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Tag: Science Fiction

My Ridley Scott-iverse Headcanon

February 8, 2025 mstanton Settings

The Alien/Prometheus, Blade Runner, Predator, and Raised By Wolves shows all happen in a shared universe.

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Sci-Fi Equipment Lists

January 2, 2025 mstanton Lists & Benchmarks, Rules

Sample personal “starting gear” lists from science-fiction role-playing games.

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Terraforming Steps

December 29, 2024 mstanton Settings

Some steps along the way to making an exoplanet livable for humans.

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Setting Up “Hard Sci-Fi” Settings

September 30, 2024 mstanton Settings

What would a “hard sci-fi” setting look like without any “magic sci-fi tech” cheats?

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The Inevitable Machine Uprisings

September 30, 2024 mstanton Settings

Some thoughts on why and how the machines will kill us all.

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Fast Starship Combat Rules

July 8, 2024 mstanton Rules

Some ideas for a quick-and-dirty starship RPG rules set.

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Notebook of Star Trek-isms

June 12, 2024 mstanton Settings

Random notes about details from the Star Trek universe.

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Sci-Fi Space Travel Speeds

April 9, 2023 mstanton Lists & Benchmarks, Settings

Some notes cribbed from various sources on sunlight and faster-than-light starship speeds in popular science-fiction worlds.

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Sci-Fi Environmental Standards

May 23, 2022 mstanton Lists & Benchmarks, Settings

Taking a guess at what the “air” inside most spaceports and starships must be like in the Traveller Universe.

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Sci-Fi Technobabble

February 22, 2021 mstanton Settings, Tools

Nonsense words to use at the table to sound like a starship engineer or doctor.

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Sci-Fi 5e Medicines And Equipment

January 11, 2021 mstanton Rules, Settings

Some homebrew items for a science-fiction flavor to D&D5e.

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Seed: Omniscient Killer AI

November 20, 2016 mstanton Adventures

What if characters pissed off an artificial intelligence that has full access to hack the internet of things?

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RPG Starship Sizes

September 22, 2016 mstanton Lists & Benchmarks

Some baseline measurements, maybe for use with High Guard/Trillion Credit Squadron?

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Travel: What Can Go Wrong?

June 7, 2007 mstanton Settings

Customs, disease, toxins, animals, language misunderstandings, climate and gravity differences, civil taxes… Originally posted on Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine Issue #71.

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The Traveller Universe

October 1, 2006 mstanton Settings

An outline of the “standard” campaign setting found in the original version of Traveller by Marc Miller in 1978.

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