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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7882584" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Players only need to be semi-literate to play many hard SF settings... if they trust the GM to be fair.Not a one of those even approaches hard sci-fi.&nbsp; Traveller's the closest, and it's intended to be space opera in the mode of 50's and 60's pulps. (Source: Marc Miller himself on COTI threads in the Moot.) TTNE tried to go hard SF, but really failed badly.There are some almost-hard-SF games out there: GURPS: Transhuman Space, Albedo, Justifiers, Shock, Diaspora...and none of those is without it's soft-spots.I have enjoyed my runs of Albedo and Justifiers. Albedo is about as hard as one can get without losing hyperdrives. (My own Broken Starship: Missing Manifest is harder, but only just a bit. No FTL. No nonhumans.)For me, the genres I don't like playing but enjoy watching? Medical Dramas. I've never played/run modern cop-shows, either, but I don't mind near future ones, nor fantasy or historical fantasy law enforcement campaigns, so...that's just a lack of players for it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 7882584, member: 6779310"] Players only need to be semi-literate to play many hard SF settings... if they trust the GM to be fair. Not a one of those even approaches hard sci-fi. Traveller's the closest, and it's intended to be space opera in the mode of 50's and 60's pulps. (Source: Marc Miller himself on COTI threads in the Moot.) TTNE tried to go hard SF, but really failed badly. There are some almost-hard-SF games out there: GURPS: Transhuman Space, Albedo, Justifiers, Shock, Diaspora...and none of those is without it's soft-spots. I have enjoyed my runs of Albedo and Justifiers. Albedo is about as hard as one can get without losing hyperdrives. (My own [I][U]Broken Starship: Missing Manifest[/U][/I] is harder, but only just a bit. No FTL. No nonhumans.) For me, the genres I don't like playing but enjoy watching? Medical Dramas. I've never played/run modern cop-shows, either, but I don't mind near future ones, nor fantasy or historical fantasy law enforcement campaigns, so...that's just a lack of players for it. [/QUOTE]

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