#starfrontiers — Public Fediverse posts
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I have been thinking of skills in Star Frontiers again thanks to recent discussions. I think the whole skill list and their varying ways of computing the chance is a bit too unwieldy in the Expanded rules.
So, I propose stick to base skill equals attribute as done in the Basic rules. A characters attribute is going to be between 30 to 70 (with possibly some species attribute bonus).
And to level up, what if a player can just spend 1 experience point to level up their skill 1 point? A typical encounter will only yield 1 or 2 experience points so it will still take a long time to get a skill up to 100.
Note, I would take away any system to increase attributes and just keep improvement to skills.
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Looking to refresh the #art in my living room, I found this poster. Doesn't fit my living room's vibe, but it does make me want to play old #scifi #ttrpg like #StarFrontiers. Maybe I'll buy it for my home office.
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🚀 Don't miss out! @zalasur is live on PeerTube: https://peertube.zalasur.media/videos/watch/3
#DistantWorlds2 #TheHoomanRepublic #StarFrontiers #TabletopRPG #peertube #livestream #stream
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I haven't forgotten my #StarFrontiers conversions for #StarTrekAdventures , I promise. I've gotten sidetracked by the upcoming #Fallout game (Sunday!) and some entertaining discussions elsenet about other games. I know I'm procrastinating, because I always do, and I apologize.
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I've slacked for a few days on #TTRPG reading and my #StarFrontiers conversions for #StarTrekAdventures because my brain has hit overload with all the crap going on and all I want to do is veg out and play games. Sorry.
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SOME OLD BLOG POST:
Alien weapons #artwork for a #StarFrontiersman zine article from 2013. -
Alternately, for the Species Ability, I could adapt their "Lie Detection" skill and give them a boost on checks to determine falsehoods and deception, making the limbs just part of the morphic ability of the Species Trait. Now that I think about it, that's probably a better way to go. Mechanically: first extra d20 bought with Momentum on Insight checks to determine deception is free?
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Names are going to be an issue. I'm going to need to scour old #StarFrontiers products for examples. It'll be fun to read the old material again, of course.
Sample Values will relate to their love of philosophy and debate, their mindfulness, and their genial relations with other species.
Attributes? I'm thinking bonuses to Fitness, Insight and Reason.
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Adapting the #Dralasites should be fairly simple. Their Species Trait would apply in cases of strength and stability, due to their morphic adaptability, but work against them in terms of speed. It would represent their education in philosophy, and I'm trying to find a way to work in their love of old and bad humor.
The Dral Species Ability is obviously their ability to grow pseudopods as they need. Representing that mechanically will take me some thinking.
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The poll has ended. Sadly it only got a few responses, but in the end, the winner was... everybody's favorite bad-joke-loving amoeboids, the Dralasites! I might as well go in alphabetical order, with the Vrusk next and then the Yazirians
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@HeyeBodo I am in the initial stages of a project to convert material from the old #StarFrontiers and #Alternity TTRPGs into #StarTrekAdventures 2e. I'll be beginning with the SF aliens (Dralasites, Vrusk and Yazirians).
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Okay, plan of action: Study the species writeups in #StarTrekAdventures some more, and then attempt to write conversions, starting with the #StarFrontiers aliens. A question for you: who would you like to see me convert first? The guinea pigs, so to speak? #TTRPG #StarTrek
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From what I recall, many #StarFrontiers ships had #StarTrek style engine nacelles (a pretty clear stylistic influence). Positing that these are actually warp nacelles makes conversion a no-brainer. Here is an image of some Star Frontiers miniatures. They all strike me as vaguely Andorian in design! https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUGj365XKzvHddkgNIaGE0Dk8ufkUhfJuG2hiagz7kaQ00oz3yt6Xc2wj7dF-zULugNzi-4ah3ke0mmdpnUNNYAQUzSZlYEiEJcviLl9Eszk7th8Thzqt8lYcbl4nNuNMLGbshq2HC8Or/s1600/privateers+scouts+freighter+front.JPG
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I have a project idea, tying into that #StarTrekAdventures game I was asked to run.
I want to do species writeups for the #StarFrontiers and #Alternity aliens (some of you may also remember them collectively grouped together in #d20Future ) in STA. That includes the Sathar!
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I even have a concept of a plan of an idea: the PCs will be a specialized Away Team (senior officers going on ATs is just *stupid*) on a ship investigating a newly-discovered rogue planet drifting in deep space. I even know some things I want them to find there, including aliens from #StarFrontiers and #Alternity!
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@punkpaleo @PTR_K The #Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium credits the Hadozee, Rastipede, and Syllix entries to Doug Niles, who worked on the #StarFrontiers line, so it's pretty clear what he was doing. (I actually disagree with the conventional wisdom about the Plasmoids, partially because Niles didn't create them.)
