Tag Archives: role-playing game

New spaceship design gallery, and some SEO tips

This spaceship design is an example of the sort of spaceship that might be used by characters in a science fiction role-playing game when they want to avoid being seen as they go about their adventures. It’s a good example of the sort of science-fiction illustrations I’ve been doing recently, illustrations more orientated towards role-playing [...]

Beginnings of a Witch’s Cat and Another Mech Obsessive’s Blog

I took the head of my latest work-in-progress RPG mech and I’m using it to create a cat for a cute animation. The cat is still looking very robotic – even after hours of work – so I’ve placed it against a strange moon like irradiated background for now. Though perhaps a robot moon cat [...]

D20 RPG mech design, the Swamp Viper

  I’m having real fun with my new D20 Mecha rules, I downloaded some D20 Rifts rules at the same time, but I haven’t even looked at them. These rules for mechs have sent me back on a wave of nostalgia to the days when I was regularly playing Battletech and MechWarrior the role-playing game.The [...]

Spaceship, cracked open, an image for RPGs

In my sci-fi role-playing game setting, a setting for Traveller – although I just downloaded the free version of the D20 system, so it could soon be for that too – the spacers are a superstitious lot. This is only to be expected in an RPG galaxy full of monsters, psionics, super science, spaceships as [...]

Sci Fi author responsible for Battlestar Galactica offers free online writing course, and some free eBooks (but are they any good).

Jeffrey A. Carver always posts his latest science fiction novels on his website to download for free, although they are real books and will be published in the print medium too, and that’s brought him to my attention. I’m always searching for free sci-fi eBooks you see. It turns out that this author also offers [...]

Mirror Model is essential for 3D spaceship design in Blender, and here’s how to do it.

      Mirror modeling is easy in trueSpace, and helps in producing great symmetrical spaceships for role-playing game illustrations, but it’s not so easy in Blender. A common technique is to model one half of an object and use Alt D to create a linked duplicate which can then be mirrored on one axis [...]

I got Blender working (yippee). Now I have three free 3D engines sitting on my desktop.

My new free 3D graphics suite, Blender (it’s free), seems to have an even steeper learning curve than trueSpace, and the interface looks much more sparse and austere, professional I guess. But these 3D content creation packages are perfect for producing illustrations for science fiction role-playing games, and so it’s worth the effort. I mentioned [...]

Sci-Fi Book Worm, looking for – and finding – inspirational SF for role-playing games like Traveller

Sci-Fi bookworm column, with cool robobookworm illustration. A Sci-Fi Ezine, wow.  My thoughts on the free science fiction inspiration I find dotted around the interweb is proving popular(ish) and I have promoted it to being a regular part of the Starbright mix of stuff for use as inspiration, illustration and resources for role-playing games. My [...]

New Traveller the role-playing game resources at Starbright

Here at Starbright we’ve added more Traveller role-playing game resources – actually it’s just me but this way it sounds much more like a proper company and not some nerdy Sci Fi fan. Just today I’ve added a new robot for the Traveller RPG and a new planet game setting. The robot is a useful [...]

Mongoose Publishing has released High Guard as open content, I’m so happy.

Traveller is – for me – all about the spaceships, and Mongoose just released even more spaceship stuff in the developer’s pack here… High Guard open source version Mongoose Publishing I’m so pleased, because I am addicted to spaceships. But there are an awful lot of rules in this supplement, compared with the simplicity and [...]