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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1702867" data-attributes="member: 172">I was just wondering how many ENworlder's have designed thier own game, more or less, from the ground up.Starfarer:<a href="http://members.tripod.com/~hawk_wind/sfrpg/Starfarer.html" target="_blank">http://members.tripod.com/~hawk_wind/sfrpg/Starfarer.html</a>Why did you design new rules?After Traveller failed me with a number of insults (TNE, T4, GT), I decided that I was going to have to take writing the "system that would succeed Traveller" into my own hands.How long did it take?It was always an on-again/off-again project. I had tinkered with different spins on the rules and doodled on notepads for years. My first efforts to put everything down in a usable electronic/printable format took probably a year (again, sporadically). Did you ever want to publish it?Yes.Did you every actually run the System?Yes.If you don't play it anymore why not?I never finished it to my satisfaction. I never did finish the worldgen and shipgen, and had a lot more work to do on the character templates (as it was, it was just a point build system like GURPS, which I consider insufficient by my own standards.) I did make a fair bit of progress though. I sort of quit on it after D20 came along. I realized I like playing games more than I liked designing them, and I sort of bit off more than I could chew.I still like some of the design peculiarities of Starfarer, and some may even make it into some d20 work I am doing.Was it specific to a Campaign world/genre/book series etc...?No. It was intended as a generic toolkit to use for space adventure games. I did work on a setting to go with it calle Guild Space, but it was never ready for prime time.What's your Favorite Color....?Pink... no, blue! Aaaiiiiiiiiigh!</blockquote>

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