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Author Topic: Void Empires : 2750 - DriveThruRPG (Pay what you want)  (Read 500 times)

Nerhesi

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Void Empires : 2750 - DriveThruRPG (Pay what you want)
« on: August 09, 2022, 04:40:19 PM »
After a few years and many interruptions, my project is now complete! I would like to invite you all to critique, play, enjoy, complain and use Void Empires : 2750 - a sci fi space opera style RPG - in which ever way you want!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/405683/Void-Empires--2750

After years of GMing and playing many different tabletop RPGs, I found myself play-testing, then contributing and finally even authoring on a couple of major Mongoose Traveller 2e products. At the conclusion of that positive experience, I realised that despite the amount of sci-fi RPGs out there, I (and my gaming crew) felt that something was missing. We wanted something that combined many of the tropes, systems and customization we loved from several systems, into one. There are the top 3 design principles, in no particular order:


Simple system, deep customization. 5 attributes, ~30 skills, 2d6 plus modifiers vs Target for almost everything.  Tons of options for customization - from skills to augmentation to craft. So hopefully, you’re not feeling like a redundant role if there are 3 or even 5 other players. Many times I felt a system gave you simplicity at the cost of character/class/role identity and customization. I tried to avoid that.

Meaningful options. I wanted to avoid creating options that ended up being "sub-par". I can say that I’ve put in a lot of effort into creating a wide variety of meaningful choices. These choices extend from skills, equipment, augmentation to psionics, spacecraft choices and so on.  Whether it is adventuring using spacecraft or at a personal scale, the aim is to create meaningful interaction options regardless of your role.

Tropes and consistency. So I wanted a lot of tropes from classic space opera - things many of us grew up with. Cybertech, psionics, space ships, shields, fighters, battleships, mechs, Wild West-in-space etc… and yet, avoid the things that made you pause and go "hmm?" You could call it internal consistency or hard sci-fi (Note: this is the usage of the term regarding consistency, not regarding similarity to technology today)
I welcome all your critique, advice, notes on what you like and what you don't! Feel free to provide them to contact me at:


Discord: https://discord.gg/rfmFbE9Z

Email: void2750@gmail.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070738341088



Thanks and Enjoy!
« Last Edit: August 10, 2022, 08:56:45 PM by Nerhesi »

Dan Davenport

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Re: Void Empires : 2750 - DriveThruRPG (Pay what you want)
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2022, 08:42:17 AM »
Hello, Nerhesi! I run the Randomworlds RPG chatroom and hold Q&A sessions for game authors there. Would you be interested in coming by to discuss Void Empires: 2750?

Past guests include Kenneth Hite, Robin D. Laws, Greg Stafford, Greg Stolze, Marc Miller, Jonathan Tweet, Margaret Weis, Mike Pondsmith, Ken St. Andre, Peter Adkison, and Mark Rein•Hagen.

This is a free service, although tips are welcome at https://ko-fi.com/gmshoe.

Your Q&A will be promoted on my Facebook feed, at seven Facebook groups -- ten if it is a Kickstarter -- and on three major RPG web forums (TheRPGSite, RPGPub, and Enworld). In addition, the log of the Q&A will be maintained on my blog.

Here's the schedule: https://tinyurl.com/randomworlds-schedule

(The standard time slots are 7:30-9:30 pm Central every day of the week except where otherwise noted. I can also do 1:00 pm Central on Saturdays and Sundays.)

Here's the shortcut to the chatroom: http://www.tinyurl.com/randomworlds-discord

Here's my blog, where I save the Q&A logs: http://gmshoe.wordpress.com/

And here's the Q&A format: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/qa-format/

I should also mention that game authors are always welcome to hang out with us and discuss their products, and we have quite a few authors who do so on a regular basis. A Q&A simply gives you the floor to yourself. Stop by and check us out! :)
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Re: Void Empires : 2750 - DriveThruRPG (Pay what you want)
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2022, 09:41:15 AM »
Hi Dan,

Thank you very much for the opportunity! Happy to take part in this. I will join your discord and we can chat there I assume.

Sam

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Re: Void Empires : 2750 - DriveThruRPG (Pay what you want)
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2022, 04:43:14 PM »
A basic Chargen Helper to fool around with:



https://storage.googleapis.com/voidengineers/void/index.html

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Re: Void Empires : 2750 - DriveThruRPG (Pay what you want)
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2022, 08:42:47 AM »
[Q&A] The Randomworlds RPG chatroom welcomes Samir Wissa (Void Empires: 2750) 08/16/2022 7:30 p.m. CDT!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/405683/Void-Empires--2750

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