Canageek (Roleplaying account)One of my players wants to a play a dog person in my Alternity/Stardrive game. Fits in well enough with the setting, but I would like some lore to go with it: can anyone point me towards any dog like aliens from other science fiction settings that I could borrow ideas from? Don't care what medium it is, though, obviously ttrpgs would be the easiest to steal from
Audrey Winter@HeyeBodo I am in the initial stages of a project to convert material from the old #StarFrontiers and #Alternity TTRPGs into #StarTrekAdventures 2e. I'll be beginning with the SF aliens (Dralasites, Vrusk and Yazirians).
I have a project idea, tying into that #StarTrekAdventures game I was asked to run.
I want to do species writeups for the #StarFrontiers and #Alternity aliens (some of you may also remember them collectively grouped together in #d20Future ) in STA. That includes the Sathar!
I even have a concept of a plan of an idea: the PCs will be a specialized Away Team (senior officers going on ATs is just *stupid*) on a ship investigating a newly-discovered rogue planet drifting in deep space. I even know some things I want them to find there, including aliens from #StarFrontiers and #Alternity!
Timothy S. BrannanDark•Matter: Alternity vs. d20
Last year, I spent some quality time with the Alternity Game system, particularly Dark•Matter. Today I wanted to spend some time comparing the d20 version with the Alternity version.
#d20 #ttrpg #darkmatter #Alternity
https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/05/darkmatter-alternity-vs-d20.html
Last year, I spent some quality time with the Alternity Game system, particularly Dark•Matter. Today I wanted to spend some time comparing the d20 version with the Alternity version.
#d20 #ttrpg #darkmatter #Alternity
https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/05/darkmatter-alternity-vs-d20.html
Raurquiz#transformers #sevendaysofprime #autobot #optimusprime #convoy #altmode #g1 #reissue #godginrai #fireconvoy #armada #energon #starconvoy #masterpiece #mp10 #binaltech #alternity #revengeofthefallen #ageofextintion #thelastknight #legends #fantoys #mb06 #actionfigures #hasbro #takaratomy
Floaty BirbAnyway, my imaginary spaceship is a small interstellar scout, built by a human colony world that was abandoned due to its former overlords being distracted by the Second Galactic War (which, in the #Alternity #StarDrive universe, lasted over a century and blew a lot of things up).
I will call the homeworld "Novayashin", which is short for "Novaya Shin New Fiji Nueva". For unclear reasons, citizens of this planet are called "Space Possums"; most are human but with a few added alien refugees.
In this thread, I'm going to review some aliens from the #Alternity roleplaying game and talk about how cool they are, with pictures. 🧵
Alternity is a science fiction #TTRPG from the 90s that was discontinued because its rulebooks were written in an unreadable font. Much like D&D, it came with default settings (a modern conspiracy one and a futuristic space opera one), but was intended to be flexible; these aliens came from its Player's Handbook and can be adapted to different space operas:
EpikurasThe article text focused on the #compound's 3 modernistic dwellings and the owner's recent #subterranean man-cave addition overseen by the original architect of the #HeptagonHouse
I checked a few other #clinx after and one lead to the property's prior purchase history. Apparently in 1998 the 6 acre parcel was valued at just about $500K, the same as my hillside home a year or two later.
I like to imagine that perhaps a property transfer exchange was arranged in some #alternity where #PittmanDowell lived out the remainder of their lives in another #Maltzan masterpiece on the westernmost slopes of #Silverlake below #Hollywood
The view below is what they would have got in trade for the one shown in #KPL02
It's the one beyond the window, behind The Musician in the movie #UnderASilverLake
It's from directly due west farther down the hillside, #LEGALLY just over 250 yards away
I hiked once to #MtHollywood overlooking the #Observatory w/ my #Decathlete #GG.
Never got to the #sign
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