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<blockquote data-quote="rOLUNDE" data-source="post: 7868285" data-attributes="member: 6749924"><p>Doh! I totally missed that (obviously), haha <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite22" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p><p></p><p>Well, let's see if I can actually contribute something then...</p><p></p><p>Other SciFi games that may or may not have been mentioned also include-</p><p>There's also <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226710/Star-Frontiers-Alpha-Dawn" target="_blank">Star Frontiers: Alpha Dawn</a> a pretty old school sci-fi game, Star Frontiers came out about the time of B/X D&D.</p><p></p><p>There's <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/246008/FrontierSpace-Bundle-BUNDLE" target="_blank">FrontierSpace</a> which apparently uses the same system as BareBones Fantasy and does include rules for Psionics. (I have not played this but BareBones Fantasy is a pretty fun system for getting up and running so this should be good too.)</p><p></p><p>There's the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/237247/Cepheus-Engine-RPG" target="_blank">Cepheus Engine RPG</a> I'll just grab this blurb from the Publisher-</p><p>"</p><p>From the Author of CFTL:</p><p>Cepheus Engine is based on the Mongoose OGL 2d6 sci-fi SRD; it is quite detailed and very faithful to the SRD. "</p><p></p><p>And then one I also see recommended A Lot but doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet is Mothership!</p><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/245017/Mothership-Players-Survival-Guide?term=Mothership" target="_blank">Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG</a> you can get as a PWYW pdf there.</p><p>As far as "how hard is the sci-fi" it's basically made to copy the sci-fi genre of Alien and such, so pretty hard.</p><p>It does lack any form of magic though.</p><p></p><p><em>Savage Worlds</em> has been mentioned but I'll +1 the heck out of it, as mostly you can do whatever you want with it, mostly.</p><p>And if you've never played it, I've seen this said and will say it here myself "it plays better than it reads".</p><p>IMO it really falls into the lane of "rules enough" as it has pretty much whatever you need a ruling for, but you can totally just fake it as you go along and the odds are if you check for an actual rule later it'll probably be what you just did anyhow.</p><p></p><p>So anyhow, hope there is something useful in all that.</p><p>Cheers!</p><p>~R~</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rOLUNDE, post: 7868285, member: 6749924"] Doh! I totally missed that (obviously), haha (y) Well, let's see if I can actually contribute something then... Other SciFi games that may or may not have been mentioned also include- There's also [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226710/Star-Frontiers-Alpha-Dawn']Star Frontiers: Alpha Dawn[/URL] a pretty old school sci-fi game, Star Frontiers came out about the time of B/X D&D. There's [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/246008/FrontierSpace-Bundle-BUNDLE']FrontierSpace[/URL] which apparently uses the same system as BareBones Fantasy and does include rules for Psionics. (I have not played this but BareBones Fantasy is a pretty fun system for getting up and running so this should be good too.) There's the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/237247/Cepheus-Engine-RPG']Cepheus Engine RPG[/URL] I'll just grab this blurb from the Publisher- " From the Author of CFTL: Cepheus Engine is based on the Mongoose OGL 2d6 sci-fi SRD; it is quite detailed and very faithful to the SRD. " And then one I also see recommended A Lot but doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet is Mothership! [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/245017/Mothership-Players-Survival-Guide?term=Mothership']Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG[/URL] you can get as a PWYW pdf there. As far as "how hard is the sci-fi" it's basically made to copy the sci-fi genre of Alien and such, so pretty hard. It does lack any form of magic though. [I]Savage Worlds[/I] has been mentioned but I'll +1 the heck out of it, as mostly you can do whatever you want with it, mostly. And if you've never played it, I've seen this said and will say it here myself "it plays better than it reads". IMO it really falls into the lane of "rules enough" as it has pretty much whatever you need a ruling for, but you can totally just fake it as you go along and the odds are if you check for an actual rule later it'll probably be what you just did anyhow. So anyhow, hope there is something useful in all that. Cheers! ~R~ [/QUOTE]
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