Strontium Dog was a long running comic series that appeared in the British comic weekly 2000 AD. The premise was that in the 22nd century, mutant humans are a hated minority in the galaxy. A handful of mutants work as bounty hunters for the Search/Destroy agency, hunting down dangerous fugitives. In 2008, Mongoose put out … Continue reading Strontium Dog: Character Sheets for the Traveller Bounty Hunter RPG
I'm a big fan of using paper miniatures for RPGs. They're cheap, can be printed in large quantities, and take up a lot less space than their plastic/metal counterparts. One of my favorite paper minis designers is David Okum. Most paper mini artists just do D&D fantasy style figures, but David does a wide variety … Continue reading Paper Cylons: cutfiles for Battlestar Galactica paper minis.
Over on itch.io, there's a game jam going con called the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam. Entrants create a RPG or RPG supplement that fits on a business card. I've created my own entry: Planck. Planck is a complete sci-fi RPG compatible with Traveller, Cepheus Engine, and other 2d6 Sci-Fi RPGs. It's free to download. I … Continue reading Planck: a micro Sci-Fi RPG on a business card
Recently I was introduced to the RPG Star Trek: Alpha Quadrant by Steven J. Ege, a hack of the Cepheus Engine set in the Star Trek universe. It's a fan work, and it's available for free here. It's an interesting, professional looking book. I recently created both a Cepheus Engine sheet and a character sheet … Continue reading Free Character Sheet for Star Trek: Alpha Quadrant/Cepheus Engine
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
There's a game jam over on itch.io about creating one-page sci-fi scenarios - the One Page Derelict Winter 2021 Jam. The creators are asked to follow these rules when creating their submissions: The scenario must be system-neutralIt has to be set in a sci-fi (or science fantasy) universeIt has to involve a abandoned structureIt can … Continue reading Nautilus of Time: Sci-Fi One Page Shipcrawl Adventure
I'm continuing my work for my entry in the itch.io game jam One Page Derelict Jam Winter 2021. The idea is to create a one-page science fiction scenario involving a derelict ship/space station/ etc. All of the entries are system neutral. My submission is going to be called the Nautilus of Time. It'll be about … Continue reading Nautilus of Time: Random Encounter table for a WIP Sci-Fi Scenario
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've been enjoying the first issue of the Cepheus Journal, a fanzine for the Cepheus Engine RPG. They've just put out their first issue. Looking forward to whatever they do next. It can be downloaded here: https://cepheusjournal.com/downloads/
I've been tinkering with my own custom character sheet for Starships & Spacemen - the OSR sci-fi game from Goblinoid Games. I've finally got it looking the way I want so I've made a fillable version Starships & Spacemen Fillable Character Sheet (PDF) Here's some old S&S stuff I made a while back: Custom GM … Continue reading Starships & Spacemen: Fillable Character Sheets
Polyhedral Nonsense 