Frontier; or watching an RPG develop
Sep. 5th, 2005 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lilfluffI've been having fun reading the archives of Aleae Iaciens, where LJer ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
edg is developing a Cowboys in Space SF role playing game. One of the interesting twists is that rather than using dice as the element of random chance, the player(s) and referee face off with cards using a modified version of Texas Hold'em that edg is calling Baltimore Hold'em.
The setting involves an abandoned colony world, the decendant organization of the abandoning government's security agency, and the remnants of the failed first colonization attempt. All these groups struggling to survive and prosper when the colony wasn't intended to be self sufficient, and the effects of the terraforming efforts start breaking down.
The flavor seems something in the family of Trigun or Galaxy Rangers.
(Now I shall hope that in the morning I don't find myself once again wishing I could lock out post-midnight posting attempts.)
edg is developing a Cowboys in Space SF role playing game. One of the interesting twists is that rather than using dice as the element of random chance, the player(s) and referee face off with cards using a modified version of Texas Hold'em that edg is calling Baltimore Hold'em.The setting involves an abandoned colony world, the decendant organization of the abandoning government's security agency, and the remnants of the failed first colonization attempt. All these groups struggling to survive and prosper when the colony wasn't intended to be self sufficient, and the effects of the terraforming efforts start breaking down.
The flavor seems something in the family of Trigun or Galaxy Rangers.
(Now I shall hope that in the morning I don't find myself once again wishing I could lock out post-midnight posting attempts.)
