Traveller: 1700 – A custom character sheet and some recommended Colonial American RPG books

October 15, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

At Travellercon/USA 2021 I got to play in a great session of Traveller: 1700. This is a free setting for Classic Traveller created by Greg Caires, originally published in the Freelance Traveller fanzine. It's available for download over at the Freelance Traveller site. Though designed for Classic Traveller, it's easily compatible with more modern versions, and … Continue reading Traveller: 1700 – A custom character sheet and some recommended Colonial American RPG books

Cepheus Journal #8: The Retro Issue

October 11, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

The latest issue of the Cepheus Journal was just released. It's free and worth a download. The Cepheus Journal is a fanzine by and for fans of the Cepheus Engine (basically an open source version of the Traveller RPG) The issues are generally given a theme. The theme for issue #8 is Retro Sci-Fi Some … Continue reading Cepheus Journal #8: The Retro Issue

Omega 99: Final Character Sheet

October 3, 2021October 4, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

I'll be running Omega 99 at next weekend's TravellerCon/USA. I decided to update my Omega 99 character sheets a bit from the previous versions. The only real change is that I've updated the wound tracker section, so that it cleanly displays only the check boxes needed to keep track of injuries. All of the old … Continue reading Omega 99: Final Character Sheet

Omega 99: The Artemis Spacecraft

October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

I'm continuing making content for Michael Brown's Omega 99 setting, written for the Cepheus Engine. Here's a new spacecraft design I've made for the Omega Moonbase. The Omega 99 setting is a thinly-disguised adaptation of the Space: 1999 TV show from the 1970s. Earth's moon has been mysteriously transported through space to distant part of … Continue reading Omega 99: The Artemis Spacecraft

The Fighting Machines of Mars

September 2, 2021September 3, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ 3 Comments

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

Cepheus Journal #007 – The Spy Issue

August 3, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

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

Judge Dredd for Traveller: A custom fillable character sheet

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

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

Strontium Dog: Pre-generated characters for Traveller

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

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

Rider: A character sheet for a Western RPG

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

Rider is a Old West RPG that uses the Cepheus Engine rules (basically open-source Traveller). It comes with a character sheet, but I wanted something a little more printer-friendly, so I've made a custom version. It's two pages long. It will automatically calculate the modifier values and wound tracks. I've added this to my ever-growing … Continue reading Rider: A character sheet for a Western RPG

Custom Calculations for Traveller/Cepheus PDF character sheets

June 19, 2021 ~ ng76 ~ Leave a comment

In a previous post, I discussed creating your own custom fillable RPG character sheets in PDF, including adding custom scripts to perform calculations. This post is specifically designed for those creating Traveller or Cepheus Engine character sheets. For the Traveller/Cepheus Engine sheets I've made in the past, I've created a series of JavaScript code snippets … Continue reading Custom Calculations for Traveller/Cepheus PDF character sheets