https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/the-lost-universe/
The official NASA tabletop RPG adventure, said to be "designed for a party of 4-7 level 7-10 characters and is easily adaptable for your preferred tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) system."
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My game doesn't have levels
I will still be happy to run this for level 10 characters in 13th Age, ICON, or Godbound.
Admittedly, the adventure's connections to astronomy and astrophysics seem rather forced, and there is plenty of telling rather than showing.
>in 13th Age, ICON, or Godbound.
Why those systems specifically?
holy shit, modern /tg/ sucks.
>specifies levels in the same sentence they say it's for one's TTRPG of choice
This just in: nogames finds out that classless, levelless nonsense without a sense of progression isn't fun without likeminded individuals. have a nice day.
who said no progression? or no likeminded individuals?
RPG of choice implies games without levels or classes are in fact supposed to be on the table. So by stating the levels this actually means some options aren't available. Not even going into the fact that balance can swing massively from 4 people to 7, that's a huge range.
They may as well have said "compatible with D&D 5e and maybe pathfinder 1e if you work at it" and been done with it. But even then giving level ranges can make the power scale vary a lot depending on what edition you're playing. And then if there's literally any combat encounters they need stat blocks for enemies which adds even more variance. A 2nd edition sheet will not be compatible with a 4th edition monster.
>NASA scientists from a world without the Hubble get isekai'd to a fantasy world where they do something that changes the timeline and restore the Hubble
That gets a lot of points for creativity
That-that sounds kinda dumb. Why not just make a modul where a fantasy setting that's around the level of 1960s earth + magic who have only recently started trying to get to the moon.
Like keep the edutainment stuff but add some realistic space stuff stuff.
what are levels?
Points for originality, but it's a railroaded isekai with a lot of talking to different NPCs. A fantasy world's first space mission is exciting, but they could have done better.
>NASA
literal goyslop
holy frick, yes we get it, you follow a 4000 year old handbook written by the people who chop the tips of their wieners off. what does your desert hook nose religion that believes that the earth is flat have to do with this thread though?
I AM SUCH A SCHIZOOOOOOOOO I AM A SCHIZO MAN I NOTICE THINGS LOOK AT ME I AM THE SPECIAL BOY I AM A SCHIZO BOY
homie what do you think you are replying to?
Why are you pretending that flat earth is a Christian thing and not a contrarian homosexuals on the internet thing?
It is a fundamentalist thing if taking the verses about earth's "ends/pillars/four corners/mountain from which all the world's kingdoms are seen" literally
Nazislop
Oh, ja!
moon landing was faked earth is flat
if the landing was faked why did the russians stop trying
There's a version of this but for a different space thing that was more tabletop-based. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sealofapproval.php#id--Computer_Simulation--Kerbal_Space_Program--Simulation
Cool stuff
Does it work with mtas?
Forgot pic
Well good to know this anon got BTFO'd
>bringing up old shit
cringe and L
>nooooo don't point out my bullshit nooooooo
I'm sorry people remembered you're moronic.
>Fusion will be 5 years away for 300 years
It was 20 year away for like, 30 years, now we've jumped to 5. Even if progress is twice as bad as before, we'll get it within another 30.
Delta Green op?
>Beings from somewhere in the Dreamlands use hypergeometry to steal Hubble. Agents accidentaly enter while investigating.
What's the SAN loss for meeting real fantasy races?
NASA sure knows how to roleplay!
I skimmed through it and it doesn't seem to have any stats or check DCs or anything so IDK why they specified a level range
Maybe they removed the connection to 5e last second.
Absolute garbage, borderline ChatGPT tier shovelware.
Because you fight a dragon. Sure the entire rest of it is for level 1 but that dragon fight would mulch any party that's challenged by the rest of the adventure.
Hard to say if that's intentional or a bad sign of the quality of nerds NASA is wasting taxes on these days. 5e doesn't do an amazing job of teaching players how to plan and run adventures, but you'd expect that fricking astrophysicists and engineers would have the nerd credentials to write a decent adventure. What they've got here is like "we never even skimmed the DMG"-tier writing.
The guy who wrote this was probably smarter than me and he probably played a little bit of D&D. This is clearly a case of "Anyone can write that D&D shit".
It's like Saruman trying to run an army. It's not that Saruman isn't smart, he's super-smart, his lofty concerns require such enormous intellect that he underestimates anything outside his specialties.
