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Navigator RPG

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Navigator RPG

Galaxy Spanning High Adventure

Build for the Science Fiction loving Game Master that wants to build their own universes.

Navigator RPG is a fully 'play it now' game. Pick it up, make a character and start playing, but it is more than that. Navigator RPG is built to be played in the Old School style. The GM listening to the players approaches and calling for skill tests when needed but placing equal, or more, value on role-played solutions.

Character Creation

Characters follow a life path model. You chose your species, a culture, a profession and then spend a pool of points on skills to customise your character to the way you want them to be.

For the world build GM, the game has common broad species, but the rules for how to create species so they are all balanced in game-play terms. There are common broad-stroke cultures but also the rules for how they are made, so you drill down to any level of detail you like in making your own cultures. The same is true for building professions and even adding skills to the game.

The game as written uses broad descriptions to keep the number of options facing a new player small. There are only a few professions, a few species and so on. This gives you are fairly rules light (Rules medium?) game you can just pick up and play.

It also gives you the potential to refine and add to the game as much detail as you could possibly want.

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Game Mastery

The origins of this game are a blend of OSR 'original game' and a 1980s classic 'Rolemaster' by Iron Crown Enterprises. Everything is new. Where those games were criticised for excessive rules and charts, this version is fully 21st century, it has stripped out as many tables as you can while still keeping those iconic critical tables and wound descriptive text.

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Origins

This game uses many of the ideas from White Star White Box by Barrel Rider Games but has been entirely rewritten. What that means is that everything you need is here to play a Star Knight with there light swords and psi-powers. But it is also just as well equipped to play a Space Marine against a planet of hostile Insectus.

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Free as in Speech and Free as in Beer

This game is covered by the OGL, Open Game License. This means that you are welcome to create anything you like for the Navigator RPG universe, create it, publish it and sell it.

The game is also a Pay What You Want title for its PDF. You can download it and play it without paying a cent. 

There are also high-quality softcover and hardback books if you want the books at your table.

This is Not a Beginner Game 

You will not find a "What is an RPG?" or "How to Role Play" chapter in this book. It is assumed you know how to role-play and what an RPG is. This is not an ideal game for people new to the hobby.

Solo is a perfect way to learn a new game, test your first adventures and going beyond just making characters when you are first getting to know the rules.

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Richard H May 08, 2023 6:16 pm UTC
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The core rule book mentions future expansions with more Talents, Professions etc. Are these available?
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Peter R May 08, 2023 6:58 pm UTC
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No, not yet. I have one follow on book half written but that is not much use until I write the other half.
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Richard H May 08, 2023 7:15 pm UTC
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Thanks for your reply.
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Brian S May 05, 2023 12:58 am UTC
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Is there no unarmed combat table? I can house-rule something using the club or staff table, if there are no plans for adding brawling or martial arts. Also, I read referrals to "Auto Blasters" and the like, which appear to be unused artifacts from Space Master, am I wrong?
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Peter R May 05, 2023 8:38 am UTC
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Hi,
The unarmed combat table is an oversight. If you do house rule a table, would you let me have a copy so I can add it as an addendum? The reason I released the game under the OGL was so people could add to it and build off of it.
The Auto Blaster is not an unused artifact of Space Master. I started with Whitebox White Star and then rolemasterified it. The Auto Blaster is an unused artifact of White Star.
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Brian S May 06, 2023 12:00 am UTC
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Sure, I'll work something up for "Brawling."
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mark S May 30, 2020 3:40 am UTC
Any update on when the Pod is going to make its return as a hardback?
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Robert G May 13, 2020 7:14 pm UTC
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Is this actually a solo game. I just knocked off a long work shift and may have lost the ability to read (it happens) but I can't seem to see any reference to solo play in the description above.
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Peter R May 13, 2020 9:01 pm UTC
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It is a standard 'play as a group' RPG but it also has a modified version of my HASP (High Adventure Solo Play) included at the back so it can be played entirely solo.
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Peter R May 07, 2020 11:21 am UTC
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I have removed the printed books for a few days, just while I fix some of the errata. They will be back shortly.
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Jerry N April 28, 2020 5:42 am UTC
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Page 14 says, "The races presented here are Alien Brute, Alien Mystic, Alien Tech and Human." But, there appears to be no "Alien Tech".
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Peter R April 28, 2020 6:34 am UTC
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Thanks for picking that up. I will add it to the errata sheet.
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Jerry N April 27, 2020 5:30 pm UTC
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Is this compatible with Spacemaster?
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Peter R April 27, 2020 5:46 pm UTC
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It depends on what you mean by compatible. In playtesting I used Spacemaster adventures, the final skill totals are pretty close, OBs, DBs, stat bonuses etc.
But you do not get the same playable species, or professions. In general Navigator RPG gives you more development points worth of skills, but the skills are fractionally more expensive per rank. So the net effect is to balance out.

I would suggest you grab the PDF for free, make a character and see how they compare. My experience is mostly with SW 1st Edition. I never played Privateers, so I cannot comment on compatibility with that.
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Jerry N April 27, 2020 9:07 pm UTC
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Ah thanks. To be clear, I was speaking of "crunch" rather than "fluff", i.e., can I use existing Spacemaster adventures (with or without some hopefully not-too-difficult conversion). Downloading now, thank you!
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Peter R April 27, 2020 9:44 pm UTC
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Then the answer is pretty much a Yes. The only thing that is significantly different is Telempaths. Navigator doesn't have lists, it has scalable abilities, more HARP than Space Master.
There was no obvious way of emulating the 'spell list' format without really directly copying. I have used the abilities from White Star but costed them using the HARP mechanics to get something unique.
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Jerry N April 28, 2020 5:25 am UTC
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Awesome, thanks!
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Kalu E April 27, 2020 2:07 pm UTC
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FYI preview isn't loading.
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Peter R April 27, 2020 2:12 pm UTC
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This is a known issue by DriveThruRPG. They are working on fixing it.
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marco M January 26, 2020 6:43 am UTC
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Is there a community for this baby?
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Peter R January 26, 2020 2:45 pm UTC
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There is a start of a community on Discord https://discord.gg/Fp6fuGB

I am hoping to have a new revision of the rules uploaded soon.
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