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To railroad or not to railroad? (ttrpg.network)
 

User Monomyth posed an interesting question on the Traveller discord that I wanted to replicate here:

hi team, just a quick discussion based question with no right answer; if youre running a game, and the players decide to veer off course into something completely out of left field (such as going to a planet you do not have prepped), is it appropriate to come up with some "delaying issue" so you can have it ready for next session?

Transposing to other settings: what do you do when the players go off-script?

I can summarize some answers we’ve got on that server, but I don’t want to prime your answers from the start.

Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Scallops@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’re pinning for a system that prevents fascism, but it doesn’t exist. You prevent it through other sociological structures. The method for selecting power can’t do what you want it to do.

But by all means, keep trying to bait people online, I’m sure that helps you somehow.

Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies in c/technology@lemmy.world
Laid off rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Scallops@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, definitely don’t get caught doing that.

Laid off rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] Scallops@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

You wrote psychopath wrong.

"Free" Speech Absolutist™ in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Scallops@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

The thing about a cult is that it doesn’t need you in particular. It needs people. Ideally, idiots. So it doesn’t matter that a lot of people are leaving/will leave Twitter. The idiots will remain, and the platform will serve its purpose.

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Favorite sci-fi RPG settings? (ttrpg.network)
 

What are your favorites to play on? Anything valid, be it a published RPG setting, an adaptation you did of other media (book, game, movie), a mashup you or someone else create, etc.

Got to make due in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] Scallops@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why is it worn out near the top?

Dice Bags in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[–] Scallops@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 weeks ago

Truncated d4 s deal less damage… as caltrops. Also look at that table 🤩

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Sci-Fi RPG systems/settings/core rules (ttrpg.network)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Scallops@ttrpg.network to c/scifi@ttrpg.network
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This is meant to be a non-exhaustive list, in stream-of-consciousness order.

Dedicated systems

  • Traveller (in its many incarnations throughout the past nearly 50 years and derivatives such as Cepheus, Hostile)
  • 2300 AD (now a setting for Traveller)
  • Cyberpunk (2013, 2020, V3.0, Red)
  • Paranoia
  • Eclipse Phase
  • Lancer
  • Star Wars roleplaying (different games by different publishers: WEG d6, d20, FFG NDS)
  • Warhammer 40K
  • 3:16: Carnage Amongst the Stars
  • Shadowrun
  • Apocalypse World
  • Coyote & Crow
  • SLA Industries

FATE based systems

  • Bulldogs!
  • Mindjammer
  • Nova Praxis
  • Diaspora
  • Atomic Robo

OSR/d20 based systems

  • Stars Without Number
  • Starfinder
  • Mothership
  • CY_BORG

Year Zero

  • Mutant: Year Zero
  • Alien: The RPG
  • Blade Runner: The RPG
  • Coriolis – The Third Horizon

GURPS

A host of modules and supplements named after the subgenre, GURPS-style. GURPS Transhuman Space, Cyberpunk, etc.

Other systems

  • Star Trek Adventures (Modiphius 2d20)
  • Dune: Adventures in the Imperium (Modiphius 2d20)
  • Rifts (Palladium)
  • Robotech (Palladium)
  • Scum and Villainy (FitD/PbtA)

Solo friendly

  • Stoneburner
  • Ironsworn: Starforged (PbtA)
  • Hostile (Cepheus/Traveller)

Out of print/No longer developed

  • Firefly RPG (Cortex Plus)
  • Serenity RPG (Cortex Classic)
  • Battlestar Galactica RPG (Cortex Classic)
  • Gamma World (D&D)
  • Space Opera
  • Other Suns
  • Albedo
  • Space Master
  • HARP SF
  • Blue Planet
  • Ringworld
  • Living Steel
  • High Colonies
  • Jovian Chronicles
  • Heavy Gear
  • Justifiers
  • Star Frontiers
  • Universe
  • CORPS

Have a suggestion to improve this? Your favorite game missing? Leave a comment.