Solitaire Traveller: Dwarfstar's Starsmuggler

[robject]

Across the Bright Face is one I was thinking of in particular.

Or perhaps a pair of linked scenarios. For example, something like Night of Conquest, followed immediately by a scenario where you have to smuggle someone off-world and into another system?

 

[robject]

Across the Bright Face is one I was thinking of in particular.

Or perhaps a pair of linked scenarios. For example, something like Night of Conquest, followed immediately by a scenario where you have to smuggle someone off-world and into another system?

 

[sid6.7]

also try out the dwarfstar game "starviking"
while starsmuggler is the RPG like version
i kinda look at the SV as the mayday version
i own a few dwarfstar games very cool...

i also have a star viking yahoo group you
can see thru brainiacs/mavericks site
there are about 12 games total for dwarfstar
that are now avaiblale FREE for print/play
get them all if you can...good stuff..

in fact i recoomend looking at the old
pocketbook/meta/micro games there neat
cuase there all so compact fairly easy
to play and have some neat playable values
in each...

 

[sid6.7]

also try out the dwarfstar game "starviking"
while starsmuggler is the RPG like version
i kinda look at the SV as the mayday version
i own a few dwarfstar games very cool...

i also have a star viking yahoo group you
can see thru brainiacs/mavericks site
there are about 12 games total for dwarfstar
that are now avaiblale FREE for print/play
get them all if you can...good stuff..

in fact i recoomend looking at the old
pocketbook/meta/micro games there neat
cuase there all so compact fairly easy
to play and have some neat playable values
in each...

 

[Jeffr0]

I'm a micro-game addict, sid6.7.

I'm sure you're aware that Fireydragon has revived the concept with games like The Final Frontier and The Marcher Lords, right?

I don't have the time or patience to play 'real' war games of the seventies or even Joe Miranda's newer designs from Strategy and Tactics... and the lack of firm/clear rules kinda scares me away from 'real' rpgs. My favorite kind of games are the ones that blur the lines between the two genres.

I just like it when you get depth & playablity with just a few rules. Steve Jackson's Ogre rules the roost in this department. I hate to see other games with 100 times the rules/support but that aren't even half as playable.... Heh heh.

 

[Jeffr0]

I'm a micro-game addict, sid6.7.

I'm sure you're aware that Fireydragon has revived the concept with games like The Final Frontier and The Marcher Lords, right?

I don't have the time or patience to play 'real' war games of the seventies or even Joe Miranda's newer designs from Strategy and Tactics... and the lack of firm/clear rules kinda scares me away from 'real' rpgs. My favorite kind of games are the ones that blur the lines between the two genres.

I just like it when you get depth & playablity with just a few rules. Steve Jackson's Ogre rules the roost in this department. I hate to see other games with 100 times the rules/support but that aren't even half as playable.... Heh heh.

 

[Jeffr0]

Aha...

Inspired by Nethack ( http://www.nethack.org/ ) and early 80's microgames...

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050502/carlson_pfv.htm

http://www.digital-eel.com/sais/index.htm

This looks like a computerized Starsmuggler type game... for the person looking to roll up the universe and play a Traveller like game in 20 minutes or less.

 

[Jeffr0]

Aha...

Inspired by Nethack ( http://www.nethack.org/ ) and early 80's microgames...

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050502/carlson_pfv.htm

http://www.digital-eel.com/sais/index.htm

This looks like a computerized Starsmuggler type game... for the person looking to roll up the universe and play a Traveller like game in 20 minutes or less.

 

[DaveC]

Both Across the Bright Face and (especially) Mission on Mithril play very well as solo games with 'minimal' tweaking (I rolled up some characters and gave each a characteristic, ' curious' reckless', 'coward' etc. Throw 2D for the characteristic and use this as the throw to see if the char comes into play in the situation).

 

[DaveC]

Both Across the Bright Face and (especially) Mission on Mithril play very well as solo games with 'minimal' tweaking (I rolled up some characters and gave each a characteristic, ' curious' reckless', 'coward' etc. Throw 2D for the characteristic and use this as the throw to see if the char comes into play in the situation).