This month’s blog carnival from Enderra: Worldbuilding and Role-playing Games has really kicked a lot of things loose in my brain, so I thought I would share another entry for the February Carnival on the topic of Legends & Lore… Instead of a lost research station, this time it’s a cautionary tale about using too…
Enderra: Worldbuilding and Role-playing Games kicked off the February RPG Blog Carnival with a great topic: Legends & Lore. And one of the suggestions was: ” In a science fiction setting, there would be stories of lost colonies and abandoned space stations. Or maybe even legends of the fabled home world of our species!” (Check out…
Last week we touched on the idea of living forever in the future of Aliens & Asteroids. This week, I’d like to touch on the costs of living in the past through a glimpse at the world of Tattered Magicks. As you might imagine, most of human history is rife with pain. The victors may…
Immortality is one of those words thrown around like everybody knows what it means. And I know you know what it means – everybody does, right? An immortal is someone who will live forever. I think most people strive for some sort of immortality, though we don’t all call it that. In Aliens & Asteroids…
On New Years’ Day, Andrew Girdwood over at Geek Native kicked off a new RPG Blog Carnival all about random encounter tables. And one of the first things he said was that he didn’t always like them. And I can honestly kind of get that. The random tables of my youth (all 1e and 2e…
It’s been a while, but I wanted to just offer a quick “state of the universe” kind of address about the current state of Aliens & Asteroids. It’s been a busy few months! My goal for A&A in 2019 was to release six products. We came very close and released five products in the last…
Sometimes the RPG Blog Carnival presents an opportunity I can’t pass up. This month, the folks at Rising Phoenix Games are hosting and the topic is… “Adventurer, take this…” And a few things immediately sprung to mind for Aliens & Asteroids. The first thing is inspired by our current A&A referee, Kae. She has done…
What? Another supplement for Aliens & Asteroids? Yes! This time it’s an adventure written by Eric Bloat of Bloat Games — and it features techno-zombies! Check out Fate of the Solar Chaser! A new PDF adventure that features our heroes going to save the crew of a ship that has crashed on a world inside…
We just released our second supplement for for Aliens & Asteroids! Check out The Grey Men: Alien Resource Guide! A PDF supplement adding depth to the world of the Grey Men, from a one-page summary of player-facing information about them to additional details about their history, the types of Grey Men encountered, new rules for…
Science and technology in the Dominion has extended human life expectancy to well into a second century of living, but it can’t save everyone. Eventually the body and mind will give up. How do we achieve immortality then? AI Echoes Through the miracles of science and medicine, you may be able to keep your body…
