 October 26, 2010 - 2:26pm | I was wondering if anyone had put any thought to the kind of games, or sports that would be popular among the races in the Frontier. It might be interesting as background perhaps to say that T'Kal'tik (a Vrusk) was the Vrusk equivalent of a sport champion in his corporate league, And Yamon Growl (A Yazirian) retired from Professional Vacuum gliding. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
 October 26, 2010 - 4:42pm | There is scattered comments around here but nobody has made a concise list. Let's dralasite storm! |
October 26, 2010 - 5:22pm | Gleep: A Dralasite childrens game where two Dralasites face each other with 2 pseudopods outstretched and one child tries to catch the other chil's psuedopod before it is retracted. Mastermind: A Vrusk game of wit and skill played on a board with the names of many real and imaginary corporations. Vrusk use tokens to travel across the board and buy up properties, and charge opponents fees for landing on their squares, until their opponents lose all their investment capital. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
 October 26, 2010 - 6:15pm | I think the best games for scifi would be ones that take advantage of zero grav. How about inertia ball. Players in a zero gravity arena throw a wieghted ball attempting to score points by hitting a target. I would promise to be a very dynamic game. The trajectories of all the players the target and the ball would be altered as potential energy is translated from one to the other. There would be a few stationary or masive object so the players could push of to gain momentum. Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole |
October 26, 2010 - 9:00pm | A serious gaming vrusk that losses at frontier championship mastermind tournaments often commit Vep'tku shortly afterwards, sometimes in the dressing room! Z-Ball A perfectly rounded, hollow dome in space where players use a mix of rackets, hockey sticks and cestas to score points by shooting a 10cm ball into a 30cm opening on the north, south, east and west poles of the dome. |
 October 26, 2010 - 9:24pm | Are you kidding me??? Drals would be all over cherades & pictionary like games. In fact Inner Reach, Terledrom and Groth square off in the Grand Cherade Championships. Dollo Too of Inner Reach was the reigning grand champion for five years running till he was deposed by Grom O Tar though there is ongoing controversy that Grom O Tar and Vold of Fromeltar are related and they conspired to through the competion to Grom in the quest to take the championship for the Fromeltar system. Another cross over sport (cross over sports are those that originate with one race but are enthusiastically embraced by another race) Is Base ball. In the interest of cultural exchange an number of vrusk trade houses on Ziddick, Madderly's Star started a corporate softball league that ran for a number of years before the Free World Rebellion. refugees of the rebellion latter resurrected the game on Kwadl-kit, in K'tsa-Kar system. Yazirians have generally denegrated darts as a sport as they have a version of the game involving throwing zamira's at a board. Double and triple points can be earned at this game by bouncing the zamira off a surface and still getting it to imbed in the board. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
October 26, 2010 - 9:34pm | Beaurocrats & Blasters is one of the most popular Vrusk games to come out in years, and even Dralasites love it. The game involves using data pads to create an entry level character, who goes on corporate raids to gather wealth and power. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
October 26, 2010 - 9:38pm | Games Drals Play: Name that Texture- "I can name that texture in 2 feels." Yazirians: Toorsuroto- involves gliding through hoops and obstacles on a course for points- two versions exist one that is focused on proper form, distance and elegance in flight and Auklin Toorsuroto that incorporates acrobatic stunts for points and has borrowed heavily from contact with human snow boarding. Older more staid yazirians look down on Auklin Toorsuroto and decry the cultural contamination that humanity represents. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 October 26, 2010 - 10:11pm | Ice Rocket Derby! A dazzeling spectacle of daring aliens racing their rocket powered ground sleds over the vast and dangerous ice fields of (fill in the planet's name). Foul play is not only permitted, it's expected! Ifschnit Tossing! A dazzeling spectacle of muscular aliens tossing wee helpless... (enough said) HOP-lympics! A dazzeling spectacle of Humma "Hoplympians" jumping across a series of complicated and always dangerous courses! My SF website izz: http://ragnarr.webs.com |
 October 27, 2010 - 11:40am | The dralasite traditional sport is Tangling. This is a sport of wrestling that is natural to dralasites. It is played in a bowl where one opponent tries to subdue the other. The drals contort and twist each other into shapes to confine the other. Different confinements are deemed of higher value with various knots highly prized. Dralasites swing from very serious to extremely jovial during the matches. Another dralasite sport in competition mimicry. The contestants try to take on the shape of an object displayed to the audience. This is often done in parks where audience can view the contestants from all angles. -iggy |
