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Another idea... Can you tell I've run a lot of Sci-Fi games? :p Here is a campaign idea based on Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Voyager and a Japanese RPG called Paradise Fleet. The players are soldiers, pilots and other military types aboard a small fleet of starships that has just...

See this may be why my SF games have lasted so long. They aren't about stuff. As GM I've moved the focus away from material gains (though they are still a factor). In truth, this has been true of all my campaigns since I first started playing D&D in '77. Star Trek is perhaps the best example...

Sorry, I don't mean to troll but... I'm confused by this question. What do the PCs in my campaign do when not fighting? Everything else. They talk to each, they to NPCs, they explore, they do research, they craft items, they go on vacation, they use skills, they practice their skills (in my...

Here's a neat campaign concept (if I do say so myself ;)) that I've used before. The players are the crew of a Q-Ship in the employ of the Imperium/Federation/Space Government. While they appear to be spacers on a bulk frieghter or similar vessel, they are in truth highly skilled...

No. At least not to me. IMHO you couldn't get further from generic sci-fi then these two. Both encompass other genres and both have strong fantasy elements. I wholeheartedly agree with this statement and to me that's what makes Sci-Fi so much more interesting then fantasy. At the same time, a...

Indeed. This does my heart good. Its amazing to me that I'm 40 and most of the gamers I know around my own age have only played D&D or maybe a handful of other games. To me that's just bizarre. I think of it like eating only one kind of food every meal for the rest of your life. I mean I love...

You know what else has always amazed me and I know I've mentioned it before on these forums... How come no one ever really followed the tried and true format of Player's Book, GM Book, Alien Book? I mean, it worked for a certain game I know became popular...;) The way I would've done it...

I want to but haven't yet. Partially because I have too many games I want to get (:blush:) and partly because I haven't heard much about it. Care to review it or at least give us a quick rundown? AD Barking Alien

Not so much gone but largely forgotten it would seem. Mongoose's Traveller is indeed a viable game and the closest thing to the classic version we've seen in a long time (that isn't reprints of the classic version that is). I still prefer the original, with a few elements from MegaTraveller...

Thought you'd never play?! How could you?? *WAIL* -weep-sob- :.-( Heh, teasing. We did have the element of Earth as 'Terra Incognita' but I think we went a bit more American in the concept of why the Aliens were there. Picture if you will the typical US Sitcom or 'TV Family'. These are...

Thanks guys! Trust me when I say that I remember, have run and/or have played nearly every RPG ever. I am not kinding and I am not embelishing. During the mid to lates 1980's trying new games was our thing. While we have our regular weekly campaigns, my friends and I tried out new RPGs...

Does anyone know where or even if I can find a copy of the RPG Hunter Planet? At one time I thought it was available online as a PDF but now I can't seem to find it. A few references... http://www.arielarchives.com/Hunter.html Hunter Planet: The All Australian Role Playing Game - RPGnet...

More than a shame. Downright silly for a game like that. :erm: AD Barking Alien

Ah the memories... Already a big fan of science fiction and comic books, I jumped at the chance to play this hero creating, adventure story telling game my friend introduced to a bunch of us. I was 8, he was 7. His older brother (mid-to-late teens) had been playing for a while and taught him to...

Thanks All! Still toying around with the options and I really appreciate the ideas given here. I am especially intrigued by those games that are rules-lite and that I was less than familiar with like Dust Devils (heard of it but didn't really know anything about it) and vs. Outlaws (brand new...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could recommend a RPG whose system is primarily based on the use of standard playing cards or, in a pinch, playing cards and normal D6's. I'm preparing to run a rather oddball wild west game and would love to use cards to keep the western atmosphere. I also...

Beyond This Horizon... I have been playing RPGs, mostly as GM, since '77 and the vast majority of the games I've run have been Sci-Fi/Space Adventure games. While Star Trek and Star Wars are indeed favorites (especially Star Trek), we've also spent a good deal of time with 2300 AD, Metal Head...

As someone who is primarily a fan of genres other then traditional medieval fantasy and games of a less crunchy nature, I slowly became disinterested in D&D around 25 years ago. As time went on this became more and more the case until I got back into D&D about 12 years ago. Then, with the...

Currently playing once a month each: Aberrant (Storyteller System) RIFTS Currently running once a month each: Mutants & Masterminds 2E Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters/InSpectres Homebrew Mix) Waiting for: Eclipse Phase AD Barking Alien

I love Ars Magica and would rather play it then pretty much any other (so-called) medieval fantasy RPG. Alas, I have not played 5th Ed. as, IMHO, each edition after 3rd seemed to explain the rules is a more complicated fashion. Also, I simplified the rules for spontaneous casting so that...