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... )

Whe I was discussing the Red Dwarf RPG some posts back I mentioned how the other RPGs from Deep7 could be used as Virtual Reality "Holodeck" (or Despair Squid ahllucinations) sort of adventures for a bit of variation. More complex plots could use the XPG system games, Arrowflight or Noir for example, but one-offs could make use of the myriad 1PG ( Read more... )

Always a big choice when playing a science fiction RPG. Which starship do the players end up with? Since I've started limiting myself now to Sci-Fi RPGs pretty much (Victoriana's gone up on Amazon, grew tired of it, specifically with them bringing out yet another edition after only a few supplements) I've been looking through the various systems ( Read more... )

Been going over the Red Dwarf RPG from Deep 7 for a while now, running through the XPG system it uses to re-familiarise myself with it. It's pretty basic, six standard stats with 20 points to divide between them (modifiers for the various droids, gelfs and evolved animals), 30 points for skills, various assets to be balanced against liabilities. ( Read more... )

Been tinkering with my Red Dwarf setting "Blackbird" of late, converting it back from the series I've imagined it to be to the RPG toolbox it started out as, albeit a lot more fleshed out. New races (Squirrels, Canaries, Series 2000 Mechanoiods), new ships (The Dallas-class mining ship and the rest of the fleet), and all that, putting it into Deep ( Read more... )

Space. Dark, cold, endless. But not empty, oh no. The light of a million, million stars glitter like diamonds on velvet, the velvet itself taking on the rainbow hues of a nearly nebula. And there, close at hand, a ship. Old, battered, a very, very long way from home, trawling through this eternal night with dogged determination. Huge on a human ( Read more... )

Bit of an exaggeration perhaps, but still ( Read more... )