05-26-2020, 12:05 AM | #61 |
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Re: GURPS - Space Opera?
The Enterprise wasn't being chased by the Romulans, it was chasing the Romulans.
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05-26-2020, 04:52 AM | #62 | |
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05-26-2020, 06:37 PM | #63 |
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Re: GURPS - Space Opera?
I've heard the problem with a general Space Opera line comparable to Dungeon Fantasy best summed up as "Science fiction has settings, fantasy has tropes."
You can do a general Fantasy line because everyone agrees on what an elf or orc is but aliens don't work that way. If you include Vulcans you're automatically doing something based on Trek, if you have Wookies you're doing Star Wars. If you're introducing a home-brewed species you're in you're own setting that you have to sell to the players on it's own merits. The same goes for what technology exists and what super-science is allowed in a world. |
05-26-2020, 07:00 PM | #64 | |
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05-26-2020, 07:01 PM | #65 |
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Re: GURPS - Space Opera?
I will also mention "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi as an inspiration as well, though less so later books of that series than the implied setting of just the first one.
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05-26-2020, 09:11 PM | #66 | |
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05-26-2020, 09:54 PM | #67 |
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Re: GURPS - Space Opera?
SF has plenty of tropes as well, though good SF, like good fantasy, focuses more on characters and settings more than it does on tropes.
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05-27-2020, 08:28 AM | #68 |
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Re: GURPS - Space Opera?
Better than McGruber. ;)
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05-27-2020, 09:48 AM | #69 |
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Well, if it happens I'll look forward to the SPACE OPERA ROLEPLAYING GAME POWERED BY GURPS.
I think it's sort of a shame that we don't have the SF equivalent of BANESTORM. Not the Space Opera setting but a Space Opera Setting. Me, I want Ruritania in the Galaxy (or may be EN GARDE IN SPAAAACE...) with duels and force swords.
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05-28-2020, 02:56 AM | #70 |
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Re: GURPS - Space Opera?
I am HERE for this! I even think that the last couple entries return to form a bit, after John Perry’s family exits the story.
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