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Originally Posted by HollyKnight55
Now, how to avoid power mongers? A dozen unstopable warrior races? Super mental power unbalancing type races? They have to apply to be part of some kind of Inter Galactic Council - which means the other contributors are permitted to discuss and vote whether the race should be permitted to enter the game world.
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I have a suggestion for an alternative way to solve this problem...
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Originally Posted by Puck
...I would suggest that instead of individual races people could make up individual worlds or planets similar to Rust's Beneath Alien Waves. That would allow for a bit of individual freedom as well as allowing other people playing BRP sci-fi to visit the world for an adventure or two. It seems like with a few different planets or star systems on the Wiki this could be a valuable resource for gamers who are gallivanting though the final fronter in search of strange new worlds.
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Originally Posted by rust
I agree, I think this would be a better approach than trying to design a common world.
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Yes, I also think a "separate worlds"-type approach is best. But I'd go further, and suggest
separate Universes.
But with
Gates of various forms to allow travel between the Universes.
Authors of each Universe would have total editorial control - so no need to smack-down anyone's creativity, no need for voting or bureaucracy. (Some authors might want more than one world, and some might want unstoppable warrior races, or whatever - and wouldn't things be boring without 'em?). But co-operation between authors would still be possible if they wished, of course.
GMs would have total control of the Gates - so only things thay allowed could pass though them, and only to/from Universes they permitted.
This has been suggested previously and is called the 'Gated Worlds' (as opposed to SharedWorld).