Those unboxing pics really want me to pick this up. IIRC Mike Pondsmith of CP2020 fame wrote this, which is yet another reason I am interested in this. I've heard it as having a fairly playable mix of pulp sf, early transhuman/cyberpunk and hard sf and the art looks fun. And I'm one of those who likes AD&D2E so I've no problem with this system.

Yeah the Buck Rogers tv show + the DDL Flash Gordon film and the early 80s cartoon(s) put me in the Flash Gordon camp but really it's rather easy to move between them and it's not like this has the original book or serial Buck Rogers setting anyway.

Were the TSR Buck Rogers novels from around this time set in this game's setting and are they worth picking up? I get that being game fiction they're not likely to be great lit, but readable is ok.

Quote from: David Johansen;458109Given how well Stars Without Number has been recieved I think it's entirely possible the second edition D&D rules would be a big hit in the current retro clone age.

The percentile skills kinda dimmed it, however, SNW would be an awesome alternate as well.

I so want to go make some PC's.

Well, it is second edition and it works far better than the stat based d20 proficiencies did.  Hi I'm a thief!  I can pick pockets with a 15% chance of success!  But I can also forge weapons and armor with a 65% chance (13 in 20) maybe I'll just stay home and do an honest day's work after all.  Even going to stat bonuses is too good unless you make the base target number 20.

Quote from: Aos;458088The images are fixed.
I hope you are all fucking happy.

I am. Thank you for making the change.

RPGPundit

I'm with some others - forgotten? Nu-uh. I was really excited about that game when it came out. I don't own everything for it, but I bought into it.

Seanchai

Quote from: Seanchai;458169I'm with some others - forgotten? Nu-uh. I was really excited about that game when it came out. I don't own everything for it, but I bought into it.

Seanchai

Knowing that you also have a huge collection-this applies to you as well:

Quote from: Aos;458090By forgotten I mean rarely spoken of. I did a search and found like three forum threads for it over the last 10 years or so.

I am certain that you have a shit ton of stuff that people would love to know more about.  

Share.

Quote from: Aos;458170Knowing that you also have a huge collection-this applies to you as well:

Huge and growin', baby. But, yeah, okay.

Seanchai

That's pretty awesome. I remember really wanting it back in the day, but didn't have the money for it. It looks better than I would have expected.

Funny they choose to include a Map of the Earth, just in case you didnt own one.

Enough talky-talk; how's this bitch play?

I couldn't help but notice that you had a copy of my S&W: WhiteBox rules on the table next to the Buck Rogers game. That makes me very happy, and thanks for the "product placement"!

I like the Buck Rogers rules. I don't use the actual modules much, but I bought the board game and combine the general setting with my own ideas. Very fun.

Quote from: finarvyn;458278I couldn't help but notice that you had a copy of my S&W: WhiteBox rules on the table next to the Buck Rogers game. That makes me very happy, and thanks for the "product placement"!

I like the Buck Rogers rules. I don't use the actual modules much, but I bought the board game and combine the general setting with my own ideas. Very fun.

S&W WB is my fantasy game of choice, so thank you. I've house ruled the living shit out of it though- check out the link in my sig.

I was introduced to the Buck Rogers XXVC game through the old SSI gold box game 'Countdown to Doomsday' on the Amiga. Great game, but dead easy to cheat by copying the best equipment and doling it out (my entire team was decked out with rocket launchers and mercurian needle guns, best armour etc, more or less waded through everything, but the game was still tricky on the harder levels with robots and such providing stiff resistance sometimes). The game included a condensed set of rules for the rpg which would be fine to run a session with, if I recall.

That led me to hoover up everything published for the system (as far as I know. When I get chance tomorrow I will dig it out for a picture) though I never got round to playing it because my gaming takes place online these days, and the game wasn't well known. Aside from the percentile skills system, it was AD&D 2e, THAC0 etc but set in the solar system.

I gather there is some connection (The Dille family, and Lorraine Williams? Will have to check) between the then CEO of TSR and the creator of Buck Rogers. When TSR went bust there may have been some backlash against her and the game she brought with her. Perhaps TSR paid a lot of money for a license that really wasn't worth much at all..? I don't know. All I know is that the look and the feel of the game were excellent, up to the usual TSR standards of the day, which were top notch in my book.

Will stick a few scans up when I get chance.

Quote from: APN;458988I gather there is some connection (The Dille family, and Lorraine Williams? Will have to check) between the then CEO of TSR and the creator of Buck Rogers. When TSR went bust there may have been some backlash against her and the game she brought with her. Perhaps TSR paid a lot of money for a license that really wasn't worth much at all..? I don't know. All I know is that the look and the feel of the game were excellent, up to the usual TSR standards of the day, which were top notch in my book.

Will stick a few scans up when I get chance.

There is and there was; Williams basically made two different Buck Rogers games during her time at TSR in order to channel money from the company right into her personal family wealth.

As such, this game was not well loved or very well received in its time.

RPGPundit

I've played the two Gold Box computer games and count them among the best of that line. Never had a chance to play it PnP, but certainly wouldn't mind giving it a spin.