Heya. Thanks for the interest.

I realized I haven't posted a latest version in a while!

You can check out Version 0.81 here. Any comments, questions or suggestions would be very appreciated.

After 3 weeks and a bunch of playtests (including a PbP), got a bunch of changes coming down the pipe:

Crews have been removed from all careers. They are now one of the choices a player can take as a starting loadout.
- The 4 new starting loadouts are: Fighter (better weapon), Survivor (better gear/armor), Driver (simple vehicle), Leader (crew). Each loadout also gets a simple weapon and a common set of gear.
- New skills have been added to the careers to replace the Crew skills
- - Academic career gets Coding, which lets to tack on extra benefits to the Program basic Move (Repeat, shutdown, hide traces, backdoor)
- - Engineering gets Build, which allows you to add Tags to structures or open areas ("Reinforced", "Workshop", "Cover", etc)
- - Engineering has lost "custom ammo" (it stepped on the toes of the Military career) and instead has a more general Upgrade skill, which allows them to add a temporary upgrade to a vehicle, weapon or gear.
- - Military gets a Unique Weapon, which is a super weapon with 3 upgrades (the normal limit is 2)
- - Personality gets Leadership, which grants them an elite Crew with 3 upgrades (normal limit is 2)
- Invention (Engineering) and Experiment (Academic) are being redesigned because they were too vague and open to confusion
- The Explorer career skills are being revisited to be bolder and more daring. Currently, Tenacious (which was a boring +1 on failure) is being replaced by Recklessness (when attempting something foolhardy/dangerous for the first time, you can assure success at great personal risk and/or protect allies from the consequences of your attempt)

I'll be posting more changes later. Thoughts or questions would be appreciated!

Whew, a solid 3 weeks of playtesting. The results have been great so far, lots of changes in the works.

The biggest change/issue I'm currently trying to resolve is a pretty fundamental one; the confusion caused between Tech and Ingenuity. I separated the "mental/logic/creativity" stat in two; the Use Computer aspect alone was so strong and frequently used in a Sci-Fi setting that, as a stat, it had more weight in play than all the other skilled/science/engineering actions put together. So the divide (as laid out below) has to stay more or less as-is...

However, the names of the stats themselves repeatedly cause confusion because they aren't unique and descriptive enough. So I'm trawling for ideas; if you have a suggestion for unique names for these stats, I'm open to any and all suggestions. I need excellent terms that clearly define what's in each stat without overstepping into the other stat. The boundaries need to be as clear as possible, to avoid confusion.

Stat A:
- Repair, Maintenance, Construction
- First Aid, Medicine, Chemistry, Experimentation
- Economics, Logistics, Administration

Stat B:
- Computer Use, Programming, Hacking
- Sensors, Scanning, Diagnostics
- AI, Virtual Reality

This has been one of the big issues from the playtests, and I'm looking for inspiration. Thoughts?

Currently unhappy with the Tech-specific Standard Move.

EXECUTE PROGRAM (+Tech)
When you use an access point to make alterations to a system, Roll+Tech. (Protections and security systems may force you to Face Adversity before doing so.) On a 10+, choose a program to run. On a 7-9, as above, but you leave something behind (traces, bugs, etc)
- /IFTHEN: State a condition and an action. When the system encounters that condition, it tries to perform that action to the best of its ability.
- /BREAK: Remove a programmed behavior from this system.
- /DELTREE: Erase any amount of data contained in this system.
- /HAYWIRE: The system ignores all programming and acts randomly, often dangerously.
- /SLAVE: Link a new access point to the system and grant it priority. An access point can only have one /Slave at a time.

Feels clunky and it rarely comes up naturally in play. Thinking about stripping it down and just making it an IfThen-style move; "Choose a behavior and a condition. When the system encounters that condition, it performs that behavior to the best of its ability".

Alternatively, it could become a copy of the Command Move, but for AI, robots and computer systems. Hmmm... I think this may be a good path.

Thanks! :)

Sadly, work on the two-pager character sheet is a bit on the back-burner compared to other Uncharted Worlds stuff.

That said, Petrucus, if I can swing it, I'd love to put together an actual character generator program. Failing that, an interactive pdf, but I'd really like to be able to pull off a full character gen (I'm thinking back to that old character generator we got with 4e D&D, I spent so much time with that thing).

Doc Cthulhu, when you say 'start your first sci-fi campaign' you mean as GM yes?

As for me, this was my first attempt at a sheet. Ended up being a bit too crowded because I tried to fit everything on one page. I'll be reworking it to fit it on two pages soon(ish).

For tracking all your awesome stats and stuff. If you're feeling creative and want to make your own UW sheets, or would like to show examples of your favorite character sheets from other games, post 'em here!