Perhaps a little after the moment, but my first Sci-Fi rpg was Starwars.
Lots of fun was had... I was the worst dark Jedi ever.
The Transhuman Space books are amazing, I would recommend them to anyone
interested in roleplaying in a 'hard scifi' setting. They are written
for GURPs, but for the third edition - when the source books were 15%
rules and 80% background, ideas, information and just pleasant to read (GURPs
Russia is a great example). Sadly they've gone away from that style for the
fourth edition... the books are more rules heavy than before, tool kits to
make your own setting rather than actual settings.
Someone mentioned All Flesh Must Be Eaten with All Tomorrows Zombies -
also a great game, I do love the Unisystem but not Eden Studios (shockingly
bad company, who knows what they're doing? Latest news update 2007). Nice and
easy to play... plus zombies in space, always a winner (or you can substitute
the zombies for some other unimaginable horror).
RPG interlude over. Sadly that's the most gaming I do at the moment, my
gaming group broke up and all went their separate ways - so no
Fullthrust in quite a while.
Simon
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Simon White
> <mintroll-gzg-ft@2-72.co.uk> wrote:
That would be me.
> I do love the Unisystem but not Eden Studios (shockingly bad company,
Eden was always a small company, but they lost their big money maker when Fox
pulled the Buffy and Angel licenses.
They have people pop online on RPG.net every now and again. Apparently the
next book will be pirates ("Arrr, There Be Zombies" or something like that)
and after that is their World War II book ("Band of Zombies").
But you're right. It's hard to take them seriously these days. I bought
"Conspiracy X 2.0" (in Unisystem) during my big AFMBE phase and it's a really
good game system. I then bought a raft of the old ConX books for ideas (mostly
for "Delta Green"). The books are good, but for the older (not Unisystem)
system. They were intending to release new source books that took the old
material and convert it to Unisystem, but that still hasn't happened.
Unisystem is one of those systems lots of people wish would go the Open Gaming
License route.
> Nice and easy to play... plus zombies in space, always a winner (or
It should be noted that while AFMBE is a zombie game and all the supplements
have zombie themes, it's really easy to remove the zombie stuff. "All
Tomorrow's Zombies" has cool spaceship and alien construction rules. One of
the best Western games out there is AFMBE with "Fistful O' Zombies". About the
only supplement I wasn't crazy about was "Zombie Smackdown".