Sci-Fi RPGs

These 26 essays from today’s top designers will make your homebrew adventures even better! With instructive commentary supported by example encounters, flowcharts, and GM aids, you have everything you need to become an incredible adventure writer and game master!

Includes essays from industry legends Michael Curtis, Kelsey Dionne, Matt Forbeck, Jerry Grayson, Ed Greenwood, Luke Gygax, Kenneth Hite, Steve Jackson, Brendan LaSalle, Robin D. Laws, Mike Mearls, Shawn Merwin, Phillip Reed, Sean K. Reynolds, Steve Winter and Harley Stroh.

Plus, essays from renowned designers like Martin Buinicki, Chris Doyle, Taylor S. Hoch, Jon Hodgson, Alex Kammer, Rick Maffei, Jean Rabe, James M. Spahn, Bryan C.P. Steele, and Wally DM.

PULSE CONFIRMED. ENTITY ENERGIZED. REMEMBER: KEEP YOUR OMNIBATTERIES CHARGED AND YOUR HAZEMETER AT THE READY.

Revel in the return The Ultraviolent Grasslands with the highly anticipated UVG 2E, now dazzling with fresh cover art that teases countless otherworldly adventures. This epic journey has expanded - from the previous 200 pages to a robust 250, infused with larger and more evocative art to enliven your psychedelic metal quests. "Fair hero, the end, the end alone awaits all travelers and at the end...was the journey all in vain? All journeys end in vanity. In vanity." - Mused the Grand Observer at the end of time. Welcome to The Ultraviolet Grasslands , the roleplaying game of heroes on a strange trip through mythic steppes in search of lost time, broken space, and deep riffs.

The Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City is a tabletop role-playing game book, half setting, half adventure, and half epic trip; inspired by psychedelic heavy metal, the Dying Earth genre, and classic Oregon Trail games. It leads a group of ‘heroes’ into the depths of a vast and mythic steppe filled with the detritus of time and space and fuzzy riffs. What's new in 2E? Expanded content from 200 pages to 252 pages. Streamlined character rules make for smoother gameplay, while an expanded array of caravan options, vehicles, and equipment lets you equip your party for any eventuality. A brand-new bestiary section offers a menagerie of friends and foes to encounter, and revamped spells give you more magical tactics to explore.

Fancy a companion on your epic journey? Choose from a table of 50 adorable pets. To keep you organized, there are revamped character and caravan sheets. And, to fuel your wanderlust, there's an expanded map featuring the whole Circle Sea region. But the crowning glory? It's in hardcover again - and it's bursting with more pictures! Embrace the art, savor the stories, and visit the Vast Lands with UVG 2E. The Team: The UVG is the work of the designer, artist, and writer Luka Rejec and was made possible through the generous support of hundreds of discerning fans at the Stratometaship patreon.

The Szandite Collective is a peaceful federation of worlds connected by magical crystals. When planet Krethiskar fell silent, the galaxy’s worst fears came true.

The destructive Swarm had annihilated Krethiskar’s defenses and transformed the world into an incubator for future generations of hive-mind-controlled shock troops.

This time, the Swarm isn’t simply annihilating everything in their path—they might just be converting their conquests into terrifying new weapons!

This 144-page hardcover adventure includes a complete Starfinder campaign for characters of levels 6–10.

The book also includes a stellar rules appendix that offers new playable ancestries, magic items, and monsters designed to deploy into your Starfinder Second Edition game!

Cypher is the popular, award-winning RPG system for the fun, fast-paced campaigns just itching to burst from your imagination and onto your game table. It’s fast, flexible, and incredibly easy on the GM. Players love their vivid, memorable characters that are easy to build, fun to play, and never bogged down in needlessly complex mechanics. GMs love running fun, fast-paced adventures and campaigns that bring their worlds to life without having to kludge the rules to make them fit. Bring any campaign or adventure to life with minimal prep. Build characters you love. Enjoy fast-paced, fun play that delivers the story you want to make happen with the new edition of Cypher!

