I recently ran a one-shot of the mostly forgotten science fantasy RPG - Nexus, the Infinite City. Nexus was published by Daedalus Games in 1994. It apparently wasn't particularly successful, and only spawned one supplement. Daedalus Games went bankrupt in 1997, but not before publishing the much more successful Feng Shui, by Robin Laws. (Laws … Continue reading Nexus: The Infinite City – some pregens for a long-dead RPG
A collection of character sheets for forgotten, obscure, or out-of-print RPGs. All free to download. Click on the sheet caption to go the original blog post and download link. Click on the image to zoom in and see the slideshow of all of the sheets. You can see a full list of my character sheets … Continue reading Character Sheets for Dead RPGs
In 1981, Kirby Lee Davis designed and self-published a small homebrew fantasy RPG - The Spawn of Fashan. It didn't sell particularly well, and was soon out-of-print. The author left the RPG scene altogether. Normally, it would be completely forgotten, but the game has developed a strange afterlife. For a long time, Spawn of Fashan … Continue reading The Spawn of Fashan: Some notes on a mostly-dead RPG and a new character sheet
People in the 80's loved ninjas. There were magazines, books, and an endless number of ninja movies. Not one was good, but most were kind of fun. There were, of course, Ninja RPGs. The best known is probably Ninjas & Superspies from Palladium Games, but there were others. In 1986, IIE Games Corps (now defunct) … Continue reading Night of the Ninja: A Character Sheet for an extremely dead RPG
I've been posting a lot of character sheets on this blog, and will mostly likely continue to do so. I've decided it would probably be useful if I bundled up some of the old ones and posted them somewhere a little more convenient for people to download. So I've taken eleven of the custom sheets … Continue reading Dead Sheets, New Games: My new bundle on itch.io
K.A.B.A.L., or Knights and Berserkers and Legendermain was a fantasy RPG by Ernest T. Hams, that was published in 1980, with a second edition in 1982. It wasn't terribly successful, and is no longer in print. No legal PDF versions of this game were ever released. The few reviews that existed were quite poor. Here's … Continue reading K.A.B.A.L – a character sheet for another long dead RPG
In 1978, the now defunct company Heritage Models released a line of Star Trek miniatures. To go along with them, they also released Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier - the first licensed RPG for Star Trek. This was a year before the first movie, and a decade before TNG, so it was … Continue reading Character Sheet for the 1978 Star Trek RPG
As a request, I've created fillable character sheets for the first edition of Boot Hill, the old west RPG from TSR. It was published in 1975, and was a little closer to a miniatures wargame than a RPG, but did have some basic advancement and campaigning rules. I've made a couple of different versions. One … Continue reading Boot Hill 1st Edition – Fillable Character sheet
The Price of Freedom was a Red Dawn-inspired RPG from West End Games in which the players are guerillas in a Soviet-occupied 1980's America. It didn't do very well, and as far as I know, is not available (legally) as a PDF. I wasn't really a big fan of it, but I have wasted a … Continue reading The Price of Freedom – Fillable character sheet for yet another dead RPG
I've been playing with TSR's old Star Frontiers game from the 80s. It's one of those old games I've been meaning to try for years. To prepare for running it, I've made my own fillable PDF version of the character sheet. It's two pages for the sheet, and a third page for a table tent. … Continue reading Star Frontiers: Fillable Character Sheets with Table Tents
Polyhedral Nonsense 