Quest: Science Fiction Edition

Quest: Science Fiction is a compete ruleset for Adventure's Guild's Quest RPG system. This edition contains everything you need to use your existing published adventures for any science fiction or modern setting with Quest. Included in this 67-page sourcebook are:

• 18 Learning Paths (some modified from Quest: Classic Fantasy, others all new):
  • Assassin
  • Body 
  • Charisma
  • Computer
  • Crafter
  • Demolitions
  • Dueling
  • Engineering
  • Entertainer
  • Healing
  • Merchant
  • Politico
  • Rogue
  • Scholar
  • Sharpshooter
  • Survival
  • Tactics
  • Vehicle
• All Learning Paths are available to all characters, however, ten sample Roles are presented -- or dream up your own!
  • Crafter
  • Doctor
  • Entertainer
  • Merchant Captain
  • Naval Officer
  • Noble
  • Rogue
  • Scholar
  • Scout
  • Soldier
• Rules for energy weapons
• Rules for armor and cover
  
• Rules for using miniatures in both space and ground combat
  
• Credits-based economy (in addition to Quest: Classic Fantasy's barter economy) and a complete equipment catalog
• Starship technologies for any setting, including multiple faster-than-light drive technologies
• Space combat rules
• 12 standard starship designs
  • Fighter
  • Shuttle
  • System Defense Boat
  • Scout
  • Trader
  • Yacht
  • Cargo Ship
  • Passenger Liner
  • Troop Ship
  • Patrol Cruiser
  • Destroyer
  • Carrier
• Complete (but optional) rules for custom starship design -- all standard designs were made using these rules
• New rules for quickly building diverse NPC types, including rules for quickly determining hit points and abilities.

Care was taken to format Quest: Science Fiction to match the standard ruleset dictated by Quest: Classic Fantasy. To the greatest extent possible, the sections in this book mirror the sections in the original so that players of the original Quest can quickly learn to play Quest: Science Fiction. 

A major goal of Quest: Science Fiction is to allow the wealth of published science fiction and modern-world adventures to be used seamlessly with Quest's mechanics. Quest: Science Fiction can be used to play Traveller, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, or your own custom science fiction settings. As an example, a free supplement for playing Traveller using Quest: Science Fiction is available for download; similar guides for other settings can be written if there is sufficient interest.

An excellent question is: How does this ruleset relate to the upcoming Quest: Cosmic Fantasy? The answer, simply, is that it doesn't -- they are two completely separate settings and aren't designed to compete with one another. Quest: Cosmic Fantasy will allow you to bring your Quest: Classic Fantasy characters into space, complete with all of their wonderous magical abilities. This promises to be an incredible expansion for the original Quest system. Quest: Science Fiction, however, assumes that there is no magic in the "real" world, so the Classic Fantasy rules and characters really don't fit in the setting. Furthermore, the original Quest rules do not provide the other essential abilities needed for a realistic modern or science fiction setting. Quest: Science Fiction provides those abilities as well as a coherent and consistent set of rules expansions for bringing the feel of Quest into the modern and far future settings. Finally, Quest: Science Fiction brings some much-needed rules for credit-based economies and miniatures combat.

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