Help me remember an early 90s sci-fi rpg (please).

[mute]

I have this vague notion of playing a sci-fi crpg in the early nineties I think. My most vivid memory of it was the character creation aspect. I believe you could create a character and then sort of plan his life out prior to the current adventure. If you wanted to you could keep training him (spend years schooling and whatnot) and raise his stats but if you went overboard he would age and become almost too old for the adventure (getting a retirement bonus seems familiar). Nothing else about the game has stayed with me I'm afraid. Something about planets and space probably though.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? This has been bugging me for the last ten years or so. Thanks.

[Randomizer]

Sounds like Traveller which I recently saw as being out there.

I remember spending hours on character generation and going through to schooling and/or military training.

Space Opera also had something similar using a d100 system instead of Traveller's 3d6 dice rolling. They were both from the 80's

[mute]

Sounds like Traveller which I recently saw as being out there.

I remember spending hours on character generation and going through to schooling and/or military training.

Space Opera also had something similar using a d100 system instead of Traveller's 3d6 dice rolling. They were both from the 80's

I think you might be on to something here, but are these computer games or pen and paper type rpgs? I played a computer game with these features you describe. Thanks for the help.

[realmzmaster]

Hello Mute,

I think you are thinking about MegaTraveller 1:The Zhodani Conspiracy (1990) and MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients (1991) by Game Designer's Workshop and published by Paragon Software

[Randomizer]

I was thinking of pen and paper RPGs, but there was a period in the 90's where I didn't play computer RPGs so I missed a lot of them. Some pen and paper games got computer versions.

[mute]

Hello Mute,

I think you are thinking about MegaTraveller 1:The Zhodani Conspiracy (1990) and MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients (1991) by Game Designer's Workshop and published by Paragon Software

It was MegaTraveller 2. I am playing it right now on dosbox. Thank you! The reason for my (pathetic) existence has been realized. There had been this void inside me, right... here. No to the left, yes that's it. I've tried filling it with drugs, alcohol, gambling, fires, bungee jumping, handguns, skydiving, extreme snowboarding, women, Jesus, and inappropriate behavior. But you have shown me that MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients (1991) by Game Designer's Workship and published by Paragon Software is the only thing on this earth that can fill that void (or possibly a chicken burrito). Thanks again...

[Heavy Metal Monk]

*first post ever*

It seems one of my favorite bands references this game alot. I always knew they were full of references to various obscure games and comics, but I never thought I'd see the word "Zhodani" aside from on their Traveller album. I'm going to have to check these games out!

The band is The Lord Weird Slough Feg, in case anyone cares.