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Originally Posted by Vile
There was talk of such a thing on one of the BRP Yahoo! groups, but then DBRP happened and blew everything else out of the water. If Chaosium were interested in an "SF Toolkit" book of worldgen and shipbuilding (and maybe vehicle design, but I draw the line at having to design my own guns) I would definitely get on board. It's the one area where BRP has never tread, and it would open what few doors remain closed in terms of settings.
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Would it though? To quote that disucssion on the BRP group:
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Originally Posted by Nick Middleton
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Originally Posted by Dave gordon
However, Lynn did ask if it there was room for another generic SF game system that any GM could use - similar to GURPS Space. They don't want to pay for an established universe that is in print, and they don't want a universe not known by the majority of SF readers. So that leaves a vanilla game system, which I know a number of people on this list hated the idea of.
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I'm not sure I hate it, but I'm doubtful of it's commercial viability. Who has the time to build a universe these days? Why buy BRP Space rather than GURPS Space or d20 Future: and why buy any when in order to run a game I'll need to spend several days in preparation mapping some stars and creating worlds?
Gateway Domain or GURPS Interstellar Wars at least give me a backdrop so I don't have to do so much work. But what I actually want is the SF equivalent of Arkham Unveiled or Griffin Mountain or The Traveller Adventure (Hold on a sec...): a book that immediately enables me to game. To say "right, your mercenaries hired by this Multi-corps, just arrived at the neutral Tripoint Facilty at the edge of settled Space to find out what happened to the Survery Vessel Charon when it visited Trellinie VI..." and know that I have at least the obvious relevant people, places and things statted for me, with a sufficiently broad set of info that I can improvise in response to player action. |
(see
here for my original post).
Don't get me wrong, if someone wrote and Chaosium (or a licensed third party) published a "BRP Space" I'd probably buy it - but I think that those of us who did would be a relatively small, select few I'm afraid.
On the other hand a strongly presented, coherent BRP SF setting, that resonates well with currently popular written SF ideas even if it's an original creation and not a licensed property? That I think would sell very well. That to me seems the best route forward in the currrent climate, with perhaps a "BRP Space" as a monograph.
Cheers,
Nick