LFG: Space opera, Sci-fi / Horror, on a non "level" based system. (Point buy character building preferred.)

     Hi all.  I'm a TTRPGamer with more than ten years experience as PC / GM looking to play in a Space Opera /  Scifi-Horor adventure.  I've experience in several D20 and Points based systems.  Prefer simpler systems with smaller dice pools (although large dice pools shouldn't be much of a problem on Roll20).  I like plenty of role play opportunities and combat when it moves the plot along...not encounters just for the sake of experience and loot.  I enjoy writing backstory and would like creative input on the direction of the adventure itself...maybe some coop GM-ing.  Not a huge fan of module based adventures.  - I can play Fri, Sat, Sun after 6pm CDT.  Skype ok.  Thanks.

Have you heard of or tried Stars Without Number? Sounds like it ticks a lot of your boxes.

I ran a one-shot last night using OFFWORLDERS. Might be the one you are looking for. Good luck! <a href="http://badwrong.fun/say-hello-to-offworlders-a-rules-light-spacefaring-rpg/" rel="nofollow">http://badwrong.fun/say-hello-to-offworlders-a-rules-light-spacefaring-rpg/</a>

Yeah, hey... Thanks for the great suggestions.&nbsp; Offworlders looks really cool.&nbsp; I like streamlined mechanics.&nbsp; This looks kinda similar to the unisystem.&nbsp; I like it, lots of room for creative development and improvisation.&nbsp; I've seen SWN played. I like that it is d20 based, everyone's familiar with with those systems, though leveling mechanics can be cumbersome.&nbsp; I like my characters to begin with a bit of clout...a backstory and the benefits of a fully fleshed concept, so say, a level of 5 - 7 in a leveling mechanic.&nbsp; I'm gonna experiment with Offworlders some.&nbsp; How was the one-shot?

It was fantastic. All of my players are new to roleplaying games and this helped a lot to get their roleplaying in character going. Offworlders is definitely the game to play for a focused narrative and low prep for whoever runs it. If you want to try it out, let’s plan something in the future.

What style were you thinking of doing? Deep space ship? Colony? Dimensional exploration?

#Juan - Sure thing. #thingjob - I was thinking either a Pulp era space-opera: like Flash Gordon, John Carter or maybe Frank Herbert's Dune.&nbsp; This idea may be too big in scope for now though, so my other idea is exploration:&nbsp; a remote planetary system whose storied riches attracts intrepid explorers who are almost always never heard from again.&nbsp; Like the Odyssey.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Or ...&nbsp; A deep space distress beacon from a crippled geoplanetological survey vessel that has drifted unpowered well beyond long-haul ship lanes.&nbsp; Recovery of the vessel would be of immense value to CeresCorp, who underwrites it's cargo and equipment.&nbsp; Sounds like a serious payday to you and your crew!

"Quest" &nbsp; &nbsp; Strung along a gravelly canyon bottom, the RAAKI warparty's fires flit and flare, projecting amorphous shadows along it's steep, stony walls.&nbsp; Massive blue-green storm clouds roil overhead, brooding in a violet mantle of sky.&nbsp; The threshing time has begun.&nbsp; War-bands around the harsh planetesimal of GAAATH ready their tools of war as their blood begins to boil in the onslaught of the building storm.&nbsp; &nbsp;This is the season of annihilation. &nbsp; &nbsp; KAAL sits amongst&nbsp;the lesser Raaki, those warriors who's seasons number the fewest.&nbsp; Many of the Raaki (translated "lunatic") will not survive this season.&nbsp; Well enough.&nbsp; Their sacrifice will elevate their tribe in social standing, granting them the privilege&nbsp;of conceiving and bearing offspring, insuring the continued survival of his line.&nbsp; He watches, longingly, as his many brothers and sisters engage in their various rites of purification and his blood begins to boil sympathetically.&nbsp; In spite of all his training and meditations to keep the RAAKTATH suppressed within himself his biology still conspires to betray him!&nbsp; It's no little wonder that his race in on edge of extinction,&nbsp; the gaathi whose physiology so perfectly evolved for mindless self-destruction. So as not to succumb to mindless violence, he channels all the destructive energies into himself where his physiology sublimes them, absorbs them, accelerating his thoughts and sharpening his perception whiles simultaneously charging the atmosphere around him with emmissions that disturb the focus of the others around him.&nbsp; Kaal senses their agitation and so leaves the ranks of the raaki in their preparations for war. &nbsp; &nbsp; Alone now, he meditates upon his mission.&nbsp; Drawing upon his biochemically enhanced focus, he prepares himself for the journey to the remote settlement of the HUMAAANS on gaaath.&nbsp; He knows that at this outpost is a spaceport, where he will forge a way for others of his kind to be able to escape the fate of his race and leave their homeworld in quest of a cure.&nbsp; Some way to reverse the cruel evolutionary solution that has brought his race to the brink of destruction.&nbsp; His peoples hopes weigh heavily upon him.&nbsp; He must find a answer. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.