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Wannabe Traveller RPG's

A Question to My Fellow Traveller's;

How many other games have came down the pike trying to be another Traveller and were simply pale imitations of the original Science Fiction Role Playing Game? I'm just kinda curious on the names of these failed attempts.

One that comes to my mind is "Other Suns", I'll also put down my first attempt at a role playing game called: "Embers of Empire."

I look forward to your list.

Lord Iron Wolf
 
FTL 2448 is a good Space game similar to Traveller. I actually use it for reference in my games. If you like random charts and ideas, the damage/disease information in this book alone makes it worth grabbing. There's a Book 2 and 3 but I didn't find much use out of Book 2 and I can't FIND Book 3.

Alternity was TSR's attempt at digging it's way into the Sci-Fi niche, but it's more like GURPS Space as it's modular. I use both as reference.

Fading Suns is great for Noble Houses and Religion in space. Again for reference IMTU...

I can't think of any game that is so bad that I got rid of the book. But I don't think any of these ever got the space or praise that Traveller did. At least from me...

Later,

Scout
 
Universe from SPI. It did have that really cool 3D map of every star within 30 light years of earth though. A few interesting innovations, but in the main, just a reworking of many of the same things in Traveller (Prior Service CharGen, System and Planet creation).
 
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