Did Anybody Ever Play "Space Opera?"

[Shadeydm]

One of my buddies had the boxed set waay back in the day. I remember making up characters but have no recollection of actually playing the game. It seems to me that character creation took a while but that was a long time ago so things are kinda fogggy.

 

[SavageRobby]

Came close to playing it, in college. We got so far as to create characters, but never actually played a game.

Heh. I had that same experience with Space Opera (any a whole host of other games).

I do remember reading the rules sometime in the distant reaches of past, and thinking it was more than a little unnecessarily complicated.

 

[PaulofCthulhu]

Played it lots, back in the day, We did long campaigns of it (alternating with Traveller). We had great fun.

I think between us all we had virtually all the available supplements. Many happy hours playing it, ahhh, fond memories of Immortality Alpha.

 

[RFisher]

Funny how we find certain movies (&c.) exemplify certain games so much.

Especially when you consider many of the games with movie/whatever titles on their covers. Or the movie with an RPG game as the title.

(^_^)

It was definately more "fantastic" than Traveller.

That’s the thing that really gets me about sci-fi RPGs. If you’re going to do fantastic, don’t bother with a complex system. If you’re going to do a complex system, then put some science in your science fiction.