I just got my copy of Barbarians of the Ruined Earth, a gonzo post-apocalyptic RPG using the Black Hack rules by Mike Evans. I got a chance to play this at the last Gen Con, and I'm happy to finally have the finished version. It's heavily inspired by the old Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon from … Continue reading Barbarians of the Ruined Earth: Revised character sheets
In 1981, Chaosium put out Thieves' World, a boxed set based on the series of fantasy anthologies by the same name. All of the books included stories by some of the most prominent fantasy authors of the 1980s. All of the stories were set in a shared universe, a fantasy city called Sanctuary. The Chaosium … Continue reading Thieves’ World – Savage Worlds – Part I
Scarlet Heroes (DriveThru Link) is an OSR style fantasy RPG designed for use by a GM running a session with only one player. It uses the same stats as most OSR/D&D games, but the rules are modified so that a single player is still able to survive adventures designed for full parties. The free Quickstart … Continue reading Scarlet Heroes – D&D for one player – Fillable Character Sheets
I've been playing around with Into the Light of a Setting Sun, an Old West RPG from John Davis. It's for sale on itch.io. It's a hack of Nate Treme's In the Light of a Ghost Star game. The rules are quite simple. There are three stats - Iron, Reflexes, and Wits, each determined by … Continue reading In the Light of a Setting Sun – Wild West RPG – Fillable Character Sheet
Nexus: The Infinite City was a RPG about a trans-dimensional city called Nexus that consisted of chunks of various realities. Each neighborhood in the city had its own physical laws - some were high-tech, some were magical. There were also portals to infinite numbers of other alternate realities and dimensions. Players would play Nexans, denizens … Continue reading Nexus: The Infinite City – Character Sheet for yet another dead RPG
Cyborg Commando was a RPG published in 1987 by the now-defunct game company New Infinities Productions. The setting background was that in 2035, the Earth was invaded by a alien race called the Xenoborgs (described as looking like giant dust-mites). Earth's only hope are the Cyborg Commandos - technologically enhanced humans, bristling with weapons and … Continue reading Gary Gygax’s Cyborg Commando – Fillable Character Sheet for a dead RPG
Polyhedral Nonsense 