 November 6, 2010 - 1:43pm | I wrote down a few sports for Star Frontiers a while back. I had intended to create a full suplement, but I have so much on my plate that it will probably just end up being a few articles. One of the games was a gravball game using the mits from the African sport I forgot the name of (The mits are best known from the Tron ball toss game on the disappearing rings). Another was zero-G hoops. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
November 6, 2010 - 5:31am | Running of the Kricks! Decried by Aliens for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (AETA) but immensely popular and a tourist attraction on the humma home world. Due to their natural speed vrusk have excelled at this but some traditionalist humma have suggested they not be allowed to run. On a related note: bored corporate enforcers on Volturnus introduced what has been styled a sport but it more of a bit of disorganized hooliganism: Land Whale Bating. It usually results in death- that of the land whale and sometimes that of the participants. Eventually the baters tire of the "sport" and start shooting the land whale things get uglier from there and its not unheard of for the whale to manage to kill some of its tormentors. The eorna have strickly banned the practice as land whales were never numerous and their numbers are dropping significantly since the introduction of this practice. One tragic occurance resulted in a land whale stampeding throug an eskadai village, killing 36, destroying their temple and releasing a captured quick death. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 6, 2010 - 9:34am | Prep time: Spacer's compete in this annual Spacer's guild event where participents compete in which team can prep their spacecraft in the fastest time, with the smallest number of crewmen at hand. each team may utilize robots but must deduct 10 minutes/robot from their total time for doing so. Skimming the surface: This incredibly dangerous sport requires pilots to fly across an asteroid at top speed without using their ship's terrain guidance equipment, only their eyes and visual sensors, skimming the surface of the asteroid and avoiding whatever natural obstructions crop up on the asteroids surface. Knighthawk pilot William Sabre of White Light held the record for four seasons, though some have questioned his record because of a recently made public Psionic aptitude test score, that showed him to have a very high score on the test. Rocket tag: A Yazirian invented game, in which a specially made seeker missile tags a fighter, and the pilot must maneuver his/her fighter trying to shake off the seeker missile, this is a timed event with the pilot who successfully outmaneuvers the seeker missile or outlasts his opponents wins The Royal Marines blue crystal of excellence. Risk: This Humma game has willing or sometimes unwilling participents choose from three darkened cargo bays to enter one which might have a press gang of Humma inside (though some ifsnits have claimed that the game is rigged, and all the cargo bays have humma inside) but as the humma say, that's the Risk. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
November 6, 2010 - 7:25pm | Mastermind: A Vrusk game of wit and skill played on a board with the names of many real and imaginary corporations. Vrusk use tokens to travel across the board and buy up properties, and charge opponents fees for landing on their squares, until their opponents lose all their investment capital. I like this one but perhaps name it Conglomerate? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 6, 2010 - 7:37pm | What about blood sports? I would think they'd prosper on places like Outer Reach, possibly Cass in the Devco system and other Light population worlds where questionable activity could be carried on out of the way. Blood Ball, Combat Footbal, Wyvole Fighting, "hunt" sport, humma roullete, etc I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 6, 2010 - 7:55pm | Humma roulette cracked me up. "Hey guys I wonder what this does"-Famous last words "Hey guys, I think it's friendly." -Famous last words "You go on ahead, I'll catch up." -Famous last words "Did you here that?" -Famous last words |
November 6, 2010 - 8:23pm | Humma Roullete: played with one specially modified beam weapon pistol (modified to disable the charge meter) and a number of power clips equal to the number of players. All clips but one are fully drained but one has a partial or full charge. Its been usual to play with only partially charged clips (1 to 2 SEUs) so as to not kill someone but that is not always what happens. Once a holovid called the Quick Death Hunter hit the Frontier and featured this particular humma practice there was a rise in its being practiced by high school and university students throughout the Frontier. Star Law estimates that the game is played 100's of times a standard year Frontier wide but they can't give hard numbers as not all planetary police services report crimes to Star Law. Its also likely that some cases of suicide are actually victims of this practice. Game idea: PCs highered to investigate NPC X's suicide. They begin to discover that it was a humma roullete gone wrong. then they find out the the "loaded" SEU clip was suppose to only have 1 SEU (just enough to sting not kill) instead it had 20 SEU and did kill. The one responsible for prepping the clips had a motive to kill but not the guy who was killed instead the killer wanted to kill someone else at the game but screwed up the clips (he had some plan to ensure the right person got the full clip) Now he's still seeking to finish the job. Can the PCs stop him before he kills someone else? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
