sci-fi

Below are all of the posts with the sci-fi tag. A post tagged with sci-fi means that it is about sci-fi. If a post references sci-fi but does not have the tag, then the post will not be in the list below. If a post has the sci-fi tag or mentions sci-fi, then it will be in the Glossary for "sci-fi".

I have ordered the posts from newest to oldest:

2022-06-01 Using Ruby to Merge Traveller and Stars without Number System Generators
Or How to Use Your Hobby to Keep your Professional Skills Sharp
2022-05-31 Pitches for an Upcoming RPG Campaign
A Preponderance of Options
2021-08-26 The Circles Subsystem of “Burning Wheel Gold”
A Higher Order Reaction Roll
2021-06-27 Amplifying the Blogosphere (v2021-06-27)
Not Much But Figured I’d Write Something
2021-06-06 Hiatus: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
2021-04-19 Session 16: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
A Short Session with some Information Gathering
2021-04-03 Let's Read “Worlds without Number: Tales of the Latter Earth”
Framing Expectations of Genre and System
2021-03-17 Let's Read “Worlds without Number”
An Old School Inspired Fantasy RPG
2021-03-08 Session 15: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Prosthetics and Petty Thievery
2021-02-28 Recontextualizing my Relationship with Burning Wheel
Community Requires Governance and Accountability
2021-02-21 Session 14: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Digital Forensics and Oracular Skulls
2021-02-13 Preamble to Session 14: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Exposition
2021-02-07 Session 13: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Charting a Course through the Intersection of Future and Past
2021-02-07 Sending some Interstitial Love Letters to the New Vistas Crew
Dear Player Characters, Tell Me More
2021-02-07 Session 12: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Skullduggery and Explosions
2021-01-03 A Situation and Adventure Design Process
An Approach that Works for Me
2020-12-31 A Refinement to the Ubiquitous Initiative Procedure
Increasing the Unpredictability of Combat
2020-12-29 Session 11: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Fleeting Thoughts and a Gunfight in a Library
2020-12-28 Probability of Stabilizing the Dying in “Stars without Number”
Another Foray into Probability and Computations
2020-12-21 Thinking Through Group Rolls for Stars and Worlds without Number
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Everyone Rolls
2020-12-21 Session 10: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Stacks of Papers, a Medical Facility, a Pre-Tech Workshop, and a Psychic Hazard
2020-12-17 The Geemit - A Worlds without Number Demihuman
A Sentient Species of Amoeboid Storytellers
2020-12-15 Using the Organization Generator from “Soft Horizon” with a “Worlds without Number” Campaign
Drawing Inspiration from the Collision of Varied Randomization
2020-12-14 Session 9: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Shots Fired, Lab Entered, and Talking with a Rock
2020-12-13 The Kvarzflett - A “Stars without Number” Sophont
A Rock and Lichen-Based Psychic Creature
2020-12-12 Tweaks in “Worlds without Number” to the “Stars without Number” Engine
Refinements to the Sine Nomine engine
2020-12-07 Session 8: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Bringing Chekov’s Gun to a Recon Party
2020-12-05 Creating a Post-Human Ethnicity for a “Worlds without Number” Campaign
The Konuk, One of the Governing Ethnicities of the Latter Earth
2020-11-30 Session 7: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Detectors, Escapees, and Beauracratic Moles
2020-11-27 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Example Character Creation
Rolling up a quick and random character
2020-11-09 Session 6: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
A Quick Meeting at a Public Tavern
2020-11-09 Using Emacs While Running Online Games
These Are The Tools I Use for Table Top Gaming
2020-11-06 Session 5: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Back from Haitus with Subterfuge and Reconaissance
2020-10-29 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Piecing Things Together”
A Few Random Tables to Launch a Campaign
2020-10-28 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - The Sindal Sector”
A Quick Overview of a Third Imperium Sub-Sector
2020-10-27 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - World and Universe Creation”
Procedures Make the World Go Round
2020-10-26 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Trade”
Worldbuilding Through Random Commerce Tables
2020-10-25 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Psionics”
Even Mind Powers Abide by Conservation of Matter
2020-10-14 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Common Spacecraft”
Quirky Ships and Isomorphic Maps
2020-10-13 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Space Combat”
For Sci-Fi RPGs, I Envision Spaceship Combat
2020-10-10 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Space Operations”
Space Ships Ain’t Cheap and There’s a Lot to Them
2020-10-08 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Vehicles”
Plains, Trains, and Automobiles
2020-10-04 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - A Fourth and Final Example of Character Creation”
Having Loads of Fun Rolling Up Characters
