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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9657041" data-attributes="member: 7044704">What about moving beyond the gaming industry for this?<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Cowley" target="_blank">Stewart Cowley</a> effectively wrote a sprawling and very usable scifi setting through the Terran Trade Authority and later Galactic Encounters books, and while there was eventually a short-lived and fairly obscure TTA RPG published it's easily ignored since it doesn't appear in the Cowley books themselves.Wayne Barlowe's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_(book)" target="_blank">Expedition</a> is a fascinating speculative evolution piece, and it wouldn't be hard to imagine a Traveller-like scenario where a crashed ship needs recovery or deliberate poaching/resource exploitation is taking place and needs to be dealt with on a similar world with the yma around to stop it.&nbsp; For that matter, you could flip the situation and play native eosapiens (perhaps farther evolved than in the book) in a first contact scenario.&nbsp; Spec Evo as a genre offers a lot of pre-made worlds of varying degrees of detail and utility to gaming, Expedition just happens to be better known than most thanks to the Alien Planet show based off of it.On the fantasy side of things Larry MacDougall's <a href="https://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2024/04/larry-macdougalls-gwelf.html" target="_blank">Gwelf</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gwelf-Into-Hinterlands-Larry-MacDougall/dp/1777791855?crid=760Y8UF0SOL3&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3fKKtc_OHfVXdHLyj_szw-fI_CLlRkYIN14PUT_aJ26TKEeOZ1klI2rNf0_AHPrzvVsVUpZsNI0nYPMQRq5u5Q.ICnxqO4etHCyxmKwSO3T7DH0QfqenFJAYcObu06U3fo&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=gwelf&amp;qid=1720372055&amp;sprefix=gwelf,aps,96&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=frothesorssku-20&amp;linkId=43316aad4e8a307885f62c5b664f1e1a&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl" target="_blank">setting</a> feels very much like a deliberately systemless series of setting books that could be used for the RPG rule set of your choice, with a vague Redwall-ish feel to it.Easier to find systemless settings when they weren't written with a system in mind in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9657041, member: 7044704"] What about moving beyond the gaming industry for this? [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Cowley']Stewart Cowley[/URL] effectively wrote a sprawling and very usable scifi setting through the Terran Trade Authority and later Galactic Encounters books, and while there was eventually a short-lived and fairly obscure TTA RPG published it's easily ignored since it doesn't appear in the Cowley books themselves. Wayne Barlowe's [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_(book)']Expedition[/URL] is a fascinating speculative evolution piece, and it wouldn't be hard to imagine a Traveller-like scenario where a crashed ship needs recovery or deliberate poaching/resource exploitation is taking place and needs to be dealt with on a similar world with the yma around to stop it. For that matter, you could flip the situation and play native eosapiens (perhaps farther evolved than in the book) in a first contact scenario. Spec Evo as a genre offers a lot of pre-made worlds of varying degrees of detail and utility to gaming, Expedition just happens to be better known than most thanks to the Alien Planet show based off of it. On the fantasy side of things Larry MacDougall's [URL='https://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2024/04/larry-macdougalls-gwelf.html']Gwelf[/URL] [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Gwelf-Into-Hinterlands-Larry-MacDougall/dp/1777791855?crid=760Y8UF0SOL3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3fKKtc_OHfVXdHLyj_szw-fI_CLlRkYIN14PUT_aJ26TKEeOZ1klI2rNf0_AHPrzvVsVUpZsNI0nYPMQRq5u5Q.ICnxqO4etHCyxmKwSO3T7DH0QfqenFJAYcObu06U3fo&dib_tag=se&keywords=gwelf&qid=1720372055&sprefix=gwelf,aps,96&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=frothesorssku-20&linkId=43316aad4e8a307885f62c5b664f1e1a&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl']setting[/URL] feels very much like a deliberately systemless series of setting books that could be used for the RPG rule set of your choice, with a vague Redwall-ish feel to it. Easier to find systemless settings when they weren't written with a system in mind in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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