Sci-fi covers roleplay built around technology, speculative futures, or space — as tightly reasoned as hard sci-fi or as sweeping as space opera. It’s one of the more setting-heavy tags on MYRPW, since a Character’s universe field usually needs to explain what kind of future or technology their story runs on.
What tends to fall under this tag
- Space opera — factions, ships, and politics across a galaxy
- Near-future settings grounded in a specific piece of speculative technology
- Post-apocalyptic or generation-ship stories where the “sci-fi” is the constraint, not the spectacle
Writing a sci-fi Character on MYRPW
Use the universe field to establish the rules of your setting up front — what the technology can and can’t do matters more in sci-fi than almost any other genre, and stating it clearly saves both you and a writing partner from mid-scene contradictions.
Finding your setting
Browse Communities for Worlds already built around a sci-fi premise, or head to Writing Partners to search Characters by genre and availability.