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If You Had To Run An Epic Space Campaign today...

Started by Zachary The First, April 14, 2007, 08:54:58 AM

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beeber

#15
April 14, 2007, 02:11:45 PM
i'd use a combination of CoC/BRP homebrew & traveller (CT/MT/T4) stuff.  maybe throw in some star frontiers elements as well.  

oh, fuck it.  it's "epic," right?  let's live high on the hog and add 'mechs, 40K stuff, and living ships like the pentapods of 2300 AD and moya of "farscape" fame.

but i'd use that homebrew for mechanics.

ConanMK

#16
April 14, 2007, 02:24:20 PM
I would run Star*Drive, either using its native Alternity rules set, or converting it to True20.

Both systems have plenty of detail in them, but True20 is certainly the lighter of the two.

Dominus Nox

#17
April 14, 2007, 03:11:49 PM
Quote from: David JohansenWell, given a day to prep, the sf rpg I wrote that inspired the redesign on "among the beautiful creatures".  Because it's fast and dirty and done enough to go forward.

Given a week, Galaxies in Shadow.

But if I had to go right now, Space Master Privateers.  Which is a great deal of fun and I have a method that makes characters in 15 minutes without a computer.
I'd definitely like to hear your method, I was going to run a SM campaign once but got tired of trying to make characters given the fact that it was extremely hard to determine skill costs given the race/class factors.

In fact I'd say character creation made the rules system look easy by comparision.
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#18
April 14, 2007, 03:13:46 PM
The system would be gurps for me. As to setting maybe a traveller derivitive I did that was set in a paralell traveller universe I came up with involving the fall of the 3I and the struggle to survive when the K'Kree went on a campaign to rid the universe of G'naak....
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#19
April 14, 2007, 04:43:18 PM
Classic Traveller is the first thing that comes to mind, but I wouldn't rule out Savage Worlds.  The skirmish and mass battles in Savage Worlds rules are helpful for larger actions.  I've recently been thinking of doing something RPG-like and sweeping in scope with the 1st edition Warhammer 40K rulebook.
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Christmas Ape

#20
April 14, 2007, 05:07:29 PM
I'd curse my lack of Wild Talents and grab FATE. Maybe Tri-Stat. Depends on the implications of "epic".
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#21
April 14, 2007, 06:09:59 PM
Quote from: Dominus NoxI'd definitely like to hear your method, I was going to run a SM campaign once but got tired of trying to make characters given the fact that it was extremely hard to determine skill costs given the race/class factors.

In fact I'd say character creation made the rules system look easy by comparision.

Ah, I thought that was you.  Yeah, it took me about a year longer to get to it than expected.

It was in the Guild Companion last month, I call it the Spacemaster Accelerator.  I think they screwed up the link to the custom character sheets though, so if it gives you any trouble, let me know and I'll email them to you.

I was thinking about doing an Accelerator for Rolemaster, but honestly there didn't seem to be much interest.
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#22
April 14, 2007, 06:55:15 PM
fusion of the LBB's, True20 and T20, and my own setting- which would probably be something similar to the one I mentioned in the mars rpg thread.
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#23
April 14, 2007, 08:21:14 PM
I'd like to pimp Burning Empires.

http://www.burningempires.com/

It's probably overcomplicated, and I'm fairly certain that the book will work best as a reference book for someone who already knows how to play it, but damn if it doesn't hold out the chance of some cool ass epic sci-fi, filled with space battles and power plays and ancient empires and power armour and all that good stuff.

And the comics are wicked cool too.

If I had to run a campaign Now it would be HeroQuest Light though.
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#24
April 15, 2007, 09:39:34 AM
Depends on the kind of "epic" game I want to run. Right now, I'm interested in running somthing like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadstar , so I'll probably use Star Wars d6 or Star Frontiers or ....

For stuff other than space opera I'd use Cold Space.

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David Johansen

#25
April 15, 2007, 09:49:26 AM
Well holy shit!  I take it all back.  It would be Traveller!

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beeber

#26
April 15, 2007, 11:50:59 AM
1:7200 scale, eh?  now to figure out the relative sizes of (TOS) enterprise and a star destroyer and put 'em all together, just to be wacky :raise:

those are pretty sweet, tho :D

signoftheserpent

#27
April 15, 2007, 12:19:21 PM
I intend to be running a sf game with either the rules from Qin, WotG or, ideally, my own rules (which is my ultimate goal). It's based on the ideas you can read from the link in my sig. Go me! :D
 

ColonelHardisson

#28
April 15, 2007, 12:24:50 PM
Quote from: beeber1:7200 scale, eh?  now to figure out the relative sizes of (TOS) enterprise and a star destroyer and put 'em all together, just to be wacky :raise:

those are pretty sweet, tho :D

They probably have already worked that out at the Starship Combat News forums...

http://www.star-ranger.com/forum/
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#29
April 15, 2007, 02:02:30 PM
I am positively craving a Doctor Who game . . .
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