Tag Archives: science fiction

Drifting is the latest art challenge from Illustration Friday, so here’s my art.

This is the raw trueSpace render which I later worked on to produce the Grey Angel, one of the many spaceship designs I have produced for science fiction RPGs. The final version of this spaceship has a lot more detail, but this raw render from the 3D mesh has a haunting quality which really speaks [...]

Sci Fi author responsible for Battlestar Galactica offers free online writing course, and some free eBooks (but are they any good).

Jeffrey A. Carver always posts his latest science fiction novels on his website to download for free, although they are real books and will be published in the print medium too, and that’s brought him to my attention. I’m always searching for free sci-fi eBooks you see. It turns out that this author also offers [...]

Sci-Fi RPG resources site gets a make over

Today sees the unveiling of the new look for this Sci-Fi RPG resources site. This site contains spaceships, maps, planet profiles, NPCs, deckplans, monsters and equipment for science fiction role-playing games, and includes the information needed to use them with Traveller. The previous pink color scheme with pretty stars didn’t really express that and has [...]

JJ`s Star Trek, great movie, no good for RPG inspiration though, and the Enterprise looked short and fat

  I loved the new Star Trek movie as an entertainment and as a spectacle, but not as RPG inspiration. As a long time sci-fi nerd and science fiction role-playing games aficionado I was a little hesitant about seeing a JJ Abram’s Star Trek, he often does dark and brooding rather than the whiz-bang and [...]

Blender is great for creating spaceships, and easier to use than expected

I’ve been playing with Blender the free 3D software for a couple of days now, off and on – mostly off, I had to clear out a shed and there has been a lot of work at my day job – but I think I’m already getting to grips with it. My experience playing with [...]

More role-playing game related robo-fun

My new 3D mesh droid model for Traveller the science fiction role-playing game is slowly taking shape, and it is going to make a nice illustration when it’s done. I’m also well on the way with the background detail that will give life to this role-playing game item of equipment (or even NPC). Here is [...]

Sci-Fi Book Worm, looking for – and finding – inspirational SF for role-playing games like Traveller

Sci-Fi bookworm column, with cool robobookworm illustration. A Sci-Fi Ezine, wow.  My thoughts on the free science fiction inspiration I find dotted around the interweb is proving popular(ish) and I have promoted it to being a regular part of the Starbright mix of stuff for use as inspiration, illustration and resources for role-playing games. My [...]

3D droid illustration for science fiction role-playing games like Traveller, progress report

  This 3D droid illustration for science fiction role-playing games has started to look less like a lifeless sculpture, in fact it has started to run. As you can see from the previous two posts, which both have previous iterations of this 3D droid design, there has been a lot of progress – but there [...]

Conclusion of my science fiction short story eBook

  The Outrider A Scrimshaw story which can be used as inspiration for science fiction role-playing games such as Traveller Part Five (the final part)…the story’s start is in this post “You may talk to me directly.” He said. “Thank you. The planetary administration intelligence you have been serving does not deserve your loyalty. It [...]

New Traveller the role-playing game resources at Starbright

Here at Starbright we’ve added more Traveller role-playing game resources – actually it’s just me but this way it sounds much more like a proper company and not some nerdy Sci Fi fan. Just today I’ve added a new robot for the Traveller RPG and a new planet game setting. The robot is a useful [...]