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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 5972549" data-attributes="member: 10177">Traveller, just create a small system with several planets and mining complexes scattered throughout with a whole bunch of problems needing solving. Resolution is roll 2d6, add skill ranks and attribute mods plus situational modifiers. Beat an 8 after all mods, and you succeed. This is how both Classic and Mongoose Traveller works.A setting you may love, or hate, and has its own system, is Eclipse Phase. I would not use its system, per se, for a PBM, but its setting is pretty mind blowing, and encompasses our own solar system in the far future, where we sleeve our consciousness into a variety of awesomely crazy things. It takes a lot to wrap your mind around, or at least it took a lot for me to wrap my mind around it. But it may be a cool enough setting for you to want to adapt and use with another system, such as Traveller. If you get into Mongoose Traveller like I have, the book on Cybernetics makes it a bit easier to convert the ideas over, but it would be a lot of work. But if you love the setting, you won't mind doing it.Plus the PDF for several of the core books is available for free via the Creative Commons License. Very worth checking  out even if you never use it.Another possible Traveller idea, especially if you love Lovecraft horror, is Cthonian Stars. ?Its PDF only, but I recall it is written for Traveller. I played in a couple of convention games and had a really good time, and the atmosphere for it will probably work great for a PBM.</blockquote>

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