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.
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.
