Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game

The Battlestar Galactica Role Playing Game is a tabletop role-playing game published by Margaret Weis Productions in August 2007, based on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television franchise. It runs on the Cortex System, the same rules engine the publisher used for its other licensed properties, adapted here to support the show's blend of military conflict, political drama, and personal crisis aboard a fleet of human survivors fleeing Cylon pursuit. The game was released at Gen Con in 2007 and built around Plot Point campaigns, structured story arcs that give a game master pre-built scenes and complications modeled on the television series' own season-long plots, letting a group replicate the show's high-stakes pacing without inventing an entire arc from scratch. Reviewers noted the Plot Point mechanism specifically as an effective tool for capturing the tension and morally ambiguous choices that defined the source material, distinguishing the game from more open-ended tabletop role-playing designs.