last month i went out to 2nd & Charles and traded in a bunch of stuff for bunch of other stuff, like this copy of Legionnaire, the #RenegadeLegion #rpg from 1990 that #FASA apparently farmed out to Mike Stackpole and Bear Peters and got back a gnarly #MilSF-tuned version of #MercenariesSpiesAndPrivateEyes!
everything is d10-based instead of d6, there are #Traveller-like lifepaths, combat is more fine-grained and more lethal, but the bones and muscle are so close to #MSPE that it goes in my #TunnelsAndTrolls stack, not the #FASA stack.
I don't feel strongly about the #RenegadeLegion setting as presented in the book. the overwhelmingly powerful fascist New Roman Empire vs fractious human and alien polities feels like very early Baen Books, if you catch my drift.
allegedly the #RenegadeLegion game line was #FASA salvaging the games they'd pitched for the #StarWars license, but aside from the rebels vs. evil empire aspect, Renegade Legion is gritty #MilSF or #technoThriller, not #spaceOpera. there's no Star Wars left in it, not even with the #TimothyZahn dial turned up to twelve.
anyway, this was a nice little serendipitous find of something i'd always been interested in.