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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runesong42" data-source="post: 1790926" data-attributes="member: 10578">InspirationIf you want additional ideas, run a search on Rocket Robin Hood.  That's pretty campish space opera kind of stuff to me.  It's made by the same folks that brought you the old school Spider-Man (and in fact, they have some of the same voice actors and in one case, the same episode!)With regards to what does what, as long as the game mechanic works, it doesn't matter how you describe it.  I don't yet have a copy of d20 modern, but (for example) if you have an anti-matter gun that does 10d6 in that book, and you call it a Hyper-DeAtomizer, the players will call it a Hyper DeAtomizer and never care (or maybe even know) that you used the stats from d20 Modern. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Another good idea is to think less.  Seriously.  In those old school campy shows, no one cared HOW something worked as long as it did.  Make up any crazy reason why your FTL engine works, add lots of technical-sounding words, and off you go.   Watch old school Star Trek, or any Star Trek for that matter - that's what THEY did to describe any kind of pseudo-scientific anything.</blockquote>