Looking for a Sci-Fi / Space [pseudo] AP

[Lord Fyre]

Does anyone know of a decent Mega-Adventure or series of Chained adventures that are set in Interstellar space (that are still available for purchase)?

Any system would be okay.

[Aaron Bitman]

I've never seen it, but I've heard good things about "The DarkStryder Campaign" for the West End Games "Star Wars" RPG, currently available for purchase from third party sellers through amazon.com, here.

Also, StarFrontiers.com has all the old "Star Frontiers" material available for free download, and yes, it is legal! You can find all the modules here. The first three of those - "SF 0: Crash on Volturnus", "SF 1: Volturnus, Planet of Mystery", and "SF 2: Starspawn of Volturnus" - form a trilogy.

[Marco Polaris]

First one that comes to mind that's Pathfinder related is Santiago: A Myth of a Far-Flung Future. I think Star Wars SAGA Edition had an adventure path, though I'm less certain about how commercially available it is.

[Aaron Bitman]

Oh yeah. I don't know if it's any good, but there's the Traveller "Secrets of the Ancients" campaign, available in PDF at DriveThruRPG here or in hardcover from amazon.com here or right here from Paizo.

[Lord Fyre]

Marco Polaris wrote:

First one that comes to mind that's Pathfinder related is Santiago: A Myth of a Far-Flung Future. I think Star Wars SAGA Edition had an adventure path, though I'm less certain about how commercially available it is.

I know about that one. I just wish E.N. Publishing was putting the adventures out just a bit faster. :(

[Constantine]

Marco Polaris wrote:

First one that comes to mind that's Pathfinder related is Santiago: A Myth of a Far-Flung Future. I think Star Wars SAGA Edition had an adventure path, though I'm less certain about how commercially available it is.

Are you talking about the Dawn of Defiance, for Star Wars saga? Its out there, or was last time I looked. Its pretty Star Wars centric, heck its all about the rise of the rebel alliance, so I don't know if it would make a good conversion. But its out there, its free, and I enjoyed running it for my friends. We got through the first few parts.

[Lord Fyre]

Constantine wrote:

Marco Polaris wrote:

First one that comes to mind that's Pathfinder related is Santiago: A Myth of a Far-Flung Future. I think Star Wars SAGA Edition had an adventure path, though I'm less certain about how commercially available it is.

Are you talking about the Dawn of Defiance, for Star Wars saga? Its out there, or was last time I looked. Its pretty Star Wars centric, heck its all about the rise of the rebel alliance, so I don't know if it would make a good conversion. But its out there, its free, and I enjoyed running it for my friends. We got through the first few parts.

I know. Pity that SAGA is itself defunt. :(

[Tarondor]

Aaron Bitman wrote:

Oh yeah. I don't know if it's any good, but there's the Traveller "Secrets of the Ancients" campaign, available in PDF at DriveThruRPG here or in hardcover from amazon.com here or right here from Paizo.

Secrets of the Ancients doesn't have a great reputation, unfortunately. However, for an absolutely awesome Traveller AP that is also absolutely FREE, you can download The Pirates of Drinax from Mongoose Publishing. I'd love to have the time to run this thing. If my current Traveller: The New Era game ever TPK's, I'll be running this next.

[Constantine]

I bought all the books, love the system, and will not convert! SAGA!!!

[Lord Fyre]

Tarondor wrote:

Aaron Bitman wrote:

Oh yeah. I don't know if it's any good, but there's the Traveller "Secrets of the Ancients" campaign, available in PDF at DriveThruRPG here or in hardcover from amazon.com here or right here from Paizo.

Secrets of the Ancients doesn't have a great reputation, unfortunately. However, for an absolutely awesome Traveller AP that is also absolutely FREE, you can download The Pirates of Drinax from Mongoose Publishing. I'd love to have the time to run this thing. If my current Traveller: The New Era game ever TPK's, I'll be running this next.

Pity that it ends two adventures prematurely. :(

[Nohwear]

If you are interested in something of Cthulhu and hard sci-fi, then The Void is a good game with an adventure series.

[Lord Fyre]

Marco Polaris wrote:

First one that comes to mind that's Pathfinder related is Santiago: A Myth of a Far-Flung Future. I think Star Wars SAGA Edition had an adventure path, though I'm less certain about how commercially available it is.

Bad News, b.t.w.

[Irontruth]

Aaron Bitman wrote:

I've never seen it, but I've heard good things about "The DarkStryder Campaign" for the West End Games "Star Wars" RPG, currently available for purchase from third party sellers through amazon.com, here.

I've played book 1 three separate times.

The setup is cool, with some really interesting story lines. Unfortunately the adventure is written on very strict rails. Certain events HAVE to happen or future events don't happen at all or make any sense.

I have fond memories though. In high school we had a large gaming group (roughly 15 people, though usually only 7-8 showed up on a given day). In Dark Stryder everyone gets 3 characters, a command character, a premade crew member and then make their own crew member. You have a ship with a crew of about 150, so we had about 1/3 of that in actually played characters, which was kind of amazing.

I'd only recommend the campaign with the following caveats:

1) You need to rewrite the plot to make it more fluid and adaptable.
2) WEG Star Wars d6 is unbalanced and this campaign will highlight those flaws (you need to be okay with that or run it in another system).

Otherwise though, it is kind of an amazing campaign.

[Pan]

Mongoose publishing has a couple of campaigns and I believe they are free to download. They are meant to be run with Traveller but wouldn't be difficult to convert to another system. I do recommend Traveller anyways.

[Bluenose]

Most of my recommendations are for various versions of TRaveller. The Sky Raiders trilogy (FASA) is excellent, but it won't last as long as most APs if you merely play the sequence of key events. I thought the "Hard Times" adventures/sourcebooks for MegaTraveller were excellent (Hard Times, Assignment: Vigilante and Astrogators' Guide to Diaspora Sector), very easy to expand and pretty adaptable even if you weren't using the OTU background. Knightfall was a decent mega-adventure from the same line. You could make a pretty decent AP out of the 2300AD material as well, particularly that dealing with Aurore (Kafer Dawn, Aurore sourcebook, Mission: Arcturus, Invasion). I'd recommend some of the DGP material but it's not easily available anywhere.

Also, Star Frontiers had a series of linked adventures, though not all the ones that were published were part of it. They're easy to get hold of.