 August 15, 2015 - 1:32pm | http://www.deviantart.com/art/Testing-Environment-436446449 It is perhaps more for a Star Trek style game but.... I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
August 6, 2015 - 12:24pm | In order to simplify the setting in the Sol Frontiers project I 'D like to write in a cataclysm that lets us take present real world nations out of the picture and allows for new nations on the Moon or Mars to be more dominant in the setting. There seems to be a lot of information on the net for what happens if an asteroid strikes. I'd go with asteroid or comet but would include some other stuff like limited nukes like north Korea initiates war believing the need to go south to escape coming ice age. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 July 31, 2015 - 6:47am | Zebulon seems to be the ideal place to put a huge Babylon 5 style space station, a centre of commerce and trade for the newly developing rim worlds. Taking B5 as my guide you could have the UPF acting as the central administration and station defence but Star Law being responsible for local law enforcement. Set course for the 80's... (My Livejournal) |
July 17, 2015 - 5:48am | In WoWL module the module starts out with 2 assault scouts on order and about to be delivered. This actually represents some active naval expansion. To some extent we treat the setting as static but the numbers listed in the book really represent a slice of time and as you advance the time line there should be continual naval expansion. Where would a high population planets like Clarion, Minotaur, Pale, or Fromeltar go with their own "native" militia organizations? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
July 7, 2015 - 2:36pm | Carthage never trusted it's colonies to raise armies lest the rebel against the authority of the capitol. Instead the Carthaginians used mercenaries to fill out their armies. The eorna do/did something similar with their great plan and the uplifted primitives on Volturnus and we see these primitives featured in the battle of Volkos with only a small number of Eorna troops raised at their capitol. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 28, 2015 - 1:13pm | Why would this planet get named Rupert's Hole? I don't remember ever hearing of another sci Fi location named in a similar manner. We can presume that Cassidine was discovered and explored about the time the vrusk, dralasites and humans met and that this led to the naming of Triad as the first multi species colony designed to promote exchange, learning and understanding. But why add the word hole to Rupert's planet? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 21, 2015 - 8:40pm | One of my favorite old movies is Operation Petticoat. So I was watching it today with hubby and I began wondering could it be reworked into SF adventure... Elements would be 1 a military ship that can land on planets... the Star Tiger. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
 June 20, 2015 - 2:34pm | As a number of you guys know, I really like the ideas presented in Alien Worlds, and as such, they shape the way I play as of late. Basically, there are five core races: the "core fore" plus the worm-like S'sessu. With that, some minor elements that were dropped can make a comeback: Dralasite shape humor would compliment their shapeless form and love of bad jokes; Vrusk could suffer "artistic rages" at the sight of ugly things or creatures. |
 June 20, 2015 - 9:12am | So, I've started running SF again with my RPG group. I say 'again' as all but one of the players had played SF with me right from the first session back in 1983, but we'd not played SF since 1990. This was due to the fact that as we got to a certain age (our late teens/early 20s), we drifted off into having jobs and I moved 150 miles away to London. Nowadays we're all back in the same locality. Despite the fact that we now all own copies of Alpha Dawn and Zeb's Guide, we were all surprisingly rusty WRT remembering rules and similar things. |
June 12, 2015 - 5:54pm | Imagine the title set in perspective like Space: 1999 was. fy 99: Star Law is invited to the Rim to help train planetary branches there. fy 100: the Rim's Age of Adventure begins and hundreds of vessels go out to explore beyond the Rim This would be an ideal period to set a campaign in the Rim or just launch pad from the Rim. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
