(Mongoose) Starship Troopers! RPG, miniatures and graphic novels!

[realmprotector]

Very disappointing!!

Sorry to sound negative but my group and I will pass on this...

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

What OG system? Basic rules for fantasy d20 srd? d20 modern? Your cyberpunk OGS? Something different?

If you have an aliens (bugs) book will it be suitable as a monster book for D&D games? how much rules difference will there be?

The rules will be something new.

There will be no official Starship Troopers d20 conversion. Though, just to confuse matters, there will be a D20 Fantasy SRD conversion to the new rules.

Basically, we will be releasing the new rules set earlier this year, converted to run fantasy d20, using the existing SRD. A kind of fantasy SRD of the new rules set, if you will, so all you chaps can inspect the new rules in an environment you are already familiar with and let us know what you think.

 

[TheBadElf]

Hmm...I'm not really sure that this qualifies as "bigger than Bond", but I'm happy to see that it seems to be taking a lot of cues from the book (one of my all-time favorites). If the minis are high quality (and in something approaching the standard 28-30mm scale) and the rules look good I'll give the wargame a shot, and I'll definately be picking up the RPG.

 

[Arnwyn]

The idea of using all three major sources (book, film, and TV's Roughnecks) is brilliant, and pleases me immensely.

I hate it when companies pick up a license that's incomplete - the fact that you will be using aspects of all three sources has given me a *very* positive view of this game already.

Excellent!

(I'm not sure what the post above means - it's not a d20 game, but can be converted to play using the d20 rules?)

 

[LostWorldsMike]

...the totalitarian government of Earth...

I was kinda excited when I first heard about this, but the continuance of the misrepresentation of Heinlein's novel perpetrated by that abysmal excuse for a movie is, well, an absolute buzz-kill.

Now, I realize that I haven't seen the book yet. And I'm not saying it's going to be utter crap sight-unseen. Before I pass any kind of final judgement, I'll look at the actual product. I'm just saying that the above statement really puts a damper on my enthusiasm.

 

[bolen]

Are you starting to try to make an in road into mini games I saw yesterday that you have some kind of 15mm warband game coming out in may. Does the starship troopers game use the same rules?

 

[Gallo22]

Hey Mongoose folks.

Don't let the naysayers (who have not even seen the book! ) get you down. I have read the novel (very good); seen the movie (alot of fun) and I own almost all of the TV series on dvd (fantastic!).

A combination of the three will be great!

Gallo22

 

[Gallo22]

Slight correction, there was no power armor in the film... that was the book.

Major correction...

He was talking about the tv series, Roughnecks. They had "game playable" power armor.

Gallo22

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

Mike: You know, way before the film, I always took the government of the book to be fascist. Some people I have spoken to agree, others do not - funny thing, interpretation Heinlein himself was fairly ambiguous on this point. . .

Bolen: No the rules between Starship Troopers and Mighty Armies will be completely different. However, Turf Wars (the Judge DRedd game) and Starship Troopers were both born out of the same preliminary rules, though they have both mutated vastly since then.

Gallo: I said before the announcement that there would be some who turn their nose up at the licence and some who would cry out that we would ruin the original vision For those of you who stay with us, however, you are going to be in for an amazing experience. We are pushing forward with ideas not on just how to present the games but also new ways in which they are actually played - Starship Troopers is going to be a step forward in tabletop gaming, and proof that computer games are not the be all and end all of the future!

 

[scottdunphy]

Mike: You know, way before the film, I always took the government of the book to be fascist. Some people I have spoken to agree, others do not - funny thing, interpretation Heinlein himself was fairly ambiguous on this point. . .

Fascist, perhaps. But you used the term "totalitarian". I don't see any evidence for that being the case in the book or the movie. These are not the same thing. Johhny Rico had a choice, he could join the service or go into his dad's business. His dad, and what seemed like most of society, was against someone of his social background joining the service. More to the point, the veterans were against anyone joining the service who wasn't serious about it. Even when earth was attacked there wasn't a draft. As for the rest of society, it seemed fairly normal (although the book and movie focus on the service so we don't really know).

Personally I would prefer the type of government in the book. I think everyone should have to earn the right to vote so it would mean something again. It's still a democracy and (apparently) a free society. The reaction to it as fascist has to be taken in the context of the 60s when the book was published and there were a lot of very radical left organizations and people taking over our college campuses. Some of these same people later thought of Heinlein as a new-age guru because of "Stranger in a Strange Land".

Clearly Verhooven (sp?) was poking fun at some of these elements in his film, but I don't think he potrayed a totalitarian government either. Personally I am a fan of the movie too (put I still want some power armor).

On a slightly different note, are you using anything from the new film (due out this year)? Did you get a sneak peak? Is it good?