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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Free RPG - Mini Six: Bare Bones Edition (Open d6)




I enjoyed the West End Games version of Star Wars decades ago. The inheritor of the mantle was the D6 System, which years later became an Open D6 System under the OGL.

Mini Six: Bare Bones Edition distills the Open D6 System into a mere 36-page document. All for the price of FREE!
Mini Six is a slimmed-down version of the original OpenD6 game system. It is a multi-genre RPG that focuses on handling action-oriented games with a light-to-medium amount of "crunch." It serves as a toolkit for designing your own games and has been used as the engine of several published games by third-parties through the use of the Open Game License.

The basic mechanics and character creation are covered in the first few pages. Stock NPCs, creatures, vehicles for a variety of genres, a simple magic system, optional rules, and conversion guidelines for mixing in standard OpenD6 materials round out the middle of the book.

Mini Six Bare Bones Edition finishes with five nearly ready to play mini-settings which showcase some of the possibilities of the system.
  • Perdition: Space Cowboys surviving on the edge of the frontier.
  • Rust Moon of Castia: Classic Fantasy
  • Farnsley's Phantasm Investigations: Spook hunting in the Victorian Age.
  • Precinct '77: Busting punks in an homage to 70's and 80's cop shows.
  • Imperium in Revolt: Rebels against the Imperium in classic space op

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Monday, February 10, 2025

Bundle of Holding - Leagues of Adventure

Years ago, when I looked more closely at non-OSR Indi titles, I came across the Ubiquity System. To my eyes, it seemed like an even easier Savage Worlds-type system. But then my eyes wandered to other games, and I lost track of Ubiquity.

Well, Leagues of Adventure is powered by Ubiquity.

Adventurer! This new Leagues of Adventure Bundle presents Leagues of Adventure, the Ubiquity-based Victorian steampunk tabletop roleplaying game from Triple Ace Games. In the Age of Exploration, a semi-fictitious 1890s right out of Sherlock Holmes and Jules Verne, globetrotting scientists, crazed inventors, and daring explorers equipped with airships, mole machines, and Weird Science gadgets venture across the world and to other planets to uncover forgotten cities and civilizations, map the wilderness, and defeat nefarious villains in bare-knuckled Victorian action. The flexible and cinematic Ubiquity rules (Hollow Earth Expedition, Space: 1889) use an easy dice-pool system that puts your player characters in the spotlight, lets them invent their own gadgets, and keeps the story moving fast. Create your own League of Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlemen!

For just US$12.95 you get all four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $55) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Leagues of Adventure Core Rules; Dramatis Personae, an array of more than 100 pre-generated characters; the Weird Science Compendium; and the Globetrotters' Guide to London.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.20, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with fifteen more titles worth an additional $87, including The Great Campaign and the lunar adventure Tides of War (the "Black Editions" free of AI-generated art); Letters From the Leagues Vol. 1, V2, V3, and V4; and nine Globetrotters' Guides: Expeditions, Unusual Places, The Ancient World, The Old World, The New World, Cads & Cultists, the Cads Appendix, Dramatic Developments, and Miscellanea.


 

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Sunday, February 9, 2025

Deal of the Day - Atomic Punk 2240


Looking for a Fallout RPG with the serial numbers scratched off from an OSR game designer who avoids using an OSR ruleset this time around?

Atomic Punk 2240 may just be up your alley. It's today's deal of the day, and it's marked down to 8.99 until tomorrow morning.

Atomic Punk 2240 is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game set in an alternate future where, in the 1990s, the nuclear holocaust occurred. The wasteland is full of gangs, raiders, mutants, power-hungry factions, and the player characters themselves, who may or may not be any number of these types.

Atomic Punk 2240 is a 2d10 system where, generally, there is a target number of 11. All rolls are modified by difficulty modifiers, weapon and armor match-ups (references on a weapon vs armor table), and other factors.


 

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