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RPG designer John-Matthew DeFoggi on how a time jump can serve your players and setting

November 26, 2022 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

J-M DeFoggi has written and developed for Shadowcraft, 13th Age, and Torg Eternity. Osprey Games published his Jackals: Bronze Age Fantasy Roleplaying and subsequent campaign and lore books, and he is now the Lead Developer at Strange Owl Games.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: john-matthew defoggi, rpg tips, space 1889, Space 1889: After, strange owl games

Space 1889 aims for a new iteration of the iconic steampunk RPG and it is set a decade After

November 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Space 1889 appeared at the dawn of the steampunk movement. The boilerplate hulls of aerial gunboats and the hardy ethernauts who braved the dark reaches of space developed in parallel with the aesthetic so many know and love.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, empyrean system, kickstarters, space 1889, Space 1889: After, strange owl games

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #16

October 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s October and all of a sudden everyone is talking about Halloween. The horror and supernaturally themed Kickstarters are appearing, GMs are plotting scary scenarios, and web hosts are breeding an army of mutant bandwidth bills that feed on blogger blood. The start of the month also means a new RPG Publisher Spotlight poll for […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, astral tabletop, blue rose, Chaosium, dinosaurs, Dungeons & Dragons, feast of legends, gamesfest, Green Ronin Publishing, hero lab, lex arcana, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, quality games, routinely itemised, space 1889, stargate, Ulisses North America, wizards of the coast, wizkids

Ulisses North America acquires Space: 1889

September 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Creator, Frank Chadwick, is on board with the deal too

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: clockwork publishing, frank chadwick, game designers workshop, space 1889, Ulisses North America

Genre Police: Taking Up Space?

June 4, 2018 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

Okay….this is gonna be a difficult one. It’s gonna really be a column about how we can’t do a column that turns into a column. We’re going to look at how we look at science fiction, how historically it has evolved and how that isnt’ helpful to us. We might even learn something about games […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien, Ayya Saparniyazova, Danil Shunkov, dead space, dune, Eclipse Phase, Farscape, genre police, John Carter of Mars, sci-fi, serenity, space 1889, star trek, star wars, stargate, transhuman space, warhammer 40k

Will Space 1889 see a new English edition?

July 17, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Space: 1889 dates back to 1988 when it was published by Game Designers Workshop. It’s a steampunk RPG set in a world that might have been created by Jules Verne or H.G. Wells. Right now – the Germans have it. [Support this Campaign] Uhrwek Verlag (Clockwork Publishing) is one of the larger German games publishers […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Angus Abranson, Chronicle City, clockwork publishing, kickstarters, space 1889, steampunk, Uhrwek Verlag

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