Supplement Four
June 3rd, 2007, 05:02 PM
For me, it's Classic Traveller. It's insane how much that game appeals to me.
Other science fiction games that peak my interest?
D6 Star Wars because it soooo captures the feel of the movies when I first saw them.
2300 AD and by default, 2320. The setting of the early years of a star-spanning society. Love that stuff.
Fading Suns because Frank Herbert's Dune series is the only set of books that I've ever read that make me feel more intelligent than I really am. And, Fading Suns IS the Duneverse with a few twists to avoid copyright violation. ;)
FASA's Star Trek because role playing with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty is too much to pass up. The adventures in this game are intelligent and definitely capture the feel of the original series.
High Colonies for the same reasons I like 2300 above.
Blue Planet because it such a damn cool premise that it really should be a series of scifi movies, a television series, or a series of books or something.
What about you? What are the SciFi games that grab you by the short hairs and apply a little torque when you peruse them?
Other science fiction games that peak my interest?
D6 Star Wars because it soooo captures the feel of the movies when I first saw them.
2300 AD and by default, 2320. The setting of the early years of a star-spanning society. Love that stuff.
Fading Suns because Frank Herbert's Dune series is the only set of books that I've ever read that make me feel more intelligent than I really am. And, Fading Suns IS the Duneverse with a few twists to avoid copyright violation. ;)
FASA's Star Trek because role playing with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty is too much to pass up. The adventures in this game are intelligent and definitely capture the feel of the original series.
High Colonies for the same reasons I like 2300 above.
Blue Planet because it such a damn cool premise that it really should be a series of scifi movies, a television series, or a series of books or something.
What about you? What are the SciFi games that grab you by the short hairs and apply a little torque when you peruse them?
vertigo25
June 3rd, 2007, 05:23 PM
Ditto on CT, of course.
D6 Star Wars was sooooo much fun. There were some very obvious mechanics problems, but it didn't matter. The rules really helped capture the fly by the seat of your pants feel of SW. Plus, WEG's supplemental material was amazing to say the least.
Fading suns has always intrigued me, but I've never read the rules. I, too, am a Dune fan. In fact, I actually see the Imperium society as somewhat Dune-esque (with the tech being Foundation-esque).
FASA's Star Trek games were okay. Using them, for me was more because I didn't have to convert anything to another rules system. Having said that; my best friend and I played a *ton* of Next Gen.
And... although I'll probably get pelted... I *loved* Star Frontiers. I'm thinking of drawing up some stuff for the alien races and ships to use in CT smile.gif
I also really liked Cyberpunk back in the day... when it didn't seem like I was playing a historical game smile.gif
Not an RPG, but I also really dug Battletech for a long time.
The graphics for Jovian Chronicles also always made me want to play the game, but I could never find anyone amongst my friends who would give it a try.
D6 Star Wars was sooooo much fun. There were some very obvious mechanics problems, but it didn't matter. The rules really helped capture the fly by the seat of your pants feel of SW. Plus, WEG's supplemental material was amazing to say the least.
Fading suns has always intrigued me, but I've never read the rules. I, too, am a Dune fan. In fact, I actually see the Imperium society as somewhat Dune-esque (with the tech being Foundation-esque).
FASA's Star Trek games were okay. Using them, for me was more because I didn't have to convert anything to another rules system. Having said that; my best friend and I played a *ton* of Next Gen.
And... although I'll probably get pelted... I *loved* Star Frontiers. I'm thinking of drawing up some stuff for the alien races and ships to use in CT smile.gif
I also really liked Cyberpunk back in the day... when it didn't seem like I was playing a historical game smile.gif
Not an RPG, but I also really dug Battletech for a long time.
The graphics for Jovian Chronicles also always made me want to play the game, but I could never find anyone amongst my friends who would give it a try.
Klaus
June 3rd, 2007, 06:28 PM
Nope, Star Frontiers rocked.
D6 Star Wars ditto.
Spacemaster, despite the all the tables.
And Traveller, of course...
D6 Star Wars ditto.
Spacemaster, despite the all the tables.
And Traveller, of course...
Ishmael
June 3rd, 2007, 07:22 PM
non rpg...WarpWar
Spinward Scout
June 3rd, 2007, 08:30 PM
Traveller - in the words of Stan Lee: 'Nuff Said
Trinity - for Psionics
FASA Star Trek - percentile dice makes a ton of sense
GURPS Space/Robots/Bio-Tech/Ultra-Tech I & II are interesting
Alternity for the same reason
and if you want even more detail...
FTL: 2448 - a ton of detail/tables, and easily converted to T20/d20 as well
Trinity - for Psionics
FASA Star Trek - percentile dice makes a ton of sense
GURPS Space/Robots/Bio-Tech/Ultra-Tech I & II are interesting
Alternity for the same reason
and if you want even more detail...
FTL: 2448 - a ton of detail/tables, and easily converted to T20/d20 as well
Psion
June 3rd, 2007, 09:46 PM
MegaTraveller and T20 are my mainstays for OTU action.
I've been intrigued by Blue Planet, but never owned a copy.
Though I think the tech of Alternity is too fluffy, I like the chargen. It's a nice compromise between point buy and level based.
I like the GURPS:Space books for being a nice SF campaign building toolkit, but hate the GURPS system.
Spacemaster - though I find chargen intolerable, it has some really cool little tidbits, like the engineered human variants and the really cool spacecraft design system.
D20 Future - not my favorite (not for the least reason because it uses the same fluffy tech as alternity), but it has some great third party support.
I've been intrigued by Blue Planet, but never owned a copy.
Though I think the tech of Alternity is too fluffy, I like the chargen. It's a nice compromise between point buy and level based.
I like the GURPS:Space books for being a nice SF campaign building toolkit, but hate the GURPS system.
Spacemaster - though I find chargen intolerable, it has some really cool little tidbits, like the engineered human variants and the really cool spacecraft design system.
D20 Future - not my favorite (not for the least reason because it uses the same fluffy tech as alternity), but it has some great third party support.
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