These videos are wonderful pro-space propaganda, which makes me think they'd be the sort of thing the Commonality would disseminate.

1. The Frontier is Everywhere

2. Life Looks for Life

 I'm setting the Aliens game in a far future science-fiction setting i like to call "Commonality Space" or "Commonality's End.

This is actually just the latest incarnation/revision of a universe with a long and turbulent history on my writing desk and in my gaming. The whole kit-and-kaboodle originated from the setting i helped write for a GURPS ( Read more... )

The game materials are finally prepped, and everthing is just about ready to go.

Here is the basic map of the known galaxy, sans empire flags:


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I'm working up a PBEM "strategy-roleplaying" 4X game using the Victory By Any Means grand campaign rules combined with Full Thrust, and (possibly) Dirtside or Stargrunt, for in-depth tactical resolution of the battles.

The setting i'm using is a hard-ish SF military space opera one, heavily influenced by the Vatta's War and Kris Longknife series. ( Read more... )