Serenity for d20?

[Seeten]

ROFL

They strapped a gun onto the ship in the movie

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Here's my contribution

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[Vyvyan Basterd]

Personally, "it just couldn't be like that". I.E. either the technology exists to terraform even wildly inappropriate stellar bodies and make them utterly Earthlike ... where-upon the whole wild-west "Ain't got nunthat fancy Tech No Lo Gee here, ayup." doesn't fly. (You don't spend seventy-bazillion dollars to add gravity and an atmo to a moon then toss people with sheep and some hatchets on there. And if tech is so advanced it's cheap to do, then there's no REASON people should be so tech poor. Building hatchets would probably be MORE expensive than graviton lasers and insta-housing.)
--fje

I disagree. Look at the wonderful job of terraforming. Proper gravity, an atmosphere, and barely enough water to live. Who do you think they were moving to these planets? Low-income families. The rich wanted the lower-class scum off their planets so they create the equivalent of housing projects for the poor. They probably dump those desperate enough to take government aid onto these planets to fend for themselves. And since they already spent "seventy-bazillion dollars" to graciously provide the poor with their own planet, why would they spend any more money to give them tech. They also probably dumped people like Mal (the losing side of the war) on these planets after confiscating everything they own.

You want "wild west high tech" play Star Wars. The world you envision above sounds very Star Trek to me (where are all the poor people in Star Trek's future?). Serenity seems to mix elements of space, low tech wild west, and cyberpunk (the corporations against the poor without the much of the cyber). I think Serenity would be really fun as a game. To each his own.

 

[RobotRobotI]

With the fact that this thread is ancient in mind...

If you're adding multiple solar systems and FTL travel into the game, you're not playing Firefly anymore. That's a pretty big step over the line of poetic liscense into homebrew.

There's a quote somewhere from Mr. Whedon that says it's a TON of planets in a small space. I think he uses the term 'planet village.'

From the script:
Descriptive Text: We see a solar system; a sun like our own, surounded by many more planets than ours, they in turn are surounded by moons.
VOICE OVER: "We found a new solar system; dozens of planets and hundreds of moons."

Here's that quote, from an interview with Joss:

"Are the planets really close together?

Joss: They're really close together. You've never seen a planet cluster like this one. It's a little planet village. If you start asking me science questions I'm going to cry.

http://chud.com/interviews/980

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

You want "wild west high tech" play Star Wars.

Oh, I already fixed it.

And yea, I think the genre would make a cool game. I just don't think Joss's particular incarnation of it for Firefly/Serenity would make the best game.

Which stands to reason. RPGs aren't TV. Different medium, different needs.

For a GAME, a different setting with a few different assumptions and rules would make better play-time.

--fje

 

[Simon W]

Regardless of whether it is plausible or not, it is canon from the setting. In the pilot episode, Zoe mentions that terraforming includes setting the gravity as close to Earth-That-Was as possible. You may not like it, but if you are going to play Firefly it is part of the setting.

That's right - its no point debating it, you either accept it as part of the setting and move on, or you don't play Serenity/Firefly at all and you go back to some other implausible Star Wars/Star Trek/Farscape/Starship Troopers science fiction setting instead.

 

[RobotRobotI]

That's right - its no point debating it, you either accept it as part of the setting and move on, or you don't play Serenity/Firefly at all and you go back to some other implausible Star Wars/Star Trek/Farscape/Starship Troopers science fiction setting instead.

Calling Firefly more plausible than something like Starship Troopers seems a little off. :\

 

[trancejeremy]

I think his point was they were all equally unplausible.

 

[Simon W]

I think his point was they were all equally unplausible.

Exactly my point, thank you.

 

[dungeon blaster]

Do you think that T20 would work better for a setting like Serenity than D20M?