Couldn’t help but remember the montage song.

That’s correct, it’s a related/linked but separate comment chain. The goal of cross posting often is just linking to the original post.

Some clients don’t clearly mark crossposts as such. Some of the growing pains of the treadiverse.

Like the other commenter pointed out, piefed is addressing a lot of those issues, so the future looks good.

I messed up a bit. Kosmic is their brand of Cepheus, basically the rules. The setting is called Solis people of the Sun.

This is the blurb:

This Book contains accurate star maps to 15 parsecs around the Earth. With 30 star maps detailing 521 star systems, plus 31 planetary maps, and expanded star systems.

This is us, the Sideralis, and Solis People of the Sol system, Humans. The date 2271, and it is a new day with new people, the future is unwritten. […]

Traveller is half the galaxy, millennia into the future. Solis is a couple hundred years from now, and a much smaller chunk of the galaxy. It’s a different vibe.

Hostile is the retro-future, like the Alien films, Outland, etc.

There isn’t a default Cepheus setting. It came to be after Mongoose changed licensing terms for Traveller. So Cepheus is a fork of the OGL content for MgT1. A lot of third party publishers had material for that, and pivoted to Cepheus to continue their line.

Kosmic is A Cepheus setting (not The), but you can also have Hostile and Orbital from Zozer, etc. Just search for Cepheus on DTRPG and you’ll find plenty. They each have their own twist, so read their elevator pitch.

Thank you, added it!

Not really, no, just full fledged settings with rules. Trying to keep a concise list. You’re welcome to start a post for those, though. It would definitely fit the community.

Oh, it’s a game! At first I thought it was a pen, then a map drawing app, then a geomorph set.

Zozer Games has a few solo Traveller books that are well regarded.

There’s one aptly named Solo for general traveller adventures, there’s Hostile Solo for an Alien / Aliens feel and some really cool squad mechanics. I think there’s a third supplement, but I’m not sure.

Edit: aha! The third book! Classic Traveller style, I’m guessing by the price there’s minimal artwork.

This was a nice read. Thank you.

Anytime! And let us know how it went. !scifi@ttrpg.network would be interested in this too.

I was looking into the skill list of Bulldogs, one of my favorite sci-fi Fate creations. Things I like about the changes they made:

• no Lore, not setting appropriate.
• no Notice: players will use any skill related to what’s being noticed. A good burglar is better at detecting plain clothes cops and break in weaknesses, for instance.
• Academics is broken down into setting appropriate skills (they used science, and systems).
• replaced Resources by Haggle, with a simpler mechanic. You may want to ditch this entirely since buying and selling doesn’t mesh that well with T2.
• no Investigate: it’s an action RPG, Science can be used for general deductive reasoning, otherwise another specific applicable skill (i.e. Systems to investigate a hack, Larceny to investigate how the safe was broken into, etc.)

Notes:

• if you fragment skills, you make it harder for someone to progress along that field (needs more advancements to raise it all), which may be what you want.
• The opposite for coalescing skills.
• A skill list smaller than 18 will make your characters stronger, bigger than 20, weaker (they start with 10 trained skills out of 19 existing on the default list).
• keep in mind characters have only 6 starting skills at +2 or above.

Will you be using the default skill list or will you tweak it?

There is something to be said about non combat focused accessories. Water reclamation & filtration system. Air purification, I can see a vacuum rated suit that has the air storage and CO2 scrubbing as an installable module to reduce weight in breathable atmosphere missions. Jetpacks. Battery pack, with standard connectors so not only it powers the suit for an extended time, it can also power your energy weapons and tools. A grappling hook/winch.

And, not an accessory, but hook points all around the suit to haul crap around in satchels and the like. Logistics is paramount for war.

Have it be modular, so you can build platoons of armored soldiers. An long range comms/EW module, a belt fed grenade module, a heavy weapons ammo/power supply module, zero G jetpack module, etc.

Zozer game’s Discord might be a good place to find players.

We are legion.

Thank you and welcome!

Sounds like you’d like Hostile by Zozer Games. They have a solo version too where you control a crew.

BattleTech! That’s the one. Didn’t know they made an RPG out of it.

Firefly is an out of print Cortex Plus game by Margaret Weis Productions. It’s in the list as well as Serenity (the Cortex Classic game by MWP, isn’t IP licensing fun?).

Rifts is a classic, but also a very strange animal. And for some reason I thought Robotech was a minis game (must be confusing with something else).

Star Wars is already listed. I know those are technically different games, but I’m trying to keep the list as concise as possible (grouping the multiple versions of the same setting under one entry). I don’t know much about the history of star wars RPG though. How would you summarize it? (WEG d6, d20, Fate)?