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<blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 4363264" data-attributes="member: 43283"><p>Plenty of folks'll tell you True20 will do what you want. It seems to currently be the standard answer to anyone that wants to do something but not use D&D rules. I liked Blue Rose, but True20 left me flat. Maybe it plays better than it reads, but reading it didn't excite me so I didn't bother doing anything else.</p><p></p><p>I personally would go for Unisystem. There's 2 different flavors of it. "Classic" is what you'll get in the Witchcraft book. You can download it for free from here and see what you think of the system overall: <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=692&it=1&filters=0_0_0&free=1" target="_blank">http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=692&it=1&filters=0_0_0&free=1</a></p><p></p><p>There's also the "Cinematic" version, which uses a slightly modified version of the same rules you find in Witchcraft. Cinematic Unisystem is what's used for the Buffy, Angel, and Army of Darkness games. If you're interested in it, I'd suggest getting the Angel book. Buffy is an earlier version, Angel is next, and then they used those rules to do the Revised version of Buffy.</p><p></p><p>The Angel rules come with some nifty bits for creating organizations which aren't in the Buffy rules, and then there's always the monster building. You can use just about any of the Unisystem books together with very little work.</p><p></p><p>So for the Sci-Fi thing, I'd go with Angel for the base rules, and pick up All Tomorrow's Zombies. It's explicitly for doing Sci-Fi.</p><p></p><p>The All Flesh Must be Eaten line is for horror/zombie stuff at it's base, but if you don't feel like doing zombies, you just don't do zombies. Pretty simple. Here's a link to All Tomorrow's Zombies in pdf form:</p><p><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=27794&it=1" target="_blank">http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=27794&it=1</a></p><p></p><p>Eden has done a little book/mag called "Eden Studios Presents". Volume 1 has a setting called, "Spacefarers and Prairie folk" which basically will let you run a Firefly style game using Unisystem.</p><p></p><p>Sidenote: If you really groove on Unisystem, you can turn around and use it for doing Fantasy games too. Thanks to Dungeons & Zombies:</p><p><a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1645&it=1" target="_blank">http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1645&it=1</a></p><p></p><p>The Buffy/Angel books aren't in print any longer, but it's not particularly difficult to find them. The only really hard to find Unisystem books are The Magic Box (magic supplement for Buffy), Armageddon (standalone Unisystem game), and the Mystery Codex (Witchcraft magic supplement).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scurvy_Platypus, post: 4363264, member: 43283"] Plenty of folks'll tell you True20 will do what you want. It seems to currently be the standard answer to anyone that wants to do something but not use D&D rules. I liked Blue Rose, but True20 left me flat. Maybe it plays better than it reads, but reading it didn't excite me so I didn't bother doing anything else. I personally would go for Unisystem. There's 2 different flavors of it. "Classic" is what you'll get in the Witchcraft book. You can download it for free from here and see what you think of the system overall: [url]http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=692&it=1&filters=0_0_0&free=1[/url] There's also the "Cinematic" version, which uses a slightly modified version of the same rules you find in Witchcraft. Cinematic Unisystem is what's used for the Buffy, Angel, and Army of Darkness games. If you're interested in it, I'd suggest getting the Angel book. Buffy is an earlier version, Angel is next, and then they used those rules to do the Revised version of Buffy. The Angel rules come with some nifty bits for creating organizations which aren't in the Buffy rules, and then there's always the monster building. You can use just about any of the Unisystem books together with very little work. So for the Sci-Fi thing, I'd go with Angel for the base rules, and pick up All Tomorrow's Zombies. It's explicitly for doing Sci-Fi. The All Flesh Must be Eaten line is for horror/zombie stuff at it's base, but if you don't feel like doing zombies, you just don't do zombies. Pretty simple. Here's a link to All Tomorrow's Zombies in pdf form: [url]http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=27794&it=1[/url] Eden has done a little book/mag called "Eden Studios Presents". Volume 1 has a setting called, "Spacefarers and Prairie folk" which basically will let you run a Firefly style game using Unisystem. Sidenote: If you really groove on Unisystem, you can turn around and use it for doing Fantasy games too. Thanks to Dungeons & Zombies: [url]http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1645&it=1[/url] The Buffy/Angel books aren't in print any longer, but it's not particularly difficult to find them. The only really hard to find Unisystem books are The Magic Box (magic supplement for Buffy), Armageddon (standalone Unisystem game), and the Mystery Codex (Witchcraft magic supplement). [/QUOTE]
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