Friday, July 27, 2012

Dig this


I've been remiss in not reporting this item sooner.  Starships & Spacemen second edition is a project from Goblinoid Games that takes a musty old sci-fi rpg and updates it to full compatibility with Labyrinth Lord and Mutant Future.

In case you're new here: Labyrinth Lord is the retroclone closest to Basic/Expert D&D and if add in the Advanced Edition Companion it also emulates they way AD&D played when I was a stupid kid who didn't know you "couldn't" mix AD&D and BX.  Mutant Future is an almost-clone of Gamma World that more compatible with LL than Gamma World was with BX/AD&D.

Adding a full-blown sci-fi option to this scheme is pretty much my definition of rock solid awesomeness.

This project is already fully funded, so if you kick in five buck now you will be getting a PDF of this game.
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Posted by Jeff Rients at 6:56 PM
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5 comments:

  1. Adam Dickstein10:00 PM

    I really wanted to support this but compatible with Labyrinth Lord and Mutant Future seems odd considering the original rules.

    If you are reworking them enough to be compatible with LL and MF, are you really making Starships & Spacemen 2nd Edition? Isn't that a bit 4E-ish?

    Maybe it really is just me on this one. I really liked E.T. Smith revised version of the system and was hoping it would be more like that (that is, like the original cleaned-up and made simpler).

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  2. Jeff Rients6:42 AM

    "If you are reworking them enough to be compatible with LL and MF, are you really making Starships & Spacemen 2nd Edition? Isn't that a bit 4E-ish?"

    That struck as weird, too. Though at least we aren't talking about selling a new system under the moniker of the oldest and most popular brand in the history of the hobby.

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  3. Anonymous7:20 AM

    One of the reasons I wrote my own space adventure game, Seeded Space, is that a lot of the (British) space-faring television I grew up on is the antithesis of what this game seeks to emulate... characters are more likely to salvage, steal, or build their own spacecraft, and use it to escape or retaliate against an interstellar government, than put on a colour-coded uniform

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  4. Kilgore Trout6:21 AM

    Stars Without Number should be the final word on LL compatible space adventure.

    Btw, congrats on getting Broodmother Skyfortress funded!

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  5. DMWieg11:56 AM

    "Stars Without Number should be the final word on LL compatible space adventure."

    Seconded.

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