Thread: Sci-Fi based BRP game that is not dead?

Originally Posted by MrHemlocks

... but I am interested in a finished Sci-Fi rpg rules book and now I find out there is none for BRP.

It is not difficult at all to use one of the currently available science fiction roleplaying
games and play it with the BRP rules, I have done it for example with Blue Planet, with
GURPS Space and with Traveller.

Use Traveller for spaceships, worlds and the like but BRP for the character gen and combat.

But frankly, if you want an off the shelf game it's not here now, wait for River of Heaven.

I ran a 2300AD game with the BRP rules last year with no problems, and I've run a bunch of other SF stuff over the years using generic BRP.

I am really looking forward to River of Heaven and I've been kicking around some ideas for a rather different take on BRP SF - alas time as ever is against me so it progresses slowly I keep plugging away though, I'd love there to be multiple, well supported BRP SF games, in the same way there are multiple fantasy games.


If I win the lottery I'd buy the rights to Space Opera and retool it to use BRP.

Cheers,

Nick

I hope Nick wins the lottery :-)

Originally Posted by rleduc

I hope Nick wins the lottery :-)

I'll buy him a ticket, I loved Space Opera.

I want to defend Cthulhu Rising.
It is light on the Cthulhu, and heavy on the gritty, Aliens-like Sci-Fi. I was going to link to the very resourceful webpage, but it seems to be down..someone please tell me it's temporary..?
Also the BRP-conversions for 2300AD and Traveller are worth downloading.

And I'm another one waiting for the Rivers of Heaven.

When is the Rivers of Heavens game to be released, and what makes it so good? I can not anything about it on the web.

RoH is supposed to be released later this year. And I don't know that it's going to be good.
It might be complete shite, but considering the people behind it, I suspect it will be anything but.

Originally Posted by MrHemlocks

When is the Rivers of Heavens game to be released, and what makes it so good? I can not anything about it on the web.

You can find some informations on this website and download
a preview of the game:

River of Heaven update | D101 Games

The author of the game, John Ossoway, is the author of the
Cthulhu Rising material, he demonstrated that he can write
science fiction stuff and understands how a percentily role-
playing game works, so the expectations for River of Heaven
are understandably high.

Originally Posted by MrHemlocks

When is the Rivers of Heavens game to be released, and what makes it so good? I can not anything about it on the web.

River of Heaven | D101 Games

It's an SF game that draws on modern authors like Alastair Reynolds, Richard Morgan, Neal Asher and Ken MacLeod rather than the writings of the cyber punk authors of the seventies and eighties or the space opera writers of the fifties and sixties.

Cheers,

Nick