I recently ran a one-shot of Mouth Brood, a system agnostic science fiction adventure from Amanda Lee Franck. It's difficult to find in print, which is unfortunate, as it's a lovely book, but it's still available in PDF format over at DriveThru. The setting for the game is a mysterious geodesic dome in a remote … Continue reading Mouth Brood: Adapting a sci-fi exploration setting to the Cepheus Engine
I've been enjoying working on Khonshu Alpha, my version of the Dungeon23 project. Dungeon23 is a project where designers make a megadungeon over the course of a year, creating one new location each day. Here's my original post on the subject. My project is called Khonshu Alpha, a post-apocalypse sci-fi dungeon set aboard a generational … Continue reading Khonshu Alpha – Monthly Update on my Dungeon23 project
Recently, Stellagama Games put out the Cepheus Deluxe Enhanced Edition, their latest version of the Cepheus Engine RPG system. Cepheus, if you've not heard of it, is an OGL version of the Traveller sci-fi RPG.There are a number of companies and small designers producing stuff for it. I make my case for it in this … Continue reading Cepheus Deluxe: A custom, colorful character sheet
Michael Brown publishes a prodigious amount of stuff for the Cepheus Engine, mostly a lot of one page adventures. My favorite works of his are his one-page setting guides, mostly based on somewhat obscure sci-fi and fantasy properties. I've posted quite a bit about my appreciation of his Omega 99 setting, based on the 1970s … Continue reading Diabolox – Urban Horror for the Cepheus Engine (with character sheet)
In a previous post on the Cepheus Engine, it was pointed out that one of the weak spots of the Cepheus Engine was its lack of detailed superpowers rules. Stellagama Games has come along with Superpowered! in an attempt to fill that gap. Note that Superpowered! uses the Quantum Engine as its base. It's a … Continue reading Superpowered! a review and character sheet
At the request of someone in the Stellagama Publishing Discord, I've made an updated version of my fillable Sword of Cepheus character sheet. (older version here) Sword of Cepheus is Stellagama Publishing's adaptation of the Cepheus Engine (open source Traveller) designed to run fantasy games. The big changes are as follows: There are now 18 … Continue reading Sword of Cepheus: Updated Character sheet
Last year I joined a itch game jam called the Pleasure-Not-Business Card Game Jam, where participants created a RPG game or supplement that would fit on a business card. For my entry I created a little sci-fi game called Planck. It's essentially a Cepheus Engine\Quantum Engine system stripped down to its bare essentials. It's designed … Continue reading Character sheet for Planck, a business card RPG
At the designer's request, I've created a fillable character sheet for Lightning League, an action/adventure pulp RPG by Robert Garitta. The players are two-fisted heroes in the pulp tradition, who are all members of the Lightning League, "an Internationalorganization of inventors, explorers and heroes", operating in the years after WWII. The default setting is the … Continue reading Lightning League: A Character Sheet for a Pulp RPG
I've been playing around with submitting an article to the Cepheus Journal about running Spaghetti Western-inspired adventures in Cepheus Engine games, specifically Independence Game's Rider. Here's one of the ideas I've been considering. Note that none of this has been playtested in any way. Anti-Hero Points It was common in many Italian westerns for the … Continue reading Anti-Hero points: a mechanic for Spaghetti Western games
I recently posted a character sheet for Warlords of Atlantis, the setting for the Barbaric! RPG from Stellagama Publishing. As I mentioned in that post, Barbaric! uses the Quantum Engine system, which is a modified version of the Cepheus Engine/Traveller sci-fi ruleset. It's designed to run adventures in a Conan-style Sword & Sorcery world. It … Continue reading Barbaric! a custom character sheet for a sword & sorcery RPG
Polyhedral Nonsense 