Sample File 2

Sample file 2

Fudge 10th Anniversary Edition Copyright 2005, Grey Ghost Press, Inc.; Authors Steffan O’Sullivan and Ann Dupuis, with additional material by Jonathan Benn, Peter Bonney, Deird’Re Brooks, Reimer Behrends, Don Bisdorf, Carl Cravens, Fuwalda Shawn Garbett, Steven Hammond, Ed Heil, Bernard A Sci-Fi Tabletop RPG Supplement Hsiung, J.M. “Thijs” Krijger, Sedge Lewis, Shawn Lockard, Gordon McCormick, Kent Matthewson, Peter Mikelsons, Robb Neumann, Anthony by Roberson, Andy Skinner, William Stoddard, Stephan Brett Fitzpatrick Szabo, John Ughrin, Alex Weldon, Duke York, Dmitri Zagidulin

Some weapon descriptions are taken from 1001 Science Fiction Weapons by James Thomson Sample Copyrightfile 2003 James Thomson, Plain Brown Wrapper Games.

All other material is original to Fuwalda, Copyright 2011, by Brett Fitzpatrick In accordance with the Open Game License Section 8 “Identification” the following designate Open Game Content and Product Identity:

OPEN GAME CONTENT The contents of this document are declared Open Game Content except for the elements specifically declared as Product Identity below.

PRODUCT IDENTITY All art, plus any elements of the proprietary setting, including but not limited to capitalized names, organization names, characters, historic events, and organizations; any and all stories, storylines, plots, thematic elements, documents within the game worlds, quotes from characters or documents, and dialogue are product identity. 3

Salvage ...... 13 Table of Contents Joint Ventures ...... 13 Publisher Information ...... 2 Used Spaceships ...... 13 Introduction ...... 4 Weapons ...... 14 Extreme Future ...... 4 Vehicle Weapon Size ...... 14 This Supplement ...... 4 Turret Hardpoints ...... 14 The Adjectives ...... 4 Turbo Blaster Cannon ...... 14 Philosophy ...... 4 Antimatter Cannon ...... 14 Fuwalda Class Scout ...... 7 X-Ray Cannon ...... 14 Technical Specifications ...... 7 Missiles ...... 14 Scale ...... 7 Speed ...... 15 Interior Spaces ...... 7 An Unforseen Hazard ...... 15 Airlocks ...... 7 Space Dragons ...... 15 Cockpit ...... 8 Current Operators ...... 16 Engineering Section ...... 8 The Old Kingdom ...... 16 Passenger Compartment ...... 8 The Stellar Marshals ...... 16 Systems ...... 8 Example Fuwaldas ...... 16 Auto Repair ...... 8 The Hesperus ...... 16 Communications ...... 8 The Presence ...... 16 Computer/AI ...... 8 Organic Thrall ...... 17 Decoys ...... 8 Captain and Crew ...... 17 Drives ...... 8 The Moon Flyer ...... 17 Manoeuvre Drives ...... 8 Mekrion 15a630 ...... 17 Warp Drives ...... 8 Ferraton ...... 17 Emergency Equipment ...... 8 Kanger 70 ...... 17 Gravity Nullification ...... 8 Fuwalda Construction ...... 18 Jamming Equipment ...... 8 About Extreme Future ...... 18 Lifepods ...... 9 Lifepod Equipment ...... 9 Survival kit ...... 9 Probes ...... 9 Remote Beacons ...... 9 Sensors ...... Sample 9 file Warp Coil ...... 9 Hull Features ...... 9 Armour ...... 9 Ablative Plate ...... 10 Additional Armour ...... 10 Integrator Field ...... 10 Energy Screen ...... 10 Hardpoints ...... 10 Heat Sinks ...... 10 Manipulator Arms ...... 10 Streamlining ...... 10 Damage and Maintenance ...... 10 Fuwalda Malfunction/Damage Tables ...... 11 Core Systems ...... 11 Information Systems ...... 11 Drives ...... 11 Hull Systems ...... 11 Life Support ...... 12 Structure ...... 12 The Dominator Variant ...... 13 Buying a Fuwalda ...... 13 Applying For A Loan ...... 13 Subsidies ...... 13 4

