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Is Evil Hat (FATE) going to make a new "Star Frontiers" rpg?

Started by HMWHC, September 05, 2017, 12:39:44 PM

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Omega

#15
September 06, 2017, 01:51:20 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;989381Is Fate still trending?



Star Frontiers wasn't much to write home about when it was released.  About as mediocre as SPI's Universe was. Both games sputtered out for a reason, just like how any other RPG fails. Most gamers confuse "old" with "Classic", when it's really "junk."

Wrong.

Star Frontiers was actually doing pretty well at the time of its cancellation.

The reason it was cancelled was Loraine wanted to get out the buck Rogers RPG and didnt want any competition to lining her pockets with the royalties she was garnering on top of everything else.

Christopher Brady

#16
September 06, 2017, 02:08:04 AM
Quote from: Omega;989413Wrong.

Star Frontiers was actually doing pretty well at the time of its cancellation.

The reason it was cancelled was Loraine wanted to get out the buck Rogers RPG and didnt want any competition to lining her pockets with the royalties she was garnering on top of everything else.

Citation?  I want to know how well Star Frontier was really doing.
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crkrueger

#17
September 06, 2017, 02:53:05 AM
Oh good, another classic IP snapped up by narrative guys.

For all their love of creative storytelling, they sure can't seem to make a setting, can they?
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Tetsubo

#18
September 06, 2017, 07:30:30 AM
Quote from: Omega;989272Please God No.

Totally agree. We have Star Frontiers already.

Tetsubo

#19
September 06, 2017, 07:35:02 AM
Quote from: Edgewise;989318I admit that I just don't understand any of the love for Star Frontiers.  My memory is a little rusty, but I recall some very hokey old-fashioned sci-fi.  Is there any reason to play SF instead of say Traveller?

To me the two systems have a very different feel. I don't see a lot of overlap. I love Star Frontiers. I haven't played Traveler since it was published in little black booklets.

BoxCrayonTales

#20
September 06, 2017, 11:28:47 AM
I hope they hire Arne Niklas Jansson to tweak the alien designs. I really liked the way he fixed the sillier anatomy.

I wonder if any of the Amazing Engine or Alternity settings will be revived.

Ulairi

#21
September 06, 2017, 11:31:47 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;989420Oh good, another classic IP snapped up by narrative guys.

For all their love of creative storytelling, they sure can't seem to make a setting, can they?

Funny how that works.

HMWHC

#22
September 06, 2017, 12:59:03 PM
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales;989533I hope they hire Arne Niklas Jansson to tweak the alien designs. I really liked the way he fixed the sillier anatomy.

I wonder if any of the Amazing Engine or Alternity settings will be revived.

Thanks for bringing Arne's art to my attention, I really like his take on the Star Frontiers aliens as well.
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#23
September 06, 2017, 08:26:06 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;989301Yeah, I have Cryptworld; it's essentially 1st edition Chill under another name. When I get a chance to actually run it, I'd like to play a lighthearted Monster Chiller Horror Theater sort of campaign...

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Dumarest

#24
September 06, 2017, 08:37:58 PM
Quote from: colwebbsfmc;989752Count Floyd approves.  Ooooh!  Scary, Scary!

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Voros

#25
September 07, 2017, 02:04:09 AM
Quote from: Ulairi;989535Funny how that works.

It's almost as if...but no...it can't be...that that they're GAMERS JUST LIKE US??!! Maybe they even played it and loved it.

Can't be true.

BTW on Twitter Mike Mearls says he's done a 5e hack of Star Frontiers.

jan paparazzi

#26
September 07, 2017, 04:25:00 AM
Maybe DWD Studios will finally release Frontierspace? I consider that the spiritual successor of Space Frontiers.
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DavetheLost

#27
September 07, 2017, 07:03:30 AM
Quote from: Voros;989884BTW on Twitter Mike Mearls says he's done a 5e hack of Star Frontiers.

That is cold comfort. Some guy on the internet says he has done a Star Frontiers hack for a rules set I don't like.  Now if somebody announced a Classic Traveller hack for Star Frontiers, that would be news worth celebrating.

Tetsubo

#28
September 07, 2017, 07:23:53 AM
Quote from: DavetheLost;989930That is cold comfort. Some guy on the internet says he has done a Star Frontiers hack for a rules set I don't like.  Now if somebody announced a Classic Traveller hack for Star Frontiers, that would be news worth celebrating.

I might actually take a look at that. Just to see how well it worked.

Herne's Son

#29
September 07, 2017, 02:07:36 PM
This just in:
https://mobile.twitter.com/fredhicks/status/905596212232978435

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