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Old 12-12-2015, 11:14 PM   #88
Flyndaran
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Default Re: TV series with ideas for GURPS

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Originally Posted by trooper6 View Post
My friends and I actually played a no-dice V RPG for years--so inspired we were by the show. It worked great! I'd certainly run it again in GURPS. Various posters have brought up different issues with the show...some of which aren't that big of a deal to me...for example, Visitors actually aren't cross-fertile with humans. The only way the Robin was able to become pregnant was because Diana (the chief science officer) did high-tech medical experimentation to make it happen. That pregnancy was the only one that occurred--and it wasn't a natural occurrence.
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That merely lampshades the problem. It would still be orders of magnitude easier to crossbreed pond algae and a human than either with an extraterrestrial.
Besides, the girl hybrid was a messianic figure, so mere biological hindrances mattered not.
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