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[active_apathy]

A secret project is afoot! Well... partly secret. Now, for this Secret Project to work, I'm going to need a little bit of information from you, the people who read my entries. So, go and Google for a reading speed test, take it, and tell me:

[Poll #552089]

The sooner I get this information, the sooner I can start posting bits of the Secret Project, making it rather less secret and rather more fun. liadlaith, lesslikeyou and daphyn, I have electronic evidence of your excitement over the Secret Project. If you don't answer, I'm going to tickle you mercilessly.

And now that we've gotten past that bit, I have some non-sneaky research. Everyone who was interested in <lj-rp> seems to rather like sci-fi, and FATE came out rather a bit ahead of everything else. Now comes the time to find out just what kind of sci-fi you'd like, and what other genres you might be interested in throwing in with it. There's no poll for that bit, just a bit of a conversation in comments.

Comments

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Even the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire went about shooting things with bullets, but I accept the distinction you draw. I'm not much for mindless gadgetry, though; sonic showers and transporters don't really work for me.

The localisation bit makes rather a bit more sense now. I think I'll pay an extended visit to your page, because that'll help make for a sensible conversation.

I think I see your point on footwork. For ships, my thoughts were a bit more on things like the Dortmunder (in the Firefly pilot, and a few other episodes) which is magnificently huge. Or, for that matter, the ships in the Homeworld games.

It's hard to powergame with race in FATE. If you take an aspect for a race, then you can use it - but the human's going to buy a different one that might be useful more often. You might be able to invoke Elf for using bows, tracking things, seeing in the dark and doing other Elfy things - but the human could take an aspect like Loyal and apply it in any situation where they're looking out for the party/team/other.

You should read FATE, but I'll have to go through some radically different (mostly from other games) bits that I rather love.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Well, slugthrowers will rarely go out of style because they're cheap and effective for the cost. But your point is good. That question could easily be revised to "Shiny Gizmos vs Mundane Stuff".

I do have a PDF of d20 Future availiable if you want it... it's a non-OCR'd scan, so it's 63 megs. However, if you use something like GetRight or WackGet, they can resume downloads so you don't have to get the whole file at once. Or I can give you FTP access and you can use your FTP client of choice to download and resume. Obviously the mechanics would be worthless, but it could make for a very handy technical reference.
Say the word and I'll link you or give you the FTP info.

You don't have to switch to my view, I was merely explaining my usage of terminology so you knew, but ok.

Hrmm... I suppose I should watch the pilot then, so I know what the Dortmunder looks like and it's scale. Never played Homeworld.
But I still estimate for a contained system (megaship etc) to really function as a self-contained setting, it needs a population up around 10k.

I'll read FATE when I'm not brainfried, running an RP and/or trying to catch up on LJ. So probably this weekend.