[HN Gopher] The Lost Universe: NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game...
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The Lost Universe: NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game Adventure
Author : theshrike79
Score : 61 points
Date : 2024-03-05 08:11 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (science.nasa.gov)
(TXT) w3m dump (science.nasa.gov)
| Nzen wrote:
| tl;dr this links to a pdf that provides guidance and world-
| building for a role-playing game master/referee to run a one-shot
| adventure that involves an astronomy puzzle, maybe. (I've not
| read too closely, to avoid spoiling for myself.) The text largely
| eschews any stats so people can adapt it to their system of
| choice. The initial conceit seems to involve the literal players
| astrally projecting into the characters they create, who are
| denizens of some exoplanet imbued with magic. The players
| traveled there after our Hubble Telescope disappeared.
| BryantD wrote:
| Excellent summary. The adventure is clearly written with D&D in
| mind and would be harder to adapt to other systems, although
| it's certainly possible.
| RIMR wrote:
| My first thought that was D&D wouldn't be a great system,
| because you have to put the Hubble Space Telescope into the
| universe, and that really ruins the fantasy world vibe.
|
| With a little effort, you could work this into a Cyberpunk
| campaign, as Night City is set in the United States after
| all. Or you could just create a more story appropriate
| version of Hubble in the world of your choice.
|
| I read through the campaign, and it seems fun enough if done
| right.
| Karrot_Kream wrote:
| There's like 3 things in that whole PDF that have stats
| associated at all (recommended levels, chance of getting hit
| by some arrows, some damage dice.) If you can't convert that
| to a different system then maybe it's worth learning one RPG
| system well.
| BryantD wrote:
| Perhaps also of interest: https://itch.io/jam/indie-nasa-
| adventures
|
| This is a tabletop game jam sparked by the NASA release. It is
| mildly snarky about D&D. The challenge is to write a TTRPG
| adventure that centers at least one NASA image. itch.io tabletop
| game jams often produce some cool stuff so I think it's worth
| watching.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| > that Centers at Least One NASA* Image
|
| What does that mean? Or is it just a grammar thing and they
| mean centres on, focuses on, is built around...
| Karrot_Kream wrote:
| > It is mildly snarky about D&D.
|
| Truly one of the most obnoxious aspects of online RPG
| discourse.
| Supermancho wrote:
| Nzen's summary was flagged, but seems accurate enough to me.
|
| It's a 43 page PDF for a freeform adventure (no specific
| ruleset), largely describing NPCs, fantasy environments, and acts
| + plot beats around some NASA images. There are some supplemental
| materials, as well.
| ChikkaChiChi wrote:
| Time to put on my robe and wizard hat.
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| Gasp. Is bash.org dead? Internet archive is showing no mirrors
| in a long time.
| Daneel_ wrote:
| Sadly, yes.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721
| avereveard wrote:
| an attempt to run it trough a GPTs if you need an external master
| and want to keep some mistery about the world for the first
| playtrough: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-gVJOtGzZZ-the-lost-
| universe uses the booklet a knowledge base and a python script to
| roll checks
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