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I_Abibde posted...

Let us know how that goes. I have been weighing my sci-fi options, and Traveller is certainly one of the most appealing. (Others include White Star and Stars Without Number, plus oddities like the sci-fi version of the One Dice system.) Also: Is Mongoose Publishing still handling Traveller these days? I remember that being their big deal.

I don't think that DnD and DnD-derivatives actually work too well with scifi with anything even slightly complicated.
It works fine for a space ship being a strict vehicle from planet A to planet B and there isn't significant technological changes (or it is, it's just +1/+2/whatever), with psionics/magic being pretty regular, no genetics/cybernetics, and absolutely no transhumanism. So basically space opera with humans dressed up in alien suits.

I've played in a oneshot of Traveller 2e, and honestly it's not too complicated. Character generation is a blast, the same way watching a plinko puck falling down a table is fun. Then mechanically it's the standard straightforward, with just a flat 8 DC on 2d6+ skill + stat +/- circumstances (getting the modifiers to be over a +4 can be real hard). And ship combat exists where everyone can do something! Not just gunners and pilots, the captain can improve morale, telecommunications can disrupt the enemy signal, and the engineers can boost the energy output of the engine.
Also, you can be a psionic, it's just rare on rare. There are two ways, the first being you need to make an ~8.3% on a check if you go to college, and if you don't, you have a natural ~.12% chance every round thereafter to test your psionic abilities (i.e. roll your psi stat to see where your life takes you).

It honestly feels the good oldschool, with charts on charts, but you need to only pay attention to a few of them.
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