Star Patrol Role Playing Game [BOX SET] [Hardcover]

Michael Scott Kurtick (Author), Rockland Russo (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: 1981

"STAR PATROL is a comprehensive, science fiction oriented, role playing game which simulates ship to ship combat as well as on planet adventures. Players create interesting characters, creatures, aliens and robots by rolling for strength, dexterity, luck, constitution, personality, mentality, locomotion/manipulation, sex, metabolism, size, movement, profession, special capabilities, cyborg replacement, period, psionics, special weapons, capabilities, size, number, eating habits, reactions, etc. Movement rules include options for fatigue, gravity and special equipment like jet belts, contra-gravity platforms, hand computers, head-up displays, inertia! compass, intertron harness, infrared goggles, medi-kit, power harness, exo-skeleton, psionic amplifier, pressure tent, starlight goggles, and tricorder with mass tables and costs for each. You'll find 34 different types of contact weapons, 32 types of armor, 13 types of shielding, 77 types of ranged weapons from rocks to power cannons and phasers. 32 different types of aliens, taken from many of the most popular S.F. classics, are defined in detail so that they can be incorporated, or new ones created... CONTENTS: This game has a 67-page rulebook, 24 full color cardboard characters and aliens, in 25mm scale to match the 25mm scale ship plans provided for the derelict starship adventure, as well as a star map of the league star system, a blank 22 X 35 inch hex mapsheet, and options for portraying authentic space movements with a TI-58 or TI-59 programable calculator."

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } "STAR PATROL is a comprehensive, science fiction oriented, role playing game which simulates ship to ship combat as well as on planet adventures. Players create interesting characters, creatures, aliens and robots by rolling for strength, dexterity, luck, constitution, personality, mentality, locomotion/manipulation, sex, metabolism, size, movement, profession, special capabilities, cyborg replacement, period, psionics, special weapons, capabilities, size, number, eating habits, reactions, etc. Movement rules include options for fatigue, gravity and special equipment like jet belts, contra-gravity platforms, hand computers, head-up displays, inertia! compass, intertron harness, infrared goggles, medi-kit, power harness, exo-skeleton, psionic amplifier, pressure tent, starlight goggles, and tricorder with mass tables and costs for each. You'll find 34 different types of contact weapons, 32 types of armor, 13 types of shielding, 77 types of ranged weapons from rocks to power cannons and phasers. 32 different types of aliens, taken from many of the most popular S.F. classics, are defined in detail so that they can be incorporated, or new ones created... CONTENTS: This game has a 67-page rulebook, 24 full color cardboard characters and aliens, in 25mm scale to match the 25mm scale ship plans provided for the derelict starship adventure, as well as a star map of the league star system, a blank 22 X 35 inch hex mapsheet, and options for portraying authentic space movements with a TI-58 or TI-59 programable calculator."

Product Details

Hardcover
Publisher: Gamescience (1981)
ASIN: B000MGQIBW
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,228,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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