Battlestar Galactica RPG
A bit of a different gaming article today, we’re going all archaic with a look at a tabletop title we thought might get your juices flowing. We’ll be talking about this in the next vlog, but thought we’d give it a shout out here prior to that.
As you can see it’s the Battlestar Galactica RPG. This is a tabletop RPG, yes, those be the ones minus the controllers, but with dice, pen and paper. Books like this were what Mass Effect would be like if it were completely open-ended with superlative AI, so don’t scoff. The only graphics and outcome are in your head.
If you can get over the shocking typos at the beginning of this book, it’s got some hefty rules and game mechanics that work well in the genre. The book has full character creation, main character backgrounds and more. So if you fancy stepping into the shoes of your own Admiral Helena Cain, Kendra Shaw, Gina Inviere, Starbuck or any other persona you can think of, this is the RPG for you.
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If I remember rightly, it uses the OGL d20 rules from Wizards of the Coast… That’s right, it uses the rules set behind Dungeons and Dragons!
Actually, Zandilar, I think you remember wrongly. It uses the a system called the Cortex Rules (apparently, I can never remeber the names they like to give rule systems). It’s the same system the recently released Serenity roleplay system uses (and the soon to be made Supernatural). It has the somewhat unique mechanic of using larger sized dice the better you are at something, thus giving more dynamic range.
… I am such a roleplaying geek