LAWLESS SPACE - coming soon to an Internet near you!

Experience HIGH-OCTANE FULL THROTTLE SCIENCE FANTASY ADVENTURE!

At the edge of the known universe is a frontier territory that no intelligent civilization has yet to claim or even recognize. It is a space for pioneers, explorers, criminals, exiles, and marshals, each looking to carve out a home, glory, riches, or justice.

LAWLESS SPACE is populated by:

• Wayward travelers, lost in time through wormholes!
• Blastersword-wielding scions of star-spanning empires!
• Hivemind accountants seeking the deadly 'omega audit'!
• Hyperbike-riding radiation pirates!
• Otherdimensional open-sourceresses infused with crackling cosmic energy!
• Enterprising mobsters connected to the Kaiju Kartel!
• Sentient planetoids going through a teenage goth phase!
• Heavy metal-blaring slamazons riding overclocked warpboards!
• Anthropomorphic animal cosmonauts from parallel realities!
• All manner of other intergalactic denizens!

LAWLESS SPACE is intended to be a game that allows for all manner of absolutely insane sci-fi and science fantasy character ideas and situations, whether played straight or as absurdity.

LAWLESS SPACE is meant to be part blank canvas, part ever-clarifying universe crafted by the contributions of players and their amazing, wacky, badass ideas about what might exist beyond the edge of the cosmos. Think space opera + candy-coated ghost peppers + sleep deprivation to a Psy cover of Manowar.

LAWLESS SPACE makes use of the Fate Core rules to try and allow for character concept flexibility while still offering some sort of narrative-friendly mechanical arbiter (as desired/needed). There might be other systems out there but, whatever, Fate works well to support bizarre high-concept ideas.

Inspirational media:

Comics: 2000 A.D. | Captain Victory | Doom Patrol | Flash Gordon | Heavy Metal | The Incal | New Gods | ODY-C | Saga | Southern Cross | Space Riders
Literature: The works of... Douglas Adams | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Octavia Butler | Samuel Delany | Robert Heinlein | Frank Herbert | Ursula K. LeGuin | H.P. Lovecraft
Movies: 2001 | Alien(s) | Buckaroo Banzai | Event Horizon | The Fifth Element | Guardians of the Galaxy | Heavy Metal | Star Wars | The Wild Bunch
Music: Afrika Bambaataa | David Bowie | Die Antwoord | Gwar | Hawkwind | John Carpenter | Kool Keith | Lady Gaga | Sun Ra
Television: Aeon Flux | Buck Rogers | Farscape | Firefly | The Jetsons | Macross | Red Dwarf | Thundarr the Barbarian | Ultraman
Video Games: Borderlands | Destiny | Dwarf Fortress | Mass Effect | Metroid | Starcraft

As I'm watching Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix, I find myself thinking about what a MU* in 2020 might look like based on ATLA and/or the Legend of Korra, depending on what timeframe might work best.

What would you argue are necessities for success for such a game?

I've got a few that come to mind, but I recognize players may come to the table with some significantly different expectations:

• Clear point in game world/timeline
• Long-term central storyline(s) that all PCs can contribute to
• Opportunities for easily grouping together PCs in scenes
• Wide range of backgrounds & bending abilities
• Some sort of coded conflict resolution system

Given the above, how might you rank/prioritize these (and/or anything else that might be important)? Are any missing the mark?

Interested in fragging filthy xenomorphs with your pulse rifles?

Want to see if you can survive horrifying onslaughts of alien savagery for a slightly larger paycheck than normal?

How about dealing with ungrateful and desperate colonists trying to survive on the outskirts of civilization?

Well, we're looking for a few good staffers to get this game up and running!

Message me if you're interested--whether your skills and available energy might be best suited to building/descing, plot-running, wiki formatting, or whatever. We'll get some conversation going!

Edited to add: we're working off of a Faraday starter DB, so we'll be using FS3 for coded combat etc. It seems perfect for this particular theme.

Holy shit!

@juke It definitely seems to be the case that the mech part of it is very tactical, with a lot of potential customization options for mech suits etc., but the out-of-mech stuff is incredibly rules-light and narrative-focused.

I feel compelled to try to work through what a MU* system setup for it could do and whether it might function well at all.

@Coin This is a really good point. I'd hate for anyone to feel like they had to play a bender just to have any RP agency.

@Cupcake I'm definitely sold on the post-Korra timeline, in part for the reasons you laid out.

I believe there's also CoMUX (http://cmbeta.wikidot.com/) but I'm not sure how active it is.

@Thenomain I was reminded this morning that Abbadon made a PbtA-based Kill Six Billion Demons RPG that I still need to play, too...

@Arkandel Probably not, but I'm just trying to do my part to help ... whatever ... get off the ground.

@popes I agree that this would be the best approach! The last thing I think anyone would want is to feel restricted in this way.

@popes I see you mentioned developing a policy about the # of PCs needed to form a megazord and so on. It may also be worth mentioning how flexible you plan to be (hopefully very) re: the "color" makeup of any given ad-hoc team in a scene--for example, if you have 3 blue rangers and two yellow, or the like.

@WildBaboons I believe Tenebrous Isles is still around but I don't know how active it is.

@somasatori I agree!

@Cadi said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Avatar: The Last Airbender. Any time period. I want to play a Sand bender or Air bender, damn it!

Allow me to point you over to this thread!

While most PbtA games wouldn't work well for a MU*, I think that the Broken Worlds game for K6BD could probably translate quite fantastically.

@Wretched It probably could be fun, but I am not convinced that the scope needs to be expanded beyond human PCs.

@GreenFlashlight I think keeping the PC focus on humans will be fine.

@Ominous Good question. I'm looking into FS3 options at the moment, so skill specialties (like lightning) might be one way to make this happen.

I know that the Fate SRD has the Stormcallers example mechanic that could be reshaped just a bit.

Or maybe take some of the basic work of World of Elements to build on?