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
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
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
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 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
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
I recently posted a submission for the 2021 On-Page Game Jam over on itch.io. The theme of this jam was to make a one page RPG about the concept of borders. I ended up making a game called Fiction is What We Flee. The basic concept is that players can travel into fictional worlds and … Continue reading Design Notes for a one-page RPG: Fiction is What We Flee
I'm a big fan of the the Cepheus Journal, the free RPG fanzine for the Cepheus Engine RPG system. They recently released the 7th issue. It's a got a theme of espionage. It's available for free at https://cepheusjournal.com/downloads/ It has a bunch of interesting articles: An article on the various types of spaceship doorsA new … Continue reading Cepheus Journal #007 – The Spy Issue
I'm a fan of the Mongoose adaption of Judge Dredd, the long-running British sci-fi comic. They put out two versions, a D20 version, and the version I prefer - the Traveller version. Mongoose no longer has the license to Judge Dredd, but paper copies of the book can still be found. I don't believe there's … Continue reading Judge Dredd for Traveller: A custom fillable character sheet
Just ran my first session of Knights of the Road, the fun RPG about hobo paladins battling monsters in a fantasy version of 1920s America. I'll probably write up the adventure eventually and release it, along with some pregens. When preparing for the game, I found these glossaries of hobo slang a useful resource: http://hobonickels.org/alpert04.htm … Continue reading Hobo Slang: A resource for Knights of the Road and other 1920s RPGs
