Had an unusual thought this weekend

[DaveChase]

Found my old Galactic Empires CCG and was looking through all the cards I had.

Then this strange and interesting thought happened.

What if you had scouts (or explorers) going into uncharted territory. Or better yet you have ordinary travellers (as if any of them are normal get thrown off course by 20 parsecs or so.

Then you could create the unknown by having piles of the Galactic Empires (GE) cards for the possible finds.

In GE you have Terrian cards, Obstacles cards, Hazard cards, Monster cards, Luck, Ship, bases, Equipment, Ability cards and others.

You sort though and pick 30 to 40 cards of each type (Terrian, obstacles, hazards, monsters, luck, ship & bases). Then when your players head into the closest solar system to hopefully find fuel and such you can draw cards from the appropriate stack

You would need a chart to determine how many terrians, encounters & etc you would draw from each stack (if any: monsters, hazards, ships/bases).

This would be great if I was any good at running a PBM game

Or if I had a regular group that did not mind playing on the fly.

I kind of look at this as a great way to play Traveller and stay ahead of those players who know all the rules, encounter tables and stats by heart.

OK, see what happens when you leave me up on this soap box for too long. Attitude sickness

Dave

 

[clementk]

A good use for a now older CCG / TCG you can pickup cheap at a convention or online. (used to / may still have some left myself)

With using cards like that it'd be very easy to change the mix and odds of any type getting drawn. You wouldn't even have to divide them into stacks. And the artwork wasn't too bad considering. Hmmm this is starting to resemble the Settlers of Catan card game (non-collectible). You divide the resource / event cards into stacks, draw, and place them. The similar Spacefarers of Catan card game is set on a spaceship however as opposed to settling space.

You might want to mix it with something like the random travel charts in the some of the CT Alien Modules (Zhodani and Aslan at least) and likely found elsewhere.

Casey (who has switched to the Star Fleet Battle Force non-collectible card game; while a better game IMO it is a more tactical game)