Space Quest

Space Quest is a tabletop role-playing game published by Tyr Gamemakers Ltd. in 1977. Description Space Quest is a science-fiction space-adventure system, an early class-and-level game. The rules cover character abilities, caste and rank, skills, races, psionics, and character classes: spacers, warriors, mutates (psionics), technics, or biotechs. The game also includes rules for starships and equipment. Space encounters include traders, pirates, roboids, and space monsters such as voidsharks. Publication history Space Quest was designed by Paul Hume and George Nyhen, and published by Tyr Gamemakers Ltd. in 1977 as a 110-page digest-sized book. Reception Robert C. Kirk reviewed Space Quest in The Space Gamer No. 14. Kirk commented that "Given an imaginative gamemaster and daring players, Space Quest can become an open-ended campaign providing hours of fun, escapism, or what-have-you."