New Humanspace Empires revision

[aldarron]

Hey all,

I bet you guys will love this.

Humanspace Empires II

The link is to an expanded, updated, revised Humanspace Empires 2.0. Since Drune released the original HE, I've continued to enjoy the game and tinker with the rules. It's just that cool. Little by little, I've built up this expanded version, and, with Drune's blessing, here it is.

Mostly, I've stuck to the rules as they are in the original, so converting to this release will be fairly easy. The most significant change lies in the skills system, which got a major overhaul.

Other changes/additions include, bringing the combat proceedures, ability scores adjustments and saving throws more in line with EPT; adding material from the IX blog and the best fan based material from the ODD74 forum; adding OGL material covering such things as robots, spaceship construction, random adventure generation, and so on; adding ties to other twin cities sci-fi material, such as that found in Temple of the Frog, City of the Gods, and Star Probe; adding material from 19th century sci-fi authors such as Jules Verne and ‎Edward Bulwer-Lytton; and I expanded the content derived from M.A.R Barker, including additional races. Some other stuff from movies and pulp fiction peppered in here and there.

Feedback certainly welcome. Enjoy!

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This is awesome! I love the IX blog, and always hoped that Humanspace Empires would return in some form. I have to ask, will you be working on other parts of the project, like the Space Monsters and Campaigns in Space and Alien Planets supplements?

[kesher]

Great Glob! Awesome!

[aldarron]

Dec 3, 2015 19:20:55 GMT -6 @ashigaru said:

This is awesome! I love the IX blog, and always hoped that Humanspace Empires would return in some form. I have to ask, will you be working on other parts of the project, like the Space Monsters and Campaigns in Space and Alien Planets supplements?

Nope. Not in the foreseeable future. Drune I think will at some point. However, if that is the kind of material you want to see, I would encourage you to make it and even publish it! This is fan material after all. There is lots of wiggle room in the general outline of the sociopolitical situation in HE, that you can really make it just about any thing you like.

I might write an adventure or two at some point, but I think one of the cool things about HE is that it is not overly detailed and so you can adapt a lot of outside "flavor" material to your game.

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Interesting. I didn't know Drune was still working on Humanspace Empires, or planning to. Thanks for this new edition of the rules. I can see using some of the weapons and robots as powerful devices of the ancients for players to discover or utilize in EPT or upcoming games...

[ritt]

This is an underrated, great old-school SF RPG, with or without the Tekumel connection. Thanks very much for sharing this!