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Space Aces: TOS (The Original Sheets)

Campy Sci-Fi Adventure RPG System on a Business Card · By P0rthos47

Great game!

A topic by bleeps created Oct 29, 2020 Views: 404 Replies: 4
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I stumbled on this game while looking for a one-shot to run for my group as only two players were available to play. I was able to digest the rules and whip up a Star Trek/No Man's Sky hex crawl within two hours and ran it later that night. I stumbled a bit with the Heat and Complication mechanics but I think that will smooth itself out now that 've read the blog post on playing the game.

The tables in particular are really useful and inspiring. I immediately made some custom ones as part of my prep and everything worked out great. I can see myself easily using the Space Aces tables in other games.

Keep it up!

Developer

Thanks so much! Funnily enough, I was just working on clarifying the Heat / Complication issue today. I just uploaded a slightly reworked core rule card just now with some more clear language surrounding that and other things. Let me know if it helps at all.

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The Cost/Benefit change is much more clear! 

One other thing I didn't realize was that the Heat track is shared by the group. We were playing that it was an individual track and I was wondering how anyone got very high on it. I think I might still adjust the amount of advancement on that for two players.

The stats were another interesting thing to read about in your log. Coming from D&D we interpreted them to be: Moxie ~ Str/Con, Smarts ~ Int/Wis, Wiggles ~ Dex, Friends ~ Cha, Pockets ~ as described in the log. Seeing how all of them (aside from Pockets) are more like FATE's approaches, I think we'll give it a shot next time and see how that works out.

Developer

Fantastic! And yes, the heat track fills up very quickly the bigger the team. Tends to make for hilarious breakdowns of plans as things go awry. Spontaneous combustion is not uncommon when rolling a natural 1 and a Cost at heat level 20. :D

@bleeps the legion of us Space Aces is growing!