I'm proud to announce the release of the second volume in the Decopedia series. This book has been written for use with the role playing game Traveller.
It's designed to give the referee "drop ins" for their game. Each entry
is separate and self contained so you can take it and squeeze it into
your own game. Inside you will find, 10 planets, 10 alien animals, 10
people of interest, and 10 story seeds.
The planet descriptions
highlight cultural, political and religious elements that make the
system interesting to visit, this isn't just a string of statistics. The
animals are all designed to inspire or be a part of an interesting
encounter. the people of interest are individuals who have made a mark
on Imperial society for good or bad, and each story seed is a core idea
for generating an entire scenario.
This product was designed for use with Mongoose Traveller, but is compatible with all versions.
This book has been written for use with the role playing game Traveller. It's designed to give the referee "drop ins" for their game. Each entry is separate and self contained so you can take it and squeeze it into your own game. Inside you will find, 10 planets, 10 alien animals, 10 people of interest, and 10 story seeds.
The planet descriptions highlight cultural, political and religious elements that make the system interesting to visit, this isn't just a string of statistics. The animals are all designed to inspire or be a part of an interesting encounter. the people of interest are individuals who have made a mark on Imperial society for good or bad, and each story seed is a core idea for generating an entire scenario.
This product was designed for use with Mongoose Traveller, but is compatible with all versions.
The Experiments is a Traveller one-shot scenario for 1-5 players. Designed to be played in a single session where the PCs find themselves in a horror survival situation.
Convinced they were about to start a new life on a new world as part of the first wave of workers, they instead wake up in an underground facility on an operating table. With the lights failing, water pouring down the walls, and strange dangerous creatures coming up from below, this was not what they expected.
The WWII Pacific campaign has captured the imagination of history buffs for generations. The island hopping battles between the hearty U.S. Marines and the dauntless Japanese form the cornerstone of that fascination.
Going Ashore is a solitaire deck building game where you play the part of the Marines carrying out a series of battles as you hop from island to island. You must defeat all of the enemies on each island before you can move to the next. Clear the enemy from five islands to claim victory, any other result will re-write history as a loss for the allied forces!
Currently the game is available only as a Print-and-Play package via WargameVault.com but in the next few weeks it will also become a real tangible game you can purchase via GameCrafter.com
Example attack
This zipped up Print-and-Play package includes rules, the cards, morale tracker and turn sequence chart. The cards are presented in three ways giving you the maximum printing options. One PDF uses a larger format card, another "hobbit" sized, but you also get all of the card images in hi-res, allowing you print the cards in any way you see fit (see the readme.txt file before you print anything).
This is my second solitaire deck building game, and expands both the mechanisms and the number of cards over those that appeared in "Wipers Salient".
I've just released a little RPG/story-telling game. In this game all the PCs are brand new wizards kicked out of the wizard school with an empty spell book and a basic understanding of magic. The main feature of this game is the generation of your own spells. There is no long list of spells to pick from, but instead there is a mechanism for creating your own spells!
So you take, quill, ink, spell-book, and dagger and wander into the wild world to discover and create your own spells as you battle the forces of evil (or good if your PCs are evil, you know, a lot of wizards seem to go evil, maybe it's the magic that does it).
Here's a one-shot scenario written for playing in Disney's TRON universe. This was inspired by the animated series "TRON Uprising" and take place after Tron has imprisoned Cyrus but before he finds Beck.
In this scenario General Tesla is planning to derezz an entire city and only the PCs can stop his nefarious plan.
On the island
of Searbay mousekind has reached levels of technology undreamed of, but
the thousand enemies that have always existed and always will are still
just beyond the wall. With the invention of the Mecha Suit mousedom has a
chance to survive, and the tools to hold back the darkness of
dissolution and barbarism.
Join the Corp, become the Paw.
Mecha Mice is a story telling game of heroic mice armed with the
latest technology fighting a thousand enemies a thousand times larger
than themselves. The game is only 8 pages long and provided in standard
PDF form and in "PocketMod" PDF. You can print the PDF version on a
single sheet of paper and fold it into a pocket size booklet.
Here's another one-shot scenario I've whipped up for using FATE Core in the Judge Dredd universe. I've play tested it with three Judges and thing went very well (we only played for about 2 1/2 hours could have done with a full 3).
In this scenario a evil electrical genius with a grudge against the Judges, baits them and draws them into his underground palace of death traps. Judges will have to do some investigation and fight a series of gang bangers, all while being distracted by random street crimes.
DUNE is such a classic setting and it really hasn't been done justice in the world of RPGs, so when I decided I wanted to play a game down in the sand, it was a case of making my own...sort of. I used the FATE core rules to run a very enjoyable one-shot and the link below takes you to the scenario I played. This is a blood and water scenario, not a high brow political adventure. Sharpen your knives, and go liberate some water!
Here's another scenario for playing an RPG in the world of Judge Dredd. The title of it comes from
the latest craze to sweep through Mega City One, "Sledding", where citizens climb onto wheeled sleds and zoom down the outside of the blocks and right into trouble. I've played this successfully with three Judges using the FATE system. The scenario itself is about as generic as they come so will fit whatever system you're using for Judge Dredd.
"Hospital Corners" is a system-generic scenario for use in playing a role playing session in the universe of Judge Dredd. It's designed with a single session in mind, but with a few incidents along the way that can be dropped in to extend the session if you want.
I wrote this scenario for a game of FATE but it has no stats or figures, so it can be used in whatever system you're using to Judge Dredd.
It's a minor investigation type scenario with a planned battle towards the end. The drop-ins already mentioned can be used to spice up the mid game of things start to lag.
During WWI, Ypres was the centre of intense and sustained battles between German and Allied
Wipers Salient is a solitaire deck building game using a deck of 52 specialised cards. You have to gather your resources to maintain your Health and Morale, whilst attacking the enemy to avoid being overwhelmed.
You can buy Wipers Salient in two ways. You can but an actual deck of cards from Game Crafter, or you can purchase a digital package from Wargame Vault and print the cards yourself.
Buy the digital Print and Play files from Wargame Vault
The following details refer to the digital download files you can get from Wargame Vault
Included in this zipped up package:
The rules in PDF format.
The cards in a printable PDF.
All of the individual card images in a high resolution, so that you can print them using a card printing service (but please refer to the readme.txt file before doing so for licensing information).
forces. In the game of Wipers Salient you play the part of the Allies trying to hold back the massive forces of Germany during a series of incessant attacks.
P.A.G. Space Battles is two player wargame played with cards laid on a tabletop, each card represents one space ship or piece of terrain.
The Pink Empire and the Green Conglomerate have been at war for centuries with no end in sight. You take control of one these factions, play out your space ships onto the tabletop and seek to DESTROY the opposing force with laser cannons and manoeuvre.
Using a comic art style and an easy-to-learn system P.A.G Space Battles will appeal to the younger player, or the older player just looking for a beer and pretzel game. Games can last anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes depending of the selected scenario and the size of the forces involved.
Five scenarios are included, but you're not limited to just those games. Select your fleets, place down some terrain and battle away in the vacuum!
P.A.G. Space Battles is a print and play game. 7 page rules PDF. 1 page counter sheet PDF. 5 page ship-cards PDF (2 pages of ships, 2.5 pages of terrain, 1 page of card backs)
