Andrew Roach @ajroach42@retro.social

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How much overkill would it be for me to deploy a BBS or message board for each planet/cluster of planets that the crew encounters?

I think I’ll try it for the first planet and see how it works.

You're an all star.

And, of course, most of Corey Doctorow's work is CC licensed, though I'm not sure you could really call most of it science fiction.

I'm a big fan of the short story collection With a Little Help: https://craphound.com/walh/e-book/browse-all-versions/

Of the books of hers on PG, I tend to go first for Plague ship, but if you like pulpy scifi, she's hard to beat.

Another great bit of #FreeScifi can be found in the works of Andre Norton: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7021

Norton is fun, here's an excerpt from her wiki page:

Andre Alice Norton was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, first woman to be SFWA Grand Master, and first inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

One of my favorite #FreeScifi books is a cheesy little scifi adventure called Little Fuzzy by H Beam Piper.

I'm not a huge fan of Piper's other work, but this story is a ridiculous little adventure romp, that feels for all the world like a picture of a future that could have never been.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137

Hey Nerds! Its #openCulture time.

I want your suggestions for your favorite public domain or creative commons science fiction books.

Toot 'em at me, or use the hashtag #FreeScifi

I'm going to get things started in the replies to this post, and I look forward to seeing what you have to offer as well.

It's been

Totally worked 11 hours today.

Totally leaving early on Wednesday to make up for it.

I want to talk more about this, but I will wait until I have had the chance to actually Do it before I talk too much about it.

Basically, though, I'm going to be helping to run/playing in a monthly traveller game for a little while, and we'll do some stuff with the results.

If it goes well, i might try to get multiple shared universe games going, with folks on the fediverse. (But we'll get to that when the time comes. )

I'm really warming up to the traveller rules, and i feel like there is a lot of room here for interesting stoies.

One thing that just keep standing out to me is how Combat works.

It's lightening quick, and deadly. It's not a long, turn based slog in which you slowly whittle down and boost and whittle down HP. You get hit, probably, you die.

It gives stakes to combat encounters. It gives combat a real reason to be avoided. It's a welcome change to more recent RPGs.