 June 11, 2013 - 11:36am | I discovered the GUMSHOE gaming system this week. While its very different from SF I thought you might be interested on the mystery/problem solving system. Plus the cover of Ashen Star is cool ! WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUMSHOE_System A review : http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/15/15276.phtml Ashen Star official page: http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=2330 «Language is a virus from outer space» William S. Burroughs |
June 13, 2013 - 11:03am |
<!--[if gte mso 9]> After reading one third of the book I can see that this game could easily support the SF setting, professions and races. If you are looking for a streamlined rules-light rpg that includes ship combat this could be it. All the rolls are resolved using a single d6 – including weapon damage. It a skill bases system that has 40+ investigation skills (anthropology, forensics, etc) and 15+ general skills (shooting, etc). Skills definitions are very generous. A single skill has multiple applications. Skills are bought with points. There are no classes. Players get to choose between a set of 5 onboard the ship roles and 5 groundside roles. So each character as a role while on the ship and a role during investigations/missions : <!--[if !supportLists]-->-
<!--[endif]-->Ship roles
: Captain, pilot, Comm/hacker, Engineer, Weapons. Cyberware and wetware are part of the rules if you want to include recent tropes of the sf genre. The system is a good mix between traditional rpgs and story telling games. It does not use miniatures or complex combat rules that bog down the game. I’m hopping to run a mini-campaign starting september. «Language is a virus from outer space» William S. Burroughs |
 June 14, 2013 - 11:25am | You shoul write a conversion article for using it in SF- more or less how you would include the Sf races into the character creation process and submit it to FE or SFman. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
