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Looking to recreate the feel of Firefly, The Outer Worlds, The Expanse, or similar, in a ttrpg that is somewhat leaning to the hard sci fi side. Any thoughts?

I've been poking Traveller but it's hard to tell what the definitive versions are. Also Stars Without Number looks interesting.

I'm particularly looking for ship based stuff -- where the ship is statted and you can have ship to ship combat.

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[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the expanse rpg. Link

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I like Green Ronin, in general, and love The Expanse as a setting. However, I want to be in a homebrew setting rather than in The Expanse. I suppose I should have said that in the original post.

The Expanse started as an RPG setting, which is an interesting bit of trivia :)

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

The Expanse started as an RPG setting, which is an interesting bit of trivia :)

I had no idea! That's so cool!

Anyway, it looks like you wouldn't be interested in Firefly RPG either.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking use the rule system and home brew the story and setting. I rarely use the written setting for a game system, I don't want to have to become an encyclopedia of someone else's fictional universe, lol.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

What I worry about us having to reskin stuff non stop. Like, imagine using the Star Wars RPG as your basis, but playing in an Expanse-like universe. All the character feature relating to The Force need to be replaced with... Uh, protomolecule powers? "I use my protomolecule infection to force cho, I mean, psychic choke uh... What universe are we in?"

But you're right. I could probably look at the ruleset and cherry pick good ideas and transplant them to Traveller or something. Maybe they have excellent asteroid cities I can translate or something :)