The April A to Z challange Regarding Space Opera game

When I read of the a to z challenge I thought to myself Robert you need to get off your arse and do some writing.

But Robert, self said back. I be afraid, what if I look like a big dummy head.

So I told self that's alright everybody that knows you alread knows that.

Sob says self.

Oh just write about something obscure like that Space )pera game you keep thhreatening to run.

Oh, says self, that'll work.

A is for android. And armor and aliens and astronaut and armsmen.

B is for Blaster and Bugs and British Bear Aliens (Blard)

C is for Computers and (space) Commies

D is for Disruptor.

E is for Earthling.

....

Hum what does  O stand for? I need to think of something.

Space Opera the role playing game

Space opera is a fiction genre, a sub genre of science fiction.

It's basically rocket ship stories with an over the top attitude towards big stories and big plots: Star Trek, Star Wars on TV and in the movies, In books, Doc Smith's Skylark of Space and Lensman pioneered the genre, while today Alister Reynolds and Iain M Banks keep it viable. A broad genre, its been fashionable to sneer at it in some places and times, but many Hugo award winners are space opera. Brian Aldriss calls it the good stuff of Science Fiction.

 I like it.

Back in the early 1980s, the golden age of RPGs, when a million flowers bloomed. There were several alternatives for Science Fiction RPGs, many with a space opera (genre) focus. Traveller was (and is) the biggie, the SF equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons. Another was Space Opera.

D&D inspired  Tunnels and Trolls, Runequest, Chivary and Sorcery, and many others. T&T was simpler than D&D, C&S more detailed and, believe it or not, more complicated than Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. I see Space Opera as the Chivalry and Sorcery "version" of Traveller. Space Opera was from the same company as C&S, and some of the same people worked on it.

What and why

I am Robert Edwards. A sf fan and rpg gamer from Nashville Tennessee, home of the Grand Old Oprey. I have a love of space opera and intend to indulge it.