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Amazons of Mars, Venus madmen, robots, Lizard People, three eyed guys with big heads, all that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>It uses the different dice for stats type idea, too, d6, d8, d10, d12 that you assign to a few basic statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Character tag and cue ideas in an aspect type sense, the use of plot points to change things.<\/p>\n<p>There are some sample NPCs and plot scenario ideas at the end.<\/p>\n<p>So this would be cool seeing it is along those lines to already to lift as a FATE setting\/adaptation too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A different approach to running this game \u2013 collaborative improv with a \u2018Lead Narrator\u2019 rotating between the players. The setting is basically Captain Future. Space Patrolmen adventure in an old school planetary romance setting a la Edmond Hamilton. Amazons of Mars, Venus madmen, robots, Lizard People, three eyed guys with big heads, all that sort &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/13\/cosmic-patrol-collaborative-improv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cosmic Patrol &#8211; Collaborative Improv&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[167,168],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paET2V-76","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":645,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/29\/annihilation-premium-event-book-campaign-with-bonus-rules-and-space-mayhem\/","url_meta":{"origin":440,"position":0},"title":"Annihilation Premium Event Book &#8211; Campaign with bonus rules and space mayhem","author":"richard","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting idea: have a campaign book that includes the basic rules. 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