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Setting

The space is far less dangerous than in real life. Any block of rock starting from few kilometers of radius have air. In the vacuum of the space there is no air, but no deadly cosmic rays or extreme temperatures. Relativity never comes to play. When leaving for a space walk there is no need for decompressions to avoid risk of aneurysms… Besides, character are all trained to work in such environments, so no nausea or vertigo will happen.

Just like fighting monsters non-stops does not give long term problems to characters we take lots of artistic licences because it is meant to be fun.

Actions

Reload

The gun is empty or the hero has no more arrows or bolts in his hands… The Reload Action is needed to make certain weapons able to shoot again. Weapons with this property have a number nearby the Reload property that shows how many times it is possible to attack before a Reload is needed. Of course, to actually reload the character needs the correct type of projectile (e.g., bullets, arrows, rounds, bolts…). Projectiles are not counted by shells, charges or rounds, but by how many rounds you can use the weapon at normal efficiency. To tone down Fantasy Ranged weapons, also bows and crossbow have the Reload property; basically it is how many arrows or bolt the hero can keep ready.

Different gravity

We consider the environments to have normal, heavy, light or no gravity. Usually no gravity is used for spaceship of when characters are in a very small planet. Heavy for large planets and light for small compared to Earth.

Normal gravity. No special rules needed.

Light gravity. Advantage in Athletics and Acrobatics. All the rules around weights consider weights halved, all weapon ranges and jumps heights are doubled, and falling damage is halved. Lots of terrains that are normally considered difficult do not slow down.

Heavy gravity. Disdvantage in Athletics and Acrobatics. All the rules around weights consider weights doubled, all weapon ranges and jumps heights are halved. and falling damage is doubled. Most terrains are difficult.

No gravity. Most Athletics and Acrobatics checks are automatic successes. All weights are zero, but beware of the difference between mass and weight, some checks might be still needed. For example, a large boulder is floating slowly, but steadily, torward the control panel. Krusk wants to deviate its trajectory, so he goes with a Strength (Athletics) Skill Check. All weapon ranges are quadrupled (it is impossible to keep precise shoots longer). Movement follows the following rules.

  • If there is air and you have Flight Speed you can move with it normally.
  • If you have climbing speed you can crawl on the surfaces with it.
  • If you have to use your normal movement speed with the help of a free hand you can still crawl along surfaces. But the terrain is considered difficult for you unless the surface is meant to work at zero-g. For example, the inside walls of a spaceship are plenty of support bars and rough surfaces for this very reason.
  • You can move push away from surfaces, but you continue go straight for your speed until you encounter another wall. You decide the speed up your maximum when you push yourself. You cannot use the Dash Action midair.
  • If you receive or deliver a hit you change your direction.
  • It is also possible to change direction midair throwing something heavy.

Space Travel

Interstellar distance is huge in real life. In our settings the distances are similar, but the TecnoMagic invented ways to traverse the void of space at unreal speeds. The distance between systems is usually misured in “HyperSpace days” that basically means how long one has to travel on the hyperspace to be nearby the destination. Two nearby stars are usually distant around seven–eight HyperSpace days. Similarly the distance between planets in the same system is usually in “Space days.”

Normal space travel. Used to leave planets, around destinations, or to move between planets in the same system. Slow, but perfectly precise, it is able to put someone exactly where it needs to.

HyperSpace travel. To move in the HyperSpace is not simply going very fast. HyperSpace is another dimension where any point in the HyperSpace maps with one on the regular space. However this mapping is not straighforward, so a body in one dimension is actually scattered in the other.

It is critical to compute the HyperSpace travel correctly (normal space ship computers can do it in few minutes) to avoid to have the travel finishing with the ship scattered in tiny fragments or with missing parts.

For this reasons HyperSpace travels start and finish at least from a distance of three–six Space days from a system.

Wormhole travel. The industrial use of kind of travel is just theorical, but it may happen naturally and there is at least one recorded and verified case where one small ship did manage to arrive from one border of the universe to the center in just 16 days.

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