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What Sci-fi inspired your Phase world,s games?

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Tell Me What Sci-fi,Movies,TV,Books and Games do you use to Inspired your Phase world,s games?

Well for me,I go with a Mix of Star wars and Star trek mosly.
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Star Wars and Warhammer 40k... thought it was a short lived part of the overall campaign.
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Star Trek, Star Wars, Farscape, doctor who, a few anime I can't recall the names of, guardians of the galaxy, pitch black, chronicles of riddic, and a few more I'm sure I can't recall.
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Simple answer; YES
Detailed answer; I'm 41 years old and have read / watched sci-fi from 1940's era to present day along with comics & manga since I was 3 years old. Do the math.
There ARE gaps in my sci-fi learning, but not much... so what inspired me? See first answer.
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DhAkael wrote:Simple answer; YES
Detailed answer; I'm 41 years old and have read / watched sci-fi from 1940's era to present day along with comics & manga since I was 3 years old. Do the math.
There ARE gaps in my sci-fi learning, but not much... so what inspired me? See first answer.


Good answer, same with me but I am a decade older. I am someone who has seen every movie mentioned in the song 'Science Fiction Double Feature', I know what F.A.B. from Thunderbirds means. I remember the old Japanese 'Starman' movies.
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SpiritInterface wrote:
DhAkael wrote:Simple answer; YES
Detailed answer; I'm 41 years old and have read / watched sci-fi from 1940's era to present day along with comics & manga since I was 3 years old. Do the math.
There ARE gaps in my sci-fi learning, but not much... so what inspired me? See first answer.


Good answer, same with me but I am a decade older. I am someone who has seen every movie mentioned in the song 'Science Fiction Double Feature', I know what F.A.B. from Thunderbirds means. I remember the old Japanese 'Starman' movies.

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DhAkael wrote:
SpiritInterface wrote:
DhAkael wrote:Simple answer; YES
Detailed answer; I'm 41 years old and have read / watched sci-fi from 1940's era to present day along with comics & manga since I was 3 years old. Do the math.
There ARE gaps in my sci-fi learning, but not much... so what inspired me? See first answer.


Good answer, same with me but I am a decade older. I am someone who has seen every movie mentioned in the song 'Science Fiction Double Feature', I know what F.A.B. from Thunderbirds means. I remember the old Japanese 'Starman' movies.

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not really run many games, but when i write stuff for it and branstorm, i draw on babylon 5, star trek, star wars, battlestar galactica (new and old), as well as stuff like stargate, firefly, 2001/2010, outland, etc.

as well as tons of scifi novels and comics.
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Well I also use Babylon 5 wars to add more ships.
Each Space faring race will need ther own Style in ther ships.
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These are the voages of star ship X,

So that would be star treck, also think fire fly inspired a few sessions as well as star wars asteroid monster.
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I haven't run any campaigns in PW but some food for thought might be any of the Stainless Steel Rat books for planet hopping over-the-top crime without leaving corpses. David Drake novels for ultramodern warfare campaigns. Saberhagan for alien invasions.
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The only PW game I ever ran was inspired by the movie "The Ice Pirates". A blast, even when it went completely off the rails.
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My last one clearly had a Farscape Vibe ... Prisoner's with nearly nothing in common becoming the crew of a ship, who's only goal is to stay alive, and evade their old captors ... and sometimes herass the hell out of them.
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I had an older 3G campaign that was kind of like what if the Old Republic went on a 40k style Great Crusade, with clone troopers fighting orks in place of marines. That had clear influences. I ran in campaign around the turn of the millennium that was Farscape/Star Wars inspired, and another also fairly long ago that was more Star Warsy. Both of those prematurely ended in massive explosions.

My current 3G game, I would say, is more it's own thing than most other 3G I've either ran, or ran in. I still on rare ocassion use races from Star Wars or Star Trek. But the latest one is very... Rifty, for lack of a better word. Lot's of rifting and dimension jumping, splugorth fighting. I guess I am inspired by Lovecraft though, when adding in some Splugorth links or mysterious demons. There are some NPCs in there inspired by Regular Show too, now that I think about it.
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