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Mailanka · 05-13-2009, 10:29 PM

I love the book. It's a gold mine for neat sci-fi ideas, wrapped in a beautiful package, with a really good exploration of the game from a RPG perspective.

As a game itself, I'm not sure about it's quality. I would hesitate to run it, as the jump from a highly replayable game about the sweeping history of an entire world, it's hard to make hard statements about what the world should be like, so the RPG itself refrains from doing so. Thus, you sorta have to build it all yourself anyway, and you can just as easily do that with any GURPS book. Further, it's 3e rather than 4e, and I greatly prefer 4e.

Still, I like the book and I would recommend it, but you must understand that it sits by my bedside for reading, rather than at my game table for playing.

05-13-2009, 10:29 PM	#3
Mailanka Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Eindhoven, the Netherlands	Re: How is GURPS Alpha Centauri. I love the book. It's a gold mine for neat sci-fi ideas, wrapped in a beautiful package, with a really good exploration of the game from a RPG perspective. As a game itself, I'm not sure about it's quality. I would hesitate to run it, as the jump from a highly replayable game about the sweeping history of an entire world, it's hard to make hard statements about what the world should be like, so the RPG itself refrains from doing so. Thus, you sorta have to build it all yourself anyway, and you can just as easily do that with any GURPS book. Further, it's 3e rather than 4e, and I greatly prefer 4e. Still, I like the book and I would recommend it, but you must understand that it sits by my bedside for reading, rather than at my game table for playing.