I just ran a one-shot of FIST, and wanted to share some thoughts, pregens, and a custom character sheet. FIST (Freelance Infintry Strike Team) is a very simple but fun paranormal action/adventure game written by B. Everett Dutton & Ripley Caldwell. The setting is intentionally left vague; it's set during the "second half of the … Continue reading FIST – some notes, a character sheet, and some pregens
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
I've been preparing for a one-shot of Nuked! (Itch), a little post-apocalypse RPG that uses the Knave (DTRPG | Itch) ruleset. It's fairly simple OSR style game, where you try to roll low on a d20 and get below your stats. It didn't include a character sheet PDF, so I've taken the character sheet from … Continue reading Nuked! – Character sheets for the post-apocalyptic Knave hack.
I just ran a one shot of Mothership (DriveThru - Itch), the sci-fi horror game. For the game I used Desert Moon of Karth (DriveThru - Itch), the Mothership setting by Joel Hines. It's a lovely little setting. Karth is a barren little moon, only accessible by orbital elevator. The metaplot revolves around a gold … Continue reading Desert Moon of Karth: A custom character sheet for a Mothership setting
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
Just finished up a one-shot of Riverbend (Itch | Exalted Funeral), a fantasy fishing RPG from Gustavo Tertoleone and Victor Amorim. It's a charming, rules-light little fantasy setting. Highly recommended. Players are "Villagers", who travel down a river basin, exploring, battling abominations, and most importantly - fishing. It's basically a pointcrawl set on a randomly … Continue reading Riverbend: A mini-review, sample setting, and character sheet for a fantasy fishing 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
Polyhedral Nonsense 