TTA rpg - any experience?

beeber · September 11, 2007, 10:54:09 PM

i remember there was a sick load of hype before this came out. anyone here pick it up, get any use out of it?

i think there was a bit of criticism about the differences between the alphans & proximans, appearance-wise. understandable, i suppose, when you have to invent creatures not shown in those awesome ship paintings in spacecraft: 2000-2100 and the other books. . . .

joewolz · September 11, 2007, 10:57:50 PM

What's TTA?

Zachary The First · September 11, 2007, 11:02:30 PM

Terran Trade Authority. Seemed to get a lot of hype, but I never picked it up. Haven't heard anything on it in a bit.

beeber · September 11, 2007, 11:28:41 PM

Quote from: joewolzWhat's TTA?

here's a link about the series (original, not the rpg):

http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/TTABooks.html#Spacecraft

and a pic that should ring a bell to many:

i think morrigan press did the game, based from unisystem. memory hazy.

jeff37923 · September 11, 2007, 11:38:48 PM

I've got some of the original books because I love the Peter Elson artwork in them, but when I compared the old art to that shown in the newer books - they new stuff looked mostly to be digitized copies of the original artwork. I know that has nothing to do with the game, but it caused me to lose interest in pursuing the game.

Caesar Slaad · September 11, 2007, 11:40:10 PM

Quote from: beeberhere's a link about the series (original, not the rpg):

http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/TTABooks.html#Spacecraft

and a pic that should ring a bell to many:

Yep. It reminds me of a great many "stop stealing our bandwidth" images. :haw:

Quotei think morrigan press did the game, based from unisystem. memory hazy.

I thought they based it on their (Talislanta-derived) omni-system. Unisystem is the Eden thing.

beeber · September 11, 2007, 11:52:01 PM

Quote from: Caesar SlaadYep. It reminds me of a great many "stop stealing our bandwidth" images. :haw:

:confused: image is fine on my end.

omnisystem, that's right. my bad. no experience with either, here.

Brantai · September 11, 2007, 11:57:27 PM

Quote from: beeber:confused: image is fine on my end.

Looks like a "stop stealing our bandwidth" image to me, too.

beeber · September 12, 2007, 12:15:34 AM

ah (still fine here, maybe an IP address thing?) i get ya. it's from the aforementioned webpage, anyhoo (the spacecraft cover)

Caesar Slaad · September 12, 2007, 12:15:47 AM

Quote from: beeber:confused: image is fine on my end.

You probably went to the site first so it was still in your browser cache.

beeber · September 12, 2007, 12:23:53 AM

well, what's omnisystem like? how well would it do SF?

Lazy Wombat · September 13, 2007, 10:03:26 AM

So, um, what's the game like?

Anyone, anyone?

Blackleaf · September 13, 2007, 10:51:33 AM

Put this in front of any image you want to link to:

http://imgred.com/

eg.

http://imgred.com/http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/2000fifth.jpg

Caesar Slaad · September 13, 2007, 10:56:05 AM

Well, I only have Atlantis, but based on that: it use a 20-sided dice, has +/- attributes, and numbered skills. Typically you roll a d20, add modifiers, and compare against a table to determine how well you suceed.

The skills and feats (or whatever they call them) are point-buy in nature, but there are archetypes. Scores are random. Very random. Intensely random. Too random.

I think it's a weak system, myself.