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Other hard SF games.

Started by Dominus Nox, August 30, 2006, 05:28:46 PM

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Dominus Nox

August 30, 2006, 05:28:46 PM
Some people hare are into traveller, so I wondered if they liked other hard SF games.

I was thinking transhuman space or blue planet. Anyone like these? I have THS but never got BP.
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Mcrow

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August 30, 2006, 05:32:05 PM
I would say:

Start Cluster 2
Cold Space
FTL Now

for some HardNova and Nebuleon would fit but they lean a little more like in between hard and space-opera IMO.

all of the above are good games.

JongWK

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August 30, 2006, 05:34:53 PM
What defines hard-sf for you?
"I give the gift of endless imagination."
~~Gary Gygax (1938 - 2008)

Mcrow

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August 30, 2006, 05:41:56 PM
Quote from: JongWKWhat defines hard-sf for you?

Well for me its about science and how plausable it is. Like maybe a technology in a game might not be totally realistic, but it is based on real science.

Also the more fantasy elements a sci-fi game has the more soft it is. So while I love Star Wars and Star Trek they both are pretty much fantasy in space.

ColonelHardisson

#4
August 30, 2006, 06:17:23 PM
I like Blue Planet's setting.

I also think 2300 shades toward the hard side of the scifi spectrum. One of the very coolest scifi settings for an RPG.
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August 30, 2006, 06:26:11 PM
Quote from: McrowWell for me its about science and how plausable it is. Like maybe a technology in a game might not be totally realistic, but it is based on real science.

Also the more fantasy elements a sci-fi game has the more soft it is. So while I love Star Wars and Star Trek they both are pretty much fantasy in space.

Would you consider Shadowrun's tech "hard", but the game "soft" overall then?
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Mcrow

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August 30, 2006, 06:30:46 PM
Quote from: JongWKWould you consider Shadowrun's tech "hard", but the game "soft" overall then?

Well the game as a whole would be soft since it is basically cyberfantasy. I'm not real up on what the tech is like in SR. Tech isn't the only thing that can determine if it is hard or Space Opera.

flyingmice

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August 31, 2006, 12:10:36 AM
Albedo

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arminius

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August 31, 2006, 02:23:23 AM
I've long wanted to run a game using SPI's Universe, which was basically their answer to Traveller.

Would like to hear more about Albedo.

Settembrini

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August 31, 2006, 04:31:56 AM
Battletech. Don't moan. Take away the mechs, what remains is hard-sf. It's a TL-10 traveller setting, w/o grav plating and with FTL-Communication owned and operated by a secret mystical organization.
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Marcus

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August 31, 2006, 08:17:23 AM
Cyberpunk 2020 with the space supplement (can't seem to remeber the name)
Maybe "Dawning Star"?

flyingmice

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August 31, 2006, 08:22:13 AM
Quote from: Elliot WilenI've long wanted to run a game using SPI's Universe, which was basically their answer to Traveller.

Would like to hear more about Albedo.

Here.

That's the current Sanguine game. The original was from Chessex in 1989. It features anthropomorphic animals - there are no humans - who were created then left entirely on their own - no explainations were given. The tech is quite hard, but the game suffered from furry phobia. I haven't played the Sanguine game, but I did play the old Chessex game back in the day, and it was quite good. I'm not a big furry fan, but I don't have furry phobia either - TMNT is one of my favorite all time games - so YMMV.

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Zachary The First

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August 31, 2006, 11:25:54 AM
Quote from: flyingmiceHere.

That's the current Sanguine game. The original was from Chessex in 1989. It features anthropomorphic animals - there are no humans - who were created then left entirely on their own - no explainations were given. The tech is quite hard, but the game suffered from furry phobia. I haven't played the Sanguine game, but I did play the old Chessex game back in the day, and it was quite good. I'm not a big furry fan, but I don't have furry phobia either - TMNT is one of my favorite all time games - so YMMV.

-mice

You know, I never really considered TMNT a "furry" game, likely because I played it back before all this furry stuff really gained so much notoriety in pop culture.
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Settembrini

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August 31, 2006, 12:25:01 PM
I`m very undecided on buying Burning Empires, i love the stuff it promises but loathe the character centered stuff about issues and shmissues, well the thematic element.
Judd, would you care to "sell me on Burning Empires". Another thread maybe?
I think this game could be totally for me, but the actual play threads are mostly centered on character stuff. I don't grok it. Is there stellar empires or not? May I rule planets and civilizations and large fleets or not?
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