Just a quick random topic/poll.
What setting? Be it your original creation or from a book/movie/video game/etc. would you like to see as RPG?
Personally I recently started to think that the setting from the Sword of the Stars video game would make a interesting scifi (Alternity/Traveller) game. At first glance it is a normal space opera but it does things slightly different than most others which imo makes the setting rather interesting.
So you have your bug race, but this time they are not a hive mind and just have a "normal" monarchy (witch some exceptions) with all the revolutions and infighting.
There are of course humans but the space corps have been heavily infiltrated by the catholic church which started early to try to convert the aliens to Christianity with quite some success.
You have the stereotypical evil race with telepathic powers who dominate others. Too bad that one of them took over the mind of one of those human missionaries and has taken on his personality and is now waging a Crusade against his "infidel" brethren.
And then you have your stereotypical peaceful hippy race. The fact that they are hermaphrodic dolphins who can only actually use machines through their (quite potent) telekinetic powers is not strange enough, being peace loving they do not have a concept of "limited warfare". Its either peace or total, genocidal war. Have I mentioned that they are masters of biotechnology, including biological weapons?
There are more races in the setting but they are more similar to what other scifi settings have.
At first this sounds more like a joke setting, but it is still a normal space opera and not as extreme as it might sound here.
What setting? Be it your original creation or from a book/movie/video game/etc. would you like to see as RPG?
Personally I recently started to think that the setting from the Sword of the Stars video game would make a interesting scifi (Alternity/Traveller) game. At first glance it is a normal space opera but it does things slightly different than most others which imo makes the setting rather interesting.
So you have your bug race, but this time they are not a hive mind and just have a "normal" monarchy (witch some exceptions) with all the revolutions and infighting.
There are of course humans but the space corps have been heavily infiltrated by the catholic church which started early to try to convert the aliens to Christianity with quite some success.
You have the stereotypical evil race with telepathic powers who dominate others. Too bad that one of them took over the mind of one of those human missionaries and has taken on his personality and is now waging a Crusade against his "infidel" brethren.
And then you have your stereotypical peaceful hippy race. The fact that they are hermaphrodic dolphins who can only actually use machines through their (quite potent) telekinetic powers is not strange enough, being peace loving they do not have a concept of "limited warfare". Its either peace or total, genocidal war. Have I mentioned that they are masters of biotechnology, including biological weapons?
There are more races in the setting but they are more similar to what other scifi settings have.
At first this sounds more like a joke setting, but it is still a normal space opera and not as extreme as it might sound here.
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