Coolest looking RPG product?

Nobilis was beautiful. A coffee table art book.
Planescape with DiTerilizzi art was otherworldly.
Mork Borg is metal!

But for absolute coolness, I have to go with Alternity. It's got a very late 90s, Lexx, Farscape, proto-Matrix type vibe that just both grabs me and also really shows off my age.

#RPGaDay2023 #RPGaDay #Alternity

So, people who have played/know the old version of #alternity #TTRPG, I’m a first time player and I made a Free Agent/Explorer character. What should I look for in terms of a “beat-up trader ship” from my signature equipment? What’s your favourite one?

@zdl This will be my first time playing #Alternity, looks interesting!

@Tim_Eagon We’re playing the old version of #Alternity. The ship was made for Traveller D20 originally but I’ll restat it for Alternity.

Last night we made our player characters for the game of #alternity #ttrpg my friend is running. I’m going to play an Free Agent/Explorer so I digged up a spaceship design I made, wait, 21 years ago? Time flies!
#SciFi

@AndreasKjeldsen Was not really a fan of the Alternity system itself. But Dark*Matter and Star*Drive were neat settings, and I loved some of the species you could play, like these guys.

Sounds weird to say given the current OGL crisis, but I always used to wish they had re-released the Alterniry content as d20 Modern material during the D&D 3E era.
#RPG #Alternity #d20 #OGL #3E

Instead, his former master has been using his personal resources and agents to get revenge, forcing Calai to adapt to a life on the fringes of galactic society, heavily modifying his "new" starship and seeking out the company of other like-minded individuals. (Insert other PCs here.)

#CharacterCreationChallenge #TTRPG #Alternity

Many Sesheyans have a hard time with modern tech, but Calai's talents were discovered by a VoidCorp executive who had him trained as a pilot for his personal starship.

This turned out to be not such a great idea when Calai stole the ship and ran for it. VoidCorp politics are vicious, and admitting that his luxury yacht had been stolen by a lowly Sesheyan would have meant a fatal loss of prestige for his employer, so the theft was never reported.

#CharacterCreationChallenge #TTRPG #Alternity

In the Star*Drive setting, the Sesheyans are an alien species whose homeworld is located inside the borders of the insidious stellar nation VoidCorp, which exploits them as cheap labour. A few Sesheyans, known as Windspirits, manage to escape VoidCorp and live in freedom, although also as fugitives from the VoidCorp agents who seek to recapture them. The pilot Calai Angh'Tokai is one such Windspirit.

#CharacterCreationChallenge #TTRPG #Alternity

#CharacterCreationChallenge Day 7: Alternity

#Alternity is an artifact of the fall of TSR, coming out in 1998 as the company was being taken over by WotC and like many other product was discontinued soon after.

Which is a shame, as it had some interesting ideas, such as a resolution mechanics using a d20 plus a variable situational die that I don't think I've seen used anywhere else.

I also quite liked the Star*Drive setting, so we're making a character for that today.

#TTRPG #TTRPGCharacter

Me: Why is there no retro clone of the Alternity RPG? Somebody should make one.

Also Me: Well aren’t you a good looking “somebody”.

#ttrpg #Alternity #RetroClone

#7TTRPGs By way of introduction, here are the first RPGs I ever played:

#SpaceOpera (I haven't run into anyone since who plays/played it.)
#DnD2e
#DnD2ePlayersOption
#GURPS
#DnD3e
#Alternity
#DnD1e

And then on to #DnD4e and #dnd5e

Lots of D&D, some GURPs, and other things not on the list that were one-shots.

I've got a habit of loving the IDEAs of RPG settings but hating all the details: Example: I love a lot of the trappings of #Spelljammer, but can't stand what they did with it, so I idly write my own ships-in-space setting in my head. I've only tried to run it once, and it failed due to grad school burnout.

I also like #StarDrive for the #Alternity system, but again, want to tweak and rewrite SO MANY things.

@GurglingGrout love it!
Most recently played:
1. #HauntedWest
2. #SavageWorlds
3. #MageTheAscension
4. #13thage
5. #Zweihander
(And ofc, #DnD )

Want to play:
1. #Alternity
2. #TinyD6
3. #Blackhack
4. #Cortex
5. #BlueRose

Alright, we are doing the post hashtags so people can find you

#rpg
#trrpg
#gurps
#D&D
#dnd
#alternity
#spelljammer
#stardrive

#Alternity #Starcraft #RPG #eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alternity-Starcraft-Edition-TSR11618-RPG/203294322788

The other adventure I'm going to run is Exit 23, a classic Dark Matter intro adventure that comes with pregens and maps. When I ran it for the first time in High School a goth friend gave me some art she had drawn as a game prop that I found on my hard drive again.

#Alternity #TerminalCityTabletopCon #DarkMatter