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  1. I also voted for the shared universe, but then I realized there would be a "minor" problem: Translation. Whoever is interested in it may get a copy of my setting's materials, but the poor person would have to deal with the German language ...
  2. Cephalopodes were no problem, but sea turtles gave and give me some head- ache, as they need beaches to lay their eggs, and Pharos IV is a pure water world without any land (and therefore beaches) at all. I have a similar problem with sea birds, they also need at least some land to reproduce. Artificial isles might be a solution, but the colony's economy does not (yet) provide the ne- cessary means to spare resources for such "luxuries".
  3. Yes, it took my colonists almost thirty years to rebuild the plankton-fish-food- chain, and they have just started (after fifty years) to reintroduce some co- ral reefs - and now they are looking for some more interesting creatures, be- sides the few dolphins, dugongs, whale sharks and wrillabees they already ha- ve.
  4. No, definitely not crazy - although I would prefer an approach with less an broader skills instead of additional characteristics. In my opinion it is the purpose of the rules to make playing characters easy for the players by providing them with guidelines. However, when you add more and more details to the rules system, you come closer and closer to the point where the entire apparatus goes belly-up and starts to hinder and restrict the players instead of helping them. Therefore I usually prefer to take away instead of to add, and in this case I would probably take away "sub-skills" instead of adding characteristics. But in the end this is a matter of personal taste, and your version will be just as playable as mine, only in a somewhat different way.
  5. Well, I decided to use the supernova because it has the added advantage that it provides me with an "empty quarter" in space, a region where the colonists have no immediate rivals, and where they can discover relics of spacefaring cultures destroyed by the supernova.
  6. Here in Germany Call of Cthulhu is quite successful with younger players, too. A "CoC-like" universal system could have a good chance to win over players of all ages from the currently available systems, especially if a German publi- sher would provide a translation (as is currently done with Mongoose's new Traveller RPG).
  7. Yes of course - but "nearby" in this case means about 50 light years, and the astronomer I asked was quite convinced that in this case the radiation would kill of the plankton (and with it almost all life forms except those in the deep sea trenches with their own food supply from chemosynthesis in- stead of photosynthesis), but would not really damage the planet itself.
  8. The setting I am currently working on is a colony on water world in the "Ho- norverse" of David Weber's books. The biosphere of this planet has been destroyed by a "nearby" supernova ex- plosion, and the colonists are now re-building a viable biosphere by introdu- cing various marine creatures, for example (non-intelligent) dolphins, wrilla- bees (from the Ringworld RPG), whale sharks and so on. I am still looking for other interesting and unusual sea life of the kind prudent colonists might want to have on their world (= no "monsters"), and perhaps one of you could give me a hint where to search ? Of course I am also very interested in science fiction marine technology of al- most any kind. Currently I am using GURPS material (GURPS Vehicles etc.) to design the infrastructure, vehicles and equipment of the colonists as well as the "space infrastructure" which connects them with the known universe, but I would appreciate any information about other potential sources for the de- velopment of the setting. Well, and if there is anything else you would recommend for a setting of that kind, please just let me know. Thank You !
  9. From my point of view, additional characteristics would only make sense if they had any meaningful impact on the playing of the characters. Therefore there should be some kind of connection between the new charac- teristics and the characters' skills or other forms of "performance". I find your idea interesting, although rather overcomplicated for my taste, but without more informations about the consequences of the additional cha- racteristics during the game I would find it difficult to have an opinion.
  10. What worlds ... - Ringworld / Known Space (again, but more complete this time) - the "Honorverse" of David Weber's Honor Harrington series ... would be something I really would like.
  11. Empire of the Petal Throne. I would have loved to play it, and still love to read it, but all the potential players took a look at the names, shook their heads and said that it was absolutely impossible to pronounce them - and unfortunately I never was in a mood to "rename" an entire RPG.
  12. Hello Drohem, thank you for the friendly welcome !
  13. Since September I have been working on a science fiction setting. It is a young colony on a water world on the edge of the "Honorverse" of David Weber's books. I use Call of Cthulhu / Cthulhu Rising for character generation and roleplay- ing and various GURPS supplements (especially from the GURPS Traveller li- ne) for the technology. Until now "my" players and I have played this setting for fifty-one "game ti- me years", and we now have about fifty pages of "canonical" backgound ma- terial (astronomy, geography, biosphere, society, etc.), several maps and lots of notes - all of it in German. We currently plan to "translate" the entire setting into BRP as soon as it be- comes available, and I am just busy with preparations for this - and with browsing this forum, searching for interesting ideas, of course.
  14. Hello, my name is Rudolf (no, nothing to do with reindeers ...), I live in southern Germany, and I have been into roleplaying games for almost thirty years now. I once started with Runequest and Traveller, and then I tried a few dozen other systems, but I always returned to the "descendants" of my first loves, the last ones being Call of Cthulhu / Cthulhu Rising and GURPS Traveller. A few months ago I began world building in earnest, with a science fiction water world named Pharos IV and located on the edge of the "Honorverse" of David Weber's books. With a new BRP on the horizon, I decided to use it as the roleplaying system for my Pharos IV, which currently uses a mix of Call of Cthulhu (characters) and GURPS (technology). This means I will probably have to make quite a number of modifications and will probably need a lot of good ideas and hints - and that's why I am here now. Greetings ! rust
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