One thing I picked up recently via RPGNow/DrivethruRPG was a game called Wild Skies- Europa Tempest. It's a dieselpunk 1930's game where the Great War never really ended, just broke down into a series of regional skirmishes while former soldiers turn mercenary in order to make ends meet. One big game changer was the discovery of a metal called ( Read more... )

Turns out there's possible a better bet for a Crimson Skies hack than using the Airship Daedalus XPG system. Take a look here- http://www.warbirdsrpg.com/Read more... )

Found a copy of the Crimson Skies boxed rules on the Oxfam site (another useful little backwater away from the big boys like ebay and Amazon). For a week or so we stared at each other, but I blinked first. Got it now. For a while I was wondering if it was going to be my old set coming back, but the box is a bit more battered than mine was. All the ( Read more... )

I have been doing a bit of Crimson Sky book recovery after all. Two of the supplements I needed were so cheap it was worth getting them just for background info. The lack of a copy of Behind the Crimson Veil was annoying though. Undertook a huge trawl of the internet and thought I found it, for a tenner even, on an online sales site in France. My ( Read more... )

A little while back I ruminated on how it might be fun to adapt the Savage Worlds Pulp "Slipstream" setting to Deep7's Red Dwarf RPG, as a "holodeck adventure" or alternate universe (or any one of a number of ways you could drop the boys from the Dwarf into it ( Read more... )