Tuesday, July 18, 2006
I'm just about done reading the Blue Planet V2 Player's Guide, and I have to say I like the setting. It's depressing. The world has gone to shit, and now Earth has discovered and colonized a fresh world that the corporations are now helping to destroy. It's just sad.
However, it has that element of the frontier that really appeals to me. It's like they took the cyberpunk genre and crossed it with space exploration and the Wild West. Very nice.
The system seems fairly straightforward and workable, as well. The entire thing is based on d10 rolls, and it's based on rolling under a target number on one, two or three d10s. Combat is bloody lethal, though. It's meant to be fairly realistic, in that if you get shot, stabbed or even punched, there's a good chance you'll be seriously injured, if not killed. Getting into a fight can have rather nasty consequences.
However, it has that element of the frontier that really appeals to me. It's like they took the cyberpunk genre and crossed it with space exploration and the Wild West. Very nice.
The system seems fairly straightforward and workable, as well. The entire thing is based on d10 rolls, and it's based on rolling under a target number on one, two or three d10s. Combat is bloody lethal, though. It's meant to be fairly realistic, in that if you get shot, stabbed or even punched, there's a good chance you'll be seriously injured, if not killed. Getting into a fight can have rather nasty consequences.
// posted by Chris @ 11:10 AM 
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