ZEBULON'S GUIDE was a re-working of the rules using an action-table, with added background material. The clear combat rules integrating vehicle combat AND aerial combat at the same time did it for me! KNIGHT HAWKS was the companion rules for spaceships and spaceship combat. And oh, STAR FRONTIERS is still my number-one fave RPG. ICAR (a British RPG): There are just so many. You can download the basic D6 SYSTEM rules, then D6 SPACE, D6 SPACE: ALIENS I, and D6 SPACE: SHIPS I have found a few other free "space opera" games with wild and weird ideas, all free (though you may have to register your e-mail and password on the site.) STARS WITHOUT NUMBER. If you want to download D6 Space, the science-fiction setting for the D6 System, you can easily do it on the Polgarus Games site. There is no setting information in it, but people rely on the Third Imperium or other settings or time-periods from previous editions of TRAVELLER. Undeniably it is a complete system for running a game in a star-empire.
I bought the huge 656-page Traveller 5th-edition book, but it has a lot of errata. Even beginning characters have a Han Solo like veneer of awesomeness, the game integrates nicely with Roll20 and it just works. There's a sci-fi companion book coming out in two weeks that can make your life easier as well if you're so inclined. Being a generic and pulpy game, people have made various conversions for Star Wars and Mass Effect already so you're not forced to reinvent the wheel (check out the Savage Heroes website ).
The Core Book is ten bucks in pdf or print, so it's not free unlike the other options. If someone put a gun to my head and demanded I run a Star Wars game tomorrow, I'd use Savage Worlds to do so. Regardless of whether or not you use the game system, it has tons of random generation systems for sandbox and on the fly gaming. Stars Without Number is a sci-fi game based around B/X era D&D, but has a wealth of well written supplements that can push the game in a few different directions. Two options that haven't been mentioned yet that I recommend are Stars Without Number and Savage Worlds. If you're in the mood for something a little bit more streamlined, but still compatible, you could check out the free Mini Six. Supplements for Star Wars for the most part are fairly cheap and available from the usual locations. Playing on a VTT means the dice are added up for you and the players, speeding up the game a little bit from pure tabletop play. It's a solid system that you can tweak to your needs rather easily. I'll echo the suggestions about WEG's Star Wars and/or D6 Space. just wondering about style, I am think Starwars, meets mass effect.
G-lich said: does anyone know a good system for space opera? I looked at travelers and gurps.
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