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  • It's lifted straight up from the source material. As far as seventies series go, S: 1999 took itself quite seriously, in a good way. It's still sort of zany and the science isn't there in the plot, but the models and the casting more than make up for it.

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    Orbital Trouble: d12 Space Outpost Hooks

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59305590

    Orbital Trouble: d12 Space Outpost Hooks - Roleplaying Tips

  • Thank you and welcome!

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    Community for sci-fi RPGs

    ttrpg.network Sci-Fi RPGs - The TTRPG network

    A community for Sci-Fi themed tabletop RPGs. # Rules 1. No piracy or illegal content. Do not link to, request or encourage piracy or any other illegal content or activities. 2. Stay on-topic. This community is for Sci-Fi tabletop RPGs. 3. Original content. Please only post your own work or make sure...

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    Hi folks! If you’re into tabletop RPGs and sci-fi, there’s a place for you here!

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  • I got sidetracked for a while, but here are some answers from that chat:

    Ideally you just swap planets. Whatever you have set up for them on planet one is now surprise on planet two.

    [in response to the above] This is the default solution for story focused games. The story continues to the next act, the players dictate how.

    “I hadn’t thought of that! I don’t have anything prepared. Why don’t we just pause things here for now and chat. I’ll have it ready next time.”

    I guess the question is how far off the path? Jump 1 away or Jump 6? GM completely unprepared? Or not as prepared as you’d like? As a Traveller GM I’ve got

    • The notes for every planet and system within range of the PCs ship x2. I.e. for J2 every system within 4 parsecs.
    • A list of 100+ random NPC names
    • A couple sentences about each system
    • Same for the two to five largest factions in my setting

    So if the PCs wander I’ve usually got enough material for one night’s worth of material

    An easy delay is simply to go into more detail. For example, have them go through the steps of Customs at the new starport, or notice something interesting about another ship, etc. It adds texture to the game, is interesting, and gives you the extra time to prep.

    For my group (not sure if it will work for every group) i just leveraged their completionist mindsets. I told them "here are 15 jobs" and the first thing they did was plot an exact course to hit all of them, so they prevented themselves from wandering.

    The last one is my favorite of this bunch, because as a player I'd fall for that hook, line, and sinker.

    Thank you everyone for participating!

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    Traveller 5's Starship Geomorphs book is free today (2025-02-14) on DTRPG

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55540901

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    Star Trek: Alpha Quadrant -- Free Traveller/CE rules for the ST universe by Steven J. Ege

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55842471

    These are some high quality, fan-made rules for Cepheus Engine (and so based on the Mongoose Traveller SRD) covering various Star Trek shows up until 2017 (TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, ENT).

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    To railroad or not to railroad?

    User Monomyth posed an interesting question on the Traveller discord that I wanted to replicate here:

    hi team, just a quick discussion based question with no right answer; if youre running a game, and the players decide to veer off course into something completely out of left field (such as going to a planet you do not have prepped), is it appropriate to come up with some "delaying issue" so you can have it ready for next session?

    Transposing to other settings: what do you do when the players go off-script?

    I can summarize some answers we’ve got on that server, but I don’t want to prime your answers from the start.

  • You’re pinning for a system that prevents fascism, but it doesn’t exist. You prevent it through other sociological structures. The method for selecting power can’t do what you want it to do.

    But by all means, keep trying to bait people online, I’m sure that helps you somehow.

  • Yeah, definitely don’t get caught doing that.

  • You wrote psychopath wrong.

  • The thing about a cult is that it doesn’t need you in particular. It needs people. Ideally, idiots. So it doesn’t matter that a lot of people are leaving/will leave Twitter. The idiots will remain, and the platform will serve its purpose.

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    Favorite sci-fi RPG settings?

    What are your favorites to play on? Anything valid, be it a published RPG setting, an adaptation you did of other media (book, game, movie), a mashup you or someone else create, etc.

  • — Você tem dados em casa?
    — Ô! Até d4!

  • All it needs is a name and you’ve got a ready adventure.

  • Got to make due

  • Why is it worn out near the top?

  • Dice Bags

  • Truncated d4 s deal less damage… as caltrops. Also look at that table 🤩

  • Ninguém citou ainda Mutants and Masterminds, que é um clássico, baseado em d20.

    Marvel Heroic Roleplaying não tá mais sendo vendido (a Marvel não renovou a licença), mas o pessoal fala muito bem. Sistema Cortex.

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    Sci-Fi RPG systems/settings/core rules

    This is meant to be a non-exhaustive list, in stream-of-consciousness order.

    Dedicated systems

    • Traveller (in its many incarnations throughout the past nearly 50 years and derivatives such as Cepheus, Hostile)
    • 2300 AD (now a setting for Traveller)
    • Cyberpunk (2013, 2020, V3.0, Red)
    • Paranoia
    • Eclipse Phase
    • Lancer
    • Star Wars roleplaying (different games by different publishers: WEG d6, d20, FFG NDS)
    • Warhammer 40K
    • 3:16: Carnage Amongst the Stars
    • Shadowrun
    • Apocalypse World
    • Coyote & Crow
    • SLA Industries

    FATE based systems

    • Bulldogs!
    • Mindjammer
    • Nova Praxis
    • Diaspora
    • Atomic Robo

    OSR/d20 based systems

    • Stars Without Number
    • Starfinder
    • Mothership
    • CY_BORG

    Year Zero

    • Mutant: Year Zero
    • Alien: The RPG
    • Blade Runner: The RPG
    • Coriolis – The Third Horizon

    GURPS

    A host of modules and supplements named after the subgenre, GURPS-style. GURPS