I found this, it looked interesting, wanted to know if you crazy kids knew more.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/429765734/free-spacer-a-sandbox-starship-tabletop-rpg

It sounds intriguing. Apparently, its been playtested at GenCon, PAX, etc and wondered if any of you tried it out.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1054776I found this, it looked interesting, wanted to know if you crazy kids knew more.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/429765734/free-spacer-a-sandbox-starship-tabletop-rpg

It sounds intriguing. Apparently, its been playtested at GenCon, PAX, etc and wondered if any of you tried it out.

The author is coming by for a #randomworlds Q&A tomorrow evening.

Hi Spinachcat!

I am the designer of Free Spacer. I can answer any questions you have.

If you want to see it through other eyes you can check out:
An Actual play Thursdays on EricVulgaris' Twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ericvulgaris
Plus Adam Koebel will be doing a first look on his stream on Wednesday at 10:00 PDT: https://www.twitch.tv/adamkoebel

Excellent! Pitch the game! Why should we be interested?

Especially if we already own a dozen sci-fi RPGs?

What makes your game special / unique / different in ACTUAL PLAY at the table?

Thats a lot of sci-fi RPGs... You must buy them all; If that's not a good enough reason to get Free Spacer, I'll tell you some more.

Pitch, if you looked at the Kickstarter you saw the pitch. What makes Free Spacer special? It is far future sci-fi, not OSR, not pulp, not investigation, but science-fiction. Contemporary sci-fi, the future from now. Everything in the game is designed for sci-fi. We even have space internet that uses folding space to sync the internet much like a version control process.

While the game has you design the setting, you build it on a back bone of science and technology after the end of a long war between three great powers. You make your own sector, which is embattled in a cold war between factions of these great societies. There is a Cold war phase that acts as a faction turn for the GM to simulate this the cold war conflict and generate you contracts.

Player and GM actions are managed by Contracts that direct the groups activities in the sandbox. Keeping the game from floundering. Contracts reward most of the XP as a in setting Cargo. Cargo that is used to upgrade you, your ship, and your gear.

The dice mechanic feels like you're doing science. It feels like you are tweaking the levels of a complicated ship system as you gather advantage. You, as the player, roll all the dice. You roll a Salvo... two opposing Dice Pools... D10 task dice that can result in hits and D6 Threat dice that can result in misses. You minus misses from hits and you get your result.

Combat is not the most advanced systems in the game, insteam Projects are. These are about doing science, fabricating something you need to win the day,  traveling through space, or investigating the source of a signal.