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Starfire, the rpg

Started by Cylonophile, May 04, 2010, 10:25:29 PM

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Cylonophile

#15
May 05, 2010, 10:10:11 PM
Quote from: David Johansen;378829Errr...I'm not super familiar with Bolos but from what I know they eat silly little Ogre MK VIs for breakfast.  Ogre is really super tanks in Orwell's 1984, my understanding is that Bolo is much more space opera.
Well, it depends on the bolo, there were a wide array of them, but the main ones were all sentient and selflessly loyal, heroic, honorable, noble, etc.

In other words humans made them to be the things most humans aren't. ;)
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David Johansen

#16
May 06, 2010, 02:01:10 PM
Whereas Ogres are mostly arrogant, sarcastic, and heartless.  I'm not making any claim that Bolos weren't an inspiration but I think Ogre does have a life of its own that goes beyond Bolo and becomes its own thing.
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Cylonophile

#17
May 06, 2010, 05:25:30 PM
Quote from: David Johansen;378927Whereas Ogres are mostly arrogant, sarcastic, and heartless.  

That's hardly surprising.
Go an\' tell me I\'m ignored.
Kick my sad ass off the board,
I don\'t care, I\'m still free.
You can\'t take the net from me.

-The ballad of browncoatone, after his banning by the communist dictators of rpg.net for refusing to obey their arbitrary decrees.

aramis

#18
February 20, 2012, 07:13:52 AM
Quote from: Elliot Wilen;378662The Wikipedia article says there were several official published novels; those should give a fair amount of what you'd need for an RPG.

The original game was pretty neat--though I seem to recall that ships could be equipped with guns whose muzzle velocity must have been FTL judging by their instant effect on targets separated by large volumes of space. There wasn't anything there that'd make me want to use it as an RPG background, though.

Hex-scale: 150,000km (1/2 light second)
Time-scale: 30 second turns

3rd Revised (3.1) edition maximum range (from the UTM supplement) 50 hexes (Fs3 Spinal Force Beam 3rd generation). That's 25 light seconds, in 30 seconds, or 83.333%C... for a weapon using a focused gravity wave (which should propagate at C).

Same source, longest ranged non-energy-weapon is the SM2 at 25 hexes in 30 sec, or 12.5 LS, for 41.666%C. If we assume only half the turn for travel time, it's 83.333%C...

Greentongue

#19
February 20, 2012, 08:28:22 AM
A Starfire RPG would most likely be too military and all the structure that implies for most people to play.
Hummm... I wonder how well it would mix with 3:16 ??
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David Johansen

#20
February 20, 2012, 08:55:12 AM
Well, for 3:16 you could always do the Arachnid War from In Death Ground and The Shiva Option.  Plenty of opportunity for zooted marines verses canibalistic arachnids there.
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