this is a test

New System

I’ve been messing about with this for a while, especially since Mongoose made the whole Traveller OGL such a mess and effectively killed fanworks.

It’s early days yet but Terran Federation will use my homebrewed “flarestar” engine. A D10 system which draws on a number of different ideas, all good I hope.

I’ve started assembling the www.terranfederation.org website, slowly but surely. It’s unusable at the moment but quite pretty IMO. I’ve been playing around with illustration using DazStudio. Great fun.

More real soon.

Experiment??

Terran Federation

Welcome to the Terran Federation blog. This is going to cover game design and fiction for a space opera background. When I first started working on TerFed it was going to be an alternate Traveller background but then I got to thinking of designing my own system.

The firstthing that struck me was how far role-playing games have moved from there wargame roots and how much the emphasis has moved to the role rather than the roll. Well sod that.

Too much wallowing in character and not enough action. Fighting, chases, puzzles. That’s what it’s all about. Not AmDram.

So as to a system. Well Traveller had it mostly right, I may still use the Mongoose Traveller open gaming to hang it off. Alternatively I may try to put together my own version.