The Ultimate Addendum Series
Posted by MajorTomSawyer
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I'll get back to you on this one after I look them up, but here's what I recall---
1. THE ULTIMATE ADDENDA-- based on the fact I forgot a file and some definitions. 2. THE ULTIMATE ADDENDA'S ADDENDA-- more powers that came up and the "Rules Powers" concept. 3. NOBODY LASTS FOREVER-- the post-mortem effects that my then wife ordered me to keep out of the book since the topic was too depressng. Alo, clarification of Immortality and Longevity. 4. A mailbag article with readers' letters. 5. A starflight article that was supposed to lead to a series of lucrative DRAGON articles detailing all the aliens in the Marvel Universe. Roger sat on the articles for a year and then paid me a small kill fee...... Anyway, I'll check my records for the real articles and maybe we can get them shared around. Or go to www.google.com and do a search for "David Edward Martin". That'll lead you to specific articles and where you might download them. 
Here's what few UP Addenda I can find immediately online:
THE ULTIMATE ADDENDA (DRAGON 122) [rivendell.fortunecity.com] THE ULTIMATE ADDENDA's ADDENDA (DRAGON 134) [rivendell.fortunecity.com] --or-- [www.classicmarvel.com] Starflight (DRAGON 159) [www.geocities.com] Guess I'll have to scan in the other articles and place them online.
Zan did two versions. The no-graphics version fits nicely on a floppy. I used to hand these out as freebies at Gencon. It also usually fits an e-mailbox when sending it to other people.
The second version has all the graphics and the Ultimate Addenda implant. I was amazed and appalled that the few pictures take out 150% more memory than the entire text! It doesn't email worth a dang. It's humbling to see how little space it takes up on a CD-rom. The UPC and the Fantastic Four Compendium, with all the graphics, is a 1/8th inch band on the inside of the disc! Six months of work, reduced to a tiny silver band. Makes ya think.... Makes ME think I should put more stuff on it....
MTS, call me DAVE or DAVID. Just not "Mr."!!!!!
Thanks for the complement. I'm jut glad I held onto the printout. I've got an ancient accordion-fold printout of the original FFC text as I turned it in, which was sitting for over a decade in an orange binder. I almost put it in a Gencon auction, just s to see if anyone would be interested. Glad I didn't! I'm lousy at writing adventures, at least ones I'm not personally running. So my enthusiasm for the obligatory MA adventure was, well, lacking.... When Karen pointed out I was already cruising near the end of my page count, I was relieved to shelve the adventure. Flash forward to 1999 and an encounter online with the host of a Canadian Marvel site. He asked if I wamted to contribute to his site and I recalled the FFC adventure. So.... a couple of hours typing and revising and spellchecking and I STILL didn't have a complete adventure but at least the dang thing was hopefully readable. As for the Four Freedoms Plaza bit-- my first major in college was Architecture. The FFP had yet to be delineated yet so I figured I'd give it a try. After all, DC had accepted into its canon the material created by Mayfair's staff for the DC Heroes sourcebooks. But Marvel ain't DC. I got the word third-hand that the FFP material was excised because somebody at Marvel would eventually write an official FFP layout. Guess what? They never did! The "official" FFP layout that appeared in some Marvel comic somewhere was simply the old Baxter Building description with the building height changed. Which meant that each floor in the FFP has a FORTY to SIXTY FOOT CEILING! So, I was more than happy to finally have a chance to see my relatively rational layout see print, however unofficial. I'm particularly fond of the floor reserved for guest suites and the swimming pool that doubles as an Atlantean meeting room. Anyway, I was so pleased with what Zan had done that I gave him my second-to-last original copy of the FFC and the files that never made it into the book. And that's how the Zan edition of the FFC came to be. Now...... Anyone want to do PDF's of the Ultimate Addenda series? I'll give my copies to however does it. :hot-hot-hot:
Don't mind me. I'm busy rummaging in the basement........
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The above link is to a copy of the UPB book-n-CDR set that I'm selling on EBay. The CD-R holds the Zan-restored editions of the UPB and FFC plus all four Ultimate Addenda articles as .PDF files (which is why I put this note here. All of these are available online but if you'd like a copy, email me your address and I'll mail you a copy gratis. Post Edited (07-04-03 18:18)
" were these addendums included in any of the updated PDFs for the UPB when ZAN placed them up on his site as a PDF?"
As MajorTomSawyer pointed out, the Zan edition of the UPB only contains The Ultimate Addenda. As far as I know, no one has ever gotten around to re-configuring the Zan edition to fit in the other powers. Here's the breakdown on new powers in the UA series-- UA1: The Ultimate Addenda S23/ Bouncing Ball S24/ Elongation S25/ Growth S26/ Mass Decrease S27/ Mass Increase S28/ Phasing S29/ Plasticity S30/ Shrinking S31/ Two-Dimensionality UA2: The Ultimate Addenda's Addenda F6/ Unique Weapon MG14/ Probability Control M34/ Omni-Knowledge P18/ Hyper Intake/Expulsion P19/ Hyper-Endurance P20/ Hyper-Strength S32/ Collective Mass T24/ Spinner a new group, Rules Powers, consisting of R1/ Attribute Change R2/ Attribute Pool R3/ Attribute Rearrangement R4/ Award Change R5/ Award Pool R6/ Award Rearrangement R7/ Initiative Change R8/ Power Combination UA3: Nobody Lasts Forever P21/ Immortality P22/ Longevity UA4: Son of The Ultimate Addenda no new powers Post Edited (07-04-03 18:42)
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