Post by simonw on Jan 5, 2012 1:34:17 GMT -6
Because I'm already working on Smith & Wesson (see other thread)(, I thought I'd further complicate things by working on a SF version of Swords & Wizardry at the same time.
This game is simply "D&D" in space. There are Dwarves (mutated humans, created for strength and toughness as labourers hundreds of years ago to work in asteroid mines and so on, but since being freed and now forming a substantial "race". There are Elves - who made an exodus from their home planet in their exotic spaceships after it was destroyed by alien invaders (Orcs?) and are still seeking somewhere to settle.
The basis of the gaming comes from The Dark Zone - a vast expanse of space where there was some huge space battle millenia ago leaving vast city-sized (and rumours say planet-sized) space wrecks just hanging there in the void, waiting to be explored and plundered.
The Zone is at the far edges of the frontier (I envisage a wild west "gold rush" feel) where lawlessness rulles and adventurers, outlaws, prospectors, miners, traders and outcasts gather. It is rough and dangerous but the rewards can be great.
The classes are pretty much per S&W - magic-users use either psionics or technomancy (choose at outset) to power their "spells". This is simply a flavour thing - the spells are per S&W, but they have a scientific-ish explanation. Same for Healers (Clerics).
Gotta go to work now. More later.
This game is simply "D&D" in space. There are Dwarves (mutated humans, created for strength and toughness as labourers hundreds of years ago to work in asteroid mines and so on, but since being freed and now forming a substantial "race". There are Elves - who made an exodus from their home planet in their exotic spaceships after it was destroyed by alien invaders (Orcs?) and are still seeking somewhere to settle.
The basis of the gaming comes from The Dark Zone - a vast expanse of space where there was some huge space battle millenia ago leaving vast city-sized (and rumours say planet-sized) space wrecks just hanging there in the void, waiting to be explored and plundered.
The Zone is at the far edges of the frontier (I envisage a wild west "gold rush" feel) where lawlessness rulles and adventurers, outlaws, prospectors, miners, traders and outcasts gather. It is rough and dangerous but the rewards can be great.
The classes are pretty much per S&W - magic-users use either psionics or technomancy (choose at outset) to power their "spells". This is simply a flavour thing - the spells are per S&W, but they have a scientific-ish explanation. Same for Healers (Clerics).
Gotta go to work now. More later.
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