current success of the indie world is Fate, free game fairly simple and flexible (adjusting FUDGE), which has had extensions for a variety of contexts ( Spirit of the Century for Pulps , Dresden Files for the fantastic contemporary). As HeroQuest , there was not a finite list of characteristics and therefore can create his character by giving him various "aspects" which are various descriptions selected by the player. The random system is based on a bell curve with very little extreme. It throws 4 (d3-2), giving a gap between -4 and +4 with a strong probability of 0 or -1 / +1. It adds that the score of characters to measure success, but starting score, the more reserves "Fate Points," is what makes the most difference. We are almost at the edge of role-playing "no dice".
Since 2008, Chris Birch, with UK Cubicle 7 creates role-playing sci-fi Starblazer Adventures which is supposed to use the license of a series of comics editor Scottish Dundee DC Thompson. The book is huge and extends to all possibilities Fate of Space Opera, with systems for the vessels but also to manage entire civilizations. One difference with the basic FATE is that instead of 4 (d3-2), we use (1d6 - 1d6), which gives a score between -5 and +5, with a flatter curve, slightly less than -1 / +1 in FATE standard (it looks like Traveller where we must do with 8 + 2d6).
bd Starblazer did not have a very coherent universe, a blend of various authors of the 1980s (with designers from Argentina, who kept a classic of the 70s). Mindjammer: Stablazer Adventures in the Second Age of Space longer takes into account the transhumanist SF now, but with very direct references to particular universe Culture of Iain M. Banks , and probably that 'the old cycle of Lords of the Instrumentality of Cordwainer Smith ( Chronicles of Future Earth the same Sarah Newton seems pretty directly inspired by the cycle Gene Wolfe Urth of).
This game has taken over the illustrations of comic book base while the atmosphere is supposed to be quite different. The second edition in preparation seems to have reviewed this aspect of presentation.
" Forest Incandescent Bliss ? "
" Yes, are you or have you been with Derros, But -Lis-so-this-fucking-of-Manuel ? "
" Oh, Forest, you have more sense of humor. I do not know what the Church has done with you Come into deep space. Do not you recognize me? "
" I recognize a familiar, yes.
"It's a way of presenting things. I am one of your past You."
It took me over a minute to respond. Elronhub-Recognize-the- His people said he was ready to distort the space around the capital. I asked him to suspend the assault by the time I dialogue. It seemed to me that he protested vehemently, which might annoy me if I still had my emotions in my life. "
Mindjammer is thousands of years in the future. Humanity has already spread through the universe and the old colonies had time to lose contact with the metropolis. For two centuries the "commonality " Old Earth has reached the superluminal travel (the "2D" and even portals "3D"). Commonality now trying to reconnect with the myriads of his old offspring. Humans have achieved a great biological durability (some have been genetically manipulated to the point of new genotypes), but they can also "upload" in a computer into a "Eidolon " virtual. It is believed that some of "Watchmen" ( Custodians, p. 60) of the "commonality" are actually AI (Artificial Culture as Anarchist-Banks) and synthetic beings. It has also changed (" uplift") various animal species earth, the anhedral (monkeys, dogs, cats, cetaceans, like the underpersons at Smith). There are also some intelligent species without parentage earth, such as " Hooyow " Valhalla (the insectoid warriors, wholesale Vrusks / Klingons ) or "High-Low " (interstellar nomads with no mouth or facial features that communicate through infrared frequencies, they would think more of Shanta Jorun).
Humans can survive as dead Eidolons virtual the Noosphere ( Mindscape), the Interplanetary Network computer and there are even ghosts of fictional beings. Vessels of intelligent, Noonautes ( Mindjammers the title), travel faster than light to keep connected and updated the various parts of this virtual "brain" of the noosphere that otherwise would soon be out of sync because the network can not exceed the velocity light. Humans
of commonality may be permanently connected to the noosphere as a Wi-Fi universal. This connection can provide a continual sort of technology that plays the role of "Psi" (the " Technopsi " Hard SF is almost like Eden in the affinity Hamilton ). But there are also other forms of psionic powers "real" non-technological (eg form a symbiosis with a giant mushroom intelligent telepath, the zybotes Drefnia the planet).
To accept the entry of the noosphere through the various worlds remote and sometimes hostile commonality (yet completely secular and even anti-religious enough) has installed a blanket, "Temples Universal Mind" which serve as nodes of this system interstellar.
