Quote from: RPGPundit;636344Well, as I commented previously, while I really love Gamma World, "not exactly like gamma world" is probably a good thing if you're making a P-A RPG.. otherwise what would be the point?

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Yes I agree. it feels more like Mad Max with mutations.

Quote from: danskmacabre;636356Yes I agree. it feels more like Mad Max with mutations.

I thought Mad Max had mutations? Master Blaster?

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Quote from: RPGPundit;636703I thought Mad Max had mutations? Master Blaster?

Not mutie enough.

Quote from: Piestrio;636012I was really rooting for WEG at one point but damn if the owner didn't do everything in his power to drive it into the ground

And it wasn't so much "deliberately bad", as "horribly aimless".
..which if Septimus had happened earlier, and hadn't blown up so bad, it might well be an industry leader, today.
(woulda, coulda, shoulda, I know)

I like both d6 WEG Star Wars, and d20 Star Wars Saga Edition. The first plays better with a tramp freighter crew, the second for a group wanting to play Force-users.

I greatly enjoy a set of Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader campaigns. We're continuing on a new campaign over Google+, my only active gaming at the moment.

Always down for some Robotech and RIFTS, though it's been almost a decade since the last time I played a campaign (lot's of one-shots and Con games, though).

Quote from: RPGPundit;636703I thought Mad Max had mutations? Master Blaster?

He could easily not have been a a mutant, he just looked mentally retarded to me. In fact that's the impression I got. I never thought of it as "There's a mutant". He was just a big strong person who was retarded.

Besides, modern civilization was easily in living memory for most, even some of the kids in the movie had vague memories of our society, hardly enough time for mutants to be born and be adults.

I should also add

Heavy Gear
Jovian Chronicles

While I associate these more with the "Mecha" genre than Sci-fi, they are that as well.

I am not fond of their systems, but I do love the settings with a passion however.

Quote from: YourSwordisMine;636713Space 1889

Oh fuck yes! How could I have forgotten?!

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I'm currently playing an american baseball player for the Brooklyn Knickerbockers.  While he's really quite progressive for his time and place the other players are finding him pretty appallingly racist and classist (he place baseball full time because he's rich, he's not rich because he plays baseball).  I doubt he'll live through another session.

Quote from: RPGPundit;637180Oh fuck yes! How could I have forgotten?!

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Unfortunately this happens a lot... It saddens me that such a wonderful setting has languished for so long unknown, especially with the height of the Steampunk craze. The Savage Worlds book helps, but it really needs the attention and support the setting so richly deserves. I've always felt the game was ahead of its time. I think if released now, it would be very popular.

Quote from: David Johansen;637299I'm currently playing an american baseball player for the Brooklyn Knickerbockers.  While he's really quite progressive for his time and place the other players are finding him pretty appallingly racist and classist (he place baseball full time because he's rich, he's not rich because he plays baseball).  I doubt he'll live through another session.

Awesome!

Quote from: YourSwordisMine;637450Unfortunately this happens a lot... It saddens me that such a wonderful setting has languished for so long unknown, especially with the height of the Steampunk craze. The Savage Worlds book helps, but it really needs the attention and support the setting so richly deserves. I've always felt the game was ahead of its time. I think if released now, it would be very popular.

Yeah. And the thing is, I remember when it first came out. It was a huge deal... then it just kind of dropped out of existence.

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Quote from: gleichman;633764HERO, for all the reasons that HERO is awesome to begin with.

It does have a problem with Starships, and in some settings I've had to swap out to a set of home grown rules.

Was this with the Star Hero content or were you using the main book with your own system?  I was going to mention Star Hero as one I would like to try, but never implemented.  The Star Hero book was one of the few chances for Hero that I had players immediately saying it looked cool, overriding the density of the book.  It has a very science fiction look to it right off.  I would like to use my stack of Star Hero books.  If you have something like your Variants in Hero compiled rulings for Star Hero, it would be cool to see.

Traveller is the old stand by.  I know it backwards and forwards, being able to apply its rules to all kinds of settings.  I enjoy the Skraypes setting Dimension Book 4 of Rifts.  I can run a really cosmic science fiction game with Marvel Superheroes.  I prefer Ex Machina, the Tri-Stat game, for some near future setting more like Cowboy Beebop / Ghost in the Shell.  So, these are hovering around the top.

I could see running my GURPS 1/2 edition things, if players actually wanted to go that way.  I have players that instantly liked the look of TSR's Buck Rogers.  I've also had players look at my first edition of Space Master and want a try of it.  Space 1889 usually gets a positive reaction from older players too.

But my good sirs!  Space 1889 is not "steam punk"!  Indeed I take offense at the very suggestion that it has any "punk" within it what so ever.  Nor any extraneous gears stuck to everything in sight with a glue gun.  No nor even an over dependance upon dirty coal fired steam engines when inventors can produce electrical and petroleum fueled conveyances.  No nor shamelessly low necklines and obviously inflatable boosoms squeezed to the breaking point by steam powered corsets covered in extraneous tacked-on gears.

It is in fact a game of adventure in a more civilized age.  An age of reason and science.  Refinement and culture not this uncouth thrashing about to the death throes of some maniac with an electric guitar.

Goodness me, it makes me recoil just thinking about it.  I shall have to be off for a cup of tea.  Whatever is this world coming to?

You have a point there. Its got inventors in it, including some stuff that would certainly qualify as "pre-steampunk", but its not a game about the steampunk aesthetic; its a game about Imperialism.

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I was not calling Space 1889 "steampunk" I was referring that with the current popularity of Steampunk, that Space 1889 would do better in todays gaming scene, than it did back in 1988-89 when it came out.

Yes, Space 1889 is definitely a game of Imperialism, with a Sci-fi veneer. The best of Verne, Wells, and Burroughs rolled into an awesome package distinctly its own.