Recent content by travtex

So, I'm playing around with H&E for building a theme sector from scratch... Great stuff, but I'm a bit confused and having trouble finding some details. What are the differences between the various rulesets? The help file is more or less useless in this regard, as it assumed I know what it's...

Flynn's Guide to Alien Creation. Can't go wrong.

How's Central Casting with skills systems? Is it -exclusively- narrative, or does it provide some sort of detail you can shoehorn into your rpg system of choice?

Been having a handful of tangent ideas trying to contemplate various aspects to a realistic invasion... On the down side, I'm pretty much spinning my wheels and not accomplishing much. On the up side, it's supposed to be a mental diversion and is definitely accomplishing that end... AND I'm...

Appreciate the suggestions so far. Burning Wheel and Twilight:2013 look to be pretty interesting from what I'm reading in reviews/previews/etc. Though I'm reading that 2013's dramatically unrealistic geopolitical background can be offputting (Seems easy enough to adapt, though... 'So, like...

I'm not sure if this should go here or in an 'Other Blah Blah' forum, but figured here'd be the place with the most people who'd actually KNOW. One of the biggest appeals to me with Traveller is not so much the theme as the system. I love the depth, not so much with stats, but with the...

Looks like a pretty appropriate call! I wasn't familiar with it, but fully expected there to be in existence some various series with various aspects already covered... if not multiple times. *heh* Nothing new under the sun, etc. Thanks!

While I was kicking around an idea on the small scale for a Spinward Marches campaign... I found myself getting more interested in a completely different larger-scale idea. At the moment, I'm hoping that people more creative than I (Probably most of you, haha. I'm a tweaker, not an innovator)...