Am I correct in that there is no way to increase your stats other than through Origins or the Addict skill?
Am I correct in that there is no way to increase your stats other than through Origins or the Addict skill?
Latest +1 Forward Podcast is an interview with me about Uncharted Worlds.
Latest +1 Forward Podcast is an interview with me about Uncharted Worlds. God I get really nervous when I know I’m being recorded, I sound like a doof. 😛
Still, big thank you to Richard Rogers for the interview, I’m honored.
Sorry for all the questions, but trying to start getting ready for running my first session.
Sorry for all the questions, but trying to start getting ready for running my first session. On page 114, under Weapon Damage is says, “melee weapons cause moderate injuries” but 54 doesn’t list Moderate as a category, instead saying melee weapons cause Major damage. I’m guess Major is the correct severity?
So two questions:
So two questions:
1) Is trying to pick a lock Face Adversity or Access?
2) I’m confused about combat. If there are three players in the group and they come up against bad guys they want to shoot, do each of them Open Fire separately on their targets? Or does one and the other assist?
Has anyone experimented with introducing the Hx mechanic into UW?
Has anyone experimented with introducing the Hx mechanic into UW? It seems like the cramped quarters would be a perfect avenue for introduction. The roll could increase one person’s history, both or even lower both of their Hx with one another.
I need a suggestion for my character name.
I need a suggestion for my character name. He is an Explorer/Personality/Rustic character modeled after Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, except in space, “hunting” alien creatures. He is currently on the run from PETA (faction), that being the People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens, and he is somewhat reluctantly followed by a perpetually exasperated film Crew.
What are people’s thoughts on playing a synthetic character like Data or a Geth from Mass Effect?
What are people’s thoughts on playing a synthetic character like Data or a Geth from Mass Effect? Would you allow it or do you think it would be too hard to make work with the rules? Personally I think I would allow it in a game, as long as they’re roughly humanoid.
So I’ve got a player who wants a quick-start intro to the UW rules. Any suggestions? Is there a one-pager?
So I’ve got a player who wants a quick-start intro to the UW rules. Any suggestions? Is there a one-pager?
I’m wondering how other gmd would handle this.
I’m wondering how other gmd would handle this. Psychic damage- would you still allow brace for impact move? Does that apply to non physical attacks? Sean Gomes
Ooof.
Ooof. Words words words. Lots of text is being written. And not fun playtestable stuff, but rather necessary clarifications and fleshing out.
Have a few pages about cross-species societies, and how they affect the frequency and severity of Cramped Quarters checks. If Uncharted Worlds didn’t already clue people in to my own personal bleeding-heartedness, then this section surely will.
I’ve got a tenuous, nebulous mentally-written section about emotional trauma as a Major debility, and I keep backing away from it to approach from a different angle, because I don’t want to be disrespectful of real mental issues. Like, as part of the eldritch/Olde Gods set of content, the threat of mind-breaking terror needs to be addressed. But I need to be very mindful.
Right now, my design has “Trauma” as a general Major Debility that technically doesn’t impede a character. Instead it constantly spawns Minor mental and emotional Debilities; headaches, nightmares, compulsions, revulsion, stutters, restlessness, lethargy. The Minor Debilities can be treated, but that’s just attacking the symptoms. Treating the Major Debility will require significant therapy and treatments (with certain civilizations offering experimental and/or barbaric alternate ‘cures’).
This will likely change and evolve, but I would need to chat up someone who is more educated than I on the topic of how to handle this stuff respectfully.
And lets not get started on the unintentionally ableist verbal landmines when writing about cybernetics. Whuff.