Author: Adrian Thoen

holy crap so cool

Originally shared by Bhoritz Bollemans

A page about algorithms that generate fantasy maps. You can try it online.

http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/?utm_source=raywenderlich.com+Weekly&utm_campaign=2b4dbebc7d-raywenderlich_com_Weekly8_16_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_83b6edc87f-2b4dbebc7d-415415737

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

When your ship is a playbook, you can change the feel of the game in some interesting ways by making different ships.

Instead of Serenity or the Millennium Falcon, you can fly the Normandy, or the Andromeda, or Moya from Farscape.

Your PCs can bring their community with them. They can have a fighter bay full of space fighters, or giant robots.

The new versions of ships rules will be more user friendly, more tied to the fiction, and more varied.

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

I’ve made my first update to Impulse Drive since putting it on Drivethru RPG as a free preview. I think these changes make it a much better game.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/190933/Impulse-Drive-Preview

Version 2.4.1

21/08/2016: Removed Hooks mechanics to prevent negating Disadvantage and exploiting Foibles Advance farming.

Removed gaining Advances when a Foible is activated. Now Advances are gained when the player rolls a 6-. Foibles may be activated to make this more likely.

Added the Assist move, to give players a way to give each other Advantage, at the risk of a roll.

Rewrote Hooks to establish starting relationships between Crew Members, and generate starting Foibles for a new game.

Editing changes to numerous moves to remove references to old mechanics and add references to new mechanics.

24/08/2016: Removed the Hand and Reach ranges. Changed Overheat option/tag on weapons to be Discharged, using same terminology as Shields and Moves.

25/08/2016: Updated card images, updated entries for gear with correct tags. Added Mystic Weapon card.

Modified Skirmish Move to include discharging weapons to deal double Harm. Modified Fury Unleashed to still be relevant.

Changed the terminology for 10 day weeks from deca to dekim, and 20 day month from dodeca to ekosim.

28/08/2016: Rewritten Calamity to be more uniform in distribution, and have more interesting mechanical and fictional effects.

Added “Change Difficulty” rules to the Drifting section.

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

Impulse Drive is now on Drivethru RPG – for free.

Impulse Drive Preview are the complete Alpha rules and documents, provided for free for playtesting. As changes are made, these documents will be updated with the latest version.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/190933/Impulse-Drive-Preview?src=newest

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

The current version of Impulse Drive, 2.3.3 is set for play testing. The biggest update is an editing pass on the first half of the text by editor Jim Jacobson, some additional text in the drifting section, and additional text on the flow of combat.

If you are interested in misfits and spaceships, and like stories similar to firefly, Farscape, killjoys, dark matter, and andromeda, and enjoy the PBTA system, check it out.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4w2ZvCSYT6AMzhrVktlVXpBN1k

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

I spent the last few days trying to learn enough HTML and CSS to cobble together a character sheet for Impulse Drive. You can check the link for the results in a test game.

I found the process pretty challenging, but rewarding in the end to have this nifty tool that will hopefully make the game more attractive for others to try out.

https://app.roll20.net/join/657083/g6eVtw

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

I’m still working away on Impulse Drive. I’ve added a lot of small refinements and explanations throughout the book, and I have the Handouts PDF with enough basics to play, though there are a few more tools I might list on an extra page for the Space Master.

I’m going to have a week off after next week, so I’ll be trying to get a few playtest games in if people are interested in trying it out.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZKW9mQaVWso5_BkMS7pkZjwY1IB-yqUXlmA8mvEwvHM/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4w2ZvCSYT6Aak9GazhtaXk5ZWM

Originally shared by Adrian Thoen

Impulse Drive has reached it’s next build: Alpha 1.

This build has the rule book updated with changes to a lot of moves, and more moves added to the Archetypes. Modifications for cybernetic or bio-engineered upgrades have also been added.

The new book is created from the Google Doc to help minimize my workload when making changes.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4w2ZvCSYT6AbndvOFhfb2RTc1U&authuser=0

The original Google Doc can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H2wFqVb6BrYfFFxvfoefotDxZ9TQKa0YV1tBi1uATbs/edit?usp=sharing

Comments, questions, and criticism always encouraged!