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What are the best ship-to-ship combat rules in a sci-fi game? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by vagrant@lemmy.ml to c/rpg@lemmy.ml

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I've played my share of sci-fi RPGs, such as Traveller and Starfinder, but as many things as they do well, the space combat rules have never really captured the feel of a Star Wars-style starfighter dogfight or even a Star Trek-style naval battle. What is your favorite sci-fi RPG for shipt-to-ship combat?

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Star Trek Adventures, hands down.

I mean it's not as it is particularly brilliant, but unlike most games it don't go to usual extremes of being boring extra chore with a lot of specific rules, minigame without any depth or something so integrated with normal mechanics that there is no different between capital ship combat and a fistfight in bar. It's based on normal rules but somewhat modified because those are usually big ships fighting and thus pretty immersive and at the same time still feeling distinct.

[–] vagrant@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know I've got a bit of experience playing Star Trek Adventures, and for the life of me I can't remember a single ship combat.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Well it lies on the game master, i have it every other game session and we play a Galaxy class.