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Re: Fantasy Games Unlimted: Space Opera
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Yes, fully knowing what a mess it was I bought it again because I've worn the covers off my stapled version. Also in Star Atlas 11 there's a creature encounter that can make it happen. all you have to do to survive it is roll a 1 on D1000. 1 on D10,000 if you do it deliberately.
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10-22-2017, 10:00 AM | #12 |
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Re: Fantasy Games Unlimted: Space Opera
We had the two stapled books. We must have failed to spot what we needed.
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10-22-2017, 10:38 AM | #13 | |
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Looking on the bright side, it also makes you immortal (if you survive it).
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10-22-2017, 01:11 PM | #14 | |
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Space Opera was actually somewhat refreshing n that it was one of the first SF sources and definitely first game that had affordable immortality in it as a regular feature. So there was at least one "transhuman" element in it.
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10-22-2017, 01:44 PM | #15 |
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Re: Fantasy Games Unlimted: Space Opera
Now that I look at it, I realise that Space Master (which I played for quite a few years) owes quite a bit to Space Opera, particularly the terms "Armsman" for the fighter class and "Transhuman" for variant/upgraded humans – and its heavy use of technical character classes.
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Re: Fantasy Games Unlimted: Space Opera
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10-24-2017, 06:00 AM | #17 |
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Re: Fantasy Games Unlimted: Space Opera
I love the mash-up setting of Space Opera, but I fully agree that the rules are a hot mess. If only someone could get permission to do the setting in a different game system...
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10-24-2017, 06:45 AM | #18 |
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Re: Fantasy Games Unlimted: Space Opera
I remember reading that short story, way back when. I don't remember what it was called or who wrote it, though.
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10-24-2017, 08:21 AM | #19 |
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Re: Fantasy Games Unlimted: Space Opera
Are you thinking of _Needle_ by Hal Clement?
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10-24-2017, 12:12 PM | #20 |
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Re: Fantasy Games Unlimted: Space Opera
1d210? How does that work? 1d2 for the hundreds place and 1d10 for the tens and ones? With some method to discriminate between 200 and 210?
Edit: That doesn't make sense. 1d2 and if 1 then roll 1d10,1d10, and if 2 then roll 1d10, if 0 roll 1d2 and on a 1 read as 00 and a 2 as 210? Last edited by sir_pudding; 10-25-2017 at 04:04 PM. |
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