Sorry for resurrecting this but I thought better to resurrect an old topic than to start a new one. I did make a second thread after this one but since this is the original one, thought I would go for this. Second thread is here http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=603274&sid=b0a39951a1c074f4ad3a863dbe8b51fd so if anyone can merge the two, would be appreciated since I think it would not clutter the forum so much. If I made any mistaken, please accept my humble apology
Maybe third time's a charm?
Anyway, reason for the zombification of this thread was once again to nominate the Andromeda universe for an RPG. I kind of got re-inspired to start this up after reading the extraordinary work of Robert Hewitt Wolfe when he posted (ages ago) a script for his version of the story titled "Coda". I later found a thread where a Q&A topic was started where he answered fan questions about what he intended and where the story would have gone. That just inspired me to come back here and just try once again for an RPG of this universe as well as provide links to Wolfe's version of events.
So to examine once again, Mongoose had done the excellent B5 line and I think Andromeda is just another epic universe that would match B5 since the RPG is no longer active. So things like the Centauri factbook or Darkness and Light or the Lurker's Guide to Telepaths; I could perfectly see being adapted for the Andromeda verse. As I said in my second thread, Andromeda is a rich universe with six galaxies, tonnes of characters, dozens of alien races, lots of equipment ideas and again a chance to expand on the universe; hopefully using Wolfe's original concept. I mean one can explain things away as being possible futures that Trance could see even so you could have the show that was made along with the show that could have been made. So one can have settings back during the height of the Commonwealth, to the Fall to the restored Commonwealth and to Coda's version.
Onto content, one could have tonnes of guides to make for an Andromeda RPG. A Systems Commonwealth book, High Guard campaign guide, Nietzschean Alliance factbook, a Wayist factbook, a book about Trance's people and their servants the Pyrians along with the Abyss and his Magog (kind of like B5 RPG's Darkness and Light). A book about planets, characters, another of equipment, another about the other races as well as factions such as Restorians, Genites, Templars, Free Trade Alliance. Not to mention five guides for the five seasons of the show along with perhaps a Coda book that shows Wolfe's version of events. Thats a total of 15 books or more! Quite a bit of material there.
To the links;
Link to Coda: http://www.cyberspace5.net/agentrichard07/coda-start.htm
Link to Q&A: http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?/topic/28187-andromeda-coda-qa-thread/
So anyway, I gave it my shot once again and proposal. Just thought I would try and hope at least that I re-ignited some interest in the Andromeda franchise with the links above
