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 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!
