Meet the Team

Welcome to Speculation
Speculation started development in 1982 as an attempt to bring a percentile-based simulation to fruition. In the decades since, it has been through cycles of casual tinkering and academic research to apply evidence-based probabilities to a system of task resolution.

Which is a somewhat fancy way of saying "I wanted a realistic game that worked off a base-10 system."

Since then, Speculation has been a labor of love – and sometimes a laboratory for other projects. While writing, I'd wonder: would [this scenario] actually work? I set up the situation actors and played it through. Representing the characters in a virtual environment helped the inner author literally and figuratively see new angles.

When I started instructing CERT classes for the City of Burbank (2005-2010), I realized this could be an incredible tool for teaching volunteers light Urban Search and Rescue, site selection for triage and casualty collection points and so on.

This has led to the growth of Speculation. It has since become a role-playing system suitable for gamers of any genre, a visualization system for writers and a tool for training and exercise (T&E).

Speculation is now opening up to beta testing and as the play-test group grows, we'll list contributors here on the team page. We hope you enjoy the system – and wherever it may take you.

Erik Day, Author.