to the Gnomon Chronicles Twitter account.  At the top of your post, enter:

<nowiki>#gcos begin game [name of your hist-fig]</nowiki>

The #gcos hashtag invokes the Gnomon Chronicles Operating system.  "begin game" instantiates a new causal nexus with the Gnomon Chronicles game. (You only need to do this once.)

You can use the #gcos to reprogram Creation itself — if you have the programming skill!

=== Variations ===

<blockquote>
Have you considered being a fictional character?

The Gnomon Chronicles Game is a role-playing game based on the Gnomon Chronicles 

One player [currently myself] plays Translator

The other players make Assertions to the Translator about reality ...
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== Goals ==

# Explore ideas
# Create content for the [[Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)]]
# Have fun

== Participants ==

=== Non-Fiction ===

* [[Matthew Farthing (nonfiction)]]
* [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)]]
* [[Howard Ashby Kranz (nonfiction)]]

Guest character design guide (nonfiction)
[REDACTED] indicates that [[I]] have suppressed the name in respect of privacy.  

In general, I redact names of non-famous living persons, then seek permission to publish names.

== In the News ==

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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Crimes against mathematical constants]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[John Havelock]]
* [[Cantor Parabola]]
* [[Skip Digits]]
* [[So you want to be in the Gnomon Chronicles (or not)]]
* [[The Eel]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

* [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles Game (nonfiction)]]
* [[Guest character design guide (nonfiction)]]
* [[So you want to be in the Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)]]

== External links ==


[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Essays by Karl Jones (nonfiction)]]

[[Category:Gnomon Chronicles Game]]