SpaceQuest

[Osentalka]

Mongoose have had plans for a SciFi RQ, called SpaceQuest... but it got cancelled after Mongoose took over Traveller RPG.

Mongoose has RQ and it does well.

Mongoose has Traveller.

Why the heck it is a problem to have TWO SciFi RPG settings at the same time???

Mongoose has RQ, Conan, Slaine. Three Fantasy RPG settings published by the same comany at the same time.
Why isn´t it possible to get a general SciFi RPG setting with RQ rules.

Come on guys, RQ deserves it! WE deserve it!

 

[klingsor]

Let them get Traveller going and who knows what we might see, they have finite resources after all.

 

[The King]

Do you propose a generic SpaceQuest or a specific setting? The problem though is that many SF games already exist under a licence.

 

[Osentalka]

I would like to see SpaceQuest as a generic SciFi RPG setting, like RuneQuest is a generic Fantasy RPG setting.

 

[klingsor]

They might intend to use Traveller as a generic system but I rather think the way character generation is structured is not at all suited to most other game settings where characters are not all ex military or merchant marine. Many people with want something quicker or where an FNG has a chance of more than a few skills at level 0 or 1.

Traveller is also so intimately associated with the OTU that would make selling it for other settings more difficult.

Spacequest looks like a great idea, I really think it would be a good low key seller - which is of course why they went with Traveller, it would sell better, and they would have been fools to do otherwise.

 

[Osentalka]

The big plus for Traveller is the great realistic background world. But IMHO Traveller has the inferior game system compared to RQ (and i assume that SpaceQuest would have been RQ in space).

 

[Magistus]

Yes please do SpaceQuest.

 

[Rurik]

Just Say YES to spacequest.

DO IT!

Please.

Pretty please.

 

[G. K. Zhukov]

But IMHO Traveller has the inferior game system compared to RQ (and i assume that SpaceQuest would have been RQ in space).

I am not very fond of CT/MGT task system in particular (and of roll over systems in general). On the other hand I find percentile roll under systems much more intuitive. (Chances are easy to figure out even with D20 roll under systems a la GDW/TNE.)

So, yes, please bring on SpaceQuest as RQ in space!

 

[Krimson]

So, yes, please bring on SpaceQuest as RQ in space!

I agree with this. I would purchase SpaceQuest in a heartbeat.

 

[Osentalka]

If Mongoose will not publish "SpaceQuest" then maybe Chaosium will publish a generic space opera book...
Is "SpaceQuest" trademarked?
Could use Chaosium this name for their SciFi book?

 

[Krimson]

If Mongoose will not publish "SpaceQuest" then maybe Chaosium will publish a generic space opera book...
Is "SpaceQuest" trademarked?
Could use Chaosium this name for their SciFi book?

Sci Fi elements are already covered in Chaosium's BRP game, as well as Super Heroes and Modern elements. I kind of liken BRP to True20, inasmuch as its a toolkit rather than a complete game with its own setting. Still, if its just the mechanics you want, BRP is very worth the price. I think the upcoming Dream Realms will have some elements of modernish technology, but I couldn't see the harm in a splatbook with moden and futurish elements.

If its a setting you were looking for though, that's another matter. Traveller seems to have that covered already, though I could see a crunchless setting made with companion books for various rules systems, kind of like what Green Ronin did with Pirate's Guide to Freeport.

Still, the only justified way I could see Mongoose doing a space setting under the MRQ rules is to make it compatible with existing material. So maybe not SpaceQuest, but possibly something like Glorantha 3000 (which I'll dub "Ducks in Space" because that's what will happen...) which gives material for running Space Opera adventures (or hard science if you want to go that route) in a world where technology is not limited by a predetermined history. Mind you, I'm sure many Glorantha fans would be up in arms about it, but its just a thought.

 

[Osentalka]

I already have BRP (in fact i have EVERY book published by Chaosium since 1975!), and RingWorld, and Other Suns etc.

I also have MRQ and Glorantha the Second Age... i still would like a RQ Glorantha book (rulebook totally concentrating on Glorantha only... something like RQ Deluxe + Players Guide to Glorantha in ONE book).

The same with SpaceQuest.
I have all the tools and rules i need (Ringworld has most of hard SF things covered, Other Suns has a planetary builing system, and more on spaceships, and even Hawkmoon has an amount of SciFi elements).

But that was the same with Lankhmar: We had already the d20 Lankhar books and we had RQ. Mongoose published RQ Lankhmar nevertheless.

We had MRQ and we had d20 Slaine. Mongoose published RQ Slaine in addition to that.


Now we have Traveller and we have MRQ, so why not publishing RQ Traveller, or at least RQ SpaceOpera aka SpaceQuest?!?


I would like to have a game system and setting in ONE BOOK. I don´t mind getting more and more sourcebooks and adventures, but to have the basics in one book (and the setting reflected in the rules and vice versa) is one of the things i would like.

 

[weasel_fierce]

Runequest in space for sure!

 

[The King]

Moreover generic rules shouldn't be difficult to do.

 

[Osentalka]

On "Glorantha 3000" aka "Ducks in Space"...

I would go for a Star Trek or Star Wars like space opera approach:

Gloranthan trolls aka UZ have some things in common with KLINGONS.
Gloranthan Dwarfs aka MOSTALI are in involved in mechanic as BORG are in other tech, but are working according to a higher logical plan, that makes me think of VULCANS.
Gloranthan Elfs aka ALDRYAMI have some kind of group mind like BORG, but they are also as paranoid as ROMULANS.
The LUNAR EMPIRE (or the future heirs of that mind set) might become the FEDERATION (or the GALACTIC EMPIRE if you think in Star Wars terms), but could also easily be used as DOMINION equivalent.
The ORLANTHI might become the MARQUIS (or the REBELS if you think Star Wars).
Gloranthan Ducks aka DURULZ work as a stand in for funny species like FERENGI or TALAXIANS.
What about Chaos? BROOS and the like real EVIL forces (like the SHADOWS of Babylon 5).

The only problem with "Glorantha 3000 - Ducks in Space" is that Glorantha is a flat world, which no space to explore. The only planets and moons are in the godsworld, and can be reached through heroquesting.

But only the image of Uz, Mostali, Aldryami and Durulz in Star Trek like uniforms made me laugh.

Cheers

Osentalka