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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1488025" data-attributes="member: 8447">Sci Fi and I have a real love/hate relationship.Ultimately in sci fi gaming I prefer Space Opera/Pulp (Star Wars, Flash Gordon, Dune, Barsoom, etc.) with less emphasis, mainly because I don't want to have to argue physics with the one person who knows the topic in the group (much like I switched Ars Magica into an alternate setting the first time round because I was dealing with a bunch of European History graduate students).I've played in Traveller (back in the 3 Black Books stage) and I always found it wonderfully silly -- hyperjump travel, but equipment that could have come out of the Korean War.  That and it was far too military-aspected for my tastes (esepcially after Mercenary came out).  I've read through with great pleasure both Blue Planet and Transhuman Space, but while I feel I could run a game of the former, I could not of the latter.  BP has an emphasis on character, situation, and lifestyle, where THS hits much more the mechanics and their socio-political implications, which I have a hard time keeping up with (the implications of some of the tech available would twist around most plots I would normally create for players).A lot of sci fi writing is centered around The Big Idea, with less interest in character and plot.  This is not a hard-and-fast rule, as I loved Startide Rising, Childhood's End, the Uplift War, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, for example; conversely, I have yet to be able to finish a Vinge novel, get bored easily with Azimov and tried three time unsuccessfully to read Downbelow Station.  One of these days I intend to try the Robinson Mars books, and we'll see where that goes  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But for gaming, since gaming is about characters, I would prefer a less science-intensive setting and set of rules, one that emphasizes characters and plot first, equipment and science second.Opinions offered by the ex-management, YMMV, usw.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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