"Star Rover" = Arduin for Traveller

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I just found this thread at the CotI forum discussing a game from the old days called "Star Rover." It's the first I had ever heard of this game.

Apparently it was to Traveller what Arduin was to OD&D, and Dave Hargrove was a part of the project as well!

Any old timers have any knowledge of this game?

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A little bit of information is provided at darkshire.net:

Star Rovers

1st ed by Stocken, Hoffman, Hoffman, Hargrave, Huey, Lortz (1981) Archive Miniatures and Game Systems

A spacefaring sci-fi RPG, with a fairly detailed system covering possibilities from zero-gee combat to diseases and their effects. It was released with a set of sci-fi miniature figures. Action resolution is based on rolling sets of d6's with sixes read as zeroes (resulting in a range from 0 to 5). Reviewed in Space Gamer #44.

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Earlier I posted some fragments of a review of the game. I've since determined that all six parts can be accessed here:

www.mrlizard.com/characters/46-science-fiction

So I deleted the other posts I had made. Better to read it from the source....

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As a further comment, I went to the review of Star Rover (linked above) and waded through all six parts. I did a quick copy-paste into a Word doc for later reading and the darned review was about 20 pages. Just the game review.

Lots of details about the game, but the more I read the less I was interested in finding it. I think that Arduin has some cool ideas, but it's way more complex than OD&D. Same thing for Star Rover. I'm just not sure if it "improves" on Traveller at all....

Cool to read about, though.