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Paiji a écrit :Non, juste lu (et critiqué ici en son temps). Je n'aime pas l'idée des vilains venus de la galaxie d'à coté. Tout le reste est excellent.

In a way, Mindjammer is an attempt to "update" Starblazer Adventures, creating a setting full of all the stuff that by default could not be in the main book: transhumanism, a more modern take on artificial intelligence, genetic modification, cybernetics, man-machine interaction, etc.
Yes, I mentioned the dreaded "T" word. Up till now, if you're anything like me, you are likely never to have found an RPG setting with Transhumanism that was truly playable, had a point, and wasn't depressing as shit.
Surprisingly, Mindjammer avoids all of these pitfalls.
It is clearly very playable, and has a point to it, and its completely optimistic about the future. Its transhumanism for non-Swine.
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Whereas Starblazer Adventures had no single default setting, Mindjammer is basically a single setting; which incidentally produces a number of new rules, items, and ideas for the SA game.
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There are likewise all kinds of artificial intelligence, both mechanical and synthetic. Imperfect copies can be made of people's downloaded intelligence and memories as "eidolons". In theory, a player could even be a starship, one of the AI-starships known as the Mindjammers themselves, interacting outside its limits through an avatar.
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The Mindjammer game puts great importance on the theme of culture; how culture spreads, how it evolves, and how it influences. Every player character is expected to include culture as a very significant element of his character creation process, something at least as important as his profession.
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The Mindjammer book introduces a number of interesting new rules and elements. One central element of the sourcebook's additions is the "Mindscape". This is a kind of neural internet, allowing a shared consciousness in all users (who are EVERYONE in the commonality), containing all knowledge and even all memories of all those who are or ever have been a part of the Mindscape. Characters can access the mindscape with a "skill chip" which give a character a +2 modifier to just about any skill. Tagging the Mindscape also allows someone to search through the mindscape for some desired knowledge or memory. This all means that essentially, everyone has a basic level of competence in almost any skill; whereas true experts are those who have really remarkable levels of skill.
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Technology is different too, from SA's default. The assumptions in this setting are explicitly outlined: AI is almost ubiquitous, but there's no such thing as a "computer" per se (there's no need!); there's no real limit to storage capacity for information, the real problem isn't holding data, its being able to search effectively; interface can change as needed; there's abundant power (essentially limitless, and free); faster than light travel but no faster-than-light communications; anti-gravity technology is abundant (now); extreme levels of miniaturization are available; matter can't be transported, but it can be created with a "makepoint" (replicator).

Marchiavel a écrit :Si tu veux, Udo, je l'ai dans ma bibliothèque, SA, et je ne sais pas quoi en faire

Selpoivre a écrit :Ya besoin de Starblazer pour l'utiliser ? Ou on peut s'en sortir avec Bulldogs ou SotC ?

Dr Strange a écrit :Si StarBlazer c'est Fate dans l'espace, MindJammer : the Expansionary Era c'est quoi ? Un setting ? Une nouvelle édition (j'ai lu ça quelque part...) ? Juste un roman ?

chaviro a écrit :Oui, c'est une nouvelle édition (et augmentée, sans jeu de mot) de la première

ikaar a écrit :Je viens de recevoir Agents of swing (et une version perso de The lost room). Bizarrement, j'ai commencé par le jeu en anglais et je le trouve pas mal, Agents.
Même si c'est bcp de listes...

Par contre, c'est ma première Faterie avec Bulldogs, et j'ai apprécié les deux au feuilletage.
Agents semble un peu décrié ici même cpdt, qu'est ce qui cloche exactement ?

Erwan G a écrit : Ca n'est pas encore sorti, si ?