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Faster Than Light: Nomad

by Stellagama Publishing

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[2024-08-18]

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New kid in the block of Sci-Fi rules, and my go-to system for casual Science Fiction Roleplay.

Born from Stellagama Cepheus Quantum one-pager, these rules are fast but not trivial. They utilize a dice-pool Xd6 mechanics, simpler than Cepheus' modifier arithmetic for conventional 2d6. The rules include:

  • Fast character creation - even faster with my FTL:Nomad Generators! No lifepath mechanics though, which might be a miss when referring to a Traveller-like game. But again, chargen in Traveller occupies a whole session of game time, a luxury when one has resources only for a quick game.

  • Psionics

  • Computer Hacking

  • Robots and Xenofauna construction rules

  • Vehicle and Spaceships combat that are fast (and somewhat unified)

  • Detailed but also fast space ship construction mechanics. These rules were expanded one of the next supplements.

  • Lots of tables for random encounters.

The A5-format book became my handy traveller companion.

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