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Roleplaying and Wargaming

Glendale is an old website about gaming. It may contain other things as well, but it's mostly related to gaming in some way. By gaming, I mean the tabletop variety - roleplaying games, wargames and sometimes boardgames. I play computer games, but I don't talk about them much (unless I'm writing them). Since some of the content here dates back to 1996 (when the address was different), it can vary greatly in style.

Most of the content on here is entirely original. Some of it is based on material published by other people - e.g., game content for published RPGs or Wargames.

Campaigns Roleplaying Wargaming

Original Content

The following content consists of both original rules and settings, not being based on anything published elsewhere. It is all released under Free licenses of one form or another.

Roleplaying Systems

The following games are homebrewed RPG systems that have been written over the last fifteen years. They are all Free content.

Yags - This is a game system I have been working on for about ten years, and using it on and off. Currently, it is optimised for the Habisfern fantasy campaign.

Myths - An old system of mine, started around 1991 or so, and used until 1995.

Campaign Settings

Habisfern - A campaign world which was designed along with Yags, so fits that game system pretty well. A fantasy setting, without a multitude of character races.

The Land of Kythe - Originally an AD&D setting that was converted to my own system some years later. It was in use from about 1989 to 1995.

Mortals - A science fiction setting in the far future, where humanity has taken control of its destiny and has colonised the stars.

The One Time - A universe spanning network of wormholes linked together by relativity and time dilation into a single time spanning billions of years. For humanity though, there is no future.

The Midnight Saga - An Ars Magica saga set in Mythic Europe. This campaign is currently active.

Other Games

The following content is for campaigns based around published settings, or additions to existing game systems.

Campaign Settings

Fantasy

Harn - My conversion of Harnworld to use Yags, together with some campaign notes.

Ars Magica - Various campaigns, both in the standard Mythic Europe setting, and on other worlds.

Science Fiction

Traveller - My attempts to get Traveller into Celestia.

GURPS - Some house rules for a GURPS science fiction campaign I ran many years ago.

Full Thrust - Some material on the Full Thrust wargame, in particular for the Neu Swabian League.

Dirtside - Some material on the Dirtside II wargame.

Stargrunt - Some material on the Stargrunt II wargame.

Miscellaneous Resources

Character Sheets - Various character sheets for different game systems. All available in PDF format.

War Gaming - A few simple photographs of some models.

Campaign Chronicles - Journals of some roleplaying games that I've played in.

d20 Resources - Some d20 resources, including counters I used for an Against the Giants campaign.

News

101 Garden Worlds

Available for sale now on DriveThruRPG, is 101 Garden Worlds, a collection of maps and animated tokens for world maps. For use in any Science Fiction RPG, it consists of maps and 3D renders which can be used as handouts in a tabletop game. Also provided are animated images for use as either tokens, or in handouts in Virtual Tabletops such as FoundryVTT or Roll20.

The collection contains Icosohedral maps, rectangular maps, and a collection of 3D renders showing what the world looks like from different angles.

Each world also comes with animated tokens are available at 100px, 200px and 400px sizes.For some examples, see my original blog post on the subject.

2023/10/30 21:49 · sam

Barren Worlds

My latest publication on DriveThruRPG is Wonders of a Solar System: Barren Worlds. It's a collection of D66 descriptions of small barren terrestrial worlds similar to Mars.

It also includes D66 entries for archaeological finds which may be located on such worlds.

Other things that I've been working on recently include my Ships of Elite collection, which contains conversions of ships from the original Elite computer game to Mongoose Traveller. It now includes most of the common original ships, including the Cobra Mk III and Python. The Boa is currently being worked on.

I've also been working on expanding my assets for Dungeondraft, adding smallcraft, vehicles and even some larger spacecraft as tokens.

My next planned DriveThru publication will be a collection of trade ships, from 100t to 1,000t, for use with Mongoose Traveller. They will include deck plans, renders and game statistics.

2023/06/25 13:15 · sam

Marlow Light Freighter

The Marlow Light Freighter is a 2,600t bulk carrier, used in the ore and agricultural industries. With a Jump-2 drive, and 2G of thrust, it is designed for servicing worlds outside of the standard main line.

This is my latest TAS product, a short supplement containing full details for Mongoose Traveller, as well as deck plans, 3D renders and tokens for use in a VTT.

The deck plans are 128px resolution, since Dungeondraft couldn't handle exporting to the full 256px for a ship of this size. This is not a ship that PCs will typically use themselves, but it is the sort of ship that might be encountered at starports.

As part of my renewed interest in creating ship designs, I've also put together Mongoose designs for some of the ships from the 1984 version of Elite. They have 3D renders and deck plans, as well as a history and description of the ship. Each is about 4 pages in length. There's four at the moment, but I plan to flesh this out over time.

2023/04/02 13:22 · sam

A Travellers' Dozen 2

My final TAS product of 2022 is A Travellers' Dozen 2 which contains another dozen, randomly rolled, characters for Mongoose Traveller. Each character has a detailed background, a list of connections and half a dozen story hooks for getting them involved in your campaign.

The characters are located in the Reft and Trojan Reach sectors of the Third Imperium, but it shouldn't be too hard to move them to a different location or setting. Though statistics are included for Mongoose Traveller 2nd edition, most of the material is system agnostic.

The main characters are:

  • Michelle Mandeville - a ‘truther’ who strongly believes that the Third Imperium is a lie
  • Nigel Mikateema - an artist famous for his portrayals of urban life
  • Okhegan - a small Vargr seeking a pack that won’t treat her badly
  • Paul Peterson - a disillusioned, alcoholic, ex-law enforcement officer
  • Quilla Quartermaine - an enforcer for a local street gang
  • Ronald Reed - a steward aboard the Electric Blue subsidised liner with a colourful past
  • Samzan Shalaj - the red headed lead vocalist of the Frantic Reds
  • Tony Turner - a scout turned data analyst
  • Ushle Ujarii - a psion who doesn’t play well with others
  • Valkentana Vidar - a fallen nobleman who is now part con-man and part drifter
  • Willa Weber - an arms dealer
  • Xander Xenakis - a rich psychopath with a history of corporate greed and callousness

As well as the main characters, there are detailed descriptions of four organisations:

  • The Broken Arrows - a criminal gang of arms dealers operating out of the Trojan Reach.
  • Reaching Shipping - a company that runs subsidised merchant vessels in the Outrim Void.
  • StarChat - a social media company that runs a distributed chat system across the Islands in the Reft sector.
  • United Defence Alliance - a mercenary group who specialise in the protection of VIPs.

In addition, there are full write ups of four ships associated with the characters. Each ship has a set of statistics, deck plans, a crew and background information. Adventure hooks are also provided, from D66 tables to more detailed stories that can be fitted into your campaign. All deck plans have both a gridded and un-gridded format and are provided at both 100px and 256px resolutions.

2022/12/31 18:13 · sam

Garden Worlds

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I've published another TAS supplement - Garden Worlds. This is a set of d66 tables for describing what can be found on (not too surprisingly) Garden Worlds, and is my latest addition to my Wonders of a Solar system collection.

I've also been continuing to work on some Dungeondraft assets for Traveller, with plans to use them for ship deck plans in a bigger supplement I almost have finished.

I've also published two (Traveller related) modules for FoundryVTT:

It also looks like we're going to shifting our normal weekly schedule around a bit, in order to start getting in a bit more wargaming. I'm putting together a Vikings war band for Saga in preparation.

2022/08/20 12:46 · sam
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