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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doratas & Philosophia

 Another thing I did during my quiet time was create a game...kinda.

I've always wanted to write/create a roleplaying game.  I've never had the discipline nor the imagination to do so.  I've had thoughts on how to heavily house rule something like White Box to fit a certain vision but I haven't got around to it for the reasons above.  So I cheated.  I hacked Lasers & Feelings.

Lasers & Feelings is an ultra-lite game that has been hacked in nearly every way you can think.  It is very easy to modify and change to whatever genre you want.  Heck, there's actually a template where you can just fill in the blanks to make your version of the game.  So I did it.  See, cheating.  But at least I did something.  And it might help spur me on to other things.

Thus, I present a draft of Doratas & Philosophia (Spears & Philosophy).  It is a mashup of Mythical and Archaic Greece for the players and GM to use as their playground.

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I used several inspirations and resources.  Lasers & Feelings, of course.  I used used Template Hack for L&F and {{Blanks}} & [[Spaces]] to help me organize the document and make sure I didn't miss anything. I also looked to the L&F hack Glory & Gold and good old Mazes & Minotaurs to spark my imagination (i.e. plunder shamelessly.)