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Your Favorite Sci-Fi Game?

Started by RPGPundit, June 28, 2017, 07:51:52 PM

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DiscoSoup

#135
July 06, 2017, 12:32:13 PM
PDF is out if you preorder. Not available on Drivethru. It has a lifepath character generation system. You can play as Andorian, Bajoran, Denobulan, Trill, Human, Tellarite, Vulcan or Betazoid as Starfleet characters, and I think there are stats for Klingons, Romulans and others in the back of the book. I was mainly a "lore" writer, as opposed to rules. Oh, and this book is pretty. I mean gorgeous. It ain't cheap, but I'd say that it's worth it.
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Baulderstone

#136
July 06, 2017, 01:00:12 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;973560Is there anywhere I can look at it to see what its rules are and what it's like?

I was in a playtest and I found it a little tot close to Cortex Plus for my taste. I'm not entirely opposed to narrative-type systems, but this system and Cortex Plus have more fiddliness than I like in a narrative system. There were just too many moving parts in the core mechanic for me: Tasks, Hazards, Consequences, Momentum, Determination, Values, Challenges. I'm not saying it is a bad system. It just isn't for me. Too much dice pool management.

Dumarest

#137
July 06, 2017, 01:25:52 PM
Quote from: Baulderstone;973569I was in a playtest and I found it a little tot close to Cortex Plus for my taste. I'm not entirely opposed to narrative-type systems, but this system and Cortex Plus have more fiddliness than I like in a narrative system. There were just too many moving parts in the core mechanic for me: Tasks, Hazards, Consequences, Momentum, Determination, Values, Challenges. I'm not saying it is a bad system. It just isn't for me. Too much dice pool management.

Thanks. Sounds like I'll pass as well as that type of mechanic is not my cup of tea. Oh well. I still have FASA!

DiscoSoup

#138
July 06, 2017, 02:51:53 PM
That's too bad, but all the best. Anyway, it is out now at Drivethru.
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Biscuitician

#139
July 06, 2017, 03:07:57 PM
Quote from: The Exploited.;973533I think the pdf is out now, or in the next day, or so I believe.

It's out now. Unfortunately the preview, as it always is with DTRPG, is rubbish.

Apparition

#140
July 06, 2017, 03:11:02 PM
Star Trek Adventures is just a wee bit too narrative for my taste, but there's always "Starships & Spacemen Second Edition," which is literally Star Trek meets B/X D&D with the names filed off.  It even has an alien forehead generator.

Tod13

#141
July 06, 2017, 04:01:39 PM
Quote from: Biscuitician;973590It's out now. Unfortunately the preview, as it always is with DTRPG, is rubbish.

Tell the publisher. If publisher doesn't change the default, the preview uses the first six pages. I let Pundit (actually, Pundit's publisher) know that Arrows of Indra's preview was nothing but blank and title pages. They changed the preview to be a useful portion of the book, which was really nice.

Dumarest

#142
July 06, 2017, 04:12:33 PM
Quote from: DiscoSoup;973586That's too bad, but all the best. Anyway, it is out now at Drivethru.

I still hope it does well enough to make it worthwhile for publishers do pursue licenses of this type and put out additional materials. Sometimes even if the game itself is something I might not use, other materials are useful to me.

Dumarest

#143
July 06, 2017, 04:13:45 PM
Quote from: Celestial;973591Star Trek Adventures is just a wee bit too narrative for my taste, but there's always "Starships & Spacemen Second Edition," which is literally Star Trek meets B/X D&D with the names filed off.  It even has an alien forehead generator.

Well, anything meeting D&D mechanics tends to be a nonstarter for me by virtue of my not caring for D&D in the first place. I've yet to see a better game for Star Trek than the old FASA one.

3rik

#144
July 06, 2017, 07:55:22 PM Last Edit: July 06, 2017, 09:55:15 PM by 3rik
Quote from: Baulderstone;973569I was in a playtest and I found it a little tot close to Cortex Plus for my taste. I'm not entirely opposed to narrative-type systems, but this system and Cortex Plus have more fiddliness than I like in a narrative system. There were just too many moving parts in the core mechanic for me: Tasks, Hazards, Consequences, Momentum, Determination, Values, Challenges. I'm not saying it is a bad system. It just isn't for me. Too much dice pool management.
Yeah, they're using that 2d20 thing. Again.


Quote from: Dumarest;973634Well, anything meeting D&D mechanics tends to be a nonstarter for me by virtue of my not caring for D&D in the first place. I've yet to see a better game for Star Trek than the old FASA one.
I've never considered Star Trek very gameable but I own one Star Trek RPG book that was too good a price to pass. Let me check which one it is... Last Unicorn Games, so not FASA I guess. I haven't actually read it. Is it any good?
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flyingmice

#145
July 06, 2017, 08:16:30 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;973634Well, anything meeting D&D mechanics tends to be a nonstarter for me by virtue of my not caring for D&D in the first place. I've yet to see a better game for Star Trek than the old FASA one.

Then what are you doing here? :O
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Dumarest

#146
July 06, 2017, 08:40:26 PM
Quote from: flyingmice;973672Then what are you doing here? :O

Stirring up trouble with The Fantasy Trip heresy and Traveller propaganda.

DiscoSoup

#147
July 06, 2017, 10:15:55 PM
Quote from: 3rik;973671I've never considered Star Trek very gameable but I own one Star Trek RPG book that was too good a price to pass. Let me check which one it is... Last Unicorn Games, so not FASA I guess. I haven't actually read it. Is it any good?

That was the first RPG I ever bought. Pretty good system. Some of the designers for that game went on to work on the Decipher version and this one.
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Dumarest

#148
July 06, 2017, 10:30:50 PM
Quote from: DiscoSoup;973695That was the first RPG I ever bought. Pretty good system. Some of the designers for that game went on to work on the Decipher version and this one.

The preview only shows a few pages but it seemed to be only New Generation/Deep Star Nine/Voyager-era. Is that so? And if so, any plans to produce something for fans of the original who aren't really interested in latter-day post-Kirk/Spock/McCoy Trek? (I don't count the new movies as "original series," just to be clear.)

Even if the answer is no, like I said before I still encourage Star Trek RPGs in general as sometimes if enough New Generation stuff sells, it opens things up for Trek in general (or so I like to think).

Dumarest

#149
July 06, 2017, 10:32:58 PM
Quote from: 3rik;973671Yeah, they're using that 2d20 thing. Again.



I've never considered Star Trek very gameable but I own one Star Trek RPG book that was too good a price to pass. Let me check which one it is... Last Unicorn Games, so not FASA I guess. I haven't actually read it. Is it any good?

I have the Last Unicorn version as well. It was so right, I guess, but never inspired me to do much with it in the way the FASA game did. At this point I much prefer FASA's interpretation of Klingons and their starships...for me there is no "Miranda" class, it'll always be Reliant class!
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