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Straight Sided
Roll Perception Plus Awareness: Diaspora (SF Signal)
Welcome back to _Roll Perception Plus Awareness_, my column here on SF Signal
about roleplaying games and their place in a genre reader and writer's world.
This time out, I am going to tag back to the hook in the last column, where I
tackled Traveller:
_Next time, we'll tackle a recent science fiction role playing game that
explicitly tries to take up Traveller's mantle, to the point of even having
the players and GM define the setting in game creation. *And* try to make it
with harder science than Traveller, too. What is it? Stay tuned!
_
And now I can reveal that the game I had in mind is the indie RPG
**Diaspora**.
> **Welcome to the ancient future of mankind.**
>
> Humans have been in space tens of thousands of years, and societies have
risen and fallen so many times that no one remembers where we came from.
>
> Colonies huddle together in clusters of a few star systems connected by
slipstreams -- artifacts of the cosmos, or perhaps a forgotten technology.
Only the slipstreams allow travel faster than light. Apart from that,
spacecraft make do with reaction drives, dumping heat as best they can.
>
> Lost ...
Drawing a straight-sided path: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals from lynda.com