aramis erak
Legend
I've run several one-shots, but never a campaign.Last week, I discovered the existence of the 80’s Space Opera RPG from Fantasy Unlimited - the makers of another game I knew well, Villains & Vigilantes.
Curious about it, I picked up a copy for cheap and have been (unsuccessfully) trying to muddle my way through it. It is a quirky, early game to be sure. Has anyone else here had experience with this game? Apparently, it was one of the ”big three” SF games at the time, between itself, Traveller and Star Frontiers. I’m somewhat surprised I’d never heard of it before, but apparently there are quite a few sourcebooks that go along with the game.
It's a Traveller knockoff in many ways. The scope of the rules is much the same, the nature of Char Gen, the world generation, the kinds of setting... but it tweaks a bunch of things, and is, flatly, not to my tastes, not even in my most munchkin. The fluff in the ship and sector books is decent for the era, but the rules are way too convoluted.