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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking to recreate the feel of Firefly, The Outer Worlds, The Expanse, or similar, in a ttrpg that is somewhat leaning to the hard sci fi side. Any thoughts?

I've been poking Traveller but it's hard to tell what the definitive versions are. Also Stars Without Number looks interesting.

I'm particularly looking for ship based stuff -- where the ship is statted and you can have ship to ship combat.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Although recommending a generic system like Fate makes me feel like the kind of guy who suggests GURPs every time a question on a recommended system pops up lol.

I was thinking of Fate but decided I'd better not recommend such a generic system, but you beat me to it!

Fate is great with the right players, but it's not crunchy.

We did have a fun little game that was sort of "Shadowrun in space" where we statted up the ships. The players' ship was a stolen evil-fedex-in-space shuttle. It had a stunt "just doing my job" for a bonus to deceive, and "built for bad drivers" to reduce stress from impacts. Fun stuff, but real life ended the group before we got too far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

We got close to the end, but then everyone ended up moving away. I still have people ask me when we'll finish that because it was so fun, so I really need to go ahead and cut 75% of my planned end game content and then arrange one final online game day to wrap it up. Only issue now is real life, jobs, kids, and time zones...