Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀  ·  2 months ago

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I found an entertaining space opera series by Andrew Moriarty: Imperial Deserter, Imperial Smuggler, and Imperial Mercenary. Sort of like a cross between Firefly and the #TravellerRPG.

My inner adolescent was entertained by all the droll one-liners and sarcastic humor.
My inner Traveller geek liked all the Traveller touches: space station directions are "spinward" and "anti-spinward", only allow knives and swords instead of firearms due to law levels, sandcasters, character named Gavin etc.

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀  ·  last month

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@iamgerardthomas

It does have lots of the dry humor found in the old TV show Firefly.

The science is remarkably hard.

And the first chapter is like the beginning of a Traveller RPG game. Instead of D&D's "so you all meet at this tavern" it is more like "each of you are in trouble and have to leave the planet quickly, and happen to notice this unguarded tramp starship..."

Peter Kisner ≈
Peter Kisner ≈  ·  last month

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@nyrath @iamgerardthomas
The only time I tried to run a space opera type RPG (non-Traveller), the opening adventure was:

PCs are dubious new recruits of the thin stretched Commonwealth Armada, languishing on a backwater world awaiting pickup. Armada bureaucracy realizes they have a scout ship in the spaceport about to accrue overdue docking fees. With no alternative, the PCs are charged to lift the ship before it gets impounded. Hi-jinks ensue as PCs race across town to beat the deadline.

Peter
Peter  ·  2 months ago

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@nyrath

Sounds interesting. I, too, like a touch of sarcastic humour, and the story I'm writing for myself has the main arms being swords (gladius) and knives (stiletto), with pellet weapons for ground use only.

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