 February 26, 2012 - 10:48am | Was asked what would be good submissions for the SFMan in 2012 Character Races are well covered but you can always submit one. As for Core Four articles we've started a short run series that falls under this heading that we are calling the Yazirian Files so all things yazirian are good for that. things on the other core four races might be pushed back in the publication schedule. Common article heads of late: Creative refereeing, Creatures of the Frontier, System and Planetary briefs come in at a regular rate and I'm not worried about whether we'll have these they should continue to turn up but if you're looking to do something that will help consider the following topic headings Stuff that would be good to submit: Adversaries, Archetypes, Community News, Equiment, Equiment, Equiment (there is never enough equipment), Factions (cadres, cults etc), Classifieds (never enough classifieds), locations, mini modules, optional rules, KHs scenarios, star ships, deck plans, technical journal, puzzles, background and history. We have a mad number of remastered dragon articles and you can expect to see 2,3 or 4 per issue from now till whenever. Anyone have something You'd like to see? Personally I loved the disaster article that Terl Obar did on a wandering brown dwarf and would love to see more so to keep the disaster series going I've worked on some smaller scale disasters and you can expect those to turn up with titles like "Its Cold Out There" "What's Cooking: You Are!" and "Dont Go Into the Water" as well as "Blowing In the Wind" I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 20, 2012 - 1:53pm | Yayy! Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 March 20, 2012 - 9:10pm | I just submitted the Nightwind, the ship from the Asset Recovery game. I'll be submitting the location I used for the Devil's Lair game as well. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
 March 21, 2012 - 12:56am | I am not sure whether this topic has already been raised in one of the SFman editions (I hadn't time to read through all its amazing stuff yet), but did anyone re-introduce the quite simple and straightforward Critical Hit Rules
they had been a topic in ... well, I can't remember, some kind of 80th SF fanzine. Not sure whether it had been the Dragon, might be.
As far as I can remember, the rules were easy to apply, fittet quite well into the canon yet added quite a something for highly experienced or specialized characters. If you like, I could try to dig out my copy of this article. Last game played: Somewhere in the 80th (Vrusk by heart) -- fond of Jugger, a "post-apocalyptic" sport |
March 21, 2012 - 3:07am | I am not sure whether this topic has already been raised in one of the SFman editions (I hadn't time to read through all its amazing stuff yet), but did anyone re-introduce the quite simple and straightforward Critical Hit Rules
they had been a topic in ... well, I can't remember, some kind of 80th SF fanzine. Not sure whether it had been the Dragon, might be.
As far as I can remember, the rules were easy to apply, fittet quite well into the canon yet added quite a something for highly experienced or specialized characters. If you like, I could try to dig out my copy of this article. There is a hit location sheet somewhere around here with a human outline and the ablative damage article in one of the sfman's seems to be popular- Iggy or another guy was promoting that to me as it slowed the players down a lot - making them weigh out whether they should get into combat and risk taking damage. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
March 21, 2012 - 7:47am | There is a hit location sheet somewhere around here with a human outline and the ablative damage article
Nice, thanks for the hint. I had seen that one, but it was already too sophisticated for my taste (don't get me wrong, it is fine, I just like the simplicity of the original system). As for the disaster article, it sounds fun. In fact, I am quite impressed of the academic level of the article! A cuddly Pulsar might fit there -- "Don't look into the light" ... yet since I am educated as a historian and not a planetologist, I couldn't deal with the laws of physics properly. Last game played: Somewhere in the 80th (Vrusk by heart) -- fond of Jugger, a "post-apocalyptic" sport |
March 23, 2012 - 9:04pm | Was just thinking about something in the submission cue, heres a few topics that will work well in the short term publication future: Pirates- there is a small submission on pirates but with two or more one issue could have a pirate theme. All things yazirian is good for the short term. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 23, 2012 - 10:57pm | Pirate yazirians make everything better. (TM) |
