#sci fi role play

[ohfiveeight]

One girl (Number 058) engineered her own intelligence network at school to spy on the teachers!

Petty Officer First Class Linda-058.

SELECTIVE AND MUTUALS ONLY, COMMS BY MOTHRA

#OHFIVEEIGHT

[kingoflesserminormages]

heyyy im back sorry one of my assistants caught fire and i had to extinguish them and woah whats that

*they seem to have appeared next to you*

* @the-mighty-dalob @goblin-wizard-in-the-making @regina-the-sorceress you all see as a wizard… made of shadows emerge from the corner of the room. Somthing truly bizarre and other worldly*

“Oh! So-o-o-o-o this is magic!… it’s truly is real… yes now I must be taught it! Yes… with magic-c-c-c…”

*the supplier is lost in thought*

[oldschoolfrp]

I think we can fit one more gun on there (Kevin Long illustration from ad for Robotech the Role-Playing Game and supplements by Palladium Books, in Dragon magazine 135, July 1988)

[chrisairgames]

When in Rome

Right, so I write for Mothership RPG, yeah?

It was basically a professional obligation for me to go see Alien: Romulus on its opening weekend.

Short review: Cool. Though I wish directors would make a new alien horror movie instead of new Alien movies.

Lemme tell ya, I might have designer brain disease, but this movie really is a series of problems for a sci-fi adventure, haha. My favorite thing about this movie was the smart, player-skill level problem solving the characters came up with. I was actually impressed. The film made me want to put my friends through the same ringer, and write up a similar scenario.

So I did.

When in Rome is a 20pg Mothership RPG adventure module with two player handouts, obviously heavily inspired by Alien: Romulus. I started last weekend, and released it yesterday. (What’s wrong with me, right?). That is: writing, playtesting, Mothership 3pp approval, peer review (thanks Josh Domanski, Christian Sorrell, Iko and Allen Hall!), hiring Brandon Yu “Chaoclypse” for the sick art, revising and putting into layout.

So yeah, this module is basically an adaptation of the film, but it does have some very notable (read: legally distinct) differences.

It's free for the next five hours, and I would love to hear what you think, and how your PCs fare on Caesar/Augustus.

Click here to download the module on itch.io. Note that I’m still working on the plaintext file and VTT asset updates. I would love to hear what you think, and how your players’ crews fare on Caesar/Augustus.

Good luck.

[shadefish]

Fire Team Wyrm or "The Worms"

my players team from the Solstice Rain game I am running!

check out these cool links for me <3

[rapid-artwork]

Happy 2025. I haven't posted much digital art this year, since I have been working in a lot of physical media for larger projects.

In 2024 I started practicing how to make tabletop miniatures out of paper. And I began work on a Gundam/Armored Core inspired table top game where you pilot mechas and work to fight various sci-fi enemies as a team.

I think I got pretty good at it too. Everything in the photos is made out of cardstock and super glue. (And a few paper clips and painted tin foil.)

I also have a collections of close ups I took of the little environmental details that I'll link to once I post them.

It's been a lot of fun and a lot of failure but I really enjoyed working on it.

Close up details: part 1

[markerslinger]

Hello everybody!

I'm Markerslinger! I'm a Filipino American Illustrator and I illustrate monsters, tabletop rpg stuff, weird diagrams, and things to do about ufos and high strangeness!

Dm me for commissions and if you are interested in adding a little flair of commercial strangeness to your next project!

You can see more here on my site too of my work!

-M

[franciscolemos]

Another android

[gammaknights]

Are you into Gamma World and post-apocalyptic fantasy? Join our Tumblr Community!

[the-martion]

Hello… can some one point us in the direction of a store?

%-they look around nervously, almost as if they are unsure of themselves-%

[fictionadventurer]

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[judgeitbyitscover]

Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb

Cover art by Jeff Easley

Windwalker / TSR, February 1987

Even before the unscheduled murder of the world's most detestable cult author, Rubicon was destined to go down in fen history as the most outrageous fantasy convention ever. The great chronicler of the fantasy adventures of the noble Viking warrior, Tratyn Runewind, was suddenly no more. Appin dungannon was dead - a bullet through his hear and a spilled bottle of scotch at his side. Who hated him enough to kill him? The answer: Practically everyone.

James Owens Mega, creator of that deathless tome, Bimbos of the Death Sun, dons the roll of Dungeon Master, and solves this uproarious whodunit in the ultimate role-playing game climax.

[kingoflesserminormages]

[oldschoolfrp]

Albedo is the roleplaying game of furries in a crunchy '80s military sci-fi future setting, based on Steve Gallacci's story "Erma Felna: EDF" from his comic Albedo Anthropomorphics (Thoughts & Images, 1988). Gallacci was a technical illustrator for the US Air Force, so you get both "funny animal" comic art and detailed equipment diagrams:

[chrisairgames]

Who's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Scoundrel?

So I'm a massive sf-lit nerd, and I'd love to dig into y'all's favorite sci-fi scoundrels! I'll start with perhaps the 2nd most obvious: Mal Reynolds from Firefly.

I recently learned that the show was directly inspired by Classic Traveller! You can read "the evidence" on Sci-Fi Stack Exchange, here.

So what is this all about?

Not Enough Scoundrels. My new Mothership RPG supplement of smugglers, space truckers and the space ships they live and die by.

Launching for Mothership Month.

This zine contains a framework for a space trucker campaign featuring a simple spacecrawl procedure that's totally compatible with the Shipbreaker's Toolkit.

For each Fuel spent, roll for a 1d100 Void Event.

Upon arrival a space station, roll for a 1d100 Trade Event.

If relevant, make a Trade Save and roll on the Supply & Demand table.

Inspired by sci-fi smuggling truckers, from the Nostromo crew to Serenity, and the Bebop to the Millennium Falcon, the space trucker campaign sets up a challenge to win a massive contract that takes PCs all over the Outer Rim, meet a web of nasty 1d100 Scoundrels and carry the 1d100 Contraband that lands them in trouble.

As the campaign trucks along (har har), I'll be doing a tournament style poll between the Favorite Scoundrels that people mention here and elsewhere!

Follow along with Not Enough Scoundrels on BackerKit

[shadefish]

The SSC Grayling! a homebrew lancer frame for a client from twitter!

links that you can click to support me and my work