"I indeed acknowledge that there has been fission. You're a personality-mirror left in the databases of the Noosphere, an echo. I realize that there were quite a few updates. You're an Eidolon that was long ago. Have you been infected by Thetans?
- Forest of Incandescent Bliss , you're in the process of rescanning the Wikipedia Galactica. So read this link . There was never a "Thetans" or "Derros" evil aliens or that lay in the belly. These are bad Memes SF of the sect of Venu. They reprogrammed thee and thee back with these trifles in memory to make you a sort of Berserker sent cons commonality. But frankly, Forest Incandescent Bliss, if you were to believe in fiction, you might choose to good fiction, I think.
- But what evidence have you that my beliefs have been affected? And if that was the Encyclopaedia Galactica that had been "updated" and vandalized by Derros? I see that it's supposed to be a paranoid theory Venu but precisely what Derros say.
- Not completely absurd, I admit, my old told me, if you want to stay in your methodical doubt. But considering the consequences if you practice really an act of genocide is to discredit all vessels intelligent. You have updated your database on the cult of Venu. You know what they are capable. We are no longer the same but I'd be very disappointed that they could so affect your rationality. You must at least suspend your sentence.
I rearrange my beliefs and quickly erase some stray unfounded prejudices. Elronhub recognize them-his- understood what was happening. He cut the link and tried to open fire. I had to throw cons measures. The offensive unit had obviously been grafted onto compel me to extermination. I could not force him or send him a virus because it had isolated me. The only solution was extracted manually. I quickly woke one of my synthetic body. In my body, everything was slower but the module had not expected this. I accrued and wine to the module and disconnect the son, the former with a certain brutality in the restart. Who knows what may still have a body?
- Okay, now if I wanted to make a dramatic drop in new science-fiction, I'd make you believe I'm really a Derro. Tin-tin-tin-TAAA!
- I do not really want your resume sense of humor, but -read-this-so-fucking-of-Manuel .
- Everybody can not be named as poetic as yours, I cherished potential. "
One of the best ideas is that you can play smart vessels (sometimes the spirit of a former Human downloaded AI). The vessel can still play with a normal group since it can send an avatar of his material consciousness into a synthetic body. A modified human races (they are aquatic), the Chembus , even fabricated " Bionefs " organic spaceships. The crew of a Ship is sometimes more intelligent assistants and friends the vessel as pilot. Certain personal skills are more in need of psychotherapy to treat the psychological impact of thinking that vessel engineering. Even a weapon may be an AI with its own personality.
Characters may belong to SCI, and Cultural Integrity Security instrumentality (p. 58), the secret services that also protect the "same" culture of the Community and serve as undercover agents (one much like the Special Circumstances in Consider Phlebas , the Lords of the Instrumentality Smith or the " progressors" brothers Strugatsky).
rules make it possible to simulate as "conflicts memetic" propaganda and influence between civilizations, which gives a new look to trade Interplanetary can gradually change the score of a civilization by a well-chosen commercial action. Commonality and his enemies are precisely in a long Cold War, when such influences
Among the main opponents of commonality is the Empire Venu, a theocracy ruled by a mutant human totalitarian sect. I do not know if it is intended by the author, but I decided it was a future version of the cult of Scientology (because of Venu / Xenu). Come play a little role Idirien Jihad against the Arts, the enemy against intolerant culture more "enlightened".
The book does not describe any commonality but more details about 20 systems (with a plan of each planet) in the Border Darradine between commonality and the forbidden zone of Empire of Venu. It is much more detailed than most worlds that usually has a supplement. The only flaw this context, much like many worlds Traveller, is that I do not always have names that mean nothing to some planets, but it is only a matter of habit. The capital sector, Ajeux (capital: Montparle), French origin, is described as snobbish and affected in their cultural tastes, which can only make us laugh.
The book has 200 pages plus a lengthy campaign, "Black Zone" (p. 128-191). The characters, the officer Instrumentality of cultural integrity, will drill plots Come around the world of Amida. This is a neo-Buddhist world with a population of humans anhedral and monkeys in the Fringe Border. The pre-generated characters are a bit like Mission Impossible , brilliant crooks become agents of commonality to buy a pipe. In games
SF current Mindjammer is more "transhumanist" and a modernized Traveller Space Opera and more clearly that Eclipse Phase (which remains bound to the Earth, despite its new supplement on Gatecrashing ) or Diaspora (the other set of SF-based system FATE, a little more "Hard SF ). In games the distant future, it is still more directly intuitive that very daring enough Advanced ( which is translated into French thanks to Soner Du).
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