[generic] Star Cops the unofficial TTRPG idea

[sanjurotokage]

Been thinking about the zero gravity environment. My thought that anyone with a job requiring an extended period in zero-G will need to spend at least a month on Earth to rebuild bone and muscle mass between assignments. Temporary trips/assignments in zero-G don't require this. Spending time on the Moon will extend the length of time before you need to return to Earth. (Riffing on my mother's days working in Egypt in the 1940s/1950s; you got a week or 2 local leave every year, and every 2-3 years you got an extended home leave.)

This would be monitored using bone densitometry. There would be a set-up on the Moon and any major space station with a large permanent population. All manned installations have a gym with resistance training, and all personnel are expected to exercise for at least 2 hours daily (missed exercise periods are to be made up when feasible). Larger installations may have a centrifuge ring to simulate gravity; often sleeping areas are located in the ring.

The tv series did mention there was mandatory requirement to return to Earth for a period due to this. It would be down time and sometimes it lead to cases on earth like visiting flooded Venice (in the universe it is underwater)

 

[Stronty Girl]

It was a nice simple and fast system. Your character sheets were clear and well laid out.

I was surprised our firearms skill was so low (30%). Which resulted in the metagaming thing of us fighting the NPCs with fisticuffs and/or hitting them with a spanner (because 60%). Fortunately the system meant that was a sensible option, rather than a death sentence!

You might want to consider just giving the pregens a surname, so players can pick their own first name and gender.

 

[sanjurotokage]

It was a nice simple and fast system. Your character sheets were clear and well laid out.

I was surprised our firearms skill was so low (30%). Which resulted in the metagaming thing of us fighting the NPCs with fisticuffs and/or hitting them with a spanner (because 60%). Fortunately the system meant that was a sensible option, rather than a death sentence!

You might want to consider just giving the pregens a surname, so players can pick their own first name and gender.

I will be shifting the skills about - what I may do for the one shot is maybe give the characters a couple of xp to advance as the levels were more based on if you had created characters like in Rivers

I will apply the naming for the games too to give the players a little bit of freedom to expand the characters to suit for the table

THanks

 

[Maddz]

Something that occurs to me is that Star Cops could lead to troupe play with a rotating GM. Basically, either the GM's usual character is on mandatory Earth leave or is on their other job.

 

[Guvnor]

Agreed regarding surnames and no fixed gender.
I was comfortable with low firearms skill since I don't associate cops with guns. However if we have guns, it seems very odd we wouldn't be well trained, at least 60%.
It was a great game, I really enjoyed the procedural SF I have enjoyed recently.
RoL is a great basis, I suggest you treat the new BRP QS since that is open licensed and also has slightly different takes on an essentially light build of BRP.

 

[sanjurotokage]

Agreed regarding surnames and no fixed gender.
I was comfortable with low firearms skill since I don't associate cops with guns. However if we have guns, it seems very odd we wouldn't be well trained, at least 60%.
It was a great game, I really enjoyed the procedural SF I have enjoyed recently.
RoL is a great basis, I suggest you treat the new BRP QS since that is open licensed and also has slightly different takes on an essentially light build of BRP.

Thanks glad you enjoyed the theme - I have the BRP Quickstart so will look back at it along with the heavy BRP book and GM screen.

In regard to guns, these are banned in space though the ISPF do have a gun that can tune the rays of the gun to target not only skin, but specific pigmentation. They were designed by an Australian company.

EMP rifles do exist too though these are military and banned though unsurprisingly both the US and Chinese governments have rifles that work in space.

The low skill is probably more on that in character creation in rivers you only get to assign a fix number of skills at 60%