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Re: [GZG] First Sci-Fi Game

From: Ryan Fisk <ryan.fisk@g...>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:14:22 -0600
Subject: Re: [GZG] First Sci-Fi Game

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Richard Bell <rlbell.nsuid@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The interesting aspect of the Traveller system was that it was a
> sci-fi skin over a playable, generic roleplaying game.  You could use
> it for roleplaying The High Crusade, as it included rules for weapons
> running the entire gamut of clubs to edged weapons to slug throwers to
> energy weapons.  All it lacked was a magic system-- forgivable, given
> the offered setting.

I always thought the Psionics system was the magic system.

I thought it was interesting that the Thieves World generic expansion
included a conversion to Traveller, which included magic.

-- 
Ryan Fisk

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