Karandras

After my 10+ years pendragon campaign ended due to the characters being lost with my car, I have been considering starting a Space opera Campaign. I want to use the old ICE SM2 setting for it but using BRB as the system. I am however unsure as to how I should deal with spacecraft. Has anyone here done a space opera campaign with BRP? Tips, tricks, pitfalls?

So over on the RPGnet forums I just got what I think is an awesome idea for an LOTR game. Sett in the early parts of the war of the ring(most likely), everything is according to canon at game start. Then I have the players make their characters and things go into the left field from there. I will ask them to make proper hardcore munchkin characters (shaolin death monk hobbits have been mentioned. ) and the seriousness ends. Let them run roughshod ALL over the setting, exploit some of there meta game knowledge and generally have fun. The reason I come here is of course that I am pretty sure I'm going to use BRP for it, and looking at the BGB the question rises in my mind : What options to include? I want the players to be bad ass(so increased HP seems like a shoe in), but this will be my first time actually USING the BGB(have some experience, many years ago with RQ3, and have played and know CoC fairly well), so I thought I'd ask for ideas from the experts.