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Storm Shelter 2.0 – updated and expanded
New and Updated Link: https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/581513/Storm-Shelter-20[...]
Ever been in the situation where you’re dragging your PCs through a court room scene and you realise…how is this going to work? A single roll against Law or Advocate skills seems unsatisfying and doesn’t reflect the media. We want a courtroom drama, dammit.
The rules here are really for Traveller/Cepheus/Andromeda/2D Systems but can be easily modified for use in anything else. The Prosecution presents 3-6 Assertions.Each Assertion must be answered by a Rebuttal.…[...]
Storm Shelter – a 2D Sci-Fi Space Adventure
Space is vast, cold, and entirely indifferent. In four hours, the Sun becomes an executioner. A catastrophic solar particle event has erupted, hurling a lethal wall of radiation across cis-lunar…[...]
Classic Traveller: Passage for Thirty-Two
Thirty-two passengers. Four tons of sealed cargo. Eleven days to get them offworld. And almost everyone on Anselm has a reason to stop you. Passage for Thirty-Two is a Classic Traveller adventure of…[...]
RUNTIME – a Tron-like RPG of unsigned software
The current version is being presented without art, pending raising funds for an artist. Buy the book and the art arrives quicker! GREETINGS PROGRAMS! Beneath cities of white ceramic and…[...]
Today I Chose… (a lite system for whimsical games)
Ok, this is kind of inspired by some meme-laden conversations but also because the One Page RPG Jam starts in a week or so. So it's just a noodle. I…[...]
Art for the Sake of Art
this year has been a mixed bag for artist services. We've been scammed twice by people prtending to make art but really just feeding our specification into an AI image…[...]
The d66 Toolkits
A reminder that we have all sorts of d66 Toolkit Products: d66 Toolkit: The Book of Hauntings is a system-neutral horror compendium featuring 36 richly written supernatural encounters designed to…[...]
Mind Games — A Rules-Light Guide to Playing in the Culture
Mind Games is a compact, open, system-agnostic toolkit for running stories inspired by Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels. It focuses on the top level world-building for running Culture-inspired stories at…[...]
New Substack
I've recently added a substack which should be one more place to read my screed https://lategamer.substack.com/[...]
Almost Invincible….
The Invincible QuickStart arrived this week and, hot on the tails of it, we discovered that the system has some obvious homage to TSR's Marvel Super Heroes and, if I…[...]
New: The Naturalists Guide to the Lost World: Dinosaurs in Vaesen
A Jungle Beyond Time. A Sky Full of Teeth. A Mystery Waiting to Swallow You. “There was a time when men believed the world was mapped. They were wrong.” Lost…[...]
Why use a different system?
As mentioned elsewhere I’m about to start a Witcher campaign at my local club. I’m going to use YZE rather than Interlock though. Why? Well that’s the Interlock character sheet…[...]
Current Discounts at Lategaming
I've got some Discount Links for Late Gaming books at DTRPG: DRY LAND: $6.99 reduced to $2.30 PERMAFROST: $7.00 reduced to $1.50 RISE OF R'LYEH: $12.99 reduced to $6.50 d66…[...]
Support Indie RPGs
In response to this post on Reddit. Please don't take this as any more than a spirited devils advocate in the spirit of debate and jocularity. I'm not disagreeing with…[...]
VTT woes
So, someone asked about a T2000 game today but specified they weren't interested in paying. Odd request, I thought, but I could run one. "So, it's not apocalypse sorrow, the…[...]
The Map for Xiangguo
This map is based on the 1402 Kangnido map, drawn by Korean scholars. I've overlabelled it freehand with some details (those aren't in the finished version obviously). Welcome to Xiángguó…[...]
Updates and content
It's worth noting that I have scads of content on the Patreon and heaps of it for free. http://patreon.com/lategaming[...]
Domination….no, not what you’re thinking.
I was a fan of Domination (the RPG) for a while. It was published by Starchilde Publications in 1989. Starchilde also made another game I really liked: Justifiers (and I…[...]