Anybody play Mindjammer? What about transhumanism makes it

>>54300162
I'm looking at running a game of the FATE version. The mechanics and options are cool (you can play a sentient space station and so on) but I'll definitely be jettisoning the lore for something not super boring.

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>>54300688
>for something not super boring.
The lore is super-boring? I thought that was the whole appeal of the setting.

BTW, can I play as a hyper-intelligent Mantis-form von Neumann machine swarm?

>>54300758
It feels very ho-hum and settled to me. Stars Without Number has more interesting lore in that you can still do all the cool shit, but it's set in a universe not run by a giant insurmountable star empire that ultimately cares for nothing more than preserving its bland oatmeal culture.

The best way I can describe the Commonality is if all of the modern "liberal" causes were accomplished and now nobody has anything better to do than safeguard that progress. It's a nice place to live, I'm sure, but really fucking boring to play in.

Also the backstory is hilarious in how long it takes humanity to accomplish anything.

>>54300758
And I'm not sure about the mantis thing.

>>54300870
That sounds like Banks's The Culture polity. Which was most interesting at the edges where it interacted with other empires and civilizations. The core was a boring paradise.

>>54300870

Another anon just mentioned it, but the Culture novels take place in a post scarcity liberal society and they have some pretty compelling stories. They're mostly about people from within the Culture dealing with other societies though.

>>54300943
>>54301047
Yes, that's the issue. The only interesting stories in the vanilla setting are fringer stories. Want something going on anywhere else? You'll need to mod in some actual discontent in the core worlds or perhaps a war wherein the Commonality won't curbstomp everyone.

>>54301156

Yeah, that's fine. FATE is easy to hack so it's not like porting some stuff from Mindjammer into the SWN universe would be that hard.