Now, about that Blake’s 7 game…

MonkeyX

Cosmic Mongoose
So with Modiphius announcing a Space:1999 rpg is Blake’s 7 sounding more viable as a Traveller game? As a fan of the show and an RPG writer I’d hope so (and would LOVE to be part if it) but what do others think?
 
I wouldn't mind running into the script writer who thought getting rid of the Liberator was a great idea. Show was never the same.
 
The Liberator did have the most interesting design. It would've also made more sense for the BBC to keep the same models and interior sets to save money. The characters were also better. Perhaps it's better it ended when it did. The modern Dr Who isn't the same as the Baker/Davison era. I think we had a golden era of tv science fiction from about 1975 to 1985.
 
According to interviews there may have been another season.
The cliffhanger ending was done in such a way because:
Gareth Thomas had it written into his contract that Blake would be killed off (personally I think there could have been a redemption arc and a new actor for the character but hey ho)
some of the actors were not going to come back - so they could be killed off (not exactly a first)
while others signed up to another series - so they would have only been stunned, wounded whatever.

So next is getting hold of another Liberator class vessel and Orac transferring Zen to it.
 
I'd love a Blake's 7 rpg. I saw Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce (RIP) at a Blakes7 convention in Bedford in 2004. It could be produced as a Traveller supplement, an alternative setting to the Third Imperium.
Back in the 80s, teen me got to talk with Paul Darrow at a theatre after-party. He was incredibly kind and gracious, giving me 30 minutes of his time when he had no reason to other than I was a B7 fan and that I obviously felt a bit uncomfortable and out of place at the party. Gem of a human being.
 
Back in the 80s, teen me got to talk with Paul Darrow at a theatre after-party. He was incredibly kind and gracious, giving me 30 minutes of his time when he had no reason to other than I was a B7 fan and that I obviously felt a bit uncomfortable and out of place at the party. Gem of a human being.
Sounds like an amazing night.
 
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