Midnight Boulevard is a RPG by Michael Brown set in the world of film noir movies. It uses the Traveller/Cepheus Engine/2D6 rules system. To reflect the darkness of the noir source material, it adds the concept of scars - a randomly rolled source of turmoil in the character's life. The book doesn't have a character … Continue reading Midnight Boulevard – Film Noir with Traveller Rules – Character Sheet
Last year, Zozer Games put out Kosmos 68, a free setting for Traveller/Cepheus Engine games based on old Soviet science fiction movies. It set in a future where the the USSR still exists and has a interplanetary empire. I've made an initial version of a fillable character sheet for Kosmos 68, based on the earlier … Continue reading Kosmos 68: Soviet Sci-Fi – Character Sheet for Traveller (Beta Version)
The Imperial sorcerers of old wove dark and terrible enchantments, crafted to wage their endless war. As the millennia went on, their spells grew ever more powerful, and ever more dangerous. Most of them have been lost to time, but fortune hunters and obsessed sorcerers constantly scour the broken, ancient battlefields of the Dispute, hoping … Continue reading Sword of Cepheus: Military-Grade Black Magic
I finally got around to running my first game of Sword of Cepheus - Stellagama Games' fantasy RPG. It uses Traveller/Cepheus Engine rules. I've made my finalized version of a fillable character sheet (previous version here). It includes a table tent. Sword of Cepheus - Fillable Character Sheet (PDF) I've moved the weapon list to … Continue reading Sword of Cepheus – Character Sheet & Table Tent (Final Version)
Stellagama Games recently released The Sword of Cepheus, a new sword & sorcery game using Cepheus Engine/2d6/Traveller style rules. I've created an initial version of a PDF character sheet, including a table tent. Beta Version of Sword of Cepheus Character Sheet It's fillable, and will calculate the modifiers automatically. I'm not 100% sure I'm happy … Continue reading Sword of Cepheus: Character Sheet & Table Tent (beta version)
Over on DrivethruRPG, Michael Brown has putting put a whole series of short settings and adventures for Cepheus Engine/Traveller. They're all pretty interesting, but my favorite is the setting Omega 99. It's basically a homage to the old 1970s show Space 1999. The premise is that, sometime in the future, the Moon has mysteriously been … Continue reading Omega 99 (Traveller/Cepheus Engine): Character Sheet & Table Tent
I've just run a one shot of Hot Zone - Zozer Games' adventure for Traveller/Cepheus Engine. It's set in their retro '80s Hostile universe. It's a lot of fun, and it's inexpensive. I'd highly recommend it. For my game, I generated a number of handouts for the players, and a few tools for the GM … Continue reading Hot Zone: Player & GM handouts (Traveller/Cepheus)
Hostile is a retro-80s sci-fi setting by Zozer Games for the Traveller/Cepheus Engine RPG. The world is inspired by films like Aliens, Outland, or Moon. It has a character sheet available at Zozer Games, but I wanted to create my own version. It's fillable, two pages, and an image can be added by clicking on the … Continue reading Hostile (Traveller/Cepheus Engine) – Character Sheet – UPDATED
I've been collecting some of the various worlds and variations for Cepheus Engine, the open-source, OSR version of Traveller. In the traditional Traveller/Cepheus game the PCs travel through various solar systems like the crew of a old-time tramp steamer - picking up various jobs and having adventures. Over the years, the rule set has been … Continue reading Alternate settings for Traveller
I've been noticing a sub-genre of science fiction that's been popping up in a couple of different RPGs recently. If it has an actual name, I'm unaware of it, so I've been calling it the CRT Future. Essentially it's sci-fi influenced by the the visual aesthetic of 1980's science fiction movies, most importantly Alien & … Continue reading The CRT Future: Retro-80’s Sci-Fi
