#rpg sci fi

[franciscolemos]

Elder Karemantan, late to the council meeting.

[shadefish]

So I'm back on my shit. Custom IPSN-Nelson "Gun-Boy" used by Union DOJ LT Amuro "Devil" Ray (I will probably be fooling around with this design more in the future but this is what I scribbled last night <3)

Hey check out ways to support me here, here, or here!

[probablybadrpgideas]

Fuck it, we're making Warhammer 40k an RPG.

Your models can't move unless they've undergone a deep moment of character growth.

[zhjake]

exploring the concept of omninet streaming for the "By Star and Melody" Lancer supplement

[sarahcarapace]

Violet Core - High Speed Sapphic Mecha TTRPG

After a long time of working on the game on-and-off, it's finally crash landed on Kickstarter!

(edit cuz the post keeps getting bumps!) We successfully funded in Oct 2024! So Violet Core is currently my full time job and things are currently looking good for the planned release in Nov 2025! Progress is going well and I post public updates on the KS every month (and usually here and on my blusky as well) or so if you'd like to follow along :3

the rest of the post is unchanged for archival purposes💜...

Violet Core is a sapphic focused ttrpg about sad space lesbians dueling each other and making out while stranded in space. Drawing inspiration from the absolutely wonderful visual novel Heaven Will Be Mine as well as GunBuster, Zone of the Enders and Knights of Sidonia. It focuses the dramatic tension between friends, rivals and comrades. It's a game whose beating heart is deeply lesbian in a way that is a touch tricky to put into words...its indelibly infused. It's a game preoccupied with a looming horizon of destruction and what we do in the face of calamity.

Wish me luck! And if it looks cool and/or sweet to you, please share it around! My platform is tiny and sucks unlike the game which is huge and rad.

(edit...omg the tags. I'm blown away TT u TT my heart is doing a thing)

(art by myself and @portentous-offerings) Link to the Kickstarter >>> Here

[gentrigger]

Heart of Nazar

Gorgon designed after the eldritch horrors from the abyssal seas

Bsky | Twitter | NG

[a-random-painter]

Here is a Goblin mech miniature from Lancer that I have painted as a proof of concept before moving onto the other mechs.

[anim-ttrpgs]

No vampirism is not a “virus” you fucking hack.

You fucking kludge.

You fucking grub.

You fucking pseudo-intellectual.

You fucking germ.

You fucking redditor.

[oldschoolfrp]

New Orleans, Eric W Haddock's supplement for the Dark Conspiracy RPG, with Dell Harris cover art, GDW, 1991

The alternative captions write themselves but I can't pick just one.

* "I Can't Stand LA," 2009

[losttrailsmaps]

In the vastness of outer space, pulsing stars and explosive supernovas cast fleeting glows across an ancient darkness, where ancient horrors drift and hunger.

Welcome to Outer Space! This pack features 15 maps, including stars, asteroid fields, wormholes and much more.

Patrons get access to gridded/ungridded and watermark-free maps. The grid size of each map is 20x30.

Check out the map pack here.

[franciscolemos]

Cosmonaut in the dark.

[shadefish]

Custom Viceroy Commission

If you like what I do support me here!

[4bsurdcreature]

Ren Firebe and the Intangible Feeling that Something has Changed!

[zhjake]

The Yawn, big space fish dipping in and out of blinkspace, as big as a moon and mostly ambivalent to the goings on of humanity, largely vibes-based lifeform From our Lancer module: A Wake Writ in Void

[prokopetz]

Do you ever have a passive gripe with the way trade is represented in medieval/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic fiction? I can't shake the feeling that those are societies that have moved beyond the need for abstract currency - that such forms of trade are more a concession for the viewer to analogize trade to our world instead of offering some kind of unique barter for a world.

A medieval peasant isn't gonna want gold coins for jack because the next trade caravan is two seasons away, they'd much rather a useful tool or some extra fertilizer. Credits in science fiction universes can become worthless due to Future™️ hackers setting their bank accounts to extraordinarily high values, so extra parts for firearms and spaceships are much more useful. Caps in Fallout just make no sense in a world where food and water are few and far between!

I feel unreasonably grumpy about this and I wanted to know if you have any kind of insight to this kind of thing.

There are a couple of only partly related problems here:

1. The idea that the economies of most sci-fi and fantasy settings, as depicted, don't make any sense. This is absolutely true, because most science fiction and fantasy authors don't really think about that sort of thing – their settings only have economies to the extent that the details of those economies are relevant to the plot, which they usually aren't.

2. The idea that it doesn't make sense for currency to exist in these settings because most of them logically ought to have barter economies. The trouble with this assertion is that there's no such thing as a barter economy. Yes, you can describe what one would look like, but no civilisation which has ever actually existed has operated in this fashion. It's a made-up idea – at best, a spherical-cow approximation of how the exchange of goods and services operates in a stateless society, and at worst, complete bullshit.

Consequently, whether or not it makes sense for anything like currency to exist is going to depend on the particulars of how the setting's economy operates (i.e., all the details that that are getting glossed over in point 1, above). About the most we can say in nearly all cases is that we simply don't have enough information about a given fantasy or sci-fi setting's economic structure to know whether it makes sense to have currency or not; we can't just assume in the absence of further details that things will default to a barter economy, because – again – there's no such animal.

[dukeofash]

Lancer pilots dressing up their mechs pt 2