 April 12, 2013 - 8:30am | A few weeks ago, someone posted, I think in the "Old School Gamers" page on Facebook, that back in the day they got the vibe from Star Frontiers that it was a light & happy setting, which may have been part of why it didn't catch on with them. They asked if anyone else got that vibe. I had to agree, but I coudn't put my finger on why or how I developed that feeling then. Probably the inner optimism of a 13-year-old player? |
 April 12, 2013 - 7:08am | So I'm wondering what you all think about something. In my setting, Streel has been mixed up in some really bad crap: 1. Funding the pirates on Volturnus 2. A Fiasco on Clarion that got them banned from the planet. 3. Alcazaar. In addition, in my campaign setting, I had the Malthar operating as a hench-thug type of operation which did some of Streel's dirty-dirty work for them, which included capturing and enslaving sentient species, and using a dangerous organism in experiments as a bio-weapon. |
 April 12, 2013 - 5:49am | The American school system and science text books from when I was growing up gave the impression that only America did cool things like land suff on other celestial bodies. They just didn't instruct us in what the soviet accomplishments were- this is not a debate over the merits of that action just simply a statement of why the soviet space program is suddenly new and shiney to me in the year 2013. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
April 5, 2013 - 7:37am | I'm spoiling the surprise on an article in the next Frontier Explorer issue, "Cultural Perspective: Morgaine's World". It is not an actual planetary brief though it deals with all the same information as a planetary brief. We of course all are familiar with planetary briefs and the single difference between these two items is that a planetary brief is for the referee to root and adventure in a particular location. A cultural perspective is for the player to root his character from a particular location. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 April 4, 2013 - 4:39pm | Random thoughts here. The Dralasite love jokes and puns and there has been many a mention of Dralasites and whoopie cushions. Given their physiology and that their language has audio, visual and odorous components would it be possible that their whoopie cushions are doing more than just making a loud noise? Might it be that the strange sounds coming from the postier also include the "signature" of the jokester? Also given that they speak in smells, could their whoopie cushions also emit odors as an off shoot of their communications technology? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 March 28, 2013 - 6:02am | So here's my problem. I want to create an aquatic civilization for a Star Frontiers setting that has some advanced tech but from a realistic standpoint, an aquatic civilization can never exist beyond stone age tech due to the inability to produce fire, thereby allowing for the smelting and shaping of metal. I plan to leave this civilization at a point short of actual space capabilities, but with arts, language, music, etc that are all on a similar level as any of the core races. There are a couple ways around this: I don't have to outrun that nasty beast my friend...I just have to outrun you!  |
March 20, 2013 - 4:49am | When I first heard of quantum entanglement I thought it might be the answer for communicaiton over interstellar distances. However, lots of power has to be invested to maintain linked particles. But low and behold they discovered a way to quantumly link diamonds on the macro scale Some possibilities are matter transmission (transporters and bap bins) a quantum telegraph (but with enough linked items we begin to have bandwith and thus audio and visual communication) beamed power might also be possible. quantum computers I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
March 13, 2013 - 7:57pm | Hey all, been a bit since I posted over here. Between the holidays and a 3 week family vacation I've been on a bit of a break from RPG world. Thought I'd share about a game I started with my kiddos using the Gamma Dawn rules. |
 March 6, 2013 - 11:05pm | Via G+ Asteroids caught in the lagrangian points of jupiter and the sun from the veritable trove sajri.astronomy.cz/asteroidgroups/groups.htm  |
