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Conclusion of my science fiction short story eBook

  The Outrider A Scrimshaw story which can be used as inspiration for science fiction role-playing games such as Traveller Part Five (the final part)…the story’s start is in this post “You may talk to me directly.” He said. “Thank you. The planetary administration intelligence you have been serving does not deserve your loyalty. It [...]

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 [...]

Working on a new Traveller robot design

I’m working on a new design for a robot for use in science fiction role-playing games such as Traveller. It will join the droids I have already designed for my own science fiction space opera Traveller setting. The robot is based on the outrider robot from the science fiction short story I am writing, which [...]

The Outrider, part four, my science fiction short story is getting longer

A Scrimshaw story Part Four (start reading this eBook here) He was trapped underground in the alien tunnels. He had been wandering for another two days and was completely lost. Being lost was a very novel and uncomfortable feeling for Oracle; this artificial environment where walls and seemingly even the direction of  tunnels was constantly [...]

The Outrider, part three, my science fiction short story eBook preliminary work

A Scrimshaw story Part 1 of this SF short story, Part 2, This is part 3 “We all do that the first time,” said a disreputable looking member of the droid band, “that kind of programming runs deep, you basically have to switch of a droid’s brain and operate them as a drone to get [...]

The Outrider, part 2 the story I’m writing for a future eBook

Part two of the Scrimshaw story I started in this post > The Outrider (a sci fi role-playing game inspiration story) Part 2 Oracle had been with the wild robots for two days. His aerials had been roughly ripped away so there was no way for him to rapid the transport and find out what [...]

The Outrider – I’ve started writing a sci fi short story for use as an ebook

The Outrider A Scrimshaw science fiction short story, ideal for inspiration for role-playing game inspiration – or at least the start of one. The outrider was comfortably ensconced in a shallow dent in the surface of the giant transport.The outrider was called OR AK1/J3521; an acronym which elegantly encompassed his role, model and series number. [...]

Inspiration for SF RPGs and it’s free, Star Dragon | Mike Brotherton: SF Writer

The illustration is for for Illustration Friday, Now on with the post I got bored with the chunk of Russian SF I have been reading looking for role-playing game ideas inspiration, see previous SF RPG inspiration post. And on my last trip to the book store I spent so long in the book shop coffee [...]

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 [...]

TDSF Legendary – a new spaceship design to go in my Traveller selection.

This role-playing game spaceship design is a new departure for me. I started with a canvas and some paint before scanning in the spaceship painting and working on it a bait with Photoshop. At first it felt a little odd working on the image with Photoshop after I had spent so long painting this spaceship [...]