Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/05/24/critical-hits/

Dave T. Gamer commented on my site recently, and pointed me in the direction of CthulhuTech. I like it by the way, but it isn’t free, so it’s just going to have to wait until after I’ve checked out D20, which is a free RPG.

Before I approved his comment I followed my usual procedure of checking his link, the one that will be left on my site in the comment, to see if it is porn or some other unsavory content. I always do this and I’m always blown away by the quality of the websites out there in The RPG Bloggers network. Dave’s site in particular is a very professional blog written by someone with an obvious love of the games/comics field.

Critical Hits

What Dave says here for example, about a D20 sci-fi RPG based around Star Trek is exactly the sort of thing I’m toying with at the moment.

I’ve also been reading Dune again.

I’d forgotten what an interesting background it is for science fiction role playing games. The jihad against computers which replaced them with humans trained, and probably altered, to do the same job gives a background with a primitive medieval flavour which has spaceships at the same time. Nice. I couldn’t see myself adopting a pure Dune background for my role-playing games however, because I love droids too much and Dune doesn’t have any. But a Dune-like setting where the jihad wasn’t completely successful and there are still robots and artificial intelligences around (discriminated against and misunderstood, forced into the shadows) – now that might be interesting.