1 role-playing game
1.1 game mechanics
1.2 setting
1.3 supplements
role-playing game
the role-playing game written warren banks , toren atkinson including contributions john scott tynes , monte cook , andrew j lucas , published green ronin publishing in 2002. game spoof , homage 1950s , 1960s science fiction adventure television, such lost in space.
game mechanics
the game mechanics heavily rooted in basic role-playing system. dice mechanic when performing skills roll high possible without going on skill value. system brings in concept of 0 dice, act similar hero/fate/drama points other role-playing game systems.
setting
the following quote accurate summation of setting.
year 2025. earth spacecraft routinely crisscross solar system, leaving confines has remained impossible until now. scientist in employ of spacecorp, firm in dire financial straits, has invented better-than-light (btl) drive. if successful, usher mankind age of interstellar travel , spacecorp black. drive tested on spacecraft designated spaceship zero, space hopper mark v stripped of weapons accommodate btl drive , generator bendall field protects craft extreme gravity btl drive creates. presumably, or of pcs members of 0 s crew.
regrettably, when btl drive activated, doesn t move 0 @ better-than-light speeds advertised. instead, gives ship infinite mass, creating gravity destroys entire universe , making ship ground 0 (pardon pun) new big bang.
once crew through freaking out, decide use deconstitutor – setting s equivalent of hypersleep, works reducing people essential salts (sound familiar, lovecraft fans?) storage – , wait new universe re-evolve should, theoretically, carbon copy of original.
well, btl drive, nice theory. [1]
thirteen billion years later crew reconstituted, hope universe 2 has evolved in same way universe 1 destroyed had. did, except few small differences, notably race of alien conquerors ravaging solar system.
there large number of lovecraft , cthulhu references throughout setting , game manual.
supplements
there 3 published adventures spaceship 0 roleplaying game. written @ least toren atkinson others credited noted. follow ongoing linear story arc. titles of 3 adventures are:
asteroid x (toren atkinson, evan sass, rick achberger, matt wiseman) adventure maps
slave ship of despair. (toren atkinson, warren banks, andrew j. lucas, , brian chainsaw campbell)
the strange secret of dr. quisling. inspired concept bob wilkins
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