Does anyone know of any good science fiction classes (or hacks) for B/X D&D (or OSE or whatever other B/X retroclone)?
I ask because I ran Death in Space recently. And I liked it! Still, I find myself wanting to play my scifi with my preferred system.
(I know there’s White Star. I might end up just doing the little bit of conversion necessary to make its OD&D classes work with B/X.)
Fantastic Heroes and Witchery has Pulp, Weird Tales, Science Fantasy, and Sci-Fi classes, and is very compatible with B/X and 1e. They don’t lean hard SF but the presentation is good, and the material is free.
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This is the free starter edition. It always looked interesting to me but I’ve never had a chance to try it out. IIRC it is B/X-ish, so it might be close enough to give you some ideas you could adapt.
There’s also
I think these are also OD&D based, but still: a different vibe from White Star.
Golgotha and Extinction (also on DTRPG) are based off The Black Hack but might have some useful ideas.
Thanks for these. Looks like I’ll have to hack something together. But now at least I have a lot of good inspiration.
What are you trying to do? Sci fi? Science fantasy?
I’m trying to do a cross between the two, actually. Imagine a blend of The Expanse, Alien, and Star Wars and you’re practically there. I’m sure there are already good systems that do this. And yet I want to play B/X, dang it!
ASE2-3: (Anomalous Subsurface Environment) has Insect-Men, Moktar (Neanderthals or something), Robot, Scientist.
There’s also B/X Mars on drivethru