Anybody else excited for Esper Genesis?

Hjorimir

Adventurer

• Sep 25, 2018

• #11

I pre-ordered on Amazon a few days ago and got locked in at $23.54, the price is now $49.95, which is more of what I expect to pay for a 300 page RPG hardcover.

 

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5ekyu

Hero

• Sep 25, 2018

• #12

barasawa said:

Star Frontiers can still be obtained, and I think I've heard someone is working on an updated version or something. (If you hit the Star Frontiers sites, you'll be able to find out for sure, or if it's just a fervent imagination playing tricks.)
And yes, I think a 5th edition rules of the Star Frontiers game would be pretty fantastic!

As to Esper Genesis, I like it better than Starfinder, though Starfinder is getting adventures out faster.

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Give me something yo use my stack of traveller adv for.

 

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Foxworthy

Explorer

• Sep 25, 2018

• #13

Just started a campaign with Esper Genesis and I love it. The art is awesome and it's solid mechanically with only a few hiccups here and there like many first printings. It's leaps and bounds above Hyperlanes in quality.

Being 5e really makes it easier for the players to let the mechanics of the game fall to the side and enjoy the world.

 

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gyor

Legend

• Sep 26, 2018

• #14

I think if I want to play full on sci fi, I'd go with that new Star Trek RPG, I'm a huge trekkie.

 

Paul Farquhar

Legend

• Sep 26, 2018

• #15

I don't know about the new Trek RPG, but the space combat in the FASA Star Trek RPG was the greatest thing ever!

 

Raddu

Explorer

• Sep 26, 2018

• #16

If you're interested in more Esper Genesis goodness check out the new Discord server:
https://discord.gg/bfhWgd3

or ye olde Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/espergenesis/

 

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5ekyu

Hero

• Sep 26, 2018

• #17

gyor said:

I think if I want to play full on sci fi, I'd go with that new Star Trek RPG, I'm a huge trekkie.

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I am a trekkie as well and i bought that game and watched Shield of Tomorrow for a while but that system's game-play trips my triggers in very bad ways so i gave it a hard pass due to system. It is a great sourcebook IMO and if their system gameplay and mechanics (some of which i like in principle and even in other systems) is one you like its a good trek resource for play IMO.

I have not considered an EG-trek cross-over - it doesn't seem like a good fit for me but i bet someone has some stuff for it, or will soon.

 

Xaelvaen

Stuck in the 90s

• Sep 26, 2018

• #18

I played a game with the basic rules pdf a while back, and love the feel of it. They worked the 5E rules into scifi pretty well.

 

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gyor

Legend

• Sep 27, 2018

• #19

Paul Farquhar said:

I don't know about the new Trek RPG, but the space combat in the FASA Star Trek RPG was the greatest thing ever!

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The new trek uses 2D20 rules. Honestly if they'd just used 5e rules it would have been easy sell to me. Still honestly Star Trek Online hits my needs for Star Trek Pretty well, so I've prioritized getting D&D 5e stuff like FR and Ravnica books as well as the Chronicles of Darkness Books like Changeling 2e, Geist 2e, ect...