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on 28-12-2006
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I bet you think I'm going to talk about the BSG Online game coming out for the 360. Not so much. The tabletop RPG world just got another fracking franchise deal. Not that I'm complaining of course. Here's the official press release:
Margaret Weis Productions has reached an agreement with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group to produce roleplaying game products based on the enormously successful, critically-acclaimed television series, Battlestar Galactica.
"When we established our company we made the commitment to produce character- and story-focused role playing games using the best source material we could find," says Margaret Weis, New York Times best-selling author and game publisher. "Battlestar Galactica is the kind of science fiction that we do best, where the drama and characters are more important than the guns and the gadgets. The very survival of the human race is at stake in the series and exploring the story possibilities in the setting can make for some very exciting games."
Battlestar Galactica is the Emmy-nominated television series brought to the small screen by Executive Producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. In the United States, the program can be seen weekly on the Sci-Fi Channel. This hit show captivates its audience as an aged battleship leads a ragtag civilian fleet away from a terrifying enemy - the Cylons - and toward hope on a mythical world called Earth.
Like the show, the role playing game book is set in space and will focus on the challenges of survival in exceedingly trying times - and the difficult choices that must be made. The core product, the Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game, is a self-contained game product using the same game system as the best-selling and award-winning Serenity Role Playing Game (also produced by Margaret Weis Productions). The game book will be a full-color hardcover book featuring still images from
the series as well as original artwork. It will provide rules for play, character creation, and information about the ship and crew of Galactica as well as the other main characters from the show. A Quickstart Guide will be released in early 2007 with the core product premiering in the spring. Additional products will closely follow the release of the core product. The entire line will be supported by an interactive website.
I'm not really sure how this would work as an RPG. It would be difficult, wait, there's a Serenity RPG? Ok, that one makes more sense. The setting for a Firefly game is better suited for the adventuring types. I don't think that BSG lends that kind of freedom for players. I've played sessions of other RPG's where it was "if any roll is below 14, you're dead" for 8 hours. I see BSG being a lot like that. Source Link: http://razorwire.warcry.com/news/view/67167-Battlestar-Galactica-RPG-coming-in-2007 Submitted by Zipper Talk about this article on our forum: http://galacticabbs.com/index.php?showtopic=908
Last update : 28-12-2006
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