80s Sci Fi game book with starship pilots coming together to complete a mission, maybe a race
I'm trying to find a book from my childhood. It was from sometime in the early 80s. It was a game in an oversized book (almost a magazine), kind of like a cross between a Choose Your Own Adventure book, a tabletop RPG, and a giant comic book.
The premise was a group of starship pilots and their various ships coming together to complete some kind of a mission that I seem to remember as almost a race. One of the ships kind of resembled a BSG Viper, and another one was a big sphere, a third might have been star shaped. Along the way, several of those ships were destroyed.
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I'm trying to find a book from my childhood. It was from sometime in the early 80s. It was a game in an oversized book (almost a magazine), kind of like a cross between a Choose Your Own Adventure book, a tabletop RPG, and a giant comic book.
The premise was a group of starship pilots and their various ships coming together to complete some kind of a mission that I seem to remember as almost a race. One of the ships kind of resembled a BSG Viper, and another one was a big sphere, a third might have been star shaped. Along the way, several of those ships were destroyed.
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Welcome to Science Fiction & Fantasy! This question would be improved by going through the checklists here; How to ask a good story-ID question?
– Valorum
2 days ago
Since you say it's like an RPG, you might want to also ask at rpg.stackexchange.com ,
– LAK
yesterday
This sounds similar to a book I half remember - lots of spaceships, and they dropped out or were destroyed as the book went along - they might have appeared as black silhouettes or something? There was some kind of game element in identifying them? I'd love to know the name also.
– Kay Johnston
9 hours ago
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I'm trying to find a book from my childhood. It was from sometime in the early 80s. It was a game in an oversized book (almost a magazine), kind of like a cross between a Choose Your Own Adventure book, a tabletop RPG, and a giant comic book.
The premise was a group of starship pilots and their various ships coming together to complete some kind of a mission that I seem to remember as almost a race. One of the ships kind of resembled a BSG Viper, and another one was a big sphere, a third might have been star shaped. Along the way, several of those ships were destroyed.
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I'm trying to find a book from my childhood. It was from sometime in the early 80s. It was a game in an oversized book (almost a magazine), kind of like a cross between a Choose Your Own Adventure book, a tabletop RPG, and a giant comic book.
The premise was a group of starship pilots and their various ships coming together to complete some kind of a mission that I seem to remember as almost a race. One of the ships kind of resembled a BSG Viper, and another one was a big sphere, a third might have been star shaped. Along the way, several of those ships were destroyed.
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Welcome to Science Fiction & Fantasy! This question would be improved by going through the checklists here; How to ask a good story-ID question?
– Valorum
2 days ago
Since you say it's like an RPG, you might want to also ask at rpg.stackexchange.com ,
– LAK
yesterday
This sounds similar to a book I half remember - lots of spaceships, and they dropped out or were destroyed as the book went along - they might have appeared as black silhouettes or something? There was some kind of game element in identifying them? I'd love to know the name also.
– Kay Johnston
9 hours ago
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Welcome to Science Fiction & Fantasy! This question would be improved by going through the checklists here; How to ask a good story-ID question?
– Valorum
2 days ago
Since you say it's like an RPG, you might want to also ask at rpg.stackexchange.com ,
– LAK
yesterday
This sounds similar to a book I half remember - lots of spaceships, and they dropped out or were destroyed as the book went along - they might have appeared as black silhouettes or something? There was some kind of game element in identifying them? I'd love to know the name also.
– Kay Johnston
9 hours ago
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Welcome to Science Fiction & Fantasy! This question would be improved by going through the checklists here; How to ask a good story-ID question?
– Valorum
2 days ago
Welcome to Science Fiction & Fantasy! This question would be improved by going through the checklists here; How to ask a good story-ID question?
– Valorum
2 days ago
Since you say it's like an RPG, you might want to also ask at rpg.stackexchange.com ,
– LAK
yesterday
Since you say it's like an RPG, you might want to also ask at rpg.stackexchange.com ,
– LAK
yesterday
This sounds similar to a book I half remember - lots of spaceships, and they dropped out or were destroyed as the book went along - they might have appeared as black silhouettes or something? There was some kind of game element in identifying them? I'd love to know the name also.
– Kay Johnston
9 hours ago
This sounds similar to a book I half remember - lots of spaceships, and they dropped out or were destroyed as the book went along - they might have appeared as black silhouettes or something? There was some kind of game element in identifying them? I'd love to know the name also.
– Kay Johnston
9 hours ago
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Welcome to Science Fiction & Fantasy! This question would be improved by going through the checklists here; How to ask a good story-ID question?
– Valorum
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Since you say it's like an RPG, you might want to also ask at rpg.stackexchange.com ,
– LAK
yesterday
This sounds similar to a book I half remember - lots of spaceships, and they dropped out or were destroyed as the book went along - they might have appeared as black silhouettes or something? There was some kind of game element in identifying them? I'd love to know the name also.
– Kay Johnston
9 hours ago