An Sci-Fi RPG?

[Lind Whisperer]

Has anyone ever posed the idea of starting a Heroica style RPG, only set in space?

I was reading through Bob de Quatre's diligent work on a GoH style Sci-Fi sub-forum, and I was thinking over the problems and solutions to an Sci-Fi RPG.

The most likely first problem would be that, "There's not enough people who'd play it," but if you're just starting out and getting the rules perfected, only a handful of players is not at all a bad thing. To the second, "How would you structure it?", I was thinking almost the exact same formula as Heroica would work quite nicely - Players sign up, they receive missions, they fly to various worlds(facades built by the GMs), and fight/solve their way to the end.

There is also a significant focus on MOCing, in my idea for this, as I'm seeing it. People could compete in regular contests to have their ship(s)/planet/etc. voted the best, and if they win, the MOC is used as an official ship/planet/etc*.

Constructive criticism and thoughts are welcomed.

*Meaning that it appears in quests, mentioned by name on occasion in game lore, used as a picture for game news, etc. There would probably need to be a bit of green/blue-screening for that, but it would add a whole new level of "LEGO" factor.

Edited July 18, 2014 by Lind Whisperer

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Actually, Bob De Quatre is working on launching a Sci-Fi RPG. He has said to expect it to resemble SoNE from the Star Wars forum rather more than GoH, due to the massive number of judges and GM's needed to keep GoH running smoothly. SoNE is significantly lower-maintenance, so while GoH will still be a guiding star, as it was in the development of SoNE, this Sci-Fi game will not be merely a GoH science fiction.

[Lind Whisperer]

Actually, Bob De Quatre is working on launching a Sci-Fi RPG. He has said to expect it to resemble SoNE from the Star Wars forum rather more than GoH, due to the massive number of judges and GM's needed to keep GoH running smoothly. SoNE is significantly lower-maintenance, so while GoH will still be a guiding star, as it was in the development of SoNE, this Sci-Fi game will not be merely a GoH science fiction.

Yes, but even with SoNE, the idea is based around building MOCs, not a Heroica-esque battle system.

What I'm proposing is something very like Heroica, but set in Space. Building MOCs would happen, but it wouldn't be a requirement, more of a scheduled event that you could enter, and the winning MOCs are officially entered into the game's lore.