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Battlestar Galactica Pen and Paper RPG
gerbalblaste writes "Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd. has reached an agreement with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group to produce roleplaying game products based on the enormously successful, critically-acclaimed television series, Battlestar Galactica. Weis' company is known primarily for the recent release of the Serenity Role-Playing Game. From the article: 'The game book will be a full-color hardcover book featuring still images from the series as well as original artwork. It will provide rules for play, character creation, and information about the ship and crew of Galactica as well as the other main characters from the show. A Quickstart Guide will be released in early 2007 with the core product premiering in the spring. Additional products will closely follow the release of the core product. The entire line will be supported by an interactive website. Jamie Chambers (Dragonlance Campaign Setting, Serenity Role Playing Game) is helping lead a team of writers and designers dedicated to re-creating the excitement, drama, and danger of the groundbreaking television series.'"
Change #1 Cylons were NOT created by man
Change #2 Cylons ALL look like robots
Change #3 Starbuck is a man
That said, I love the new series, but consider it as separate from the original which I waited months for each new episode.
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Your scenario 1 assumes metaphysical things that the game does not.
Your scenario 2 assumes things about how YOU think a GM MUST run the game. Quite frankly, I'd never do this, nor would anyone I know.
Your scenario 3 assumes that Centurions have no independent thinking abilities. This plainly isn't true as we've seen them exercise independent thinking before when searching for Halo and Boomer on Caprica (?). We know that they are given a general command (e.g. search and destroy) and then they execute as they see fit. If a Centurion noticed a threat at least a couple would break away to investigate.