Thursday 31 August 2023

OUT NOW! DEEP SPACE ADVENTURE #5 - 'HALT!' CRIED THE MACHINE MAN

OUT NOW!

DEEP SPACE ADVENTURE #5 - 'HALT!' CRIED THE MACHINE MAN

Huxley’s Moon is a utopia for those willing to give up a part of themselves. In exchange for their dreams being recorded, the citizens of the settlement are given luxuries beyond compare; delicacies from a hundred different worlds, the finest wines and spirits, and thousands upon thousands of forms of entertainment and activities.

But they must always surrender their dreams. When they sleep, their memories and experiences are recorded and shipped throughout the settled systems, regarded as a necessity for the less fortunate on more hostile worlds; they use the experiences, emotions and dreams of the people of Huxley’s Moon as a form of entertainment, to force the endorphins and serotonin they would otherwise barely get. This has trapped the people of Huxley’s Moon into contracts that stipulate that they can never leave the dome that protects them on the barren grey rock. They are prisoners of their own pleasure.

And then the killings began...

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Thursday 17 August 2023

PRESS RELEASE – FARSIGHT GAMES PRESENTS DEEP SPACE

 PRESS RELEASE – For immediate release

FARSIGHT GAMES PRESENTS

DEEP SPACE

A SIMPLE SPACE ADVENTURE TTRPG

United Kingdom, Earth, 17.08.2023 – Farsight Games is happy to present a new and simple science fiction action tabletop roleplaying game, DEEP SPACE.

Blast across the stars and explore the universe in this simple 4-page rules light roleplaying game. All you need is paper, pencils and a D12 or two.

100 years into our future, humanity has discovered how to harness the power of a singularity, put it into an engine and use it to hurl themselves across space to far-off worlds and star systems. The Singularity Engine helped us slip the surly bonds of Earth.

But we took our problems with us. The nations of the Earth did not unite in exploration as expected, but instead spread their ideology and petty squabbles across the stars. After the brutal Stellar War ended with a new anti-matter bomb decimating an entire planet, an arms race began... and now a new Cold War has descended on humanity.

Inspired by the book covers of science fiction novels of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, DEEP SPACE takes gaming groups into the farthest reaches of space in the year 2145 where they can play any kind of character they wish; play as traders, mercenaries, spies, scientists, whatever you wish, all against the backdrop of political and military instability as nations vie against each other in a new Cold War under the threat of anti-matter annihilation. Along with a system to design and build simple starships, star systems and everything a session will need for a fun, fast and action-packed game, the core book of DEEP SPACE alone is enough to get things going.


Using a simple D12 mechanic with a roll low below a skill level for success or a roll high in an opposed roll situation, the game is easy to learn and easier to teach. Why? Because the game is just 4 pages long!

In those four pages you get character creation, rules, starships and vehicles, NPCs, aliens, a star system generator and some ideas on how to run a game of DEEP SPACE. That’s a lot of punch for a small game!

But there’s more! Following on from the core rulebook are four adventures for an evening or two’s play, and three supplements detailing the background of the setting as well as expanded rules for starships and equipment. Each of these booklets are 2 pages long with plenty of detail and there’s more to come!

Each of these games is just 1 British Pound, and for that you get a full game system and extras that can keep you entertained for weeks, as well as provide the groundwork for groups to build their own science fiction settings and adventures.


AVAILABLE NOW FROM FARSIGHT GAMES

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/5091/Farsight-Games


Contact Farsight Games

Email: farsightgames@yahoo.co.uk


About Jonathan Hicks

Born in the historic city of Lichfield and now residing in Northampton, Jonathan Hicks has been at the gaming table since 1983, and has more than a decade of gaming articles, reviews, interviews, and designs across multiple genres under his belt.

He has been published twice by the British Science Fiction Association, designed the missions and wrote the dialogue for a mobile game of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, and has written for Arion Games, Moebius Adventures, Gallant Knight Games, Open Ended games, Serpent King Games, Osprey Games, Trollish Delver Games, Red Ruin Publishing and Fire Ruby Designs.

Twitter: @jonmarkhicks

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Thursday 10 August 2023

OUT NOW - 'Deep Space' - THE DEATH OF THE ELLIOT JONES

OUT NOW!

The second adventure for the simple space adventure TTRPG 'Deep Space' - THE DEATH OF THE ELLIOT JONES

The PCs are contacted by their Explorer representative to investigate a hulk floating in a dust cloud in the Capricorn System...



Saturday 5 August 2023

OUT NOW - DEEP SPACE - A SIMPLE SPACE ADVENTURE TTRPG

Blast across the stars and explore the universe in this simple, 4-page rules light roleplaying game. All you need is paper, pencils and a D12 or two.

100 years into our future, humanity has discovered how to harness the power of a singularity, put it into an engine and use it to hurl themselves across space to far-off worlds and star systems. The Singularity Engine helped us slip the surly bonds of Earth.

But we took our problems with us.


Includes character creation, vehicles, starships, NPCs, creatures and star system generator.

DEEP SPACE
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EXPLORING GOLF ALPHA TANGO - A DEEP SPACE ADVENTURE​

Golf Alpha Tango was recently discovered by the ship Coriolis, but it could only leave a claim satellite (which broadcasts the fact that the planet is claimed, the country that claimed it and a whole slew of legal gibberish that basically says ‘hands off!’) as it needed to withdraw due to engine damage.

In a rush to secure the new world the country of the PCs has requested them to travel to GAT and complete a preliminary 270-day survey until the Coriolis completes repairs and heads back to carry out a full two-year exploration of the world.

Can the PCs tame Golf Alpha Tango?

A 2-page module, requires 'DEEP SPACE - A SIMPLE SPACE ADVENTURE ROLEPLAYING GAME' to play

EXPLORING GOLF ALPHA TANGO

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Wednesday 2 August 2023

OUT NOW! Those Dark Places: The ED-WARD Report

OUT NOW!

Those Dark Places: The ED-WARD Report


'Look, we’ve got a weird one here and the DSSV Right Stuff is the only ship in the vicinity that can get there in a decent amount of time. There’s a research station called Greylight in the Eta Vultura system orbiting a barren red planetoid doing all kinds of secret work for Cambridge-Wallace, and it’s gone dark.

Cambridge-Wallace are eager to have a salvage ship go and collect the station. They’ve neglected to give us full details of the mission. All they’re saying is that the station doesn’t communicate any more and they want it investigated, possibly salvaged, with all pods present and no questions asked.'

'The ED-WARD Report' is an official adventure for 'Those Dark Places Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying' published by Osprey Games.