I came across the StarCraft wikia, found that there was a fair amount of lore to the StarCraft universe and its history, so I am thinking of making a system for stats, equpment, rules, etc. for a fan-made StarCraft TTRPG. However, I'm unsure of what a group of players would actually go out and do - what would you want to do as a character in the StarCraft universe?
Posted May 10, 2015, 6:11 PM UTC
You could check out some of the warhammer 40k lore for some ideas. iirc starcraft was based on it, so you could fairly easily pull from that.
That depends very much on the perspective you want.
You could stick to small encounters with a limited amount of characters. That gives you plenty of opportunity for RP, fleshing out individual characters in the universe (or just your campaign). You could use the unit types as character archetypes and base available gear or abilities on that. That gives you scenarios like, a team up of a Ghost, a Marauder and a High Templar going to Char to retrieve some artefact, or somesuch.
The other approach could be more in line with how starcraft actually plays, focus on army buildup and larger battles. You'd have to find a way to translate that to keep it manageable though. I'm thinking maybe you give the players fixed time slots and they write down what they produce, then you resolve that to a board with, say, poker chips. The board could be divided into zones for movement purposes.
For the latter, you might want to look at games like WH40k to see how they solve some of those problems. It sounds like a tough one, but I'd love to hear what you come up with if you go down that path.
Good luck!
Team up of a ghost, a marauder, and a high Templar
Blizzard, hurry up and write this book so I can buy it
You should do an Apocalypse World hack of a Koprulu fringe citizen, dealing with ancient artifacts, the budding Terran Confederacy, contact with Protoss whatever, but fuck everything during and after the 2nd Great War