Honor Harrington RPG setting!

[Shadowdancer]

QuikLink Interactive, the publishers of Traveller T20, have acquired the rights to do a SF RPG setting using the Honor Harrington series of books. The link.

 

[DMScott]

Yeah, there's some discussion over in the d20 forum:

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74536

 

[tetsujin28]

Never heard of it.

 

[s/LaSH]

Never heard of it.

Well then, go to http://www.baen.com and download David Weber's On Basilisk Station (book 1 in the series). The publisher wants you to.

In slightly more detail, the Honor Harrington series is often described as 'Hornblower in space'. It's about an interstellar war that resembles Star Trek only insofar as they have spaceships, and I for one think it's very very good if you like consistency in your scifi.

 

[takyris]

As an alternative view, I read "On Basilisk Station" on paper and didn't think much of it. It's good military SF, but good military SF tends to be somewhat stock, characterwise, and I found the protagonist to be a bit bland. She's good, everyone else is unimaginative, evil, or obedient, and she triumphs over impossible odds. A lot. I do not wish in any way to imply that this is inherently bad, but it is not my personal cup of tea. That said, I'm very interested in what kind of RPG develops from it, because I thought that the science of ship-to-ship combat was very well thought out.

(I probably wouldn't like reading Horatio Hornblower either, although I am enjoying watching the episodes on A&E.)

 

[Teflon Billy]

I wish someone would make a Miles Vorkosigan RPG...that's the flavour of "War in Space" that I like.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I wish someone would make a Miles Vorkosigan RPG...that's the flavour of "War in Space" that I like.

There's a lot more wiggle-room for a designer. Bujold tends to gloss over technical details. That's a big ship. That's a fast ship. That ship's got more plasma cannons than that one.

Whereas Weber revels in them, and we know mass, length, maximum acceleration, number and layout of lasers, grasers, and missile launchers, effective ranges of beam weapons, effective ranges and stand-off ranges of missiles in multiple drive settings, ammunition storage figures, bunkerage mass allocations... for any number of classes of ship.

-Hyp.

 

[mmu1]

I wish someone would make a Miles Vorkosigan RPG...that's the flavour of "War in Space" that I like.

GURPS Vorkosigan is supposedly finally in the production stage...

Bujold's books show pretty well the difference between human-centric and gadget-centric sci-fi. In the Vorkosigan books, high technology matters only because of how it affects human nature and relationships, not because spaceships with big guns and alien artifacts are kewl.

 

[redhawk]

GURPS Vorkosigan

I wish someone would make a Miles Vorkosigan RPG...that's the flavour of "War in Space" that I like.

Steve Jackson's all over it.

GURPS Vorkosigan. In the works now. As usual for such things, Steve's working closely with Bujold to get the details and the world correct.

Redhawk

 

[tetsujin28]

Steve Jackson's all over it.

GURPS Vorkosigan. In the works now. As usual for such things, Steve's working closely with Bujold to get the details and the world correct.

Redhawk

Never heard of that, either. Shows what happens when you're a classicist ;-)