Radiance games use a dedicated game mechanic based on six-sided and eight-sided dice. Almost all actions and situations in a Radiance scenario are resolved using the same basic rules, described ( under the cut )

   The past of the Radiance setting is deep and nebulous. The first age of humanity's exploration of the galaxy was a time of gradual progress across vast gulfs; the warpgates that allow convenient travel between stars would come much later. The generations that have passed since humanity was confined to a single world are so many that history has ( Read more... )

   Radiance is a far-future science fiction setting that I used for a linked tabletop scenario and freeform at Sydcon last year, and will revisit in RADIANCE: RELICS at Eye-Con over Easter.

For the most part, Radiance is Plausibly Hard SF, with futuristic science and technology that includes "things that may or may not be possible, but can ( Read more... )

I have just read Ken McLeod's novel The Cassini Division, in which there is human civilisation in two star systems - the Solar System and New Mars, located on the far end of a wormhole.

The wormhole was originally created in orbit around Jupiter, and then one "side" of it was carried out of the Solar System by a spacecraft travelling at sublight ( Read more... )

   I finished reading Sheri S. Tepper’s The Companions. I suspected that it would be one of her “Humanity has ruined the world, it’s better off without us!” books. Which is kind of was. There were a lot more alien races in this book though.

Ah, willogs. When the main representative of an alien race is named Walking Sunshine and likes nothing so ( Read more... )

   I’ve said that I’ll run a tabletop game at Necronomicon next year, and I’m thinking of writing science fiction. When I mentioned this to jyancraig this evening, he responded “You’re not doing a freeform? Well, why don’t you do a tabletop with Radiance, and maybe I’ll write a freeform in the same setting. With a bit of guidance I can easily write thirty ( Read more... )