TA::>What I'm curious about is, what other ideas people have seen for zero-g
::>recreation? Seems to me it could be kinda interesting to make up a list o
::>whatever people might think of or have seen, and then turn it into a
::>"Imperial Zero-G Sports Catalog", as a nice fleshing out of the oft-ignore
::>recreation aspect of role-playing. After all, think of what your players
::>would think if the next time they hit a belt station they get to choose
::>what sort of goofing off they do -- and just think of the opportunites for
::>weird patron encounters...
Well, Paintball was mentioned; I can see variations on soccer
(Football to those of you who aren't from the US), lacrosse,
field hockey, and other similar sports (all of the above are just
variations on a theme. There's nothing that inherently requires
gravity in any of them). Games like jai-alai and handball
shouldn't be too difficult to adapt, either - and there's your
gambling sport.
You could suspend a great big ball of water in the middle of the
0G area, and there's your swimming pool. But you'll have to
remember that there's no tendency for the human body (or anything
else) to float (or sink).
Or, just strap on wings and fly in the empty space. I remember
reading a "kid's" SF book where one of the recreational
activities on the moon (which is hardly 0G) was just this.
Damned if I can remember the name of the book - or the author.
Just that the protagonist's boyfriend's name was "Jeff Hardesty."
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