Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1972. Set in the early 2130s, the book tells the story of a 50-kilometre-long cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System.
The Väruld RPG comes to Kickstarter with a system-agnostic world core book
Screenwriter Désirée Nordlund is back on Kickstarter with an RPG that lets you pick the rules you want. Väruld is system agnostic and book one is the world book.
Audio power: A review of Embassytown by China Mieville
The novel is a must-read/must-listen for any fan of sci-fi and a great way to explore the possibilities of language and communication.
The best selling sci-fi RPGs published on DriveThruRPG in 2022
Is there a dominant publisher in sci-fi? Mongoose makes the chart six times, but fellow British publisher Modiphius manage four entries as well.
Free to Download: The 64-page Eternus sci-fi RPG Quickstart
Would you have a folder in your RPG library called The Black Orifice? Perhaps Eternus will tempt you.
Voyage to the Edge of Imagination: Doctor Who sound pioneers meet the Savage Planet
London’s Science Museum is having a night of electronica on the 7th of October.
Fainting Goat Games funds Blaster Bolts! The sci-fi story and White Star RPG content
The campaign has reached its funding goal, so we should get an anthology of stories from the 13 issues of Blaster Bolts already out, an omnibus of new rules from the same zines and that across two books.
Sci-fi tabletop RPG Stillfleet launches into success on Kickstarter
You can get the Stillfleet quickstart rules for however much money you want to pay. That’s not the usual capitalist way of doing things, but it’s not uncommon in indie RPGs.
Traveller, the iconic sci-fi RPG, is 45
MegaTraveller followed Traveller in 1978, then Traveller: The New Era in 1993 and Marc Miller’s Traveller in 1996. Since then, there have been d20 versions, GuRPs versions, Traveller5, and Mongoose Publishing released the Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022.
Dark, horrible, but fun and new! Eclipse Phase 2e bundle deal
In the game, characters belong to the secret Firewall organisation to try and protect transhumanity from biowar, nanoswarms, rogue AIs and aliens.