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What are your RPG plans for 2024 season ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

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So as the newest edition of the year is about to roll-out, what are your RPG plans ? Play more ? Less ? Try another game ? Finish a long campaign ?

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[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

get into space RPGs. Anyone got any recommendations?

I played a lot of Fading Suns at the start of the century, we're closer from Dune/Babylon 5 than from Star wars or Star treck in term of concept. The game isn't new (well there was a 4E released recently), and Is a game from the late 90's whose authors worked on Werewolf the Apocalypse this simple sentence tells a lot about the game (Faction who hate each other, imminent doom and more) if it's your stuff go for it.

I played a couple of one shots of Alien and Coriolis, worked fine but I don't know enough the game to have a hard advise on it

and as I said, I plan a Mecha campaign, Lancer seems to combat/crunch heavy so I plan to try Beam saber soon

[–] phase@lemmy.8th.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I never read why the suns are fading. But I found a potential hard-scidence explanation in Project Hail Mary (I haven't finished it yet).

[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unrelated question but for my culture

Set in the near future, it centers on junior high (middle) school-teacher

Is the Junior-High / Middle difference a regional split ? Or a administrative/legal jargon versus everyday's dialect ? thing ?

[–] Oiselarius@dice.camp 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

@Ziggurat @phase @rpg “Junior high” is a school with US grades 7-9. “Middle school” is a school with US grades 6-8. School grade divisions have changed over the last 30 years in the US due to population changes mostly. Middle School is the more recent division of grades. Some schools are even going to an “international jr/sr high school” format of US grades 7-12 which is more akin to gymnasiums, “high schools”, in Austria and Germany.

[–] phase@lemmy.8th.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Project Hail Mary? The hero is a former researcher and a junior/middle school teacher. It is used in the fiction as an excuse to make science understandable. I understand this level of science so I am biased but I think it is good enough.