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Originally Posted by Shaira
Hi guys,
Atgxtg - are you thinking of addressing space travel in your starship design rules? FTL travel, that sort of thing? I'd be interested in your thoughts about that - whether you'd be able to offer several options, etc, or would try and plumb for a one-size-fits-all solution.
Cheers,
Sarah
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Yeah, I'm interested in it. I think muitp0le options works best, so people can play multiple styles of SCi-Fi settings. A "hard Sci-Fi" ship like in
2001 isn't going to work the same way a ship from
Star Trek or
Star Wars would work.
My thought would be to have multiple propulsion systems and FTL systems available and GMs could just plug in whatever engines work for the setting. So that way we could have Warp Drives or Hyperspace Engines or Jump Drives or whatever. It also allows GM to have people run into less advanced culture that might use a more primitive form of propulsion.
That way someone who want to play Star Wars doesn't get stuck with Warp Drive and vice versa.
The trick is for the designer to do most of the crunch and try to work it out in advance so that by the time it gets to GMs and players it is pretty easy to just plug in an engine and go.