2020-10-02 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - A Third Example of Character Creation”
Because Rolling Lots of Dice is Fun
2020-10-01 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Equipment”
Gadgets, Augmentations, Weapons, and Armor
2020-09-30 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Encounters and Dangers”
In Space, Dangers are More Varied
2020-09-29 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Combat”
Quick and Dangerous with Some Nice Skill Additions
2020-09-28 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Skills and Tasks”
Mechanics for Characters to Take Action
2020-09-26 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - A Second Example of Character Creation”
More of the Traveller Character Creation Mini-Game
2020-09-25 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - An Example of Character Creation”
Playing Through the Traveller Character Creation Mini-Game
2020-09-24 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook - Character Creation”
A (Deathless) Mini-Game to Create Your Character
2020-09-23 Let's Read “Traveller: Core Rulebook”
A New Look for an Old School Game
2020-09-18 Session 4: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Many an Interview Leads to a Reveal
2020-09-13 The Player Characters (and new Alien) of New Vistas
Not a Warrior Amongst Them
2020-09-02 Session 3: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Archaic Laws and Arms Sales Gone Wrong
2020-08-16 Thel Sector System Overview
A Systems Overview from New Vistas
2020-08-12 Session 2: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Making an Arms Deal and a Contact
2020-08-05 Session 1: New Vistas in the Thel Sector
Into the Utopic and Pastoral Past
2020-07-21 Once More, a “Stars without Number” Campaign
Getting Started with a Campaign and Repurposing Past Work
2019-08-23 Playstorming a “Stars without Number” Space Combat - Take 2
2019-08-22 Playstorming a “Stars without Number” Space Combat
2019-08-20 A New Fighter Class Starship for “Stars without Number”
2019-08-16 Session 2 exploring the Thel-Sector of “Stars without Number”
2019-08-15 Session 1 of a “Stars without Number” Campaign
2019-08-08 Preparing a Short-Term “Stars without Number” Campaign
2019-08-07 Adding a “Stars without Number” Dataset for gm-notepad
2019-03-12 Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun” - Seeds of Stranger Fruit
2019-03-11 Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun” - Black Stars Uncounted
2019-03-10 Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun”
2019-01-19 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Game Master Resources
2018-12-27 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Factions
2018-12-26 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Xenobestiary
2018-12-24 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Adventure Creation
2018-12-23 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Sector Creation
2018-12-22 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - The History of Space
2018-12-19 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Starships
2018-11-28 Ten Influential RPGs (for me)
2018-07-17 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Equipment and Vehicles
2018-07-15 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - “Systems - Hacking, Advancement, and Hazards”
2018-07-12 Let’s Read “Stars without Number” – Scenes, Saves, and Skill Checks
2018-07-11 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Combat and Healing
2018-07-10 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Psionics
2018-07-09 Let's Read “Stars Without Number” - Character Creation
2018-07-08 Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Into the Waiting Light
2018-07-07 Let's read “Stars without Number”
2012-11-05 Gaming Violence and Children
2012-06-09 Just Arrived – Skyward Steel and Darkness Visible
2012-01-01 RPG Bucket List Or Gaming Resolution for 2012
2011-09-12 Interesting, Albeit Pointless Stats for My Blog
2011-08-31 Contemplating Scene Economy with Seven Players
2011-08-26 Burning Wheel and Bloodstone
2011-08-18 GenCon Games on Demand - Bulldogs!
2011-08-12 Character Creation Session for Family Bulldogs Adventure
2011-07-30 Using Hollowpoint to flesh out our Diaspora campaign
2011-07-30 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #5
2011-06-28 Converting Star Frontier's Vrusk into Bulldogs!
2011-06-26 Bulldogs! Pre-Release Review
2011-06-17 Good News Everyone…Bulldogs! RPG is Here!
2011-06-05 Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #5
2011-04-29 Diaspora Spacecraft Rules Addendum #1
2011-04-29 Z is for Zebullon's Guide to Frontier Space
2011-04-26 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #4
2011-04-21 Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #4
2011-04-11 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #3
2011-04-02 B is for Burning Empires
2011-04-01 A is for Alpha Dawn
2011-03-28 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #2
2011-03-28 Diaspora military campaign
2011-03-26 Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #2
2011-03-25 T1 System Ships of the Exxon Theocracy
2011-03-24 A Couple of T2 Intended to Traverse Hostile Regions
2011-03-23 Two T1 Diaspora Spaceships
2011-03-21 A Handful of T2 Diaspora Spaceships
2011-02-28 Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #1
2011-02-03 Cluster Creation Diaspora