Several of these sites have garnered interest from readers. I would very much like to hear your opinions, as well as what brought you to these.
This is a sub-index page of the Index to the Writings of Mark Joseph Young, which cover many areas of thought and life, including, law, bible, rpg's, time travel, fiction, and many other subjects.
About the Author: M. Joseph Young: Intended as the author bio for the Christian Gamers Guild Chaplain's Corner series Faith and Gaming, this includes links to a few significant articles including those in the series.
AD&D Character Creation 2: Character Class: From the Character Creation site, this lists and defines all of the character professions available under First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, plus a few drawn from second edition and invented for play in the MyWorld campaign.
AD&D Character Creation 3: Race and Gender: From the Character Creation site, this lists all the races available in First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, plus one from the Second Edition Viking materials.
AD&D Character Creation 10: Select Weapon Proficiencies: This page in the Character Creation site gives an overview of the number of weapons with which each Dungeons & Dragons class begins, along with related information and links to more details about weapons and oriental proficiencies.
AD&D Character Creation 20: Buy Equipment: After some initial preliminaries, this page connects to a set of tables which give costs and availabilities of equipment in several traditional AD&d categories.
AD&D Character Creation 24: Referee Additions: Once the player has finished a character, there are still a few things which might be added to the character page. This page suggests those which are necessary, those which are valuable, and those which are interesting, and links to pages which give more information about each.
AD&D Deities Sorted By Alignment: To facilitate finding the right god for a Dungeons & Dragons character, they are listed according to their relationships to good and evil, law and chaos, and linked to the individual pantheon pages on which they are more fully described.
AD&D Deities Sorted By Classes and Interests: To help players find the best gods for their characters, a large number of interests and class connections are catalogued, and the recognized game deities catalogued on this basis, and linked to the pantheon pages on which they are described in more detail.
AD&D Recognized Pantheons: All of the collections of deities in the first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rule books are listed and described briefly, with links to pages on which each is detailed with the gods contained.
Bible and Theology Writings of M. Joseph Young: An index to several of my pages related to Bible studies, theology, and Christian faith and practice.
Character Creation For Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First Edition: Index page of a separate site connected to the M. J. Young's Dungeons & Dragons Materials site, this site provides a step-by-step approach to everything a player needs to know to create a D&D character, as a collection of hyperlinked documents with information drawn or extrapolated from TSR's out-of-print books.
Christian Gamers Guild--Chaplain's Corner: A new section of the Christian Gamers Guild web site addresses Christian concerns about role playing games. This entry page is mostly links, with a bit of introductory material.
Correspondence on Temporal Anomalies Theories: An index to the electronic mail on the site, giving date, correspondent, and a quote from the letter which hopefully summarizes its subject.
The De Facto On-line Checklist: I served more as editor on this site, collecting and arranging the answers of numerous Internet professionals on a variety of topics related to web site design and e-commerce. This page presents the questions and organizes the site.
The De Facto On-line Checklist Contributors: Identifying all those who offered their experience in answering a set of questions related to web site design and promotion and other e-commerce issues. It links to the other pages.
Difficult Questions: A letter about doubt.: This letter asked a stack of questions which were answered in a series of letters, converted to pages. The original letter is presented here, edited to remove personal references and correct a few glitches, and linked to the answers. It was the letter which inspired the Difficult Questions section of the Bible Studies materials.
Difficult Questions: Christian Life and Role Playing Games.: This second letter in the Difficult Questions section was focused on Christian attitudes toward role playing games, but went beyond that to ask about Christian growth.
Difficult Questions: Free Will and the Problem of Evil.: This letter continued the questions of the previous one, concerning free will, evil, and why Christianity claims to be the only true religion.
Difficult Questions: How Can the Truth Be as Young as Christianity?: This third received letter in the Difficult Questions section was not more than a note on a survey form; yet in challenging whether Christianity was the only way, it opened a much longer discussion.
