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
There's about a day left in the OSE Class Jam over on itch. It's a 72-hour game jam where everyone creates a new class for Old School Essentials. The theme is Seaside Adventures I've created an aquatic, squid-headed race-as-class called the Squidfolk. They shoot ink clouds. https://ng76.itch.io/squidfolk
As this blog cruises toward 200 posts, I thought I'd do a little tidying up. I've set up a favorites category for all the blog posts I like the best. You can access it on the menu above or using this link: https://polyhedralnonsense.com/category/favorite/ I'm using this category to keep track of all of my posts … Continue reading My Favorite Posts: a little blog housekeeping
The RPG company Mongoose had the license for the Judge Dredd comic for a few years, and released both D20 and Traveller versions. I'm sort of fond of the Traveller version. I even made a fillable version of their character sheet. I wasn't entirely happy with their version, so I decided to try making my … Continue reading WIP: Character Sheet for the Traveller version of the Judge Dredd RPG
I recently ran a one shot of Strontium Dog, the sci-fi bounty hunter game from Mongoose Games. It's based on the old 2000AD comic series. It's the older version that uses the Traveller ruleset, not the current WOIN version. For the game, I made five pre-generated characters. They're slightly modified versions of the ones in … Continue reading Strontium Dog: Pre-generated characters for Traveller
Here's a good resource for running a RPG in the 1920s. It's a collection of mug shots from 1920s Sydney. They'd make great portraits for players & PCs for Call of Cthulhu, pulp games, or any 1920s based game. Apparently, the New South Wales PD had a really great photographer back in the day. The … Continue reading Mugshots of the 1920s – Photos for CoC or Pulp games
Chaosium recently re-released Beyond the Mountains of Madness, their adventure for the 6th edition of Call of Cthulhu. They also released a player handout and character sheet pack over on their itch site. (I just learned today that Chaosium has a itch.io site). It has a custom 6th Edition character sheet specifically for use with … Continue reading Fillable version of the Beyond the Mountains of Madness character sheet for Call of Cthulhu
