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Technical Manual

By: Zozer Games

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Hostile (Zozer Games)

Last Stocked on 9/7/2022

Product Info

Title
Technical Manual
Publisher
Product Line
Publish Year
2018
Pages
44
Dimensions
8.5x11.5x.25"
NKG Part #
2147992129
Type
Softcover

Description

The HOSTILE Technical Manual digs deeper into the retro-technology of this alternate future. It includes in-depth articles on hyperdrives, artificial gravity, androids, fusion power, hypersleep chambers, communications and computers. It also explains the existence of 'retrotech' - could a futuristic setting live this way? How would it come about?

Essays by the experienced contributors Richard Grove, Shawn Fisher and Paul Elliott add a little more detail, a little more verisimilitude to your HOSTILE roleplaying games. So when some player asks you, "can I contact the USCS Cheyenne while in hyperspace?" you will have an answer!

HOSTILE is a gritty SF setting based on those late-70s and early-80s movies we all grew up with, and can be played with Cepheus Engine or any version of the Classic 2D6-based SF RPG.

Our setting of course, must not just look and feel realistic, it must act realistically. Of course much of this technology is imaginary, yet we still want a sensible degree of engineering logic to back it all up. If the player characters want to disable all the anti-gravity on a ship’s deck, were do they go? What kind of infrastructure will they be sabotaging? It’s these practical in-game problems that depend on what would normally be considered the totally theoretical and frivolous assertions appearing within the HOSTILE Technical Manual.