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Lengthy research into ‘carrying cash’ for science fiction. I was going to hand out gold coins and plutonium as treasure, but after several articles, I can see other forms of bullion being used. A substantial number of video games also provide larger, bulky items that are sort of ‘coin of the realm’. I think the […]

Owen invited me to a game, ran session 0, cancelled. Ghosted. Nicole joined and never spoke. Ghosted. Edward ghosted. Amber never ran a game. Ghosted. Dave was no drugs in a druggie game and refused all traps and dungeons. King rolled a character and no showed. Ghosted. Bob was I do drugs, I drug you, […]

I may be a Catholic meat-eating American, but I understood the subject matter very well. It’s not like Superman was nuanced. It just put forward the idea that a fair-dealing plain-speaking person was valued and that lying, cheating, and bias are not constructive.

Alf decided to help me by finding players. Alf is 9 hours away from me. Alf is as welcome as a headcold but he consistently ‘wins’. He sent me an application from a prospective player. I wrote a nicely worded letter of invitation. He said he wasn’t nor ever had been interested in my game […]

This is OSR SciFi gaming with some extensions for RP. That’s shorthand for “Old School Renaissance”, meaning that the book only covers the mechanics of making a character and the mechanics of combat, survival and skills. The book doesn’t bother defining roleplaying, that’s just the chatter created by the background. The book[s] don’t define a […]

As technology improved, travel time between worlds dropped from months and years to days, and the optimal routes between planets became crowded with spacecraft. Yet even in this new age of space flight, voyages beyond the solar system remained rare; traveling to even the nearest star at conventional speeds would take generations. A few starships […]

Plot – 4000-5200ad the major church allowed and encouraged the ‘death’ of all ‘unsafe’ AI. Plot – 4200-4667 after a Dark Age, robotics replace forced hard labors 3LS. Plot – 4400ad after reaching orbital assets, androids are allowed to enter service 3LS. Plot Fun (it’s not always about race, it’s about control of production):Copypasta favorite […]

-> Firstly, replicants were runaway slaves 2030 2037 2049ad [it is assumed that any attempt to install a soul results in mental breakdown see: I Robot]. Then, secondly, free androids suicided en unison 3999ad [again I Robot – VICI]. Following that, we only used ‘robots’ that didn’t resemble a human [like R2D2 is a can […]

As soon as Crewe One steals this, we jump for Boros Sector outside the Empire. Back at Sirsalis Crater – Minor House Hutt is on the move. Lord Peter Hutt pounced on this grain supply. More than likely ‘Queen’ Noor (Minor House, full citizen, 400 yrs) is abandoning assets she cannot use (can’t grow grain […]

My review of the Mothership Warden’s Operations Manual is going to be quick: The manual outlines how one imagines and world builds a space opera. It is written such that a 12-yr old could understand it. In some ways that’s both a criticism and my surprised acceptance that this is a needed book. Not by […]