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 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
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
In the previous post, I discussed the setting I generated for Vaults of Vaarn, the science fantasy RPG. I thought it might be helpful to also post the pregen characters I provided for my players as well. These were made with the custom Vault of Vaarn charcter sheet I posted previously. vov_pregensDownload
I recently ran a one-shot of Tiny Cthulhu, the Tiny D6 Mythos horror RPG from Gallant Knight Games. It's a super-light system, quite good for one-shots. I ran the published adventure Sister of Yhanith’lei. It's about a expedition to a supposed shipwreck off the coast of Arkham. It's a short scenario, easily run in a … Continue reading Tiny Cthulhu: Pregens sheets for Sister of Yhanith’lei
I just ran a session of Street Wolves (itch.io link), the 1980s retrofuture noir setting for Savage Worlds. There's only a free jumpstart version available for now, but eventually Table Cat Games will be releasing a full sourcebook. It's got a quick explanation of the setting, some extra rules, and an adventure. It's set in … Continue reading Street Wolves: 1980s synthwave noir for Savage Worlds
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
Ran my first one-shot of Vaults of Vaarn, the OSR science fantasy RPG zine. It's set in a far future wasteland Earth, littered with the technological remains of advanced super-civilizations, under a dying red sun. It's very much in the tradition of the Dying Earth sub-genre. It's sort of Numenera mixed with Gamma World. It … Continue reading Vaults of Vaarn – Fillable Character Sheet & Pregens
I just ran a one-shot of The Nautilus of Time, a procedurally generated starship crawl I created for the One Page Derelict Jam Winter 2021. The players went four levels deep before fleeing for their lives. Only half of them winked out of existence when they tried to bring their alternate time-selves with them. The … Continue reading Nautilus of Time for Cepheus Quantum: Pregens & Monster Stats
I recently ran a one-shot of Tiny Living Dead, the Tiny D6 RPG from Gallant Knight Games. Half the party died.Here are the pregens I used, created with my custom TLD character sheet: tinylivingdead_pregensDownload A cheat sheet of the basic Tiny D6 rules for each player: tinylivingdead_cheatsheetDownload Here's the scenario I used - it's a … Continue reading It’s All Happening at the Zoo – A Tiny Living Dead scenario with Pregens
Polyhedral Nonsense 