Battlestar Galactica or Hitchhikers d20?

[F.C.Desoya]

Had anyone seen anything on a Battlestar Galactica d20 adaptation? or how about a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

 

[edemaitre]

D20 space opera licenses

I've seen some fan conversions of "Battlestar Galactica," but I haven't heard anything about any official licensing. Other threads (see links below) have discussed the merits of various rules systems, helpful D20 science fiction sourcebooks, and the 1970s version of the military SF series versus the SciFi Channel's current revisionist take.

I would be interested in a D20 adaptation of the classic show, but with the demise of "Farscape," "Star Trek: Enterprise," and "Andromeda" and related game licenses, space opera is mostly out of fashion at the moment on television. I've also seen some "Firefly" RPG stuff.

http://p219.ezboard.com/bbattlestarrpg
http://boards1.wizards.com/archive/index.php/t-126607.html
http://staff.bus.bton.ac.uk/fesg/bsgrpg/
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/dimensionalcorpsonline/

As for "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," again, I'm not aware of any official sourcebooks. Mongoose Publishing, which did a good job with the classic humor role-playing game "Paranoia XP" as well as releasing numerous D20/OGL supplements (including under the "Conan" license), would be a logical choice. The new movie may help stimulate interest in this...

http://www.guardiansorder.com/boards/showthread.php?t=4159
http://boards1.wizards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=448

Let me know if you find out anything more! Happy gaming, -Gene

 

[F.C.Desoya]

Thanks for the ideas....now to get my players going with something other than D&D. In the meantime I will add these to my list of great ideas I have for playing something different and work on fleshing things out more.

Again thanks for the links!

 

[edemaitre]

D20 space operas

No problem. Good luck, and let me know when and if you develop/try those D20 sci-fi campaigns! I also recommend D20 "Traveller" ("T20") and D20 "Blood and Space"...