New Goalsystem Sci-Fi Game In Development

[Logus Vile]

I tried to look up info about the custom dice for World of Tanks, but there was no discussion about this aspect that I could find. What is the probability distribution for those of us who don't currently have the rules. I assume it would be simple enough to simply use a d6 and know what each face represents?

You do not need custom dice at all for the goalsystem games Scott has made. I just like to have specific components for certain games because I like the flavor and just making each game unique.

For example I usually try to create custom character cards or... buy dice specifically for each game.

[CookAndrewB]

I suspected that was the mechanic. Lord knows I have plenty of d6 dice to sticker up if I need a faster reference! I even have a number of stickers that I bought just for that purpose with the Mutant Year Zero games. They have custom dice but I made my own.

[fourcolorfigs]

A youtube reviewer (Abraham Zetina) just published part one of a three part review of Farthest Star. It is incredibly thorough!

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Oh, the Talking About Games guy.  I've watched that channel before.  His vids are always pretty deep dives.

Cripes, I see he's given up all hope of getting hos SLA Industries overview done in 8 parts.  I should catch up with that series.

[leegwonfu]

Super-stoked for the hard copy release!

[fourcolorfigs]

The color coil bound FS is now available on Lulu!

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/scott-pyle/farthest-star/paperback/product-q72ejk.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Thanks for looking!

[zemjw]

Great news.

Most of my weekly spam from Lulu contains an offer code. Usually it just amounts to free p&p, but every little helps

[fourcolorfigs]

I took some pics of said book and posted them on the SMF tumblr site:

https://supermissionforce.tumblr.com/post/662787327452741632

[Jaypeel]

Looks great. Just placed my order with lulu.
I really love 5 parcecs,  but goalsystem is my favorite  rulesets.
Was wondering if you can bolt on the solo play rules to goalsystem delves.

[fourcolorfigs]

Looks great. Just placed my order with lulu.
I really love 5 parcecs,  but goalsystem is my favorite  rulesets.

Thank you!

Was wondering if you can bolt on the solo play rules to goalsystem delves.

Yes, pretty easily. You would need to assign each foe or monster a "role" based on their stats, powers, and goals, but that would not be too tricky.

[CookAndrewB]

I got Farthest Star for Xmas, and finished reading it a couple of days ago. As a guy that REALLY loves Five Parsecs, I can say that FS still has all the elements that I love AND I think I'm going to like the more compact nature of the games. 5P can be hard to tackle with three figures, and it can be hard to scale up an enemy to be a "big-bad" for a battle because enemies just aren't handled that way (I used the salvage team rule set, so enemies primarily popped up in a fashion similar to the movie "Aliens" with detected motion and all of that fun).

I was just wondering if you had character sheets in electronic format. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if I don't have to, but I also prefer to track character development and changed electronically rather than writing things down on paper. 

[fourcolorfigs]

I got Farthest Star for Xmas, and finished reading it a couple of days ago. As a guy that REALLY loves Five Parsecs, I can say that FS still has all the elements that I love AND I think I'm going to like the more compact nature of the games. 5P can be hard to tackle with three figures, and it can be hard to scale up an enemy to be a "big-bad" for a battle because enemies just aren't handled that way (I used the salvage team rule set, so enemies primarily popped up in a fashion similar to the movie "Aliens" with detected motion and all of that fun).

I was just wondering if you had character sheets in electronic format. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if I don't have to, but I also prefer to track character development and changed electronically rather than writing things down on paper.

I will ask Todd about making some fillable character sheets. Thanks for picking the game up!

[CookAndrewB]

That would be great. I can make a character spreadsheet in Excel, but really prefer a nicer-looking character sheet if I can get one.

[fourcolorfigs]

Todd did the roster as a fillable PDF; you can access it here!

https://app.box.com/s/y28avswuf9sam2oa2fke9jqejbu065pb

[CookAndrewB]

That is fantastic. Thanks for the quick turnaround on that!