dragoner
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I'll take your word for it, though it reinforces the point.From another angle there are like 25 fantasy video games with the D&D gameloop to every sci-fi video game.
I'll take your word for it, though it reinforces the point.From another angle there are like 25 fantasy video games with the D&D gameloop to every sci-fi video game.
There's discussion about it... but not much to be said. I'm running it currently, it's not my favorite flavor of trek, but it's one of the easier to teach and use over VOIP. Plus, it has a good discord roller bot. And it's got a really good corpus of adventures...Dunno about being played (though I see plenty of Twitch and YouTube APs for the game) but I've noted a lot of people are buying Star Trek Adventures but not necessarily talking about it on Enworld or other forums as much compared to the big WOTC and Paizon games.
This. There are a set of common fantasy tropes, cliches, and labels that tend to be present in most popular fantasy (games) that create an immediate sense of familiarity - and easy hooks for the audience to grab. SF, for the most part (outside of a handful of major media franchises), lacks this.Though I think part of it is just commonality; that a lot of people have a sort of generic sense of fantasy, where their sense of SF tends to be more specific.
A lot of Mass Effect's look was just recycled Star Wars stuff by Bio-Ware. You are right tho, they are not alike in concept.That's more a general visual look than anything that isn't skin-deep though; just as a simple set of examples, B5, Trek and Mass Effect might have a not-dissimilar visual palette (likely because at least the last was influenced by the first two), but in terms of setting conceits, specifics and tech assumptions they aren't particularly close at all.
A lot of Mass Effect's look was just recycled Star Wars stuff by Bio-Ware. You are right tho, they are not alike in concept.