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1980
Primary Name
Space Opera
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1982 Edition
Year: 1982
Box Set
Product Code: 7101
182 pages
Size: 9.12 x 11.12 inches
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1980 Edition
Year: 1980
Box Set
Product Code: 7101
182 pages
Size: 9.25 x 11.15 inches
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Space Opera is a science-fiction role-playing game focused on space opera themed adventures. Although generic, it has an official universe first described in Space Marines.

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Table of Contents

Books

  • A 92 page Volume 1 rules book with sections on human and alien player characters, character generation, a dozen career areas, over 175 skill areas, psionic talents, equipment maintenance and repair, starship maintenance, and asteroid mining.
  • A 90 page Volume 2 rules book with sections on equipment lists and descriptions, technology levels, vehicles and aircraft, weapons, ground combat, starship design and combat, interstellar commerce, starports, planet generation, non-player characters and encounters, and aliens.

Supplementary Material

  • A double-sided blue cardstock Character Record Sheet/Novagun Targeting and Range Chart
  • A double-sided blue cardstock UFP Planet Survey Form/Starship Data Sheet
  • A double-sided blue cardstock UFP Intelligence Report Form/Novagun Action Hit Table
  • A double-sided blue cardstock UFP Contact Report Form/Novafire Success and Penetration Chart

Maps

  • A 17" x 22" black and white map of the Terran Quadrant of the galaxy.

Other Goodies

  • A half page summary of game contents
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Alternate Character Classes for Space Opera

Businessmen, bureaucrats, athletes, and rogues for Space Opera.

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Capsule Reviews

Federation Space (TFG), Helltank (Metagaming), Space Opera, 2nd Edition (FGU), The Spawn of Fashan (Games of

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Fighting the Good Fight: Combat variations in the SPACE OPERA game

Advanced melee rules to make the Space Opera game more exciting and skillful.

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Games

Reviews of Traveller and Space Opera

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New Ships for Old

Redesigning starships in the SPACE OPERA game.

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Nonhuman Races

The Krenn, a generic plant-based alien race, and the Crell, a new alien race for Space Opera.

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Open Box

New SF and Fantasy games reviewed.

-Double Adventure 2: Mission on Mithril / Across the Bright Face reviewed by

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Shuttle Scuttle

A different scenario for Traveller, Space Opera and Laserburn, for two opposing groups of 4-7 players, by Thomas M

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The Big Ships in Space Opera

Guidelines for designing large starships in Space Opera.

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