The Wikipedia article on Task Force Games is woefully short and inadequate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_Games

Anyone know where I can find more information, especially a list of their RPGs and when they were published? I'm just kind of curious as I have a few that I like and wonder what else they made.

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RPGGeek.com tends to be the best site for info like this. Most of that Wikipedia 'article' is really stolen wholesale from RPGGeek.

I found this old Task Force catalog via RPGGeek. Several games like Heroes of Olympus are detailed on there.

Boardgame Geek. Task Force Games was primarily a wargame company. In addition look up Stephen V. Cole.

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I had copies of both Crimefighter and Delta Force. Like a lot of rpgs at that time, they came boxed. Crimefighter, from memory, had sort of stripped down Hero System rules - I ran that a few times. it wasn't bad. I thought Delta Force was better and we played that quite a lot and had great fun with it. I got rid of them both in one of my moves.

Quote from: Simon W;979124I had copies of both Crimefighter and Delta Force. Like a lot of rpgs at that time, they came boxed. Crimefighter, from memory, had sort of stripped down Hero System rules - I ran that a few times. it wasn't bad. I thought Delta Force was better and we played that quite a lot and had great fun with it. I got rid of them both in one of my moves.

Those are two of the three I have: Crime Fighter, Delta Force, and Heroes of Olympus. Never got to play Delta Force. I found it all beat-up but still in its box at a garage sale. The only other game of theirs I'm really aware of is Star Fleet Battles but that didn't interest me much. Heroes of Olympus is really good for my interests and preferences, though.

As others have pointed out. TFG did mostly board games and wargames. And damn good ones too.

Their RPGs that I am aware of are only two.

Prime Directive: a Star Trek/Star Fleet Battles RPG.

Super Vvillains: A supers RPG.

Star Fleet Battles is pretty consistently good, if you like that sort of thing. I was very into it for a while. It occasionally got a bit excessive in some ways, but was modular enough that you could choose what to use or not. I liked it so much I considered using it as ship combat rules for a non-Star-Trek setting, but I never ended up really wanting to run that.

There is also a GURPS version of Prime Directive, which logically one might think I'd be into, but again, not really. I'd probably refer to that before most other sources if I ever do feel like running Star Trek, although it is its own flavor and I could probably just make up my own stuff just as easily for most of it.

TFG also published Starfire, another, simpler, more abstract space combat system by David Weber, which many people like but I never really liked that much, preferring the style and greater detail of SFB.

I looked a little bit at Delta Force, though I don't really like the "kill the terrorists" scenarios and it didn't seem particularly great as a firefight game, though I didn't give it much of a chance and I'd probably like it more than most hitpoint-fest alternatives.

Starfire is a fleet action game.  Try to run a battle with two or three dozen ships in SFB.  Starfire's had a few new editions since the Task Force days.  My favorite change is the move to d10s as it means you can roll missile volleys with handfuls of dice.

I'd love to hear more about the new Starfire! We played the original before SFB dominated our group.  

Is there enough background in Starfire to do a RPG setting?

Quote from: Spinachcat;979449I'd love to hear more about the new Starfire! We played the original before SFB dominated our group.  

Is there enough background in Starfire to do a RPG setting?

Theres a couple of reviews over on BGG. Some are... not flattering...

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/350559/ultra-starfire-or-why-nerds-need-sex