I've always been fascinated with Michael Brown's Cepheus Engine setting Omega 99. It's heavily based on the old ITV show Space 1999. Honestly, I didn't think the original TV show was particularly good, but the fun 1970s style of it, and Brown's very interesting gameable take on the source material continue to intrigue me. Here's … Continue reading Further Thoughts on Omega 99
I run a weekly one-shot RPG group. Obviously, in this, the Year of the Mask - they were mostly online. I threw together a quick list of every game I ran this year in rough chronological order. This list is more for my reference, than of any use to anyone else. If you've seen my … Continue reading Every RPG I ran in 2020
I've been continuing my work on The Shabby Land - my post-apocalypse hexcrawl for Cepheus Atom. I've been maxing my own custom hex icons. Here's the current map for the players:
Here's the second post on the town of Felicity, my spaghetti western influenced setting for In the Light of the Setting Sun, the wild west indie RPG from Jon Davis. This has a list of notable townsfolk. I've listed stats for all the major characters, occasional quotes by and about each person that can be … Continue reading Felicity Part II: The Townsfolk of Felicity
I finally ran my first one-shot of In the Light of the Setting Sun, the wild west indie RPG from Jon Davis. Here's the notes for the town I created for the setting. I used it as a sandbox game the players could bounce around in. This post will list notable town locations. Future posts … Continue reading Felicity: A town setting for the Wild West game In the Light of The Setting Sun
This is the sixth in my series of capsule reviews of non-fiction books from my library that would be useful or inspiring in RPGs – Weird Books for Gamers This is a 1978 book that purports to be an expose of psychic and parapsychological research in the Soviet Union. The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries by … Continue reading Weird Books for Gamers VI: The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries by Henry Gris and William Dick
Terra Incognita is a RPG about a secret society of science-heroes called NAGS - the National Archæological, Geographic, and Submarine Society. They travel the world solving mysteries, discovering artifacts, and having adventures. It's based on the FUDGE system. It's currently on sale at the Bundle of Holding site for the next few days. - FUDGE … Continue reading Terra Incognita: Fillable Character Sheet
Operation Unfathomable is a super-fun, gonzo OSR underground wilderness crawl by Jason Sholtis. I've run it a few times using the Black Hack OSR rules set. The book comes with ten pregenerated characters for Swords & Wizardry and other old-school D&D-style RPG. To make it easier for myself, I took the characters and converted them … Continue reading Operation Unfathomable: Black Hack Pregens
This is the fifth in my series of capsule reviews of non-fiction books that would be useful or inspiring in RPGs – Weird Books for Gamers This 1979 book is pretty simple. It's a collection of over 100 black & white maps of fictional worlds from various fictional works. There's a short description for each. … Continue reading Weird Books for Gamers V: An Atlas of Fantasy by J.B. Post
As part of the 2020 Bookmark Jam over on itch.io, where people are designing games that fit entirely on a bookmark, I've added my own contribution. I've made a game called Angry Fan vs. Genre Show A two player GM-less tabletop RPG designed to replicate the relationship between a genre TV show and its fanbase. … Continue reading Angry Fan vs. Genre Show – my free Bookmark RPG at itch.io
