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I've been playtesting these rules for a bit, and one of the things I love about them is that they're FAST

You make 1 roll, let's say for an attack. That roll of Xd6s (it's a dice pool system) tells you if you succeeded or not, & also what damage you did, & also resolves against armor (passive defense) & active defense (parries, dodges). With the right weapon, the defender can riposte (counter attack) & it all happens in seconds.

Really fun!

#ttrpg #fantasy #scifi #writers #sff #readers

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To all you #SciFi #writers out there,

Please please please please have an astrophysicist or aerospace engineer review your book before publishing.

I'm reading an award-winning scifi book right now and while the writing is good and the author obviously tried to get the science details down, they also obviously didn't do much more than read wikipedia. It's getting painful to read.

#Authors #bookstodon#books#writing#ScienceFiction #Space

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There is a subgenre of academic papers that could have originally started as someone’s homework for a #SciFi story or #worldbuilding exercise. This exploration of constraints on #life beyond Earth definitely fits that category.
Also, seriously, #writers , so many excellent resources now to explore and understand how life outside Earth could evolve and function… if you want to go for hard SciFi (or just get some out-of-the-box ideas), just reach out and grab them.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14477