Sci-Fi System Recommendations

[frankthedm]

Chaosium's BRP if not Savage Worlds. Lethality is vitally important when futuristic weapons are being used.

 

[S'mon]

Actually, my buddies & I made our own races & ship designs. We used the ship modification rules- as I recall, they're part of the rules that let you modify scenario difficulty- as guidelines. In a way, they were kind of like the Player's Option Rules for 2Ed D&D. The results were fairly well balanced with each other AND with official material.

But Starfighter is MUCH more flexible and is an easier system overall.

When it comes to ship combat,I find anything beyond "d20+bonus vs AC" makes my head hurt - even X-Plorers' version looks a bit complicated. d6 Star Wars is the only system I've successfully used, its starship combat system was the same as the personal combat system, which helped a lot. I'm now wondering though if Savage Worlds might fit my needs for a simple space-operatic system that lets me use my miniatures.

 

[S'mon]

Chaosium's BRP if not Savage Worlds. Lethality is vitally important when futuristic weapons are being used.

I used BRP for an 'Aliens' mini campaign, it was perfect for that.
Savage Worlds is not very lethal though, IME.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

First, let me say that when I first posted about the game "Starfighter", I meant "Starfire".

Which is a pretty simple game...almost as simple as a customizable starship combat game could get.

Second, if you go that route, you'd probably want to go with one of the revised editions, Starfire 3rd Galactic Starfire or the brand spankin' new Solar Starfire

 

[Plane Sailing]

Sorry for the slow reply. I've been on vacation for the past two weeks so my research was put on hold.

I did pick up a beta copy of High Space off rpg now and plan on taking a look at that, from what I can see it's based off of the savage worlds system. One I'm familiar with and had originally written off, but the flavor text for High Space interested me enough to drop 5 bucks on it.

At this point I think I need to stop researching new systems and whats all out there and pick a few that interest me the most and dig in. I had never imagined just how many different sci-fi systems were out there. It's really impressive and I am really glad to see it's a lot more popular genre that I had imagined it was.

I'll try and post an update in a few days with my "list of final contenders".

I have an OGL science fiction game in preparation for publishing - if you'd like a look at it I'd be happy to send you a copy of the pdf.

Regards,