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Completely New RPG System

By The Illustrator  |  2011/08/10 22:05 Posted in GIMP, GURPS Space, Illustration, Role-Playing Games  |  Comments (0)

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The new role-playing game is ready for release and it is a generic system that nevertheless comes with a huge range of settings, all tied together by a time traveling/ alternate histories theme. It is a very ambitious project and it will be a project that will be undergoing constant revision for a long time to come.

The new game is selling for a rock bottom price for 76 pages right now, but the price of the PDF will go up as work is done on the rules, background and art for this new concept in generic game systems, so it’s a great time to get in on the ground floor.

The PDF is available from
rpg drivethru game button link

RPG Drivethru provides a download link that is automatically updated as the newer versions of the game are released.

primeval monster

The conceit of the game is that characters will be recruited from across the timeline of a game world from primeval barbarians, through fantasy elves, swashbuckling pirates, steampunk adventurers, modern investigators, super spies, and cyberpunk operatives, to the psionic knights of space opera. All recruited by an enigmatic group of Temporal Guardians and all working together on the same team, ready to be deployed to any point in the history of the setting’s main planet, or the entire galaxy.

from swamps to stars and spaceships

Each type of character from each point in game time will bring a different mix of skills and experiences, and weapons and armor to make for hugely varied adventuring.

New Sci-Fi RPG Extreme Future goes live at DriveThruRPG

By The Illustrator  |  2011/05/09 19:41 Posted in GURPS Space, GURPS Space, Illustration, Role-Playing Games  |  Comments (0)

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My latest project has just gone live at DriveThruRPG – a giant tabletop role-playing game site. It’s based on the FATE system, and I’ve used that basis to write the role-playing game I’ve always wanted to play. I’ve also filled the book full of my role-playing game illustrations.

It’s a simple system, but surprisingly subtle and sophisticated. If you can describe the spaceship or person you want to be or fly in the game, them the rules allow you to design the stats for it, and these can be as complex as desired, but can also be quite simple, for less important characters and equipment.

my rpg site page

My page at the RPG site!

It’s a game set in a distant future, when the history of the human race is shrouded in mystery. We have explored across the galaxy, and have found that we share it with innumerable other stellar civilizations – to make a very rich game background indeed. There are also robots and spaceships, alien ruins and planets of adventure.

It lends itself very well to being a generic background supplement, if you are already committed to a tabletop science fiction role-playing game system – like Traveller, GURPS Space, Eclipse Phase or whatever. It’s a far future game, in the golden-age space opera style, with floating cities, strange mental powers, and buckets and buckets of aliens.

There is a preview at the DriveThruRPG site, where you can click the corners to flip through the book, so go take a look. The Starbright – Extreme Future – tabletop sci-fi role-playing game page. Happy role playing, sci-fi gamers!

New tabletop sci-fi RPG resource to feature my illustrations.

By The Illustrator  |  2011/04/28 18:07 Posted in GIMP, Graphics Tablet, GURPS Space, GURPS Space, Illustration, Role-Playing Games  |  Comments (0)
rpg supplement at drivethru

The supplement on sale at DriveThruRPG.com.

 

I was recently approached to use some of my illustrations in the latest supplement from Draken Games. I was very happy to provide some illustrations, and most pleased to see the quality of the supplement when it was released. One of the problems with sci-fi role-playing games is that, unless they are copying a fictional setting such as Star Wars or Battle Star Galactica, it is very rare that the basic game includes much in the way of detail about the planets and equipment to be found in the game universe. Most games need to be fleshed out with packs of ready-made background colour – and Distant Vistas does this well.

Distant Vistas is a game resource in the style of the glossy hardback sci-fi books that we remember from our childhood days, telling of ‘future histories’ and featuring page after page of gorgeous airbrushed art work. It is science fiction told as fact, with plenty of illustrations thrown in the mix. The Sector described is far too large to describe in full – rather, Distant Vistas gives a flavour of it, with selected planets, cities, alien species, weapons and spacecraft described in detail… not to mention sports, culture, politics, religion and useful gadgets!

It is a resource full of information, ready to be easily slotted into an ongoing sci-fi tabletop role-playing game, or form the basis for a new game. It was a pleasure to be involved in a small way with its creation.