Dammit Victor
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Continuing from this thread; starting a new thread because I've got a strong working title and a clearer picture of what I'm trying to accomplish.
Sagas of the Galaxy Rangers will be a space fantasy game/setting deeply in D&D tradition, planetary romance and space opera, and Japanese RPGs and anime. As a game specifically, I'm aiming for a hybrid of WotC/Paizo design with certain OSR principles-- looser, less gamish rules; focus on player ingenuity; objective oriented reward structures; fewer safety nets; referee tools to help support this playstyle.
Overview:
Sagas of the Galaxy Rangers will be a space fantasy game/setting deeply in D&D tradition, planetary romance and space opera, and Japanese RPGs and anime. As a game specifically, I'm aiming for a hybrid of WotC/Paizo design with certain OSR principles-- looser, less gamish rules; focus on player ingenuity; objective oriented reward structures; fewer safety nets; referee tools to help support this playstyle.
Overview:
- Familiar d20 System, class/race/level, arcane/divine/primal magic with spell slots!
- "Psychic" powers and both mundane and magical "martial" maneuvers are common and part of the skill/feat system!
- "Bounded Accuracy" with more meaningful skill advancement!
- Aliens based on familiar D&D races/monsters with retro sci-fi twists!
- Realistic and dynamic social institutions based on late feudalism!
- Multimedia Franchises: Star Wars (particularly Star Wars: Visions); Buck Rogers in the XXV Century; Star Trek
- Tabletop Roleplaying Games: D&D: Player's Option, Spelljammer, d20 Modern/Future, Dragonstar (FFG) PF: Pathfinder Unchained, Starfinder; Starjammer (d20PFSRD); Arcforge Campaign Setting (Legendary Games); Ultimate Psionics, Path of War & Path of War Expanded, Akashic Mysteries (Dreamscarred Press); Rogue Genius Games' Genius Guides to Talented Classes; Tipsy Tabby's Overhauling Multiclassing; Alternity Star•Drive (WotC); High Adventure Role Playing (ICE); Palladium's TMNT
- TV & Movies: Cowboy Bebop; Outlaw Star; Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda; BraveStarr; Record of Lodoss War; Firefly & Serenity; Jupiter Ascending; Battle Beyond the Stars; Message From Space; Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy; Valerian and the City of 1,000 Planets;
- Video Games: Phantasy Star series; Final Fantasy series (especially Final Fantasy Tactics); Cosmic Fantasy 2; Metroid series; Jade Empire and Mass Effect series;