♦ Built from the ground up to be super easy to GM. Ditch all that work and let your imagination take your game to fun, cool places!

♦ Amazingly fast to jump into. Build a detailed character in minutes.

♦ Awesome suite of free online tools for players and GMs.

♦ Classic fantasy. Sci-fi. Post-apocalyptic. Whatever you can imagine, Cypher runs it—easily and with no kludging!

♦ Exiting Cypher System books are mostly compatible.

♦ Cypher Character Rulebook is the key title. It contains all the core game rules, plus everything for making characters

“WE ARE THE FURY OF THE STORM AND THE PITILESS WRATH OF ENDLESS WINTER.”

The Space Wolves are Space Marines like no other. Hailing from the frozen death world of Fenris, they hold to the tribal traditions of their home, going to battle adorned in shamanic totems and runic script. Their Great Companies journey tirelessly across the Sea of Stars, seeking adventure and glory, and hoping to honour their oaths to defend the Imperium. Savage by nature, the Space Wolves fight with bestial fury and lupine cunning.

Sons of Russ is packed with everything you need to begin your adventures as one of the Space Wolves in Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Wrath & Glory, including: 

“WE ARE THE FURY OF THE STORM AND THE PITILESS WRATH OF ENDLESS WINTER.”

The Space Wolves are Space Marines like no other. Hailing from the frozen death world of Fenris, they hold to the tribal traditions of their home, going to battle adorned in shamanic totems and runic script. Their Great Companies journey tirelessly across the Sea of Stars, seeking adventure and glory, and hoping to honour their oaths to defend the Imperium. Savage by nature, the Space Wolves fight with bestial fury and lupine cunning.

Sons of Russ is packed with everything you need to begin your adventures as one of the Space Wolves in Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Wrath & Glory, including: 

As you gaze into the cards, she drifts into view: a woman, lovelorn and distraught. She is here, laying in bed, wondering why to get up in the morning after a breakup that shook her to the very core. Devastated, she's unsure where to turn next. Maybe she'll text her ex. She could adopt a dog. Maybe she should cut her bangs.

Her name is Starlee Davidson.

Starlee Davidson is a polymorph game of Tarot, Motorcycles, and Self Healing. A no prep TTRPG, the cards lead the story for The Oracle and the players as they take on different roles in a psychedelic explosion of mystery, mysticism, and motorbikes.

A road trip on the verge of reality. The Electric State Roleplaying Game is based on the narrative art book The Electric State by acclaimed visual artist and author Simon Stålenhag, which is being adapted into a major motion picture by the Russo brothers (Avengers: Endgame), starring Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) and Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy).

This is a game about a group of travelers heading out on a journey through a strange America in an alternate 1997. The ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline.

The game is not about the goal but the journey – what the characters experience along the way and how it changes them. This is a game of exploration, of finding out who you are, who your friends are, and what you are willing to do when the world collapses around you.

Features:

• Based on the narrative art book The Electric State, which is being adapted into a major motion picture by the Russo brothers (Avengers: Endgame), starring Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) and Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy).
• Full-color hardback volume with dozens of by acclaimed visual artist Simon Stålenhag.
• Includes a large separate printed map (size 558x432mm) of Pacifica, the setting for the game.
• This tabletop RPG uses Free League’s Year Zero Engine, known from award-winning games such as Mutant: Year Zero, Tales From the Loop RPG, ALIEN RPG, and the Blade Runner RPG.

Often forgotten or simply ignored by society, the streets are changing. The Effects of the Disian Shadow War created massive power vacuums on the Sixth World's streets. No one escaped unscathed, from the largest syndicates to the lowliest street gangs. And nowhere is this being felt most than Motor City. As old factions battle for power and survival as new ones are born of the shadows and violence, now is the time to establish who reigns in the urban jungles of steel and concrete. Those with the force of will and sheer guts will either forge their own destiny of end up as just another body going cold in the gutter. Which one are you? 

Asphalt Jungles is a campaign book for Shadowrun, Sixth World.