Oct 12, 2016
This week's hosts: Brian, Cathal and Sean
This week the party discuss Science Fiction in roleplaying, what is
it, where is it and why don't we see more of it?
Show notes:
- 01:16 D&D in space
- 02:02 Then you're probably listening to the wrong podcast....
- 02:25 Traveller
- 03:01 All misfits, all the time
- 03:30 Hard Sci-Fi, what is it, how do you know if you have it? Consider the Mohs scale maybe?
- 04:46 Diaspora
- 06:03 FTL (the travel) and FTL (the game).
- 06:48 Firefly
- 07:29 Aliens, because good Sci-Fi is awesome
- 08:04 Quote of the Episode "Suddenly, you know, you don't like it quite so hard"
- 08:15 Bodacious Space Pirates
- 09:53 Battletech, yes I want to play because I watched the cartoon series, so what.
- 09:30 Heavy Gear
- 09:59 It is not the first question I asked, my pants are now on fire. What I asked was what of scifi do you want to play (01:25), but I had intended that to mean what type, for instance space exploration etc.
- 11:07 Dystopian future vs SciFi
- 11:18 Cyberpunk & Shadowrun vs SciFi
- 11:50 Doom vs SciFi.... I seem to like to stir stuff up...
- 12:00 Dost the setting maketh the SciFi?
- 13:19 Transhuman Space
- 15:52 Surrogates
- 16:35 Cowboy Bebop
- 16:45 Holodecks and Hard Light
- 16:52 Stargate
- 17:00 Stargate RPG, Sean is in fact correct, apparently a D20 system
- 17:49 Ha! I was accidently correct, "Serenity" was the first iteration of Cortex, while "Firefly" used Cortex Plus.
- 18:07 Sean trying to blame an entire Genre for our poor topic selection process!
- 18:31 Space Marines or THE Space Marine
- 19:00 Dune and the defensive shield
- 19:11 Rifts
- 22:09 Cell Signal? Is my secret out? Am I actually American?
- 22:36 Star Wars
- 26:51 Gundam
- 27:33 Hindsight is a killer