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edurance is strength + vitality as above. You seem to be aiming for a face charater (captain I presume), for that I'd think twice about the straight shooter complication. Its quite limiting on the social skills (that is if you need to be sneaky, or lie even a little). But if it really fits...

So what's the plan re: ship? And anyone want to establish previous friendships/relations?

My eye immediately caught on your Influence skill. You have to have a d6 before you can specialize (or rather before you have to). I quickly added up your skills thinking it may have been a typo and got 70, you should double check that. That is quite a few complications . . . if its your first...

Background stuff I'll sum it all up in the rogues gallery soon. If anyone is a child of the Black, it's Aaron Craig. Born and raised aboard ship till the age of fourteen, when it was commandeered by the alliance during the hostilities leading up to the war and 'lost'. His father has been a...

Yeah that's right. My character is the same. Assets are 'bought' using attribute points, and complications 'add' to your attribute points. So if you have more points in complications then assets you get extra attribute points. Shayuri - I hope I didn't have anything to do with you loosing the...

My Character has decent tech engineering, so you could drop that. You should specialize in some areas that you want to be extra good at. A d8 specialty cost 2 points, d10 4, etc. Course you need the d6 first. Note in skills you don't have a rating for knowledge :). You may want to go Medical...

revised gear General: multiband, extra vacuum suit, 2 rolls patch tape, Utility knife Tech: electronics toolkit, fedband scanner, com-pack shortrange, micro-transmiter, Holo-image development suite, databook, Covert: eavesdropes, lockpicks+electronic lockpicks, laserlight mist, disguise...

For the fancy manuevers bit, I think my born behind the wheel puts me in pretty good shape (I'd be rolling 1d12+1d2+1d6). As for a particular type of craft . . . probably one of the first things I'll spend advancement points on. As for type of ship, I think some kind of retro-fitted former...

Alright, I'm stealing the pilot spot . . . and throwing in a bit of a criminal element. ATTRIBUTES 100 Strength d4 Agility d10 Vitality d6 Alertness d12 Intelligence d10 Willpower d8 Initiative d10+d12 Endurance d16+d8 Resistance d2+d2 (lightweight or d6+d6) Life Points 14 Plot...

I'm still interested. I'll put together some ideas this evening. Traveling between cities has been eating up my time over the holidays.

I am very interested in a Serenity/firefly game. I have the main book myself though I won't have access to it again until the 5th or so. I would strongly prefer using the 'cortex' rules. I generally feel that rules written for a particular style of play shape game play in a positive way. (And...

I should mention that I played Serenity at Fanexpo this past August. I'm sure that there were some other sci-fi games being run but I'm not sure what they were. I do enjoy the cortex system and the serenity settings is a lot of fun. (I got to use a grenade !)

You can get the .pdf's for free over at Star Frontiersman (under 'Digitally Remastered'). They also have ongoing support in the form of a quarterly webzine (up to issue 12) that's looking to go bi-monthly. I actually don't know that much about the Star Frontiers (besides that its 'Old School')...

I've been meaning to pick up Hackmaster Basic. Checked out a FLGs recently and they said that they had no idea when they'd be getting in a new set of books. (I guess there waiting on a new print run. . .) Anyho, let us know how a follow up session goes. Thanks

I wonder why it doesn't include Wisdom or charisma. I guess its because no standard race gets a bonus to those stats.

Thanks for all the responses. So far it's hands down Fiend Folio. Anyone want to wade in on behalf of the beleagured MM2? What was so different about the FF charts?

I found a copy of both for almost the same price (1$ difference) and am planning to pick up one at least. So which do you prefer? Which monsters book do you use more often? (if you have both) Do they have noticeably different flavours? Any particular beasties stand out in either one?

Thanks for the input. Its nice to here some thoughts from the other side of the fence as well. I tend to agree that the ideas, and the ability to properly evoke those ideas is primary. Grammar and sentence structure is not even really a secondary concern, maybe tertiary. Adventure writing is...

While it is not D&D, Universalis is an excellent example of the possibilities of a collaborative RPG. Or rather everyone is a player, or everyone is the DM (GM). Playing it kind of makes me feel like a film/TV show creator brainstorming idea's with fellow writers. - And getting to decide what...

If any other writers have thoughts on their RPG writing experience I'm sure we would all be gald to hear it.