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Old 12-16-2009, 07:47 PM   #72
Whome?
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Default Re: Is Transhuman Space a "silly" genre?

Ummmm NO!

It is a VERY serious and realistic hard SF game. Very, cool. The game seems to continue some concepts that Cyberpunk introduced.

I've combined Gurps Cyberpunk and Transworld Space together:

http://www.playbyweb.com/oriental1.php?_b=15445

"Welcome to worlds on the edge. This game is the fusion of science fiction and "noir," a universe in which the street finds its own uses for the gifts of science.

In this gritty high-tech, low-life future, technology is merely another tool of power, likelier to corrupt its users than ennoble them. But those without technology have no chance at all. Is it a victory if you survive but lose your freedom . . . or your humanity?

From ruthless corporations to half-mechanical back-alley killers, this game has it all. Does your character have the edge to survive?

It's the year 2300. Humans have colonized the solar system and eighty other star systems (known as the off-world colonies). China and America struggle for control of Space. Pirates have taken over our solar system's asteroid belt.

Chrome and Nanotechnology has transformed life forever, and cybernetic and gene-enhanced humans sharing known space with artificial intelligences and robotic surrogates. Our solar system has become a setting as exciting and alien as any interstellar empire. Pirate spaceships hijacking black holes . . . sentient computers and artificial "bioroids" demanding human rights . . . nanotechnology and mind control . . .

Are you ready for role-playing "on the edge?"

I'd never call this "Silly".

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