Savage Worlds - The Last Parsec

Quote from: palaeomerus on August 02, 2021, 06:16:34 PM
I also ordered a game called Golgotha and another called River of Heaven and they should be a week or two out?

Golgotha is a Black Hack based game about ruin-delving i.e. futuristic dungeon-crawling.

River of Heaven is somewhat Revelation Space: the RPG, using a light RQ/d100 engine (OpenQuest).

Have both, never had the chance to play, although I'd happily give either a shot. Having said that, Golgotha maybe looks somewhat limited for longer-term campaigns. RoH's setting never grabbed me because I couldn't get interested in the in-universe factions. Plus the art turned me off, although that isn't a showstopper.

By the way, the guy who did Golgotha also did a Mini6-based game called Exilium. It's set in a single system of multiple inhabited worlds, with humans (who have forgotten where they come from) and a bunch of uplifted aliens. The concept is the PCs are exiles from a dimension of godlike intelligences, who have been booted out and down to reality as punishment for some crime. Play is mainly supposed to revolve around hunting down other godlike intelligences who have come down to reality because they enjoy possessing mortals and causing havoc or misery of one sort of another. By stopping them, the players get to define their crime and also work towards atonement and readmission to "heaven".

The books are beautiful and the concept is fantastic. And d6 is a solid enough and long-tested system that a lot of people seem to like.

Blue Planet, depending on the semantics.  It's an SF game set on another planet _in_ space but play is generally confined to the planet's surface.  I quite like the setting.

Quote from: JeffB on July 29, 2021, 04:06:34 PM

Quote from: zircher on July 29, 2021, 03:34:42 PM
Starfinder has been mentioned, but if you're really curious, it's on Humble Bundle.  I just picked it up at the five dollar tier to get the core books and some other items.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/starfinder-paizo-books

Wow. Hardcover and the physical BB in that bundle.

And more importantly, a great charity.

Charity is probably the only reason to buy it. I played through the entire Dead Suns campaign, and the GM and I did some post-campaign reviews as well. Starfinder means well, but it is clunky as fuck and shows signs that it wasn't properly playtested in my opinion.

Plus, the equipment system just seems ridiculous.

If you liked Star Frontiers, its spiritual successor FrontierSpace by DWD Studios is a pretty good game. The mechanics are very similar, the skill list is pared down, and there's a lot of modularity to gear/robots/spacecraft.

Fading Suns: Pax Alexius seems pretty good so far. I have yet to actually play it, just received the books.

Shatterzone is one of my favorites, but its task resolution is crunchy. If you dig that kind of thing, go for it!

And there is always the first edition of Alternity. Much better than the "new" Alternity, very skill-based, easy to run and play.

Quote from: Pat on July 28, 2021, 03:29:45 AM
Could go with the originals, Starfaring and Metamorphosis Alpha. Though the former is going to be very hard to find, and the latter is easy to find but only technically a space game.

Speaking of which, Bundle of Holding is doing Metamorphosis Alpha until September 6th:
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Metamorphosis
It's the Goodman Games versions, so it's the original (1976) game, with some errata, and some new supplements they commissioned from various authors, including Jim Ward. PDFs. Works out to about 80% off.

I just found a POD hardback of Cosmic Cutthroats which uses the R.E.C.I.P.E. engine at the Half Price Books this afternoon.

Nice fat book and they had a babylomian khopesh on the back along with a blaster so I picked it up.

Very cheap too, 2nd hand. Someone just penciled $7 on it and boom.

So I'll start reading through it tomorrow.

I got FrontierSpace and I do like it quite a bit.

I ordered Shatterzone as part of a scifi bundle from precis Intermedia and it's nice but I don't have the cards or any of the support books for it yet. Came with Worlds Beyond and    Also got Foreign Elements and Hard Nova II revised and expanded.  I also ordered Exiled in Eris with two supplements/adventures and Foreign Elements.

I see Troll Lord have re-released StarSIEGE. Based off their "siege engine" from Castles and Crusades. Unlike the old stand-alone version, it now seems to be a sourcebook for Amazing Adventures.

If you like Cyberpunk, the old 2020 supplement Deep Space takes it into the solar system. It's hard scifi so no magic-tech reactionless drives or gravity deckplates.

Sounds like the OP already has plenty of reading though!

Just for fun... the intro is freebie.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/58817/StarSiege-Introductory-Manual

A little update on the acquisitions front:

I ordered the classic reprints of the rest of the Shatterzone line (I already had the core book) and the Rune Stryders fantasy mech game, and a deck of the masterbook cards which I hope work with Shatterzone, and to top it all off I got ten of those 8 in 1 D6s, all from Precis Intermedia. I thought about ordering them from Amazon but in this case I did not.

I also got the OSR Rulebook for Strange Stars (based on Stars Without Number) and the Strange Stars setting book.

I ordered a hardback of FrontierSpace Referee's Handbook but it has not arrived yet. I already have the Player's guide.

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Oh I should mention that about three weeks ago started collecting Metamorphosis Alpha stuff.

I got this thing which is too big for my shelves.











And the big fat Troll Lords Starship Warden sourcebook which is like 600 pages of stuff.