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

Originally Posted by MrHemlocks

Let's not forget these two beauties from Fantasy Flight Games... Fantasy Flight Games [Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Beginner Game - Products] - Leading publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games. and the massive book that is soon to be released... Fantasy Flight Games [Star Wars: Edge of the Empire - Products] - Leading publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games.

Speaking of which. I once ran a Star Wars adventure for the old D6 system "on the fly" using nothing but one of the old Marvel Star Wars comics. I would just gently steer the players in the right direction (easy actually in any type of military adventure) and read text and dialog straight from the comic. It started out as a test to see if I could do it and turned out to be kinda fun. You could do the same thing with any RPG that has common enemies, ships, armor, and weapons, already statted out I suspect.

Has anyone ever used Eclipse Phase ? It is a percentile skill based system. You can download free pdfs of all of the books from the authors blog. It is also written under a Creative Commons License. Sounds like the perfect setting for a conversion to BRP, and you can distribute the results if you follow the conditions of the license.

Eclipse Phase PDFs | Rob Boyle

I think one of the forum members previously attempted converting Eclipse Phase to BRP, but decided in the end that Eclipse Phase was good enough left alone. I think probably plays well as it is, and being d100% based it probably appeals to BRP fans. Not that this helps this forum thread...

Originally Posted by MrHemlocks

Not really into the Cthulhu in space theme. I run plenty of CoC games and not looking for more of the same stuff. The other links were just adventures not actual game rules. Sure you could play around with adding some of the BRP core rules to them to make a semi playable game but I am interested in a finished Sci-Fi rpg rules book and now I find out there is none for BRP.

Might try Traveller or Rogue Trader. Was looking for a game that combined my favorits...Space 1999, Aliens and Deap Space pc games...

Cthulhu Rising is a great hard science fiction game, very ALIENS like and it is posible to completely ignore the Cthulhu mythos stuff. It has good psionics rules too.

Originally Posted by Questbird

Cthulhu Rising is a great hard science fiction game, very ALIENS like and it is posible to completely ignore the Cthulhu mythos stuff. It has good psionics rules too.

So, what is the difference between Cthulhu Rising and Cthulhu Tech?

Cthulhu Rising is a deep space setting in which the PC astronauts encounter creatures of the Mythos, since deep space is where the baddies came from in the first place. Cthulhu Tech is more of an Earth-based setting of monsters vs. giant robots. Think Toho's Godzilla task force, only they're fighting Mythos critters instead of Japanese kaiju.

If the existing BRP sci-fi material doesn't suit, you can't go wrong with Traveller. It was "the" science fiction game in the same way Call of Cthulhu was "the" horror game. Also take a look at Rocket Rangers!, a free pulp sci-fi setting I wrote for Mini Six, available for download at www.antipaladingames.com. Compared to BRP and even Traveller, Mini Six is pretty quick and dirty, and it uses regular six-sided dice. You can be up and playing in a few minutes. Also consider Legends of Time and Space, another freebie for download at www.darkcitygames.com. It is based on the old The Fantasy Trip, only four pages long, and the free adventure provides basic spaceship combat rules. Another easy to learn and play rule set.

Originally Posted by seneschal

Cthulhu Rising is a deep space setting in which the PC astronauts encounter creatures of the Mythos, since deep space is where the baddies came from in the first place. Cthulhu Tech is more of an Earth-based setting of monsters vs. giant robots. Think Toho's Godzilla task force, only they're fighting Mythos critters instead of Japanese kaiju.

If the existing BRP sci-fi material doesn't suit, you can't go wrong with Traveller. It was "the" science fiction game in the same way Call of Cthulhu was "the" horror game. Also take a look at Rocket Rangers!, a free pulp sci-fi setting I wrote for Mini Six, available for download at AntiPaladin Games. Compared to BRP and even Traveller, Mini Six is pretty quick and dirty, and it uses regular six-sided dice. You can be up and playing in a few minutes. Also consider Legends of Time and Space, another freebie for download at www.darkcitygames.com. It is based on the old The Fantasy Trip, only four pages long, and the free adventure provides basic spaceship combat rules. Another easy to learn and play rule set.

Thanks for the information. One of my players brought this to my attention, The Game | Eclipse Phase, and it looks real Sci-fi hardcore!

Eclipse Phase certainly has its adherents at www.rpg.net but I've never actually seen a copy. The blurb's description of Pandora Gates reminds me of the Gate Warden universe in Outpost 19. Apparently ditching your rocketship for doorway interplanetary travel is the in thing. The in-flight meals aren't much to speak of, though. In Traveller, merely getting from one place to another was often an adventure in itself.

Originally Posted by wbcreighton

Has anyone ever used Eclipse Phase ?

Yes, but I have to admit that I did not like it. There is no problem with the game system,
but the setting has a strong transhumanist touch, too much of it for my more old fashio-
ned science fiction taste.

Originally Posted by rust

Yes, but I have to admit that I did not like it. There is no problem with the game system,
but the setting has a strong transhumanist touch, too much of it for my more old fashio-
ned science fiction taste.

So you would like game like Traveller better. But if human race technology keeps advancing at such a pace, as it is now, I fear that an Eclipse Phase transhumanist future is our destiny. But I agree with you the whole tanshuman thing, in gaame, kind of makes me question the games fun.

But no matter what...it is real hardcore sci-fi!