What are the best space opera RPGs?
Why it's obviouslywhichever one you like bestand anyone who tells you otherwise is a filthy liarbut seriously, Stars Without Number is pretty cool if OSR-y stuff is up your alley
Homebrew setting with GURPS/other generic system/homebrew rules.
Premade settings don't work IMO for space opera. You want the players to be exploring unknown facets of the universe and creating their own stories as they go. Some of the best and longest running games I've ran have been when I can change the themes, story and even universe depending on what the players want.
>>45923798
I've played enough Alternity to know, not Alterntiy.
White Star is pretty good.
But honestly, if I'm going to play good old-fashioned cliché-heavy space opera, I'm gonna go with Risus.
>>45923798
Dear lord, that top.
>>45923798
Traveller. Classic or Mongoose.
>>45923798
Rogue Trader.
At least, we play it like it's a Mexican soap opera.
The only one I know of is traveller, and I can't reccomend that one based on it's terrible character generation system
>>45925013
Considering microgravity, do female astronaut need bras or can they go braless? Or is it matter of containment, at that point?
>>45925212
>terrible character generation system
>this guy never had a whole table of players finish chargen and immediately want to do it again because it was so much fun
>>45925272
Using a bra inhibits natural muscle growth in the area and does not actually prevent sagging over the long term.
They did a study in, I think, Germany with over 300 women getting measured over a 15 year period. The ones who did not wear a bra experienced less sagging compared to other women in the study with the same size breasts who did wear them, and their nipples did not move downward as much.
It honestly makes sense, plenty of women who have worn bras all their life still sag like crazy.
Bras are still useful for not slapping yourself in the face when running if you're very well-endowed though, so they're not meaningless.
>>45925272
Hi, woman here.
You'd wear a bra in space because space is cold and the primary reason to wear a bra is to avoid awkward nipple action.
Pasties would also work, but not sure if that's true in microgravity. Someone should sponsor a study on the ISS.
>>45925413
NASA and the ESA need to get on that
Study the important issues
>>45925462
We can't. Congress forbade experiments of any "sexual" nature back in the Skylab days. And anything you do in space can be considered an experiment. Which forbids sex in space, BTW. But the point is that experiments on not wearing a bra or wearing pasties would be forbidden for any NASA personnel. It might apply inter nationally too thanks to the US being forceful dickwads.
>>45923798
I've heard good things about Diaspora. Bare minimum, it fits the idea >>45923886 is going for quite nicely.
>>45923798
>>45925013
>be girl in sci-fi future
>get amazing offer to explore the cosmos
>but you have to wear a form-fitting top 24/7
>and there's male crewmembers
wat do
>>45925748
But breasts aren't sexual. They're not sex organs.
>>45925748
Someone call up Richard Branson and Elon Musk. They've got space ships and don't have to listen to Congress.
>>45928057
Go on an epic space adventure and receive astronaut D.
How else are we supposed to keep them away from xenophilia?
>>45925748
>>45928217
Pornhub tried. There was not enough public support for the concept
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pornhub-space-program-sexploration#/
>>45928057
The answer is obvious - turn to a life of piracy.
>>45923886
>GURPS rules for spaceships
nah man
do you want to spend an entire year creating a single spaceship?
>>45928057
Own it and make it your own, girl
>>45925748
>Congress forbade experiments of any "sexual" nature back in the Skylab days.
Weren't the crews all male back then?
>>45927493
Diaspora is great; best option for hard* sci-fi you're likely to find.
*Hand-waved FTL exists
>>45928450
Gurps 4e spaceships. Half an hour to build the stats, then fluff it out.
>>45929277
There were requests to bring female experimental subjects into space
>>45929479
>There were requests to bring female experimental subjects into space
Way to be kinky and creepy at the same time.
Reminds me a bit when the first female astronaut was joining a crew with cosmonauts and they were just so happy there was finally someone there who could cook.
They were confused by the outrage in the US. Supposed to have been a joke since, you know, pre-packaged food and all that.
>>45923941
Genuinely curious about your opinion on Alternity (I have Star*Drive, but haven't run it or the base game, so I don't know what I'm in for).
So, why not Alternity?
>>45929565
It was either that or Congress freaked out about commie perverts infiltrating NASA.
>>45930780
Preverts, anon. Preverts.
>>45931756
Think of how much water there is in space to put flouride in.
Alternity is my favorite.
Feng Shui could be loosely considered "interdimensional gun-fu-opera" and recently got a new edition.
>>45925413
Then you look at pics of floppy pancakes on tribal women who never wear a bra and see evidence to the contrary.
>>45923798
ITT,
> OP asks about space opera games...
> Gets discussion about tits in space.
Well done, tg.
>>45928057
>>45925462
>>45925272
Once the technology is there the future of space clothing will most likely be custom skin tight suits with some clothes worn over them because nobody wants to see their coworker's shrink wrapped junk everywhere they go. The skin tight suits would protect the skin against rapid decompression and would also have points to quickly be able to put a helmet on to. On top of that, there's plenty of nasty stuff in a space station that you don't want touching your skin in that same event where something goes horribly wrong. On top of all that the mechanical counterpressure provided from the shrink wrap suits would make moving around require a bit more effort, and exercise is always useful in microgravity environments.
Also, the vacuum of space isn't cold, it just has no temperature. It's actually harder to lose heat than it is to gain heat.
>>45929566
Cool settings, shite rules. It's just a heavy complicated mess, sort of a proto-d20 System.
There are better ways to play pretty much any genre.
>>45923798
Star Frontiers
>>45934393
That's due to breastfeeding bruvie
>>45934947
Star Frontiers is a fantastic setting, but the rules are rather meh, in my opinion.
https://mega.nz/#F!O8YCyLgI!HqOILBCBJ4JEd0YBgY71kw
>>45925462
Mr speaker, I submit to the congress my bill to approve research into the field of...
>Stands up fast enough to knock his chair over
>Microphone jacked into heavy reverb subwoofers hidden throughout the chamber
STRIPPERS!
IN!
SPAAAAAAAAACE!
>>45923865
Yeah, SWN is pretty good, though I feel like the ship combat and life support setup need a little fine tuning.
![fragged_empire_cover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mMaSmc8.jpg "fragged_empire_cover[1].jpg")
>>45923798
Fragged empire is pretty good.
>>45923798
Space Opera
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/lwhe4nr16l5w6/Space_Opera