described using this ladder — an empire may field a Introduction Superb army or a spaceship may be limping by with a Poor engine. Extreme Future Extreme Future is a story-oriented role-playing Philosophy game, and is a full-fledged standalone system. I first started playing RPGs with Dungeons and It contains all the information needed to play in the Dragons, but I was always just as interested in core rules book, but as the system uses adjectivesSample sciencefile fiction role-playing games like; Mechwarrior to describe characters and equipment, all Extreme (Battletech the RPG), Warhamer 40K, Traveller, Future supplements are easy to integrate into Space Master and even Living Steel. ongoing games, played with other games systems. I started Game Mastering SF RPGs with Space This Supplement Master, but I was an art student, not an engineering student, and I found that the Space Master rules This supplement is the technical specifications of a very complex. Preparing an adventure for play took spaceship, and gives enough detail to allow players me a very long time indeed. to really get to know the craft. It is a great craft to be put at the disposal of a small group of players for Spaceships were another particular bugbear of their own use, and if it is provided to the players, it mine. The spaceship rules were never included in will serve their characters well. the core rules of any game. They were always promised for a future release, that sometimes never The Adjectives came. Extreme Future uses adjectives, which are ranked Science fiction loses a lot of its unique flavour as follows: Abysmal, Terrible, Poor, Mediocre, without starships, especially space opera settings, Average, Fair, Good, Great, Superb, Epic, and and I vowed that my game – I was already planning Legendary, to describe elements of the background. to write a sci-fi RPG – would have spaceships a plenty, and the rules to make more, all in the core So, for example, a bodyguard might be Good with a rule book. blaster, but have Mediocre social skills. He’ll probably win a fight with an artist who’s a Superb When spaceship rules were available, the amount painter but a Poor shot. Almost anything can be of time needed to calculate ‘the numbers’ was a 5 little discouraging to me, because I was always more interested in drawing and writing than generating balanced stats. For example, if I drew a frigate with fifteen guns, I discovered that it was very difficult to design a spaceship with the right number of guns. The game designers had envisioned frigates with four or five guns, and it was difficult to use the rules to make anything else.

I decided to employ a more versatile and forgiving rule system in my game, and that's why it is based on a version of the FATE system.

Versatile and cinematic games, like FUDGE and FATE, are becoming more and more mainstream these days, but they also allow rules to be added if players should desire a more tactical game. You don't need to get FATE to play Extreme Future, but it is free and has some interesting options that I left out for various reasons, so feel free to grab a copy if so inclined.

The spaceship system, which uses adjectives to build designs, is very versatile, but also surprisingly complex and tactical. This supplement shows off just what the system is capable of producing.

Extreme Future uses six-sided dice(d6), and these have a lot of advantages for gaming. They're easy to read, easy to count, stackable and, most importantly, when there's a need, they can be rummaged from a couple of old board games. Most people are already pretty comfortable with theSample idea file of rolling a few dice and adding them together. 6