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@mdhughes I remember you! I was a subscriber to that mailing list (for a while, anyway).
I'm actually putting my old #StarFrontiers website back together. Can't let the flame go out!
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@pare I think this is a better idea now than it was then, because #StarFrontiers players now are all old enough to know how tedious and ridiculous banks can be.
It's a potential comedic interlude. The average SF PC is a planet-hopping, gun-toting gigworker. Picture them struck in a chair answering questions like "You listed your previous address as 'Stranded on Volturnus.' What can you tell me about that?"
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Did you know that in 1983, TSR created a Star Frontiers commercial? I didn't until this morning (I originally saw this on the Grognardia blog)
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I found my old RPG dice at my parents' house yesterday. The yellow d4, red d6, green d8, blue d12 and white d20 came with my original Gamma World set. Pretty sure they're the exact same dice TSR included with Basic D&D sets back then. I believe the two small d10s came with Star Frontiers. #Dice #TSR #DnD #GammaWorld #StarFrontiers
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Ran my nephew Traveller game today. Having finished up the Great Hunt and received a nice payout, they did some shopping at the Vargr Capital, buying Battle Dress for their Vargo crewman.
Savage Vole, a contact from the Hunt, hired them to go investigate a distress report from an experimental gas giant mining platform.
Bugs in the System (Star Frontiers) begins.
#TTRPG #ClassicTraveller #Traveller5 #StarFrontiers #Foreven #Vargr #BugsInTheSystem #TravellerRpg
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Ran my nephew Traveller game today. Having finished up the Great Hunt and received a nice payout, they did some shopping at the Vargr Capital, buying Battle Dress for their Vargo crewman.
Savage Vole, a contact from the Hunt, hired them to go investigate a distress report from an experimental gas giant mining platform.
Bugs in the System (Star Frontiers) begins.
#TTRPG #ClassicTraveller #Traveller5 #StarFrontiers #Foreven #Vargr #BugsInTheSystem #TravellerRpg
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Ran my nephew Traveller game today. Having finished up the Great Hunt and received a nice payout, they did some shopping at the Vargr Capital, buying Battle Dress for their Vargo crewman.
Savage Vole, a contact from the Hunt, hired them to go investigate a distress report from an experimental gas giant mining platform.
Bugs in the System (Star Frontiers) begins.
#TTRPG #ClassicTraveller #Traveller5 #StarFrontiers #Foreven #Vargr #BugsInTheSystem #TravellerRpg
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Ran my nephew Traveller game today. Having finished up the Great Hunt and received a nice payout, they did some shopping at the Vargr Capital, buying Battle Dress for their Vargo crewman.
Savage Vole, a contact from the Hunt, hired them to go investigate a distress report from an experimental gas giant mining platform.
Bugs in the System (Star Frontiers) begins.
#TTRPG #ClassicTraveller #Traveller5 #StarFrontiers #Foreven #Vargr #BugsInTheSystem #TravellerRpg
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Ran my nephew Traveller game today. Having finished up the Great Hunt and received a nice payout, they did some shopping at the Vargr Capital, buying Battle Dress for their Vargo crewman.
Savage Vole, a contact from the Hunt, hired them to go investigate a distress report from an experimental gas giant mining platform.
Bugs in the System (Star Frontiers) begins.
#TTRPG #ClassicTraveller #Traveller5 #StarFrontiers #Foreven #Vargr #BugsInTheSystem #TravellerRpg
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@punkpaleo @Nanard_Groubiche
Interesting.
I was never really into Spelljammer (though art from some of the old books back in the day was pretty amazing). So I wasn't aware of the Hadozee.But their appearance reminds me a lot of the Yazirians, which were a species of aliens from Star Frontiers, a more sci-fi focused game by the same company (well, the company's precursor).
Yazirians had the same odd gliding membrane attachment.
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Some great Star Frontiers art by Mario D. Macari.
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What are some of the best space adventures you’ve ever seen, for any game system? What made it great?
#TTRPG #TravellerRpg #StarFrontiers #2300AD #EclipsePhase #SpaceOpera #SciFi #ClassicTraveller #Expanse #Mothership #BuckRogers #Starfinder #StarsWithoutNumber #ScumAndVillany
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Just now in Discord - memories of D&D regrets. Did anyone ever actually play Star Frontiers?
#RPG #DND #StarFrontiers #games #TSR #WizardsoftheCoast #eighties #youth
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A new board game "Monopoly Chance" not sure about it, but it was cheap enough. Also finally got my hand on a 1980s Star Frontiers Box set, it's missing one of the dice, but otherwise it doesn't look like it's been played and it was cheap enough that I bought it LOL (if you know me you know how cheap I can be sometimes LOL)
Also picked up a Terran Trade Authority Handbook. Local Space.
#BoardGame #RPG #StarFrontiers #TerranTradeAuthority #TTA #TTAUniverse