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The cruiser in forbidden planet nuwt have had a computer, they looked up morbius quick abd something told they they were being scanned from. Altair 4.

Some computers in 50's movies were just industrial sound systems set up with blank tape playing on them. A 50s movie called 'magnetic monster' featured a computer called MANIAC.

I have one on my phone just in case I ever need one.

http://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

Watch some 50s scifi movies. Angry red planet, forbidden planet, rocket ship xm, 12 to the moon, etc. Also note that in the 50's most rocket ships weren't big on diverse Crews, don't know if you want that much authenticity tho.

Be honest, tell the truth. How many people still carry a dice bag and how many use a roller app on their phone? I'm curious. I'm old school gamer, so I generally use a bag o' dice.

Well one reason I heard parasite studio closed fasa's game was it revolved too much on combat, kinda violating the ideals of trek not being a war in space show. Of course TWOK was just a couple major shipfights and a few years later DS9 became the dominion war show...

Obe dumb idea that never came to fruition was someone wondered if a metal d20 would be an effective shotgun munition. AFAIK we talked him out of it.

No, like the stuff FASA went thru with star trek, for example.

At times I begin to wonder if doing a licensed rpg of a major property is a dumb idea given how much you have to go tgru to get and keep a license for a major property.

This is the definition of TMI...

Speaking of dumb ideas that are at least useable, i'm surprised no one has done a Xd6 dice that has all the results of 2 or 3 d6 on a single die.

OK, what do you use it for?

Uh. Rahowa was dumber and more horrible that fatal, I checked and it was mentioned here. At least fatal could theoretically be played, rahowa lacked essential mechanics. Speaking of dumb but not horrible, anyone ever use a d30? Or the awfully unstable and generally unreadable single d100?

Uh, yes it does, there was a rpg WORSE than FATAL or synnabar. Not sure it's safe to mention here tho. Altho in fairness I was thinking about stuff tgst was dumb, not really horrible like fatal abd tge game I'm sure I should name.

I'd take a fate/luck system from one of several games and put it in battlelords. That game can be a bit lethal.

I think those D20s that flashed red when you rolled a 20 was the dumbest rpg idea I've ever seen. Can anyone top it?

Well yes in a random chargen system you need to start with stats, but I generally don't do all random chargen.

What order do you make your characters in? Stats, skills, gear? I'm making a character for battlelords of the 23rd century that I'm doing gear first, then stats, then skills. BL23C is a very gear intense game, given it's focus on personal scale high tech combat it heavily emphasizes weapons...

One game I like has great (some say excessive) detail in combat rules and devotes a lot of pages to being as realistic as possible in combat terms since it was created by a real combat veteran. But the game rules system has some real issues with plausibility, in that there are some really...