Fair enough. My first attempt at a sci-fi RPG was the rather ill fated Babylon 5 TTRPG. I was exposed to Shadowrun, and Cyberpunk, but being 13-15 years old, an old Whovian, a Trekkie, and a Babylon 5 fan at the time, I couldn’t see a future that was that bleak and dystopian.
It’s only been recently, as in the last decade or so, that I have realized that Babylon 5 was a playbook, and a dream, for an anti fascist overthrow of a fascist government. Unfortunately we don’t have a space station that can just barely support itself, with a portion of the military loyal to the constitution of earth, without the government, and can stand up to the government militarily.
Edit: nah, I’m not older than my real age. I’m 45 and can feel it. Every few months one of my joints introduces me to a whole new place that pain can come from. I may need to get some osteobiflex.
My first was RIFTS, which i did not have the stomach for at all. By comparison cyberpunk and cybergen ran like a dream, just as my friends and I were getting into Akira.
I never tried the Bab5 rpg, but i stayed up late with my mother to watch it. I was shocked when rewatching a few years back to see lucille blooth playing a regime loyalist captain.
Dear Lord, I forgot about RIFTS. I saw the descriptions of the sourcebooks in my TTRPG catalog that I no longer remember the name of, and thought that they were trying too hard.
Yeah i’m 43 but i got really frustrated with 2e era rules and moved on to cyberpunk, white wolf and gurps within a year or two of starting the hobby.
By the time 3e came out i was just not interested in fantasy rpgs anymore.
Since you seem to’ve been exposed to rpgs from birth, basically, you might count as slightly older in RPG-years than your real age? 😅
Fair enough. My first attempt at a sci-fi RPG was the rather ill fated Babylon 5 TTRPG. I was exposed to Shadowrun, and Cyberpunk, but being 13-15 years old, an old Whovian, a Trekkie, and a Babylon 5 fan at the time, I couldn’t see a future that was that bleak and dystopian.
It’s only been recently, as in the last decade or so, that I have realized that Babylon 5 was a playbook, and a dream, for an anti fascist overthrow of a fascist government. Unfortunately we don’t have a space station that can just barely support itself, with a portion of the military loyal to the constitution of earth, without the government, and can stand up to the government militarily.
Edit: nah, I’m not older than my real age. I’m 45 and can feel it. Every few months one of my joints introduces me to a whole new place that pain can come from. I may need to get some osteobiflex.
My first was RIFTS, which i did not have the stomach for at all. By comparison cyberpunk and cybergen ran like a dream, just as my friends and I were getting into Akira.
I never tried the Bab5 rpg, but i stayed up late with my mother to watch it. I was shocked when rewatching a few years back to see lucille blooth playing a regime loyalist captain.
Dear Lord, I forgot about RIFTS. I saw the descriptions of the sourcebooks in my TTRPG catalog that I no longer remember the name of, and thought that they were trying too hard.