Sample file 7 Fuwalda Class Scout Scale The Fuwalda is a very capable, and expensive The Fuwalda is a scout class spaceship, which is family of spaceship designs. It provides a lot of larger than a fighter, but smaller than a frigate or technology and functionality, packed into a relatively freighter. It is not designed for long-term small space. deployment, but can accomplish extended missions The Fuwalda is larger than a fighter, and often of weeks, or even months, without placing an carries four crew members, or even more, and there intolerable burden on the small crew. are enough facilities and supplies aboard to operate without support for a number of weeks, but despite its size, efforts have been made to make it manoeuvrable enough to dog fight with the most nimble fighters. It also some structural has elements of fighter design, such as a bubble canopy and hardpoints for versatility of weapons load. As a scout vessel it also carries sophisticated computers and mapping devices for exploring the unknown reaches of the galaxy, but is more robust and well armed than the usual science vessel. After making planetfall, the Fuwalda provides a practical base, that is still easily hidden in remote Technical Specifications areas. Function/role: Exploration Scout Size: Good (4d) Manoeuvrability: Superb (6d) Armour: Ablative Plate (Robustness Great 5d) – with integrator field (Robustness Great 5d) Streamlining: Great (5d) Shield Robustness: Great (5d) Drives: Superb (6d) Robustness*: Great (5d) Auto-Repair**: Good (4d) AI: Superb (6d) Streamlining: Sample file Weapons: 2x turbo blasters (Good (4d)) – flexible mount The pilot, has a spacious cockpit, with a bubble Hard points: 2xTurret Hard Points (Good (4d)) canopy. Most Fuwalda pilots agree that this gives them an excellent feeling for the environment they All other aspects are assumed to be average or must fly through. N/A, unless mentioned in the text. Interior Spaces *This is used, when auto-repair is starved of Considering its relatively small size, there are a resources, to resist malfunction, and to resist other variety of internal spaces on a Fuwalda. There is environmental hazards, such as a micrometeorite more hidden beneath the hull than at first meets the shower. This is also used to resist punctures. eye. The spaces are quite cramped however, and each **This is used for rolls to see how long repair compartment can be treated as a zone in tactical resources and spares last, and in rolls to repair encounters, as each can be crossed in a single combat damage. exchange. The Superb(6d) AI is entirely capable of acting independently of supervision or control. Airlocks Description: The airlock is placed between the Description: The Fuwalda is a capable scout, but cockpit and passenger compartment and gives the limited space means that scouting missions with access to the vehicle from both port and starboard. a travel time of over a month can get uncomfortable. 8

Cockpit although Fuwalda AIs tend to be of good alignment, Description: The pilot sits forward in a separate and are reasonable, dependable and helpful. compartment, and is supported by tactical consoles, the ship's AI and holographic heads-up display Decoys technology. A decoy is a small device, such as a drone or droid, that is programmed to imitate the sensor data and Engineering Section manoeuvrings of the spaceship that launches it. Description: This are is equipped with engine Distinguishing between decoys and the actual target monitors and auto-repair system hubs. There is a requires a piloting or weapons roll against the panel interface for a human without shunts, and decoy's rating. This roll is limited by the sensors the various sockets for droids and augmented humans spaceship of the player doing the roll is equipped to allow quicker access to the starship's systems. with. The decoys on the Fuwalda are Average (2d) Passenger Compartment Drives Description: A sophisticated and configurable The most powerful system on the spaceship is the passenger compartment – the central saucer drives. The system comprises two subsystems, section – allows passengers and samples of almost which share power components and other any conceivable body chemistry or physical make- resources, because they are never used at the up to be carried. same time. These subsystems are the manoeuvre drives and warp drives.

Manoeuvre Drives Description: These provide the speed, acceleration and manoeuvrability of the spaceship, in sub-light space.

Warp Drives Description: These do not require fuel, have a virtually unlimited top speed and can even be used for manoeuvring, although this places a heavy load Systems on the spaceship's AI as it deals with the The Fuwalda is a complex and sophisticated Sample calculationsfile involved. spaceship, intended for difficult exploration and recon missions in hostile environments. It is packed Emergency Equipment with systems of greater or lesser importance. Fuwalda emergency equipment includes backup life support systems, emergency lighting, emergency Auto Repair spare spacesuit and weapons lockers and fire- When this is operational, damage is repaired fighting equipment. These are all of Average according to the time period associated with its robustness (2d). severity. Gravity Nullification Communications Description: This must match the drives in power, Description: The Fuwalds has hyperlight because gravity nullification is what prevents communication its tracking systems can be used to extreme acceleration and manoeuvring from discover stealth opponents, if operated by a skilled squishing organic crew, and reducing delicate user, a roll is required. Comms equipment is Great components to scrap. (5d). This acts as a limit on the skill of the operator. Jamming Equipment Computer/AI Description: Jamming equipment is used to interfere Description: The AI can be addressed simply by with or prevent the use of sensors by hostile speaking at any point on the ship. The ship's spaceships. The Fuwalda has Great (5d) Jamming. computer is a non player character with as much This acts as a limit to the operator's or AI's jamming thought going into their characteristics and skill. generation as any other. Each AI is different,