Wizards, the real rulers
Wizards are an integral part of many role-playing games. Often they are restricted by rules, such as not being allowed to use weapons, a weak attempt to limit their unimaginable … Weiterlesen …
Designing Space Ships – Important Questions
Whether you’re writing a novel, designing a role-playing setting or planning another science fiction project: Spaceships are usually part of it. The most important questions as to how these should … Weiterlesen …
Building a Star Empire (Part 1)
The heart of every Space Opera novel or setting is a star empire – or better: several of them. But what exactly is a star empire? On Earth we have … Weiterlesen …
The Adventurer (Trope)
A very basic element of nearly every tabletop RPG is the concept of „The Adventurer“. You will not find many games where players are taking on the roles of bakers, … Weiterlesen …
Jovian Chronicles Engineering Rules Part 1
Revisiting one of my favourite RPGs of all time I stumbled over the Mechanical Design or Engineering rules provided in the books again. They are complicated and pretty hard to … Weiterlesen …
Attributes, Skills and Tasks
Something that puzzles me in many games is the rather abritrary way of how characters or heroes are defined by stats like attributes, abilities, skills and such and how those … Weiterlesen …
Sci-fi tv tropes – Ship Designs
When I look at spaceship designs from movies, tv series, comic books, video games and other ressources, I typically find one of the following three archetypes, with Type II being … Weiterlesen …
Beam Cannons
or Direct Energy Weapons are the second type of the three typically used large scale weapons systems used in space battles (the other two being Kinetic Kill Cannons and Missiles). … Weiterlesen …
The Expanse: Annoying logic holes
The Expanse is a space opera – it’s about story-telling while trying to deliver a rather believable scientific background. They started quite well in terms of the scientific approach, but … Weiterlesen …
The Expanse: Theory on the Ancient Builders
I haven’t seen all episodes of Season 2 yet, so I may be off topic completely here. But I just came up with one, actually two, ideas about the motives … Weiterlesen …