How to do it: Space Opera d20

Stormborn · Mar 28, 2005

The thread about the Prime Directive d20 game has got me thinking about Space Opera gaming. Is anyone out there playing a star trek-esque game? If so how and with what? Anyone worked out how and just not played?

Crothian · Mar 28, 2005

WEll, it depends on what you want from a Star Trek game. Personally with d20 future and many of RPG Objects space oriented products I think it would be rather easy to create such a campaign.

SWBaxter · Mar 28, 2005

Stormborn said:
The thread about the Prime Directive d20 game has got me thinking about Space Opera gaming. Is anyone out there playing a star trek-esque game? If so how and with what? Anyone worked out how and just not played?

I don't think it's particularly difficult in a rules sense, it looks to me like d20 Future could do it pretty easily. So could most other sci-fi RPGs - there have been at least two Traveller scenarios that were fairly Star Trek-like (Leviathan, where a merchant ship explores strange new worlds, and Arrival Vengeance, where a military ship travels throughout the war-torn reaches of the Imperium to try and determine if it's worth saving), for example. Star Hero could also do it pretty easily, I actually have notes on a Star Hero campaign that was intended to feature a lot of the original series situations in a somewhat more plausible setting. Maybe someday I'll get a chance to run it.

Seems to me this is one of those cases where setting and atmosphere are going to be more important than the rules.

teitan · Mar 29, 2005

Star Trek isn't exactly Space Opera but I think D20 Future and D20 Modern could do it pretty easily and so could Traveller T20. Star Trek has a more hard science approach, or so Braga and co. would like us to believe, though Enterprise was certainly operatic in many ways. Battlestar Galactica *Classic* is SO.

Jason

Angel Tarragon · Mar 29, 2005

I have played D20 Warp in the past and I found, that though not entirely capturing the feel of Trek games that I would like to be involved in, that it is better than not having anything at the time. With the upcoming Prime Directive D20, I hope this changes.