Difficult Questions: Questions and Answers for Christian Life and Thought.: A letter from a friend of a friend inspired a section of the site dedicated to answering the difficult questions Christians face. When a second letter was added, this became the page which provided convenient access to the section.
Difficult Questions: Why Should Christianity Be the Only Way?: The first answer regarding Christianity's claim to be the only way led to this second, longer and more complex question, and more answers.
Dungeon Master's Reference Materials: This secondary index within the Dungeons & Dragons materials lists pages containing rules and charts which I have developed to assist game play over the years.
Excerpt from Multiverser: Outline of the Game Rules (Edited): These pages from the Multiverser® Referee's Rules outline the entire book; although some portions have been deleted, other entries have become hyperlinks to other material on the web which is excerpted from the same text.
Index of the Papers: A Multiverser RPG Story Collection Page: The center of the web for the Stories from the Verse Collected Papers section, this page summarizes and introduces each of the documents which recount the adventures of Multiverser characters in the on-line games, as recorded in various forms by native observers.
Journals of the Architect: A Multiverser RPG Story Page: Index to the stories of my Multiverser character in several worlds.
Mark J. Young Personal Home Page: This is a general contents page of my most personal site, connecting the law, theology, music, intellectual, and role playing materials within a brief timeline of my life.
Martial Arts Rules for Role Playing Games: Although most of the pages in this site are linked to most of the other main pages, this page serves principally as the index to the site.
The Martial Arts Style Collection: Within the site on Martial Arts in RPG's are many pages of invented styles, reached principally through this page or pages linked from this one.
M. J. Young's Dungeons & Dragons Materials: This is the introduction and primary contents page of my site on the original role playing game, which briefly describes the pages and sections placed there to assist gamers.
M. J. Young Writings Selected for Intellectual Challenge: A secondary index of these documents, containing only those considered by the author to represent a more challenging level of thought.
Multiverser Information Center: The Experience: This page gives an overview of the Multiverser role playing game system, with an emphasis on the experience of playing the game.
Open Letters Posted on Other People's Web Sites.: I was invited to submit a letter to a new web site; they printed a slightly edited version of it, so I decided to place it and contributions to that and other sites here, and link them from a main control page.
Pages Related to Multiverser, RPG's, and other materials: Once the Valdron links page, that section has been expanded into organized sections on separate pages; this page now introduces and connects those.
The Songs of Cardiac Output and Mark J. Young: An index to the Christian song lyrics on the web in my personal web site.
Special Rules for the AD&D Table of M. J. Young: A secondary index within the M. J. Young's Dungeons & Dragons Materials site, this connects various documents which explain rules I created to make the game run more smoothly.
Stories from the Verse: The Collected Papers: I want to thank Jim Denaxas of Sinister Grynn Productions for the idea for this sub-site. He suggested that the Stories from the Verse would be more interesting if the style varied and the narrator changed. When the on-line games began, I decided that this was the material I needed for a new creative effort, stories told through official reports, log entries, diaries, and other documents not of versers themselves, but of those "indigs" they encounter. This page introduces this section.
Stories from the Verse: Contents of the Stories: This serves as an index page to the various stories recounting the adventures of friends in the Multiverser role playing game.
Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies: This is the contents page for the temporal anomalies site, applying the timeline principles expressed in the Multiverser game system to unravel the time tinkering in films.
Temporal Anomalies in the Star Trek Time Travel Movies: This is a brief introduction and secondary contents page for the temporal anomalies site, connecting the time-travel Star Trek films.
Thoughts on Law and Legal Papers: An index to those articles loosely related to legal matters.
Thoughts on the Ten Internet Laws Proposed by C-Net: The introductory page to a collection of replies to a survey and set of legal proposals put forward by Internet giant C-Net.
Mission Statement of Valdron Inc., Home of Multiverser RPG: This is the home page for the company which has published Multiverser. It expresses the commitment of the company to gamers, and provides links to Valdron site information including Multiverser.
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