A Space Operetta

By Ken Brown & Gordon and Stephanie
Olmstead-Dean
Players: 29
Genre: Pulp Science Fiction
A light
science fiction game, a semi-serious parody of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar
Galactica, Bab 5, Dune, and numerous other classic SF shows or movies. This is
a sort of old school game where a serious plot is mated with funny, slightly
over the top characters.
There are
plots in this game, but they don't really matter. They aren't meant to be
resolved, and serve only to frame and drive the dramatic action towards a trite
and inevitable successful conclusion, like a Star Trek Episode. Villains die,
quasi-criminal rogues make out okay, and good guys win. Some of them may die
heroically, that's kind of random. If you care about plot as anything other
than a function of pacing...as in care if you win or lose, please steer clear
of this game at all costs. In fact, since the game is in the LARPA Gamebank,
feel free to just read it in advance. You can probably figure out the couple of
kind of puzzle-like secrets, but they never ran well anyway, so maybe that will
mean they work. Seriously if you want to know what the game is going to be
like, just download it and read the whole thing on this site, courtesy of the
LARPA GameBank. That will spoil all the plot elements that we stupidly
conceived to be important back in 1993, but that may mean the game actually
plays smoothly as a comedy, since in Space Opera you always know roughly how
the end is going to come out. Otherwise, just listen to the music, follow the
dancing plot ball, come with a sense of humor and you'll do fine.
Cost: free
Available from: http://www.vialarp.org/space_game/index.html
Category:Ken Brown
Category:Gordon Olmstead-Dean
Category:Stephanie Olmstead-Dean
Category:25-30 player
Category:Science fiction