Character Creation Challenge 2026 Day 30: Lasers & Feelings

Lasers & Feelings is a simple, free one page RPG based vaguely on a famous 1960s television series that boldly went were no man had gone before.  

 

The mechanic is extremely simple.  Each character has a single Number that ranges between 2 and 5, player's choice.  The higher it is the better you are at Lasers: that is technology, rationality and action.  The lower it is the better you are at Feelings: intuition, diplomacy, passionate action.  If you are trying a Laser action, you try to roll under.  A feeling action, over.

 

There's a bit more to character creation, too, but not much.  You also assign a few descriptors to your starship to personalize it a bit.  The game also includes an adventure generator. 

 

Lasers & Feelings has been hacked dozens of times into almost every genre imaginable.  S&S, Westerns, other types of SF, Superhero, Spy, Noir, vanilla Fantasy. You name it, it's probably been done.  And most of them are one page and most of them are free.  I even took a whack at it with a Heroic Greece take called Doratas & Philosophia.

 

I've made two characters.  One for Lasers & Feelings itself.  One for a sword & sorcery hack called Sorcerers & Sellswords.