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Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
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Sunday, 20 February 2022

Jihad


Perhaps a thousand years ago the A.I. awoke and started its war against humanity. Thousands of star systems were destroyed, thousands of billions were killed by its rampant destruction. Humanity waged a war of survival against the robot hordes, and died.

The "True Human" religion changed the tide. With the religious war, the Jihad, they paid in blood to beat back the robotic hordes.

Jihad is a history of humanity's war against the robots, a war so terrible that its lessons echoed through history and created a legacy that bans artificial intelligence right up to today.

Designed for the Cepheus Engine of other 2D6 based RPG systems (such as Traveller), it gives you a history that you can drop into your game, as events of the distant past or as inspiration for a campaign set during the war itself.

You can get Jihad from DriveThruRPG

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

WIPERS SALIENT

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 a physical copy from Game Crafter. 

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/wipers-salient
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.

Purchase the game from WargameVault

Here's a video of me unboxing the very first proof copy of Wipers Salient from Game Crafter...


Here are some photos of the Gamecrafter version:

Box from behind

Box from front
 
Deck and rules

 
Open rules and selection of cards


Three cards
And a how-to-play video


Saturday, 10 March 2012

Cthulhu and How I Found Livingstone

In 1871 Henry M. Stanley entered the dark and mysterious interior of Africa in search of Dr. Livingstone. Financed by Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, Stanley with no experience of Africa was charged with finding and relieving Livingstone, whatever the cost.

This brave young man, took the mission to his heart and commenced a journey that has since become a trek of living myth.

In this book you'll find the entire text of Stanley's book detailing his adventure, interspersed with 70+ footnotes and additional pictures and diagrams not in the original text, making suggestions for how this epic journey might be turned into a Role Playing campaign for those who like a taste of horror in their games.

Available as Paperback : ePUB