Foreword: This is just idle speculation rather than concrete decision-making or anything.

Foreword: This is just idle speculation rather than concrete decision-making or anything.

Foreword: This is just idle speculation rather than concrete decision-making or anything.

I’ve been considering the impact of the two book stretch goals, and the order in which I chose to approach them. During the Kickstarter, I set Carta Galaxia to be the smaller of the stretch goals, to be unlocked first. Thus after UW was out the door, I began working on Carta right away. However, both personal gut-feeling and general commentary from community members have led me to wonder if I shouldn’t have started Far Beyond Humanity first.

I’m almost done the first pass of The Core quadrant of Carta, which is by far the largest. But the other 3 quadrants, and the general universe chapter, will still take a lot of time.

People are chomping at the bit to inject magic and robots into their UW games, and I realize that I’m missing an opportunity to have community playtesting done. Had I been smart (hah), I would have knocked out an Alpha version of FBH for people to play while I wrote Carta, then gathered that data to polish up the final product.

It might not be too late to attempt that, but it would require a conscious decision to put Carta aside and focus on at least getting a working prototype of FBH’s content out there into the hands of the community.

Thoughts?

26 thoughts on “Foreword: This is just idle speculation rather than concrete decision-making or anything.”

  1. First thought: I stupidly didn’t back UW, but I would have.

    As someone running the system, any sort of rule additions would benefit me more than Carta, as my players and I have our own cosmology we made (using a corrupted Stars Without Numbers + Diaspora system).

    Is it possible to submit a poll through KS to see what the backers think?

  2. If you could figure out how to clone yourself so you could do both that would be great. I think right now FBH would be my priority but that’s just my opinion

  4. Aaron Griffin Sadly, I don’t think Kickstarter does Polls in project updates, and you can only do one Survey (which I already did).

    Maybe I could do a Strawpoll…

  8. I do think FBH is more immediately useful. Lots of people will create their own settings, and while I look forward to CG and all of its goodies as a way to streamline pick-up time and get ideas, FBH’s diverse options for weird and wacky space opera tropes is very exciting.

  12. Philip Espi and that is one of the reasons why I jumped into Carta first; the backer-reward content for the “stellar-levels” are tied to Carta. I’m considering doing a ‘pre-release’ of those characters, planets and factions ahead of finishing Carta (and including it in the book proper)

  14. Not a backer (found pbta only recently) but I’m eagerly waiting to see fbh at dtrpg, preferably as pod! (Hmm, got a good amount of abbreviations here :D)

  17. Personally I’m much more interested in FBH. To be honest, I’m not really interested in Carta Galaxia at all. It seems like a cool setting and all but I much prefer creating a universe at the table.

  18. Not to sound like a broken record of the other comments so far, but I also think that FBH would be mlre appealing to have first rather than Carta, if only because it allows more options for play.

  20. I would love to see Far Beyond Humanity for personal reasons. But, whatever you’ve put out I’m happy to see. Factions are kinda vital to the game.

  21. Uhm… yeah FBH is more interesting. It sort of rounds out the game. Fills in a gap that I think many feels is there. For me, this is actually what I’m waiting for before I start out my own campaign in this game. I need some magic and wierdness.

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