I recently printed out a copy of Mercator (scroll down to find it), the free supplement for Classic Traveller that allows you to run adventures in the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd AD. There are PNG files for the covers, but they're a little too low-res to print properly. So I've made my … Continue reading Mercator: A cover PDF for Traveller in Ancient Rome
I'm finishing up my submission to the Cepheus Journal, the free Cepheus Engine fanzine. The upcoming issue is centered around the theme of aliens. I decided to make some fantasy aliens inspired by the bad guys in the 1983 movie Krull (Wikipedia / YouTube Trailer) . I've previously posted about the research I did for this, and now … Continue reading The Slayers: Preview of my Cepheus Journal article
I've been working on my submission to the Cepheus Journal fanzine. My plan is to create an adaptation of the 1983 science fantasy movie Krull (Wikipedia / YouTube Trailer) for both the Sword of Cepheus & Barbaric! games. Krull itself was a fairly unsuccessful movie, creatively and financially, with some nice visuals. However, the basic … Continue reading Making RPG stuff from a mostly-forgotten film: Krull
Barbaric! There's an interesting low fantasy RPG, based on the Cepheus Engine system, called Barbaric! from Stellagama Publishing. It's a much lighter, quicker version of the whole 2d6/Cepheus/Traveller style of game. There isn't any career lifepath system and the stats have been completely replaced with a common set of seven skills. It's somewhat closer to … Continue reading Warlords of Atlantis: Character sheets for the Barbaric! setting
I recently ran a one-shot of Troika! using the Leafpunk (DrivethruRPG) setting by J. Kap. It's a great, strange little setting, full of fun ideas. Here's what it's about: A post-apocalypse world overrun with greenery, over a thousand years in the future. The ecosystem is dominated by plant life.Other than humans, there are few or … Continue reading Leafpunk: Mini-review and character sheets for a vegetational Troika! setting
I've just run a one-shot of the Troika! setting Leafpunk(itch.io link), about a plant-ridden post-apocalypse future. The session went well, but preparing it and running it has got me thinking about the Troika system in general. The players liked the setting a lot, but were a little colder about the Troika ruleset. I think they … Continue reading Some Thoughts on Troika
A collection of character sheets for forgotten, obscure, or out-of-print RPGs. All free to download. Click on the sheet caption to go the original blog post and download link. Click on the image to zoom in and see the slideshow of all of the sheets. You can see a full list of my character sheets … Continue reading Character Sheets for Dead RPGs
The old, boring CT Sheet The original Classic Traveller from 1977 had a character sheet available in the original book. It was seemingly designed to look like an actual bureaucratic form, so visually, it was pretty uninteresting. I wanted to make my own custom character sheets for Classic Traveller that are a little larger, nicer … Continue reading New Character Sheets for Classic Traveller
Polyhedral Nonsense 