Firefly the Role Playing Game

POSTED BY: NomAnor01
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 8, 2006 04:59
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NOMANOR01

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:55 PM

Forgive my newbness if this is discussed (i can't find a search button anywhere)

I play D&D and played the Star Wars RPG a few times. I was thinking, as vast as the Firefly univese is, it wouldn't be anything at all to convert the Star Wars RPG into a Firefly RPG.

You have the ships, instead of calling them blasters and such, just call them whatever gun is being used (shotty, 6 shooter, rifle, you get the point)

Has anyone here actually done this yet and played a game with friends?

I might once i get the rest of my friends hooked on it hehehe.

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MANIACNUMBERONE

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:09 AM

wow, are you in for a lot of replies.

CYRENIUS

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 3:12 AM

Hmmm... I too see your plan...
I have hosted the Star Wars RPG ever since the day it came out and it is possible, perhaps, to make Firefly out of something like it. If we can gather enough support for it to be done, I'd love to help create a Firefly RPG, dice or not.

Work work work....

GOJIRO

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 3:44 AM

TenthCrewMember has been playing a Firefly RPG using wild west/zombies RPG. I think it's called "Deadlands"? I haven't played it, but from what he was telling me, Deadlands is a pretty good fit with the FF 'verse. They even have a Deadlands in Space version.

I used to play Traveller ages ago (the original version, with the little books), and I think it would be a great fit. I just don't know anyone locally that games anymore. Aside from TCM, that is.

gojiro

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:40 AM

Geeze, Gojiro...steal my thunder.

Yeah, I made some conversions for Deadlands...

a) toss out the monsters and all arcane stuff
b) replace them with reavers and psychics (NPC only)
c) add skills that are space related (I don't have the Deadlands Lost Colony stuff)
d) replace Union w/ Alliance and Confederate w/ Browncoat and everything else falls into place.
c) had to do some "ship design" stuff, but found alot of what I needed online because there are soooo many Browncoats out there!

Whala! Instant Firefly adventure, and no need to rewrite the system!

The best part is it already has the whole western theme, and the system is an award-winning design that works real well for action packed adventure!

CILANTR!
TCM

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GOJIRO

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:44 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by TenthCrewMember:
Geeze, Gojiro...steal my thunder.

I just borrowed it, is all.

gojiro

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:48 AM

Just had another quick thought...what about making rules for a LARP (Live Action Role Play) game based on Firefly?

I've been playing White Wolf's Vampire last couple of years. Lots of fun actually, despite the theme. Mechanics would be fairly simple as we would not have alot of janky superpowers and fear of sunlight, fire and stakes.

thoughts?

TCM

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CYRENIUS

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:53 AM

Man... that would rock... It's like all the coolness of LARP without all the gayness of Vampire.
With so many good ideas, you should run for dictator.

Work work work....

BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:41 PM

Welcome to the site NomAnor01. Glad to have you with us.

My first convert has created a Firefly RPG using a variation of Traveler and Deadlands. We have been playing it now for about 8 months. We have been having a great time w/ the game. There is not too much dice rolling, there is lots of role playing, and my friend runs a great game complete w/ visual aids and plot twists.

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THALOS

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:20 PM

There are alot of people who have altered their favorite RPG to fit into the Firefly universe. Firefly has so much "common" features that lots of systems would work well. Some use D20, some Traveler, some Cyberpunk 2020/Fuzion. It has even shown up with the company who currently writes for the "Buffy/Angel" RPGs (whos name of course escapes me at the moment.

If you are looking to run your own game the link below leads to a great site with a TON of useful information and ideas:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=53

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