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  • Thanks, it makes sense. I really like the cockpit console feel of it all. A+!

  • I’m not familiar with the position map of CD, what do the numbers mean? Result on a 1D roll?

  • Sci-Fi RPGs @ttrpg.network

    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.

  • Now draw a werehouse.

  • I like this very much.

  • 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.

  • I think a good sci-fi campaign can always benefit from a Heist. Like a train heist or something.

    The flip side, which is also fun, the convoy escort role. The crew is part of a convoy and must defend it from marauders.

    And the Seven Samurai is a classic stationary version of the above that has been adapted time and again for sci-fi.

  • Added, thank you.

  • Traveller, or better yet 2300AD or Hostile for better fit on the setting with the same classic 2d6 rules. Cy_Borg or Stars Without Number for OSR.

    Diaspora, Mindjammer, or Nova Praxis if you’re willing to try a more modern system (Fate), but the setting should be pretty close on them, depending on where in the story you want it to be. Diaspora should be a good fit if you want to explore different systems throughout a network of spheres.

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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.

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

  • Don’t beat yourself over it. 👍

  • Right, that uses the Fantasy Flight Games' Narrative Dice System (same as WH Fantasy).

  • Wow. I hadn't heard of a single item in your list except for SLA Industries. Not that surprising considering most are long out of print.

    By Jupiter Chronicles do you mean Jovian Chronicles?

  • Sounds like you’d like Hostile by Zozer Games. They have a solo version too where you control a crew.

  • Why is it worn out near the top?

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

  • That's right. Arguably the most famous?

    Come to think of it, I don't think there ever was a Fate official Star Wars setting. I didn't find it, anyway.

  • BattleTech! That's the one. Didn't know they made an RPG out of it.

    Firefly is an out of print Cortex Plus game by Margaret Weis Productions. It's in the list as well as Serenity (the Cortex Classic game by MWP, isn't IP licensing fun?).

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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