Icar - Free Science Fiction RPG Google Group

New Forum!

2007-03-26T07:35:20Z

The Google Group test was good but not quite what we were looking for.
I have decided to move back onto a phpbb forum and I will be closing
this one shortly. Please do go an register on the new Icar forum:
[link]
See you there!
Rob

Adding a bit about technology to society?

2007-03-19T10:45:16Z

The society document inherently needs descriptions about technology.
Automatons, for example, can be seen as items of technology and space
flight is also in there. Should there be a little bit more about the
core technologies, such as Grav (that's used everywhere) and Light
Jumping? Should I just get on and update the old Technology files?

Icar Bionics - complete overhaul

2007-03-19T10:43:35Z

Byrn, a good friend of mine and I have been discussing bionics in Icar
for some time. They are important as they make the game less lethal
and thus give a bit more balance for the long term game. Installing
human upgrades is an inherently difficult thing to do as there needs
to be a balance between cost and what the improvements allow you to

Re: Some questions and some stuff of our own.

2007-03-08T18:24:27Z

Its another row on the ranged attack hit modifier table, but fair
enough.
Any rule can be subjected to abuse, and this one obviously can be, but
it requires a stealth roll with a Wit roll from the victim, so unless
noticed or asleep: timely or untimely death. We have tested it,
sparingly, but then the situations hasn't warranted the use or given

Re: clarity like a dirty glass but cleaner

2007-03-08T09:49:21Z

Welcome Avast!
I do hope I can be of help to your future games!
Beyond the setting, most of my players pick their own planet to come
from in Icar. The culture across human occupied space is actually
quite uniform. Although local planets might have their own laws or
philosophical tendencies, they do still run by similar means. This

Re: Some questions and some stuff of our own.

2007-03-08T09:38:07Z

I replied to this before but Google had an error. Trying again...
This is cool and with any house rules, complexity added. It's not
something I'd put in the rules as I try and keep them as simple as
possible.
It's a good rule but will need a fair bit of playtesting. I fear that
it overrides rolling initiative and players will end up just trying to

Re: clarity like a dirty glass but cleaner

2007-03-07T19:55:41Z

Well, yeah, he got it better than I, but then he is my GM...
Despite the amount of time needed for this, if one creates a culture
and/or planet for ones own, it does give freedom to the creation as
well as helping to flesh out the character more and I found it to be
quite a nice way of doing it.

clarity like a dirty glass but cleaner

2007-03-07T19:46:04Z

Hello
I GM this game, it was found, it excited me, and finally a system that
can do justice to mecha (ahhh). Heres to a Borg named Z firing 4 Korg
5's (two mounted, two held) at swarming crawling nasty doom beasts.
A clarification to the aforementioned character creation process.
Blurb:
As previously mentioned by muh colleague we weren't to familiar with

Some questions and some stuff of our own.

2007-03-04T10:47:09Z

all right, some stuff I promised a while ago.
First some rules we've made, both from last session (last night) and
from earlier sessions:
New Range combat option:
Additional Targets beyond 1st: -5 per target (i.e. 3 targets -10)
Sneak Attack:
First move in combo for free, for each consecutive move opponent can

Re: Another new one.

2007-02-26T12:14:18Z

We use both society books to look through, they do overlap I've
noticed, and perhaps there are more differences than more info in
number 2, but at the moment and the way the GM does things, he
basically uses the books as resources to implement his own ideas and
our ideas into the world, as with most rpgs, the setting changes

Re: Another new one.

2007-02-26T10:12:00Z

Thanks very much for posting! It's good to have some input from
outside my own group. I'm indebted to the players who attend each
week. Without their constant feedback and good use of the rules (still
reeling from Byrn's classic disarm/rearm twin set) I'd be swimming in
a vacuum.
It would be splendid if you could twist the arms of your other players

Re: Hello from the new guy

2007-02-26T09:25:37Z

Hello and welcome!
A pencil and paper rpg is where you sit around with your friends and
pretend you're somewhere. In Icar, you pretend you are in the far
future. It's a social game where you get to sit and have fun face-to-
face. It's not really played online, you have to have a group of
friends willing to play, I'm afraid! It's not actually played online,

Another new one.

2007-02-25T13:12:13Z

Well, I have already had a chat, sort of, with the writer, Rob, giving
him the necessary praise and good words that would be but right and
fitting after finding this game through a random search early one
morning after hours of playing Star Wars D20.
I am part of a gaming group at my college, not anything organised, but

Hello from the new guy

2007-02-25T06:50:54Z

Im still reading the game docs and would like to be an active player.
I have never player an online "pen paper" type rpg before and not
quite sure where to start.
Im impressed by the detailed background and in depth details.

Re: Changes to Psychotheatrics table

2007-02-21T12:54:12Z

Super, thanks Byrnie!