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Supporting Materials: Stars Without Number

If you are looking at an excellent OSR sci-fi game, check out Stars Without Number. But we are playing FrontierSpace slash Star Frontiers! Why bring this up? Well, if you are looking for sci-fi gamemaster tools, this book is a must-have. There are a few tools worth mentioning. First, they have an excellent adventure-focused "world tag" system on page 132 that divides iconic world types into five categories: enemies, friends, complications, things, and places. Have a world or asteroid base that falls into the "forbidden tech" tag? You could encounter a mad scientist enemy or a friendly cyber merchant. You could have an insane AI creating evil robots. Data on this world recovered may be valuable. There could be a horrific laboratory, facility overrun by robots, or creepy corporate research base here. If you need ideas for what could be in or happen at various classic sci-fi locations, this is your book. Just the inspiration alone is worth hundreds of adventures. Could

Classic d00 Dice

These are my dice of choice when playing anything d00. The red-white set, with red as the tens digit, reminds me of the classic, ultra-cheap, red and white dice that came with my original Top Secret game. Those were also 20-sided dice but numbered 0 to 9 twice, and they were in red and white like these. The supposed reason these were like this back in the day is that no d20's existed, and they needed to use a d10 plus a d6 to roll a d20. So a complete set of polyhedral dice in a boxed set was: d4, d6, d8, d10, and d12 - five dice, plus whatever six-siders you stole from the family Monopoly or Yahtzee games. My brother and I grew up with 1d100 games like Top Secret, Gangbusters, and Star Frontiers, so I can read these quick, and they have a feeling of rolling that I grew up with. They roll just like twenty-sided dice, so they are an incredible pleasure to pick up and toss. These dice are slightly oversized with larger numbers, so they read incredibly well. The contrast is excellent,

Where to Buy FrontierSpace?

Okay, you have Star Frontiers; now, where do I get the other books? The same place you got the other books is the best answer! Let's take a look at them and see what we need. FrontierSpace Players Handbook https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/222633/FrontierSpace-Players-Handbook I like this system. The action economy supports the high skill levels that ruined the end-game of the original Star Frontiers for us. Once you have skill levels over 100%, the game is not much is a challenge anymore, and even we lost interest. The higher your skill level goes, the more automatic the game gets, and also less interesting. Here, having a score over 100% means the fun is just beginning, and you can start to do lots of crazy actions. The higher your skill level, the more fun the game gets. This is the action economy of the game. The system is easier and more streamlined than the original game too. The gear feels modernized and contemporary with what today's players expect without being too

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