radzap
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Post by radzap on Aug 13, 2014 22:04:37 GMT -8
What, no one likes Star Frontiers anymore?
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Post by Kainguru on Aug 13, 2014 22:45:26 GMT -8
What, no one likes Star Frontiers anymore? I loved Star Frontiers - cowboys in space with no pretensions to being anything else but: Star Marshals, mysterious aliens invading the sector, different alien races trying to get along. Being able to play, essentially, 'a blob'. Aaron
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radzap
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Post by radzap on Aug 13, 2014 23:23:31 GMT -8
Heck yeah, kill bug eyed monsters from outer space, or play as one. My friend and I used to play SF when Traveller got too heavy. I picked up a pretty nice copy of SF at Gamex 2014 and romanced the idea of running a game at Gateway. Maybe I'll run one off the books.
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Post by daniel on Aug 14, 2014 15:43:22 GMT -8
Thanks for the grate suggestions, we are discussion between Traveler (because between us we have 2 books of that) Fate has been brought up again and again as cool to tray but the problem there is none of us have tried it and all of us are more.. mechanically inclined to one degree or another, if we had more time i think we would tray it but this is a 1/week thing for a few hours i think its unlikely in the end to be fate.
MnM got brought up some to, personally the system for MnM just makes no sense to me and thats wierd because i am normally mechanically savy and i know d20 like the back of my hand generally.
Saga might happen, it looks like the choice has narrowed down to those 3 Dark Heresy was in there for a bit to but there were some worries about some of the particularities of the system
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Post by D.T. Pints on Aug 14, 2014 23:04:40 GMT -8
What are the worries about Dark Heresy ? Character archetypes ? Combat ? Psionics ? The revised edition is really good.
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radzap
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Post by radzap on Aug 15, 2014 0:19:38 GMT -8
It's pretty funny that NYJoe mentions Space Opera as a genre a few times but didn't mention the fairly popular game of the same name that was being bounced around in the late 80's. I played in a bug hunt adventure back at during one of those 80's Stratcons with a GM named David Fitzgerald. I thought the game was tits awesome! Fast forward a quarter of a century later and I see Dave at the last Gamex. I ask him if he'd ever run that old bug hunt game for shits ad giggles.
"Hell no," replied quite stone faced. "Space Opera was the worst fucking Sci-fi game system ever invented."
So I guess NYJoe left Space Opera out of his list for a reason after all.
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Post by Kainguru on Aug 15, 2014 1:19:17 GMT -8
What, no one likes Star Frontiers anymore? Just acquired a replacement copy off the eBays Aaron
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Aug 15, 2014 1:22:31 GMT -8
So here are the parameters, me and a group of friends want to play something sci fi.... So dos anybody know of a game system that dos Sci Fi well, is not some archaic weird system that needs a science calculator. No one is sharing the OSR love for 1000 Suns? Rules light, using the 12 Degree mechanic, it is quick to generate a character with a background. Have a look. 1 Core book. 1 space travel book. Good to go. Not recommended for a bunch of bickering munchkins, or the creatively challenged. You cannot open up the monster manual and start dicing. Story driven - but driven by the players and their interaction rather than automated by the system. I have very good memories playing the equivalent of Galaxy Rangers using Star Frontiers too.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Aug 15, 2014 8:30:12 GMT -8
Hey radzap as your current comet-like orbit has brought you zooming into these forums again ...I really hope we can get you to run a game in the next Jackercon V November 1-8. The theme being horror games in space "In space no one can hear you scream." Now I believe there was a certain "Clones in Space" module for a certain game that may or may not involve knowledge about treasonous activity, and a certain society that may or may not also be controlled by a psychotic computer. Just putting it out there...
