How is the Starship Troopers RPG?

[philreed]

It has been out a month or so now. Any actual play comments?

 

[philreed]

It's that bad, huh? I guess I did right in not ordering a copy.

 

[HellHound]

I've flipped through it, but haven't actually had a chance to read it properly.

 

[solkan_uk]

Seems to do the job, if you're into Starship Troopers, in a standard game you get one core class (there are a couple more if you want to mix civilians or navy characters in there) and then most characters go into an advanced class at 5th/6th level to get some differences.
Characters are weaker than D20 Modern, as they only get 1-3 hp/level (fixed number by class) and start at their Constition score on HP.
Has some skill based psionic system as well, but I haven't really looked at that.

 

[Breakdaddy]

Im with Hellhound on this one, I picked up a copy but havent gotten too deep into it since I've been hitting the Warhammer 2 book pretty hard. The rest of my spare time has been taken up by Battlefield 2.

 

[King_Stannis]

Seems they really missed the boat by not having their miniatures game come with prepainted ones. Instead they opted for the "Warhammer" approach which will doom that game to oblivion methinks.