Your Favorite non-GDW Scifi RPG, Part 1
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Sweet. That game is awesome. The Pills make it so, well them and the best combat system ever. :devil:
Space Hamster
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Had to update my vote for both GURPS Space and FFG's Star Wars.
Started GMing Space 1889 in November, using the reboot with the Ubiquity system. The group is having a blast, as the style points for playing to your motivation and flaw emphasizes the ROLE playing.
Timerover51
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Space: 1889 was a GDW Science Fiction role=playing game. Why is it being called a non-GDW one in the poll?
Newer versions (Savage Worlds and Ubiquity systems) are non-GDW.
Bravesteel
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I voted for Battletech and Mechwarrior, as I love the idea of it even though I have never been able to get a group together to run in on a consistent basis.
I also voted for Fading Suns, a game I have never played, but I love the feel of the setting.
I also voted for Fading Suns, a game I have never played, but I love the feel of the setting.
Coldn't this be said from Traveller too?
For the same reason, IMHO, at least MgT, GT and I guess (I don't know them) T20 and TH should also be in the list (assuming GDW means MWM companies, as, striclty speaking, even CT is, or so I understand, now FFE, not GDW...)
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Timerover51
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I voted for Space: 1889, but I notice that Gamma World and Metamorphosis Alpha are not part of the poll. I think that Metamorphosis Alpha was the first science fiction role-playing game, or at least the first one that I bought. I also still have the original edition of Gamma World.
I haven't gotten to play Space; 1889! just yet, but I have started a web site. Working on Mars ships. No maps for Space: 1889! posted to the site yet. It shares with a 'future Mars' site.
http://travellergame.drivein-jim.net/pastfuturemars/
http://travellergame.drivein-jim.net/pastfuturemars/
Supplement Four
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D6, 1st edtion, WEG, Star Wars.
Hands down.
And..not an option in the poll.
Hands down.
And..not an option in the poll.
LeperColony
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Really surprised to see so many other Fading Suns fans. They always seem so thin on the ground...
Bravesteel
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Well, the franchise doesn't do itself any favors! I only found out about it because I was randomly browsing RPGs at one point.
FS came out during the d20 'splosion. It got buried on shelves. The d20 version didn't help things - it damaged the rep.
And its fanbase overlaps heavily the 40K fanbase and Traveller fanbases.
See, it's essentially "Our WH40K license got pulled before we could finish writing, so we changed it" ... the mechanics look like WWG's Storyteller doing 40K crossed with Dune, but then reworked to use d20's instead.
LeperColony
Traveller Card Game Dev Team
Fading Suns actually predates D20 (if by D20 we mean 3rd Ed) by several years, and it's less tied to 40k than Vampire and Werewolf from White Wolf, and old school cult based Runequest (which is no surprise, since RQ is listed as a V:tM inspiration).
Of course, even 40k at the time was not anything remotely like 40k today. I started playing 40k in the early 90's, and even then, as it started to become more "grim dark," things weren't nearly as polished or consistent as they are now.
I'm on pretty friendly terms with one of the founders of Armorcast. They used to have a license from GW to make large scale warmachines (coincidentally they had one for Battletech too), and he's told me that back in the mid-90's, negotiating with GW was like talking to your gaming buddy. I doubt it's that way now.
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