Starships & Spacemen
Starships & Spacemen is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1978.
Description
Starships & Spacemen is a science-fiction space-adventure system.[1] The rules cover character creation, experience, the Space Fleet Service, human and alien races, psionics, alien plants and animals, equipment, spaceships and spaceship combat, and running the game.[1] The focus is ship combat and problem-solving; personal combat is de-emphasized.[1]
Publication history
Starships & Spacemen was designed by Leonard H. Kanterman, M.D., with art by Rick Bryant, and was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1978 as an 86-page book with two cardstock reference sheets.[1]
Starships & Spacemen is now owned by Goblinoid Games.
Reception
Richard Bartucci reviewed Starships & Spacemen in The Space Gamer No. 18.[2] Bartucci commented that "With all of the SF genre to draw upon, Dr. Kanterman has restricted himself almost entirely to a universe that has been so thoroughly explored and documented that further exposition is just wearisome."[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 317. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- 1 2 Bartucci, Richard (July–August 1978). "Starships & Spacemen: a review". The Space Gamer. Metagaming (18): 25.