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Interest - Science Fiction Homebrew RPG?
Kevin R Brown
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...Is there much interest on the board for homebrewed games? I have one in development that I'd like to playtest; it's a science fiction genre retelling of the 2nd World War (well, sort of), with tropes I find entertaining happily on display.
I know that people are generally leery of learning the mechanics of brand new systems (especially since many of said systems are, well, pretty bad), but if there's a few folks here interested in helping to give a test run of a sci fi RPG (no doubt we'll run into some mechanical rough spots), that'd be awesome.
I know that people are generally leery of learning the mechanics of brand new systems (especially since many of said systems are, well, pretty bad), but if there's a few folks here interested in helping to give a test run of a sci fi RPG (no doubt we'll run into some mechanical rough spots), that'd be awesome.
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i am a setting kind of person though
[strike]Well, the first thing you'd be doing is rolling 1d10,000,000/5 -1 in order to determine your starting Hymen Resistance value[/strike] I'm still wrestling with the details of the system, but the central idea (so far) is rolling a pool of 7 dice (4 d6s, 2 d12s and 1 d20) and using that as your pool of resources between three distinct scenes (a 'spaceship' scene, an 'away team' scene and a 'diplomacy' scene. I've yet to come up with appropriately stylish names for the scenes, but you get the idea) - with different actions requiring a different die face value in order to be used (the more powerful the action, the bigger the die face value would need to be).
Setting... well, here, I'll just post the (tentative) introductory crawl:
It's contrived, but it lets me do what I want to do (Namely, have dragons, possessed tractor trailer units, guys in suits and sunglasses and robots that turn into vehicles/combine to form bigger robots [strike]beat the living shit out of each other[/strike] interact with each other in an atmosphere that I hope conveys the sort of desperation & ugliness of World War II (...while being framed similarly to a fighty episode of Star Trek and/or one of the iconic battle scenes from Star Wars).
Have to see how well that works, if I haven't scared people away.
The damage to the ship caused it to accidentally clone Hitler?
sold
If it can cobble together a genetic code for Professor Moriarty, we have the makings of a crazy-awesome Star Trek holodeck episode on a galactic scale.
"I guess when everybody hates you, you just focus on making lousy Hitlers"
You know what? Cut out all the cool-but-generic stuff about alien robots. 'Malfunctioning clone ship that makes Hitlers' = all you really need. Alternatively, if we're going to have alien races, we need at least a hundred more of them.
In the distant future, mankind's final hope for survival is threatened by machines, grand and terrible, that seek to subjugate and destroy. Its only defense is a rag-tag team of scientists, marines, and smugglers-with-hearts-of-gold. There's only one problem... they're all Hitler.
YES
A THOUSAND TIMES YES
Kevin you must immediately start work on Too Many Hitlers: The Game Of Reich
I'm going to implement that idea, though I refuse to be held responsible if I cannot reach the execution potential demanded by it.
Implementation: Hitler = Redshirt (Reich shirt? Har har).
The computer's fragmented concept of the master race has led it to believe that Hitler himself was physically superhuman despite the utter lack of genetic evidence for inhuman attributes or powers in his DNA. Logically, Hitlerclones would be used for any and all missions almost certain to end in death or agony. Why risk using a lesser being unable to handle such stresses?
Thanks, folks.
The crew of the SS Anachronism sails the stars in search of some way to fend off the dangers of the cosmos. Helmsman Amelia Earhart sets the course as science officer P.T. Barnum scans local anomalies. First Officer Genghis Kahn scowls disapprovingly at chief medical officer Gregory House, suspecting him to be addicted to medication provided by the unpredictable Chief of Security, Loki Odinson.
Overwhelmed by the madness of his command, one of the few genetic samples to come through the damages unscathed merely stares blankly at the viewscreen and shakes his head. Captain James, formerly Jim From Accounting in a low-level aquarium cleaning company, muttered something about finding their way back to home base by leaving another trail of Hitlers.
The command is dutifully relayed by Communications Officer Glenn Beck, albeit embellished with insinuation that First Officer Kahn is a Grinder.
guys if we play this and everyone else is someone famous, I totally want to be Jim From Accounting, regardless of rank.