Tag Archives: SF RPGs

Knights of the Hidden Sun: Inspired by Star Wars Done Right

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Chris Challice

It started with a Star Wars game. I loved the old West End version of the RPG but had always run and never played. I was ecstatic when I found a handmade poster in my LGS requesting players for a…

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Knights of the Hidden Sun: Chapter One Developed

Posted on December 15, 2009 by admin

You are floating among blue clouds. The Archon Bureau of Records sigil appears.

Bureau Announcer: This is a thought construct from your Bureau of Records. To receive a balanced, accurate dream of the following report please clear your mind. Thought…

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Suicide is Painless

Posted on September 15, 2009 by admin

I normally don’t talk about my house game here, but on my personal journal. Indigo uses a heavily hacked version of Adventure! set on a Dyson Sphere.  The protagonists are posthuman members of the Fleet Syndicate: the exploration branch…

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What I Did At Gencon – and What I’m Doing at Fan Expo!

Posted on August 26, 2009 by admin

Actually, I didn’t go to Gencon! I did on the other hand have some presence there through my work.

Geist: The Sin-Eaters

I wrote the (unfortunately, somewhat version-dated, compared to post-playtest revisions) krewe rules and I hashed out their role…

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Knights of the Hidden Sun Development: Introduction Done

Posted on July 18, 2009 by admin

Donnel tripped halfway back to the wagon. It was a lance, half shattered, cast aside like a broken toy. When he glanced back up, he saw corpses strewn about as if they’d been dashed against the earth by an angry…

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Interesting

Posted on September 10, 2006 by admin

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=285006

Things to note:

1) In terms of development, this takes RPGs into where SF was in the 1970s. This is an absolutely accurate description, because the thread feels like, “What if the World of Darkness was a Joanna Russ…

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