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Sci fi RPG systems (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking to recreate the feel of Firefly, The Outer Worlds, The Expanse, or similar, in a ttrpg that is somewhat leaning to the hard sci fi side. Any thoughts?

I've been poking Traveller but it's hard to tell what the definitive versions are. Also Stars Without Number looks interesting.

I'm particularly looking for ship based stuff -- where the ship is statted and you can have ship to ship combat.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Unlike heroic fantasy, there isn't one big sci fi games.

At the moment, I see mostly people playing Alien and Coriolis. I played only a couple of one shots, so have no strong opinion on them. But Alien's tension mechanic is neat.

Eclipse phase has an amazing lore, However, the system sucks, if you like the lore get the FATE of the eclipse version, not even that FATE is great, but it's a functional system unlike the D100 one