Traveller: 1700 – A custom character sheet and some recommended Colonial American RPG books

October 15, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

At Travellercon/USA 2021 I got to play in a great session of Traveller: 1700. This is a free setting for Classic Traveller created by Greg Caires, originally published in the Freelance Traveller fanzine. It's available for download over at the Freelance Traveller site. Though designed for Classic Traveller, it's easily compatible with more modern versions, and … Continue reading Traveller: 1700 – A custom character sheet and some recommended Colonial American RPG books

Cepheus Journal #8: The Retro Issue

October 11, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

The latest issue of the Cepheus Journal was just released. It's free and worth a download. The Cepheus Journal is a fanzine by and for fans of the Cepheus Engine (basically an open source version of the Traveller RPG) The issues are generally given a theme. The theme for issue #8 is Retro Sci-Fi Some … Continue reading Cepheus Journal #8: The Retro Issue

Omega 99: Final Character Sheet

October 3, 2021October 4, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

I'll be running Omega 99 at next weekend's TravellerCon/USA. I decided to update my Omega 99 character sheets a bit from the previous versions. The only real change is that I've updated the wound tracker section, so that it cleanly displays only the check boxes needed to keep track of injuries. All of the old … Continue reading Omega 99: Final Character Sheet

Omega 99: The Artemis Spacecraft

October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

I'm continuing making content for Michael Brown's Omega 99 setting, written for the Cepheus Engine. Here's a new spacecraft design I've made for the Omega Moonbase. The Omega 99 setting is a thinly-disguised adaptation of the Space: 1999 TV show from the 1970s. Earth's moon has been mysteriously transported through space to distant part of … Continue reading Omega 99: The Artemis Spacecraft

In the Light of a Ghost Star: fillable character sheets for a science fantasy RPG

September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

I just ran a one-shot of In the Light of a Ghost Star, the rules-light science fantasy RPG from the Highland Paranormal Society. The setting is the long-abandoned Earth in the far future, after the Sun has diminished into a white dwarf star. Players are humans from Mars, who travel to Earth to scavenge for … Continue reading In the Light of a Ghost Star: fillable character sheets for a science fantasy RPG

Mörk Borg, Cyndi Lauper, and the music of the 1980s

September 22, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ 1 Comment

Over on itch.io, there's this game jam that just concluded. It's called the MÖRK BORG Album Crawl: Jam Session 2: ALBUM CRAWL ROCKS THE 80s. The idea behind this jam is that the designers would create something for the indie OSR RPG Mörk Borg that was based on a musical album from the 1980s. The … Continue reading Mörk Borg, Cyndi Lauper, and the music of the 1980s

Golgotha Mini-Review & Character Sheet

September 17, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

I just ran a quick one-shot of Golgotha, the sci-fi tomb raiding RPG by Greg Saunders. It's a fascinating little setting. I've made a fillable character sheet for it. The Game Players are teams of Scavengers who travel beyond Human Space to seek out the Golgotha - mysterious alien ruins from long-dead civilizations. There, they … Continue reading Golgotha Mini-Review & Character Sheet

Zorro RPG: Mini-Review and Character Sheets

September 10, 2021September 12, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ 3 Comments

I recently ran a one-shot of the Zorro RPG from Gallant Knight Games. It's a lot of fun, so I thought I'd post a mini-review and share some custom character sheets I've made. The Game The players will play members of Zorro's Legion, brave rebels battling injustice and tyranny in Alta California (early 1800s) The … Continue reading Zorro RPG: Mini-Review and Character Sheets

The Fighting Machines of Mars

September 2, 2021September 3, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ 3 Comments

The next issue of the Cepheus Journal, the free Cepheus Engine fanzine, is themed for "Retro-SciFi". They're currently asking for submissions by September 15th. I'm planning to write up the H.G. Wells' classic alien invasion novel The War of the Worlds. My plan is to stat up the Martians, their machines, and some adventure seeds … Continue reading The Fighting Machines of Mars

Buffalo Commons: Park Rangers in Zeppelins

August 31, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

There's a game jam that's going to end in less than a day over on itch. It's called Applied Hope: the Solarpunk & Utopias Jam. It's about creating RPG materials set in hopeful or utopian futures. I've made my entry - Buffalo Commons. It's about park rangers flying zeppelins in the skies of the Great … Continue reading Buffalo Commons: Park Rangers in Zeppelins