Space Opera-style OGL Starship Rules Needed

[philreed]

Any suggestions? Rules that are 100% OGC and fast-playing, please.

 

[HellHound]

The space combat rules in DragonStar (Fantasy Flight Games) are good and simple, IMO.

They are also good about OGC.

 

[Darrin Drader]

In addition to Dragonstar, you might want to check out RPG Obect's upcoming release Blood and Space. You can learn more about it at the following URL: http://www.rpgobjects.com/bs/

It will be a download, which I'm sure will work well for your purposes.

 

[philreed]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'll look at these.

 

[trancejeremy]

You might look at Pinnacle's dogfighting rules from Dead From Above (for Weird Wars). Their vehicle rules from the main book are also pretty good (I think, anyway) and are OGC.

 

[Vigilance]

Phil, if you'd like more information on Blood and Space, which is coming in a week or so online, send me an email at ricecharles2112@netzero.net

Id love to chat with you about whatever you have in mind

 

[Cergorach]

You also might want to look at Traveller D20, it has (space) vehicle combat rules...

 

[Rifter]

I was kind of thinking that you could probably do a conversion of the Spycraft Rules for chases. Of course, what are you looking at? Do you want to concentrate on large, starship combat, or concentrate on small fighters? I can't think of any system that does both, well.

 

[Blacksad]

They aren't released yet, but you might contact guardians of order on their d20 Mecha rules (mecha in the japanese sense, it includes bicycles and spaceship), it seems that they are quite willing to show their work to other publisher, as proven by mongoose who will have "as compatible as possible with d20 Mecha" robots in WarMecha and dream pod 9 with their d20 Mecha Compendium using d20 Mecha rules.

Speaking of Dream Pod 9, they'll release a new Space-Opera setting in March called Core-Commands with OGL conversion.
I have confidence in their abilities to do good rules, and depending on your release date, they might be willing to use you as a large scale playtester