Have any of you out there played or seen the StarBlazer RPG? I saw a review of it on RPGNow and it looked pretty good.
Our group has been looking for a good Sci-Fi game beside Traveller, and I was wanting to check it out a little before dumping in a "ship-load" of credits into getting a new RPG.
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Starblazer RPG
Starblazer RPG
Lord Aladar
Warden of the Welk Wood
Baron of the Castles & Crusades Society
The Poster formerly known as Alwyn
Senior Gamer - Member of the Senior RPG Tour
"NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT - At least not in Yu Gi Oh"
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Baron of the Castles & Crusades Society
The Poster formerly known as Alwyn
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"NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT - At least not in Yu Gi Oh"
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Sir Ironside
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I have it and I love it. They expand greatly on the FATE rules incorporating things like, build your own starship, build your own planet all under that FATE rules. They also have a more concrete way of doing character advancement that Spirit of the Century lacked. They also changed the dice mechanics in that you do not need Fudge dice to play. Now they use two six sided die, of different colours and you assign one die the negative die and one the positive and just add the resulting roll together which will give you a range of -5 to +5. I like the Fudge dice, but it is easier to buy in because six siders are in abundance and easy to get.
Starblazer Adventures is more of a toolkit than a setting. They give you everything and I mean everything to put together your own universe to play around in.
Clocking in at 620 pages it is a big book and every page is intelligently laid out and useful.
Plus there are two more books in the pipeline, one that expands on Starblazer Adventures and the other will be the fantasy version, using the same rules.
Oh, and I've heard people say that it is easier to learn FATE using Starblazers that Spirit... which is pretty high compliment.
Just a note, many thought that this book was about the Starblazer anime show from way back in the 70's. It is not but you could easily build it with these rules. This book is inspired by a U.K. comic that ran for a long time and relied on short stories rather than one main character or group.
I maybe a little biased because right now the only rpg's I'm gonna play and buy is FATE games and C&C. Still I think Starblazer Adventures is a amazing book and well worth the cash you have to dish out.
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Starblazer Adventures is more of a toolkit than a setting. They give you everything and I mean everything to put together your own universe to play around in.
Clocking in at 620 pages it is a big book and every page is intelligently laid out and useful.
Plus there are two more books in the pipeline, one that expands on Starblazer Adventures and the other will be the fantasy version, using the same rules.
Oh, and I've heard people say that it is easier to learn FATE using Starblazers that Spirit... which is pretty high compliment.
Just a note, many thought that this book was about the Starblazer anime show from way back in the 70's. It is not but you could easily build it with these rules. This book is inspired by a U.K. comic that ran for a long time and relied on short stories rather than one main character or group.
I maybe a little biased because right now the only rpg's I'm gonna play and buy is FATE games and C&C. Still I think Starblazer Adventures is a amazing book and well worth the cash you have to dish out.
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