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Why not Alternity? (Or, will or how might WotC do SF?)
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<blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 8410165" data-attributes="member: 22784"><p>Yes, Modiphius have recently published their Dune RPG.</p><p></p><p>We are in something of a golden age for science fiction RPGs. Mongoose are producing a lot of high quality support for Traveller, there's a Flash Gordon RPG for Savage Worlds, EN Publishing has Judge Dredd, there's Scum and Villainy using (what I think is) a version of Blades in the Dark and there's a new version of Blue Planet in the works.</p><p></p><p>And GURPs 4th edition has as much support for GURPS Space as it does for anything, and there are tons of OSR science fiction games.</p><p></p><p>I remember how excited I was by d20 Modern / d20 Future, as the first science fiction RPG I'd seen since WEG's d6 Star Wars. Only to eventually realise (when I became familiar with other sci-fi games) that it rehashed lots of ideas from Alternity, which itself made heavy use of concepts that were well-developed in Traveller and GURPS.</p><p></p><p>So this time around I'm underwhelmed by the idea of D&D in Space. I'd much rather be playing Traveller, or even Star Wars Saga edition, and I think "D&D in Space" might actually make it even harder to find players for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amethal, post: 8410165, member: 22784"] Yes, Modiphius have recently published their Dune RPG. We are in something of a golden age for science fiction RPGs. Mongoose are producing a lot of high quality support for Traveller, there's a Flash Gordon RPG for Savage Worlds, EN Publishing has Judge Dredd, there's Scum and Villainy using (what I think is) a version of Blades in the Dark and there's a new version of Blue Planet in the works. And GURPs 4th edition has as much support for GURPS Space as it does for anything, and there are tons of OSR science fiction games. I remember how excited I was by d20 Modern / d20 Future, as the first science fiction RPG I'd seen since WEG's d6 Star Wars. Only to eventually realise (when I became familiar with other sci-fi games) that it rehashed lots of ideas from Alternity, which itself made heavy use of concepts that were well-developed in Traveller and GURPS. So this time around I'm underwhelmed by the idea of D&D in Space. I'd much rather be playing Traveller, or even Star Wars Saga edition, and I think "D&D in Space" might actually make it even harder to find players for that. [/QUOTE]
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