Star Hero
Science Fiction Roleplaying in the worlds of the future!
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Anyone know why the people who made the TNG move changed who originally invented Warp drive? Gene Roddenberry (sp?) had them out in space a long time before they had warp drive using World-Ship and basically impulse dive to get to new worlds. Heck if I remember correctly the first Romulan war was fought with fighters, missiles and impulse drives. The creator of the Warp drive was named Zephram Cochrane but he was from another planet... one of earths first contacts.... starts with an 'a'... can't remember what it is right now. Anyway, I've just had something stuck in my craw because of that. Any Ideas?
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Hello all, I am a new prospective gm and am toying with the idea of creating a psionic computer for a very advanced star ship. I am trying to create most of the functions of a ship's computer with psionic abilities. I was thinking about using powers like "Mindlink" for communication between the crew, Clairvoyance for remote viewing, external and internal viewing, Telepathy for other communications and Psionic "noise" fields for jamming (electronic like warfare). I plan on building the computer like a computer character (Int, Ego, Dex and Spd) but am a little stuck on HOW to build the psionic powers. I would, also, welcome any and all suggestions on powers I could incl…
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Here's an article about it: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/cold_plasma_000724.html
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I'm working on setting up a Sci-Fi campaign from a custom universe based of a novel that I'm an editor for. I've been given permission by the author to write a the characters and races and such for use in this campaign. What I'm looking for is help creating the races, well ideas of what to do. From what I've read, you don't see power's in Packaged Deals, but each of these races have a specific power. Like there's one race where every member of it can teleport, and another that can drain life force from another being as long as it can see it's eyes. Any ideas would be great, I can give more details if needed. Thanks in advance, Andrew
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Anyone here familiar with the Star*Drive setting for the old Alternity game?? Seems to me that, in addition to being an interesting setting to use, it could also serve as a great source for stealing ideas and material for filling in parts of Terran space in either the Terran Empire or Galactic Federation eras ( need a cyberpunkish planet?? borrow material from Voidcorp ).
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Hi all. I have worked up a table I would like to share with all you space travellers out there. This is a table of travelled distance based on constant acceleration. Useful for determining time to 100d, etc.It should be relateively accurate (I hope! I will repost with any inaccuracies fixed), though I only used a simple 9.86 for 1G instead of plugging in a bigger number. The distances are in kilometers. The formula is the basic d=1/2 at^2. with v=at and d=vt. d becomes at^2. What this means is that after accelerating the time/g combo, you will travel twice that distance over the next period of time with no acceleration. Example: Going 2g for 1 hour yields 127,…
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Thought people might find this interesting. If we have this in a Dark Champions era, what can we look forward to when we reach Star Hero? http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050122/ap_on_hi_te/gunslinging_robot
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Does anyone have information about what Solar Hero will be about? From what little I've seen (and I can't remember where I saw it, argh) it sounds like it could be something like Transhuman Space (GURPS). I've done a search on these boards but turned up nothing. Thank you! Lysando
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I'm not MitchellS and will not be posting a serious of insane charts all at once. Impressed, yes, but I just don't have the time to get to that level yet. I'm, however, designing the Usagian military. My campaign takes places in Andromeda Quadrant 0:0:7. The Usagian are an aggressive force that control all systems with a 30 ly radius from the center. The reasons behind the limited control is due to both lack of military force and the inefficiency in communication systems. Ship Types (Non-Military) Merchant Transport Ship Types (Military) Scout Ship Assault Ship Troop Transport Cruiser Dreadnaught Carrier Military Rank Chancellor -…
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I'm working out some ideas for a science fiction game based loosely on Star Trek and, as I have none designed or played in a science fiction game in my live, would like any feedback you can give me. The basic premise so far is that there is a Galactic Council made up of all non-hostile sentient species yet encountered. The current estimated count is about 50 members overseen by a Galactic President elected every 10 years. The military and exploration aspect of the game are controlled by Strategic Command. This operates similar to Starfleet but with a slightly more militaristic bent, as the galaxy is a little more apt to go hostile than the Star Trek universe. T…
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In the same vein as collecting together cybernetics, I wanted to start a thread with links, examples, HD files, etc for the different Sensor powers people use in their campaigns for starships. Since some use VPPs, other use MPs, others straight powers, I was interested in just the actual power construct (so sans framework) and a short description of what it is supposed to detect to build up a robust suite for all of us. Let's start sensing!!!
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What the heck, it's been about a year, and Trebuchet didn't know about them, so... If you've ever needed maps for a moonbase in your game, well, why not use the maps of the first moonbase? That's right, Moonbase Alpha of Space: 1999 fame. One artist fan spent a lot of time making vector drawings of the base exterior and floorplans, then made them available for free online. Just click "Alpha Plans" on the left side of the screen, download the pdfs and enjoy. Apparently, he made them for an exhibit in 1999, where they were printed in very large size and pinned up on displays - that must have been something to see.
