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Cyrano Jones ([personal profile] cyrano) wrote2011-01-18 03:54 pm

Gamers: Alert!

Drive Thru RPG is selling Battle Star Galactica and Serenity products at significant (75%) discount. It sounds like Margaret Weis Productions is getting out of the PDF market, possibly something more drastic. Anyway.

I own the Serenity core book, although I haven't used it. I can get the BSG core PDF for $10. There are Serenity and BSG supplements for $5 or so. Have you played either of these games? Would you consider them worth the money?

Stage three is figuring out whether I'd actually play them or not.

[identity profile] scarywhitegirl.livejournal.com 2011-01-18 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
We own the Serenity core book as well, and haven't played it. But the attributes that I use for my Firefly games are taken from that book, along with the suggestions for abilities. Beyond that, I can tell you nothing about the system. :)

But I might check out the supplements just to see if any of them are more setting related than system related. Because really, I use the setting. I have my own system, which involves paying as little attention to the system as possible. ;)

[identity profile] a-belletrist.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
I have used the Serenity core book, but mostly as a reference. I haven't used the system itself, as when I was reading over it, I was unimpressed. I also found the examples to be extremely limited.

I may end up getting the BSG core for reference as well (thanks for the heads up). I'm also interested to know what people think of it.

[identity profile] ashtoreth.livejournal.com 2011-01-19 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I found Serenity to be a better solution for Space Opera than, for example, Thousand Suns. I wouldn't suggest it if you're planning a rules-heavy hard sci-fi game, but for character driven space opera, I think it's adequate.