Starships & Spacemen is a science-fiction tabletop role-playing game first published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1978. It was designed by Leonard H. Kanterman, with art by Rick Bryant, and appeared as an 86-page book with two cardstock reference sheets. The rules cover character creation, experience, the Space Fleet Service, human and alien races, psionics, alien plants and animals, equipment, spaceships and spaceship combat, and how to run the game. Its emphasis falls on ship combat and problem-solving, while personal combat is deliberately played down. The game is now owned by Goblinoid Games, which released a second edition in 2013 through crowdfunding. Contemporary reviewers were divided, some finding its setting overfamiliar and others praising its careful planning and its encouragement of real role-playing.
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Starships & Spacemen is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1978.
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