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Offline NicholasHMCaldwell

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Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« on: March 29, 2008, 07:22:04 AM »
Some time ago, I kicked off a poll on which settings GMs used for HARP. There were a surprising variety of worlds in the results as well as strong showings by Cyradon, Shadow World (even before there was any Bazaar conversions for it), and Middle-earth. So in the same spirit of inquiry, I'm posing a similar question. If I've missed any major sf universe, post below and I'll tweak the poll.

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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2008, 07:49:57 AM »
My latest SM setting uses the Privateers universe right when Humans meet Orts...and then the cylons show up.

I started this setting just before the release of the new Battle Star series, and it has been a lot of fun.  The Ort/Human coalition has the tech to fight the cylons, who enjoy android like superiority in computer tech and user skills.  Lots of politics (one corperation has had cylon technology for almost a century from a captured scout ship that crashed on one of Jupiters moons), double dealing and nasty combats.

Our last sessions left off with the players inserting android spys into a cylon forward base.

I guess I should note that for Battle Star and Serenity, I do not own those games, but I base my setting on themes simular to those stories (one solar system, the cylons, a war against an oppressor, etc).  Previous games have been in the Imperium and Privateers (with all races). 

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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2008, 08:47:21 AM »
We played our last round with races mostly from the SM:P and SM2 in a world that was a mixture of the Star Wars planetary system and Red Dwarf's ships and the basic setting of Red Dwarf, meaning a crew stuck in a foreign part of space in just a small ship.
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2008, 02:06:37 PM »
Inhibitor universe (Alastair Reynolds) mixed with own stuff
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2008, 03:17:03 PM »
Well the lastest I have started is after the Great Crumbling of a Vast Human empire. Usually I play with humans only, though on the verge of discovering alien races. Firefly influence runs rather high, but I pull in stuff from almost anything I read
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2008, 05:58:26 PM »
 I use my own universe but I it is influenced by Traveller, BSG, Fire Fly, Warhammer 40K and Priveteers. In my new space project that has been put on hold I take influence from almost all of the above settings with a huge influence from SM2, Fire Fly, BSG, Traveller [4th and 2300] and Dune.
 In fact in my last space canpaign it used a lot of Traveller books for adventure ideas, advetures, ship's, universe map, some W40K stuff, but used the races from SM:P [except for the ALF race].
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2008, 07:38:25 AM »


Currently running a game where, thanks to an unfortunate accident involving a Devonian research facility and Scienetic Harbinger technology, the walls between Reality and Somewhere Else have ruptured, letting the heralds of mutation, madness and Chaos in.  Yup, it's SM2 mixed with Warhammer's Realms of Chaos.  (Personally I can't wait to use the Rationality stat as introduced in Dark Space.... Bwuhahahaha!)
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2008, 06:09:01 PM »
It never actually got off the ground, but I was planning to run a "Space: Above and Beyond" campaign at one point.
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2008, 11:16:38 PM »
I've got my free and happy Bryce 6.1 (actually, it wasn't free).  And an aircraft carrier able to breach the Atmosphere.  So, yeah, I can do my own setting.
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2008, 11:59:45 AM »
Last campaign was a TL 18-19 game. Barely into FTL using an Event Horizon/Supernova style FTL drive.  All humans, First contact with a semi-manned kinetic-kill device.
Players begged for an AI...and ended up with something reminiscent of "the Sand Kings" and "Carrie". 
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2008, 11:28:57 AM »
Following the instructions of the Poll: (heh)

I'm getting ready to launch a game as GM for the first time in... well, a while. It's set on a planet I came up with years ago based on the campaign that my friend Rip was GMing for over 3 years.
My game is more cyberpunkish, so I've got a bit of a hybrid of SM and CS goin on.
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2008, 02:49:08 PM »
I think a couple of good setting - that can be married by the way - are the old Star Frontiers and Alternity/Star*Drive settings. They work out well for Spacemaster.
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2008, 02:53:19 PM »
Oh yeah, talking about from out of books I think the John Scalzi "Old Man's War," "The Ghost Brigade," & "The Last Colony" are great material for a SM setting. Especially if you do it after "The Last Colony" so that you can open up more character types. Even if you can't see them as a setting, there are plenty of things in those books that can be used in other settings, and at the very least they are a fantastic-fun read. :D
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2008, 03:07:59 AM »
Quote from: RandalThor on April 17, 2008, 02:49:08 PM
I think a couple of good setting - that can be married by the way - are the old Star Frontiers and Alternity/Star*Drive settings. They work out well for Spacemaster.

Yeah... I keep looking at my stack of old Buck Rogers in the XXV Century and thinking they'd be worth converting to HARP Sci-Fi. And since Star*Drive got such a raw deal-- both when it got cancelled and when it was "revived"-- I've been dying to resurrect it properly.

Makes me wish I had the time...
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2008, 05:03:29 AM »
I recently purchased that boxed set from E-bay. It is fairly cool, with lots of good info to be able to do a decent coverting job. But what is really funning is not 2 minutes before reading your post (Korimyr) I was mentioning to a guy at work (yes I am at work right now 5:59 AM Eastern Standard Time/US, and have been since 5 pm yeasterday) about how you can go onto NBC.com and watch old episodes of Buch Rogers for free online.  :D

I like the Alternity rules enough, and feel that they need only a little tweeking so I would use them for running a Star*Drive/Star Frontiers game.
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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2008, 05:57:01 PM »
 Another couple of setting ideas from old books are the Faded Sun and the Derini series [sp?]. In which both have warrior races bread to fight battles for the general populace. This could be also tured into a Dragoon cmapaign for SM:P or a clone/altered replicant game for SM2.

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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2008, 12:09:26 AM »
Our Spacemaster campaign was set in Peter F. Hamilton's "Confederation" universe.. As descirbed in his "Night's Dawn" trilogy.

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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2008, 06:32:49 AM »
I'm creating my own post-apocalyptic, and dark future world, using a special blend of spacemaster and rolemaster.

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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2008, 04:15:01 PM »
 Sweet.

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BTW, it is nice to see someone post in thier section. IMO the SM section needs more love.

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Re: Which setting(s) do you use for Spacemaster (any edition)? (tick all that apply)
« Reply #19 on: May 08, 2008, 06:20:01 AM »
I'm working on starting a chat game to test my SM:P ruleset adaptation to Warhammer 40k universe.
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