Firefly RPG?!?!?

[yangnome]

Anxious to see this. I too was going to play Firefly in an adapted D20, but I ran into the same problem with the characters seeming too derivative. I think offering a completely different crew may help spark some ideas and offer different views of the 'verse. Hopefully this will also help prompt some fresh ideas for characters.

 

[Eolin]

I agree that those willing to do the work could use the game system of their choice -- but we're offering some good stuff in the new game. I hope you'll check it out!

Given my supreme and more or less voluntary poverty for the next couple years (graduate school ... in philosophy), I can't assure you that I'll buy it. But I'll certainly go to the FLGS and read through it. If I love it -- or even just dig it --, I'll suggest my friends buy it.

I like the "second" crew. That should stir up new ideas for each gaming group. Which'll be awesome. I hope this does really well.

Edit: I just asked my roomates, all of whom are roleplayers, and I've been assured that at least one of us will buy it -- but if you send me an early version, we'll find an extra kidney amongst the three of us. You can have it. It'll make Greg Stolze happy. Though I am in no way affiliated with Greg ... except as an occasional playtester.

 

[ShrinkyLink]

Then do it! You don't necessarily need the sanction of Joss to play in the world. Take some liberties and have fun with something as close to it as you want.

In a perfect world, Eolin, I would. A world where I had skads of time, for example. But job, home, running my own campaign, and the endless hours of self pity just don't allow me to create my own Firefly game.

I am happy to hear it will be an entirely new crew. Roleplaying known characters always seems hollow to me. Have you ever seen a forty year old man play Buffy? Not a pretty sight, let me tell you.

 

[Pielorinho]

Only two of those [Aliens, lasers, future tech, alien planets] in Firefly, though.

All four of them are, if you re-interpret "lasers" as "energy weapons," and if you believe the carnies .

Daniel

 

[Staffan]

All four of them are, if you re-interpret "lasers" as "energy weapons," and if you believe the carnies .

No need to re-interpret lasers, there's one shown on-screen and used in Heart of Gold. And I don't believe the carnies.

 

[Crothian]

Actually, Firefly is more of a western than sci-fi, although it definitely has a sci-fi aspect to it. It's blended together so nicely.

And an RPG can take the show in ways the show would never go. Star Wars is very sci fantasy, but that didn't stop some very scsi fi elements to appear in some of the books. The same can be done with Firefly.

 

[Torm]

My 8 year old daughter and I, just completely out of the blue, sang the whole theme from Firefly, alternating lines with each other.

Thought I'd share.

 

[vrykyl]

In a perfect world, Eolin, I would. A world where I had skads of time, for example. But job, home, running my own campaign, and the endless hours of self pity just don't allow me to create my own Firefly game.

I am happy to hear it will be an entirely new crew. Roleplaying known characters always seems hollow to me. Have you ever seen a forty year old man play Buffy? Not a pretty sight, let me tell you.

We know that there are plenty out there who would like to jump in and play the characters they already know. Those groups are covered, and our favorite Big Damn Heroes are all there. But some feel as you do above, so we created the new ship and crew--with plenty of detail but there no "set" way to play them so each player can make the role his (or her!) own.

I'm writing a fair chunk of the book on my own, but we have a "crew" of our own I'm mighty pleased with. This project has myself, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, James M. Ward, Lester Smith, Tony Lee, Andrew Peregrine, and James Davenport. I'm having so much fun and so enthusiastic about how amazing the film will be that it's some of the best work I've ever done.

When those Quickstart Rules are available, I'll let everyone know!

Jamie Chambers
Vice President
Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd.
games@margaretweis.com

 

[Torm]

Hey, vyrkyl:

If y'all haven't finished finalizing the proof for the full book, could I talk you into throwing in even the briefest mention of the freighter Avalon, run by King Rawl and his court-in-exile? The crew has sort of a hillbilly-royalty sensibility with a British accent, if you decide to expand on it at all, and he escaped with his daughter and an ex-soldier freighter captain who was her beloved because the Alliance took his world.

It'd give a touch of legitimacy to a campaign concept I was already homebrewing to run, and I'd be much obliged.

(If you can't do that, I totally understand, and I reckon I'll still be pickin' up a copy of the book, regardless. But I had to ask. )

 

[Olive]

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=129877

In case anyone missed it.