Archive for the 'Wormholes & Waystations RPG' Category

Twenty Quick Questions for your Space Opera Campaign Setting

« 3 December 2017 | 15:52 | Ponderings, Wormholes & Waystations RPG | No Comments »

  Many space opera games have a built-in or implied setting, but some don’t. The original Traveller LBBs existed before the Third Imperium, and the Frontier in Star Frontiers is at best a sketch before Zebulon’s Guide to Frontier Space. Based on the inestimable Jeff Rients’ blog article, Twenty Quick Questions for your Campaign Setting, […]



Welcome to the Waystation

« 17 November 2017 | 10:27 | Earth-Omega Setting, Five Free Cities Setting, Metagene RPG, Old School Gaming, Personal, Ponderings, Wormholes & Waystations RPG | No Comments »

To make my wife less nervous about apex predator lawyer-enabled megacorporations, my space opera game is now renamed to Wormholes & Waystations. As before, it will include appendices for kitchen-sink fantasy gaming in my Five Free Cities setting, in an appendix called Advanced Bugbears & Ballistas. It’ll also have a four-color supers setting, based on […]



The Tower of the Cackling Conjurer (W&W / AB&B Adventure)

« 11 March 2017 | 13:01 | Five Free Cities Setting, Old School Gaming, Wormholes & Waystations RPG | No Comments »

Long ago, the Fraternal Order of Cinnabar sent one of their scholars, Frabdan Wald, to investigate the crumbling ruins of the Temple of Mukram in the city of Viskan. He returned with most of his men dead, driven insane by the secrets he had seen. Now he crouches in a tower in the Trackless Forest, […]



Beneath the Ruined City of Viskan (W&W / AB&B Adventure)

« 20 February 2017 | 13:36 | Five Free Cities Setting, Old School Gaming, Wormholes & Waystations RPG | No Comments »

This is a full one-level dungeon for my Five Free Cities setting. This version of the adventure is for the Advanced Bugbears & Ballistas (AB&B) setting from my Wormholes & Waystations RPG (playtest version available here https://goo.gl/NYrsAN), but I’ve run this for Dungeon Crawl Classics with almost no changes. Click to view the map! Link to […]



Wormholes & Warpdrives

« 23 October 2016 | 14:39 | Old School Gaming, Wormholes & Waystations RPG | No Comments »

I’ve just completed the playtest version of a new space opera RPG, Wormholes & Warpdrives! The system resembles OSR games in that it uses classes, levels, races, and XP, but the only dice you need are d6s. This Google Docs page has links to the playtest PDF, at-cost print copies on Lulu, and some inspirations for […]



The Transdimensional City of Uru Ulan

« 9 March 2014 | 14:26 | Earth-Omega Setting, Uru Ulan Setting, Wormholes & Waystations RPG | No Comments »

Dimension travel gives heroes some weird options; they can see “what if” storylines where their world took a turn for the better, or worse. They can see worlds where the physical laws are different, and meet people from the past and future. Dimension travel stories are perfect for presenting heroes with philosophical questions, the kinds […]