I’ve played my share of sci-fi RPGs, such as Traveller and Starfinder, but as many things as they do well, the space combat rules have never really captured the feel of a Star Wars-style starfighter dogfight or even a Star Trek-style naval battle. What is your favorite sci-fi RPG for shipt-to-ship combat?
Star Trek Adventures, hands down.
I mean it’s not as it is particularly brilliant, but unlike most games it don’t go to usual extremes of being boring extra chore with a lot of specific rules, minigame without any depth or something so integrated with normal mechanics that there is no different between capital ship combat and a fistfight in bar. It’s based on normal rules but somewhat modified because those are usually big ships fighting and thus pretty immersive and at the same time still feeling distinct.
You know I’ve got a bit of experience playing Star Trek Adventures, and for the life of me I can’t remember a single ship combat.
Well it lies on the game master, i have it every other game session and we play a Galaxy class.