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New Year’s Day 1936 dawns on a world approaching a brink. Germany under Adolf Hitler is re-arming that defeated country in violation of the treaty that ended the Great War nearly two decades earlier. Towns in the United States are being buried beneath rolling clouds of dust as its government...

BUkRFtWrgaA I hope this communique finds you in good health, brother. By now you must have heard the news of the Emperor's passing. It will be years before the news reaches thee Northern Rim, but I fear the news will embolden the agitators to move forward with their dark plots against the...

Enjoy your stay. This thread is for my Midnight in a Perfect World campaign for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition. I don't usually make threads for my campaigns, but as I was working on my player handbook for the campaign I found myself going off on tangents in the lore that, while interesting to...

Duskdale is a fortified town that traces its history to a time before the Deluge wiped away the debt accrued by industrial human civilization. Protected by walls and its thaumaturgic traditions, Duskdale had long treated the settlements and civilizations arising around it as little more than...

Imperium Offtopicum VI-2 Earth, AD 2101. The unprecedented, and exceptionally brutal, political, economic and environmental upheaval of the first half of the 21st century had forever shattered the old world order, destroyed the world economy, caused widespread environmental degradation, and...

qwmYXylxA3g Post-Cyberpunk, Pre-Utopia The Thirteen-Page Handbook to Running Your First Start-up! (Click above to learn the Art of the Steal from the best of the best!) First of all, I want to welcome you to the Academy. I know, I know, you paid a lot of money to be here. A lot of money...

CHWb7bfYwYo INTERSTELLA January 2220 Lake Syndicate, Terracotta Army, and Gunner Economic Interests Clash in Central Asia Sector Economic Downturn Plagues Factions An Anti-Psionic Hacker Collective Targets Endless Order Mercenary Army Lands on Banneker b Korea Declares War on China...

69ZfOlm3XlE 2220 AD A century and a half ago, Earth was plagued by crisis. Climate change, mass migration, war, and resource depletion threatened to plunge humanity into a new dark age. When the steaddunno arrived, they brought technologies that reversed the compounding effects of climate...

BEHOLD OUR NATION [This won't ever delay Stars Without End.] This is a simple and dirty realpolitik based on everybody’s favorite browser game: Nationstates. In this game, players will form political parties, form coalitions, and vote on national and international issues. How will this game...

Link to the Rules Link to the Assets Earth 2135 Stars Without End is set in a near-future solar system in which an high-tech reptilian species arrived to Earth. The game will have two major theaters: the Earth-Luna System and Mars. Earth-Luna, home to roughly a hundred thousand steaddunno and...

Explore. Expand. Exploit. Exterminate. Stars Without End is based heavily on Stars Without Number, a game set in the far future in which humans colonized large swathes of the galaxy before catastrophe struck. In Stars Without End, humans unlock the secrets of the spike drive in the...

iDLWIY0Tl3E We shall go our own way. -Lucien Dieulafoy in 1913 after leaving the Sunken Council. Oh how we have fallen. The first stirrings of crisis in the Sunken Council became apparent to all when Lucien and a few others withdrew from the council. It was the first sign that the growing...

Diplomacy is a seven-player game in which players represents the great powers of Europe in the years leading up to the First World War. The object of the game is to take control eighteen supply centers. Every country begins with three supply centers, four if Russia. To join, declare your...

Blackhands is a campaign focused on negotiation and revenge, and is heavily based on the board game Mob Ties by Hostage Entertainment. During the course of the campaign, players assume the roles of crime bosses battling for control of Hatol, a Martian city within the League of Martian States...

CHILDREN OF THE FALL A Peshawar Lancers IOT THE STORY SO FAR Children of the Fall is a direct continuation of Shadow of the Fall. In 1878, a comet exploded in Earth’s atmosphere. Between comet impacts, tsunamis rocking the North Atlantic Rim, and a prolonged winter, Europe and North American...

The Soviet Union is no more. While I can't tell you the real the reasons behind the fall of that evil empire, I can say with an acceptable level of pride that the private sector's solution to public nuisances (like the communists) were cost-effective, if not under budget. Unfortunately, I must...

Jill Stein's positions, of the big four candidates, are the only ones without real controversy. Her candidacy is the least divisive of the big four, certainly. She's a doctor and very overqualified for the position, so why aren't Americans turning to Jill Stein in greater numbers after showing...

I like the idea of the casus belli system, but it is lacking in a pretty major way in my opinion. 1. Liberation Wars should allow you to liberate any cities, not just the cities of friends and allies. In my current campaign, Zanzibar was captured and I want to liberate it but that makes me a...

The early game available eureka bonuses feel about right, such as the 50% boost toward sailing for building a coastal city. However, the end game boosts seem hilariously trivial. From the Wiki: Nanotechnology: Build an Aluminium Mine. I don't really get why it is *that* easy to get a free 780...

Shadow of the Fall 1878: The Fall In the summer of 1878, a comet exploded in the Earth's atmosphere. Comet fragments blanketed the Northern Hemisphere, causing destructions far and wide. Some cities were destroyed outright, while many coastal cities were destroyed in tsunamis caused by the...