>"Anyone can write that D&D shit".
I feel like this is actually proof of the opposite. Very smart space man clearly CAN'T write D&D shit.
Bro, I can cut you some slack for not reading Two Towers, but ffs what part of "underestimates anything outside his specialties" do you not understand?
The guy who came up with the idea was way smarter than me but he was thinking "Anyone can write that D&D shit", so he handed it off to the only intern in the office who had ever played D&D, who was also probably smarter than me and who also thought "Anyone can write that D&D shit". They were both wrong, but it happens all the time.
>This adventure is designed for a party of 4-7 level 7-10 characters and is easily adaptable for your preferred tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) system.
Who the frick at Hasbro has decided to pump money into getting youtube and FRICKING NASA to pimp their shitty game in its twilight year as they get ready to release a new edition?
Is this really the ideal fantasy world of NASA interns? A world where everyone is a giant space nerd obsessed with astrophysics, solar science, biological science, etc. like they are?
A world where all the space nerds share tea and biscuits instead of telling them to stop pretending to be an elf and get back to work
I do wish there was a hard(er) sci-fi rpg that doesn't go full Expanse tier ancient aliens moronation. Humans only and their petty grievances with one another.
You've got gundam and battletech for that vibe if you can tolerate mechs and melodrama
>mechs and melodrama
Damn, that would actually be a great name for a UC Gundam-inspired system.
Cyberpunk 2020 Deep Space look it up
"Bits of Earth falling into fantasyland" is the premise of Forgotten Realms, no?
Well has anybody tried the TTRPG? Is it actually fun?
It’s a scenario, not a system
Fitting, as NASA is a giant LARP
it's absolute trash. half-orcs and mages and elves. No spaceship. So I wrote this yesterday, it's better and it actually has rules. And it's about, you know, a space mission.
Nice work anon. Fits better for a NASA rpg than "Fantasy isekai where everyone are space nerds like me!" I'd run it myself if I had a proper group right now.
thanks
I mean it's kinda obvious that they wanted to get WOTC in on this but WOTC for some reason wasn't interested.
I'll definitely run it this fall though, maybe couple it with 'Apollo 47' to give free space jargon to the players.
Whole thing may as well be a horror story: A whole fricking planet inhabited only by "I FRICKING LOVE SCIENCE™" plebbitors. Fricking vile.
NASA doing a solid for Hajime Kanzaka is pretty nice.
>The official NASA tabletop RPG adventure
Why?
To delude the public into thinking they're just "le quirky space nerds", when really they've always been a front for the NRO.
What's next? MacDonalds RPG adventure? God I hate americans.
They already did a Wendy's one, you're a few years late
They already did one for Wendy, from what I heard it was quite bad.
>The Lost Universe
>[Guard Captain] Roxanna Treban
>~40 year old female Half-Orc. A tall and imposing figure with hair always tied up and numerous visible scars over muscle. Neutral Good.
Fa/tg/uys, I think they know about our Orc threads...
>”Easily adaptable to any TTRPG system”
>For level 7-10 characters
>uses d20s & ’high’ DC checks
>’1d6’ damage
>1,000 gold pieces
>lawful/chaotic good/evil
>Half-Orcs, Tieflings, Dark Elves
>’default’ darkvision
>no mention of D&D let alone 5e
Perfect for Blades in the Dark
Why would I want a fantasy scenario from NASA?
Jeez, decades pass, but Cyberpunk Deep Space is still the best "real space" module?
And why exactly is it the best "real space" module?
Because it puts emphasis on what actually concerns real life cosmonauts: microgravity, radiation, air pressure.
>cosmonauts
>cosmonauts
You mean astronauts, right?
What about Traveller, Eclipse Phase and Sufficiently Advanced?
Different anon, but what are the strengths and weaknesses of each system?
Nice! We need more people interested in space!
Not hard science enough.
Not science at all, really. Unless you count infodumping a couple pages info about the hubble space telescope on players "scientific"
Is it so much to ask for a system that includes magic and junk but also has a lot of realistic scientific stuff on top of that. Like the reason why we can't do all that cool sci-fi stuff in real life because of the limits of the physical world so just having literal magic to supplement the hard science stuff would be cool.
I don't mind this setting. It gives some classic SF vibes, like a cross between A Pail of Air, Nightfall, and Pern.