There are “alien” creatures in the game, but as far as I know, there is no such thing as an alien NPC (although I could be very wrong here). Character creationĮverybody in the Elite universe plays a human there are no other playable races in the core book, although you can play and encounter cyborgs. As with any RPG, there is nothing to stop you doing some sort of horror story, or run your own space station style game. The book recommends, since the universe is so expansive, that if you are a novice GM then you aim for one of four types of game Exploration, Military, Espionage or Lone Wolf. It makes the book a lot easier to consume. There was certainly a design decision to not pack it full of information and have a significant amount of white space, which I applaud it for. I am pleased to say that I have yet to feel that way with this rulebook. Having read a few rulebooks in my time, there have been times when I feel overwhelmed by the amount of information contained within it.
The first thing I noticed is the quality of the full-colour imagery throughout the book it’s hard to miss – the front and back cover alone is beautiful. It runs off a D10 based system, which is not ruled by, but does include percentile rolls. Like most big RPG systems, the rulebook is A4 and stands at around 370 pages. Other products available via the ED RPG Store.I won’t be including the Espionage, Exploration, Military and Trading supplements, but we may tackle this separately if there is enough interest. My intention here is to cover the core book its contents and add a healthy dose of opinion here and there.
Spidermind Games were very kind to give us the books in PDF and a copy of the core book in hardback that we will be giving away as a prize. However, this article is the first in an in-depth look through the RPG.
They talked to me about their current Kickstarter for the Elite Dangerous Battle Card game which you should all take a look at and we will review in full later this year. Well, the people at Spidermind Games successfully ran a Kickstarter for the book 2 years ago and this year during UKGE, I met some of the team behind it. My mind wonders how you go about fitting a vast expansive game like Elite Dangerous into an RPG.
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