Stargate SG-1 (roleplaying game)

For other roleplaying games in the franchise, see List of Stargate games § Stargate SG-1 roleplaying games.

Stargate: SG-1 Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game based on the TV series Stargate SG-1, released in 2003 by Alderac Entertainment Group.^[1] The game, based on AEG's Spycraft, uses the d20 System. Since Sony did not renew AEG's contract to publish the game, it is now out of print.

Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game cover
Designers	Robert Defendi, Scott Gearin, Patrick Kapera, Don Mappin, Christina Kamnikar, Rodney Thompson, Kevin Wilson
Publishers	Alderac Entertainment Group
Publication	2003
Genres	Licensed science fiction
Systems	Spycraft (d20 System)

History

The Stargate SG:1 RPG (2003) by Alderac Entertainment Group followed their publication of the Spycraft d20 espionage game, and was designed to be fully compatible with the first edition of Spycraft.^[2] Season guides and additional supplements for Stargate SG:1 were published until MGM pulled their license from AEG; thus, the RPG only adapted material from the first two seasons of the series.^[2]

Core rulebook

The core Stargate SG-1 role-playing book is a hardbound and full-color 488 page volume. The content includes:

• Summaries of episodes aired during the television show's first six seasons
• Information on planet previously visited by SG-1
• Information regarding Stargate Command and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex
• Information regardingGoa'uld types, history, biology and psychology
• Skills, feats, and gear
• Advice for Game Masters on building worlds to visit, races to encounter, and adventure construction

Supplements

• Fantastic Frontiers (2003) and Friends and Foes (2004), detailing the first two seasons of the series
• Living Gods (2004), concerning Goa'uld System Lords
• First Steps (2004), a collection of original worlds and adventures.

Reception

SciFi.com gave the Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game an A−.^[1]

Reviews

• Pyramid^[3]