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Thursday, 28 May 2020

Free Traders [Free]

Free Traders [Free]:

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The Terran Hegemony rules the inner systems with an iron fist, and their cruisers patrol the charted star lanes.

Out in the Periphery, things are a little more... wild. On the countless worlds away from the galactic core, hard-working terraformers, shady crime lords and local bigshots carve out a living for themselves as best they can.

The gray economy of the Periphery depends on independent freighter pilots carrying cargo, smuggling contraband and doing various jobs to pay off their ships and keep flying. They are called: Free Traders!

Free Traders is an attempt to make a minimalist sci-fi RPG. It is a love letter to Wing Commander: Privateer, West End Games' Star Wars D6 in general and the Tramp Freighters sourcebook in particular, Firefly, Guardians of the Galaxy and doodling space ships in my notebooks in school.

Games that have inspired this design are Nathan Treme's Wander, Meguey and Vincent Baker's Apocalypse World and John Harper's games Blades in the Dark and Lasers & Feelings.

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