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radzap
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Post by radzap on Aug 15, 2014 10:01:11 GMT -8
Hey radzap as your current comet-like orbit has brought you zooming into these forums again ...I really hope we can get you to run a game in the next Jackercon V November 1-8. The theme being horror games in space "In space no one can hear you scream." Now I believe there was a certain "Clones in Space" module for a certain game that may or may not involve knowledge about treasonous activity, and a certain society that may or may not also be controlled by a psychotic computer. Just putting it out there... Comet-like, hehe. I never intended to have that kind of social trajectory, but that's what working mad hours for long stretches of time will do to a lad. Thanks for mentioning Galaxy Rangers, CC! That was my favorite Saturday show, I wish they had made more episodes. I never tried using GR as a setting, but that would be quite cool. "Mo dumb computers fall for that one than any other..."
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Post by jazzisblues on Aug 15, 2014 16:58:14 GMT -8
Fantastic universe/fluff . . . transhuman era. The system itself is very clunky still and I avoided mentioning it precisely because of your desire to avoid too much calculation - there are a LOT of rules with almost as many exceptions and there is a degree of number crunching required to find resolutions. I personally rather like it, but think that it could do with a major makeover (ie: 2nd edition) to tidy up the presentation. However, on the major plus side, the PDF's are legally free!!!! as explicitly stated by the designers. So you could buy it off drivethruRPG or just go one of the designers blogs and download the same PDF gratis - the philosophy behind this bold move: 'We're here spread the word (if you like us please buy the book)'. They even allow sharing of the PDF's provided they're not altered and due credit is given . . . Aaron Because I agree utterly with Aaron's assessment (Great fluff & painful game system) I have run EclipseFate using the fluff and story from EP and the rules of Fate. I cannot begin to express how amazingly well this combination worked. JiB
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Aug 16, 2014 9:50:03 GMT -8
Thanks for mentioning Galaxy Rangers, CC! That was my favorite Saturday show, I wish they had made more episodes. I never tried using GR as a setting, but that would be quite cool. "Mo dumb computers fall for that one than any other..." Dude, Rangers are Forever! I used to run games on the Super Trooper Juice McGuffin all the time, after religion persuaded me to give up playing AD&D 1e. I even ran a Blade Runner game when I first got into Star Frontiers. Everyone had watched the film at that time so it was a piece of cake. Lots of good SF memories! You know that Zachary Fox was Jerry Orbach, right? "The Doctor will Operate...."
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Post by Arcona on Aug 18, 2014 0:18:27 GMT -8
I echo the sentiment for Dark Heresy. The mechanics for corruption/sanity are very fun but in general it is a simple d100 system. There are some modifiers to keep track of but nothing too complex. On top of that if you are planning to go for a more 'military outfit' that you mentioned consider doing something with Only War... it is the Warhammer 40k RPG about playing Imperial Guard. Now you said you dont want to play 'the army' but your group could be a specialised unit of storm-troopers that usually operate behind enemy lines or semi-independent. www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=201The 13th Penal Legion - the Last Chancers - is great inspiration about how you can end up with a WIDELY different group set up with different skills, talents and concepts. Its a series of 3 novels following Colone Schaeffer and his Penal Legioners... which basically is a group of 4000 penal troopers that he whittled down to a squad of 7-8 highly specialized people in order to go for IMPOSSIBLE missions. The 'prize' for surviving was a pardon... their Last Chance. wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/13th_Penal_Legion#.U_G2iPmSx0Ywww.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Colonel-Schaeffers-Last-Chancers
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Post by inflatus on Aug 18, 2014 5:49:06 GMT -8
As for what kind of sci fi, well its still a bit up in the air but the direction of the talk has been going to something of a small group possibly military in nature but not as normal soldiers. To large part the problem is its still some what up in the air since we kind of tripped all over a question of system I saw military and soldier in there. I love Twilight 2000. Though it is in the future, late 90's, it may not be out too far for your group. -------- thecheeseshop.org
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Post by newyorkjoe on Aug 23, 2014 18:51:59 GMT -8
I put together a list of RPG systems and their books needed to capture basic space sci-fi or space opera and posted it in a new thread. Here is the link Space Opera RPGs
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