New Traveller setting?

[EDG]

How about really rip-roaring space opera?

Space Battleship Yamato.

Ooh, look, a new movie!

Hey, wasn't the little guy at 0:53 in that trailer also in the Vision of Escaflowne series (as the mole man?). Or is he just some weird recurring anime trope?

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

I'm not that keen on Japanese cartoons—I was hoping for a more "literary" space opera.

 

[steffworthington]

It'll be 2300AD

 

[OldMongooseFordy]

It'll be 2300AD

That's not a new setting. So far I think the closest anyone's been is the My Little Pony thing. :lol:

 

[dreamingbadger]

It'll be 2300AD

That's not a new setting. So far I think the closest anyone's been is the My Little Pony thing. :lol:

Do they explode

 

[rust]

Do they explode

Probably depends on what you feed them ... :twisted:

 

[The Chef]

don't feed them after midnight!

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

That's not a new setting. So far I think the closest anyone's been is the My Little Pony thing. :lol:

Hmmm, that means it could be any one of: 'Star Trek', 'Aliens' or some Mythos setting (sort of like a cross between 'Cthulhu Rising', 'Delta Green' and 'Cthulhu Tech')....

Or, just '2303AD' (i.e. not '2300AD' or '2320AD')..

 

[Astromancer]

C) A setting restricted to the surface of one planet. Picture a starship misjumps, the ship is beyond repair, no one knows where or when they are, and they must colonise the world they crash on to live. Luckily the starship was loaded with supplies for a colonisation attempt. However, the colonists were on this ship (they were waiting for their supplies).

Wouldn't it need to be quite a large ship, to get the population required to support a sustainable colony? otherwise the average number of toes is not likely to be 10

If we say that the weckage of the ship had useful equipment including exowombs that force grew clones to maturity, and that the colonisation equipment included a gene bank, pesto, genetically deverse population. As most of the advanced tech would have ceased to function centuries ago, it would be only window dressing and handwaving.

 

[OldMongooseFordy]

That's not a new setting. So far I think the closest anyone's been is the My Little Pony thing. :lol:

Hmmm, that means it could be any one of: 'Star Trek', 'Aliens' or some Mythos setting (sort of like a cross between 'Cthulhu Rising', 'Delta Green' and 'Cthulhu Tech')....

Or, just '2303AD' (i.e. not '2300AD' or '2320AD')..

It could indeed be any one of those things. Or it could be none of them.

 

[Ravelli]

Well, my money's on Aliens or Aliens vs Predator. And not just cos Fordy's given the whole game away with that My Little Pony bit.

MGP is part of the Rebellion group and Rebellion's new Aliens vs Predator video game is being released in Feb 2010, the same month as the 'goose's new game.

Could well be a coincidence, as Rebellion are developing their game for Sega, who now control the AvP video gaming franchise, and Mongoose would probably have to approach someone else (20th Century Fox?) for the tabletop license. It'd be a nice bit synergism if they could pull it off, though.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

Well, it has been done before (there were pretty competent d20 settings done a few years back).

If it was to be 'Aliens' based I hope it just leaves out the 'Predator' add-ons.

The mash-up always just seemed like 20th Century Fox's planners thought: "We own these two properties that are really popular—so if we slap the two together, Marketing can kick into overdrive...".

It worked too.

 

[Golan2072]

Aliens would work perfectly with Traveller, as both settings are quite similar in technology; all you'll need is to stat the xenomorph and the synthetics, drop in the very rare FTL communication system (hardly mobile, I assume) and let computers pilot ships while the crew stays in low berths.

 

[EDG]

The mash-up always just seemed like 20th Century Fox's planners thought: "We own these two properties that are really popular—so if we slap the two together, Marketing can kick into overdrive...".

I thought it was Dark Horse Comics that came up with it first?

 

[Ravelli]

Well, it has been done before (there were pretty competent d20 settings done a few years back).

Was thisone of those you had in mind? I've just downloaded it now and after a quick squiz it looks comprehensive and well sourced. There's a similarly in depth Fuzion conversion herethat features a lot of nice art.

The only official Aliens rpg so far was the rather poorly received Leading Edge Games version. I've never read it, but have always intended to snag a copy one day. If we get the MongTrav version I won't have to bother

If it was to be 'Aliens' based I hope it just leaves out the 'Predator' add-ons.

The mash-up always just seemed like 20th Century Fox's planners thought: "We own these two properties that are really popular—so if we slap the two together, Marketing can kick into overdrive...

It worked too.

Yeah, I've always been wary of the mixture and the films have been dreadful. I'd always assumed they'd first crossed-over in a video game (as it seems so Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat) but apparently (as EDG points out) it dates back to 1990; first with Dark Horse comics and then with an Alien skull appearing in Predator 2.

The crossover did work for Rebellion in their 1999 AvP pc game, though. That game was an absolute corker; the single scariest video gaming experience of my life! :shock:

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

The pairing together, it seems to me, was designed to have far too much of the scourge of modern culture... "Kuwell".

One slice of pie is nice, two make you sick.

Of course I have nothing against 'Predator' per se - just not tacked-on to 'Aliens'. Either would be OK on their own.

 

[RandyT0001]

Maybe it's a setting based on the "Defying Gravity" tv show. :roll: I hope Mongoose can get some of their license money back.

 

[rust]

Well, my money's on Aliens or Aliens vs Predator.

Well, at least this would save me some money, because I could certainly
resist to buy it. :lol:

Seriously, I would not know what to do with such a setting. I find combat
against powerful aliens a nice plot for one or two adventures at most, but
then it quickly becomes repetitive and boring - "been there, killed that".

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

That's the problem—it's a one-trick pony (OK a two-trick pony if it's 'Aliens' & 'Predator').

There simply isn't enough of a setting. There is enough info for a few films, which don't require much going on bar the immediate action in front of the camera.

However, making a whole game setting.... it's going to be pretty thin (waffer-thin).

 

[Ravelli]

Well, my money's on Aliens or Aliens vs Predator.

Well, at least this would save me some money, because I could certainly
resist to buy it. :lol:

Seriously, I would not know what to do with such a setting. I find combat
against powerful aliens a nice plot for one or two adventures at most, but
then it quickly becomes repetitive and boring - "been there, killed that".

Fair point. It's a limited setting that would struggle to support sustained play. I'd appreciate a consolidated resource for background reading, but then why not just grab a copy of the Colonial Marines Technical Manual instead.