Bob 2012/03/24(Sat)21:34 No. 20802 ID: affb00
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>>20802
Oh god what? GURPS and Traveller? The man said we were to AVOID excessive charts, not play Charts: the RPG.

Any time someone is looking for a newbie-friendly, simple system for ANY setting, I recommend BESM. Ignoring its anime origins, BESM is a simple, fun, cinematic system with a great deal of freedom. Since it is a universal system, you NEED to make your own setting, and you may want to disallow some of the out-of-genre attributes (mostly magic. Or not I guess, up to you.) It is probably wise to keep the system out of the hands of problematic min-maxers, because it can be broken pretty easily, but if everyone is there just to have fun, it's a great choice.

I personally would recommend...

Fading Suns.

There was a DnD flavour of SciFi called Alternity. And then there was d20 Modern, which I really recommend against. Or to look up some upgrades to it because WotC ended that line pretty quick.

NOW... there is also Starwars - original Flavour and D20. Both are pretty fine but the availability of the former is low.

You're probably more after spaceships than dystopias, but Paranoia is good times and has lasers. And because most of the fun is in the fluff and the uneasy alliances/bastardly plans, you can throw most of the complicated parts of the crunch out of the window and six-word-RPG it if you've got a good DM.

(Yes, OK, you die a lot, but you get to do it six times per character sheet...)

>Paranoia
This right here. You could play it perfectly fine without dice if you wished.