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does any one have any 'nid write ups from the 40K universe? if so could you please post them. i really need them for my campaing
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I don't have the Ultimate Vehicle and while it would be nice to have it, I don't really need it. I do, however, need some help with building a starship. The type of ship, per Star Hero is a Small Exploration Starship. The ship is equipped with a minor weapon system, a cold fusion engine, a complex sensor system, a hyperspace drive, and a small medical facility. There are 4 confirmed crew members with the possibility of a fifth. I would also like to have enough room to accompany up to 10 people on the ship. The players are also interested in doing some minor trading while they are on their exploration mission. I think this is very reasonable. I was goin…
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Here's another odd pseudoscience query: if an individual is caught in a time paradox as a result of which they simulatenously both exist and do not exist, what happens to them? Do they just die? And what would someone who was accompanying them see in the instant the paradoxical effect took hold (the instant history was changed downtime)? The person disappearing or fading away? A flickering effect as the person slips in and out of reality? And would this be an instant effect or would it last for as long as the person's natural lifespan (i.e. until they would die naturally anyway)?
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I am wondering if anyone has ever come up with a nice long list of science skills (and what they are) for Star Hero. Many Star Hero games use sciences and it would be nice to have a list of sciences (both real and future). Does anyone know where to find such a list or should we just make one up?
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I'm working on the Hyperdrive system for my Star Hero campaign and need some input on it. It is pretty much identical to Star Hero pg. 192-193 with a few exceptions. It is built on a multipower because there are four levels of warp. Those levels are: 28(53) 500 Light Years / Year = 1 LY / Day 34(59) 4000 Light Years / Year = 10 LY / Day 40(65) 64000 Light Years / Year = 100 LY / Day 46(71) 512000 Light Years / Year = 1000 LY / Day All powers are built with RSR(Hyperspace Navigation, -1 per 20 points) The player rolls this after the hyperspace jump is initiated. If the roll fails, the end results will not be the desired location. I'm not sure how …
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G'day My SF RPG setting Flat Black features a certain amount of bionic enhancement of characters, though it does not go anything like as far as CyberPunk does. One of the most common enhancements is reinforcement, as follows. Stage 1 Sports reinforcement Popular among athletes, practioners of the martial arts, and other people engaged in moderately dangerous physical activities not involving intentional infliction of harm, sports reinforcement involves reinforcing bones with composite and alloy members, and lacing tendons and ligaments with high-strength synthetics. This includes reinforcing the vertebrae and the spinal ligaments. The skull is strengthened with …
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Just looking through some older stuff I have, and decided to reread the Fading Suns (d20 version). I like the setting somewhat, but didn't care for the d20 rules for it. Since Hero is useful for the base, before I did any conversions, has anybody else done any? I only found a few threads, but nobody had posted anything (or gave any links) (unless I missed them, that is). So, did anybody do anything with it?
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was tinkering with some stuff from the Babylon 5 Wars books, and tried converting the Neutron Laser 80 Neutron Laser: Multipower, 280-point reserve, (280 Active Points); Custom Modifier (Real Weapon; -1/4); all slots OIF Immobile (-1 1/2), Extra Time (1 Turn (Post-Segment 12), Only to Activate, -3/4) 8u 1) Piercing Mode: RKA 7d6+1, Armor Piercing (+1/2), MegaScale (1" = 100 km; +3/4), Can Be Scaled Down 1" = 1km (+1/4) (275 Active Points); OIF Immobile (-1 1/2), Extra Time (1 Turn (Post-Segment 12), Only to Activate, -3/4), Beam (-1/4) 8u 2) Raking Mode: RKA 6d6, Armor Piercing (+1/2), Area Of Effect Nonselective (80" Line; +3/4), MegaScale (1" = 100 km; +3/4)…
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I'm just curious how much space people have designed in Star Hero. I'm using the Star Hero rules currently working on a very large quadrant. The quadrant is a 10 by 10 grid of 20 cubic light year sectors. Or a grand total of 800,000 cubic light years. So how big of an area have you designed?
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Is there a table for modifiers to sensor lock? I was wondering about engine burn, distant battling, etc and how those may affect acquiring a lock.
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here are some notes for 50 lt years around sol (our sun)...so, whip out those Star HERO books and enjoy also is some 12 lt year stuff i'm including...
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Fans of Firefly may be interested in my Firefly HERO site, a campaign resource for running Star HERO adventures in the Outworlds of Firefly. It's still under construction, but the site is up, and write-ups (including .hdz files) are available for Malcom, Inara, Jayne and River. More will go up over the following weeks. Please check it out and tell me what you think!
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