Gaterunner is a Role Playing Game written by Gregory B. Kent. The game is based 300 years in the future and introduces several races that players can either role play or fight depending on how the Game Master develops the story.
Gaterunner deals with various aspects of interstellar travel utilizing wormholes that are marked by stargates. These stargates have specific codes encrypted in order to safely pass from one area of space to another. However during travel is very likely that there could be malfunctions either through engineering, astrogation whether by human or equipment failure.
The core races of Gaterunner are: Terran. Villansh, Vagaran, Duid'chi, Duid, Nithe, Gazelle, and Vuchelk’shi.
Game Play
Normally the Game Master allows characters to team together as with many other types of Role Playing Games. S/he creates sceanarios and situations where players must pool their skills and resources for specific goals: combat with alien races, transporting cargo, ship malfunctions, medical proceedures and so on. There are several skill checks and dice are rolled to determine the outcome.