Starships and Spacemen

[comicfan]

I found this game and after a while, I've come to the decision to make use of this. So without further ado, a game with similarities to Star Trek.

Setting:

The year is 2314, Earth has entered a new renaissance, after surviving an invasion by the Zangid Empire, establishing the Galactic Confederation, and winning a war with the Videni Empire. The Confederation rebuilds after the Four year war with the Videni, as the Space Fleet returns to its mission of exploration, however not all is as it seems. The Videni Empire works tirelessly to find weaknesses in Confederation defenses, The Zangid military gears up for another round of aggressive expansion, and the mysteries of space both benevolent, and malicious finding their way in Confederation space.

Premise:

Players will play members of the Confederations Space Fleet Service, serving aboard a starship on a mission of exploration and, on occasion, defense. This is using the Starships and Spacemen 2e, a game I have, and got no problem helping you make a character if you don't have it. If you're interested in the game you can get it at rpg.drivethrusuff.com for $6.45. There are 3 character classes, with 3 subclasses each: Military (Command, Security, fire Control) Scientific (Sentient Life, Biology, Medical), and Technical (Communications, Engineer, Navigation) This is just an interest check/Recruitment, I haven't decided if it'll be a one-shot game, or a full campaign. Reason being is lately my attempts at GMing has been met with suddenly abandoning the game.

[comicfan]

Ok, I think I'm assume that there's lack of interest, or my indecision of making a campaign or one-shot out of this is making people hesitant about this game.

[Manah]

Hi! ^_^

Well, I don't know for the others, but my personal thoughts when I looked at this were: 1) got already plenty of games and GMing going on on my end; 2) don't really have any interest in trying a new RPG system, and 3) if I was to play a Star Trek-like game with so many similarities to Star Trek, might as well wait for an actual Star Trek game.

Maybe that's just me, but just thought I'd at least show up and say hello.

[comicfan]

Don't blame you. The game system really isn't hard to learn if you've played d20, with some interesting changes. As for the similarities, yeah I can't argue that. There are a lot of similarities, but it's not a complete Star Trek clone. It's history for the setting has some differences, and not all the Star Trek races are present, and there are third-party source books that add a Star Wars flavor to it. I have tried to get the races from d20 Prime Directive converted over to this game, just haven't figured out how to get the ships to feel more like the Star Trek ones (S&S ships are much smaller than the ones in Star Trek).

[Manah]

At any rate, good luck with it, or with whatever else if it doesn't work. ^_^

[comicfan]

Thanks ^_^

[andyman]

This game sounds interesting to me. I even like that it is not actually Star Trek so that we don't need to worry about chronology and authentic cannon. If playing, I think I want to be a Technical Engineer, doing what Scotty and Geordi do on Star Trek but with a different personality.

[comicfan]

Awesome, that's one, If I can get two more, I'd be more than willing to help you with character creation, and get the game started.