I can't imagine ever playing a game in the kind of universe depicted here, just because I have other cups of tea available, but if I did, this is where I would turn. I forgive it its forgisms ('be a fan of the players and their characters' 'fail forward', 'say yes', 'don't hide the adventure') I almost can't forgive the extensive deployment of the term 'raypunk'. For something written in a month, it is an impressive feat.Ī 'science fantasy adventure role playing game', Hypertellurians gets the Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon/John Carter/Barbarella/Original Series Trek tone exactly right in its art and mood.

It is redolent of the mood and 'edgy' qualities which were de rigueur in the 1990s, though with self-consciously old school elements (random 'characteristics' of the Dark World, some of which are better than others random adventure generators disclaimers encouraging the DM to avoid the need to balance encounters and make things artificially fair). Written in a month for NaGaDeMon (National Game Design Month), this is a stylish, nicely illustrated mash-up of Unknown Armies, Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk 2020, and its ilk - you could probably also run World of Darkness style games with it, too. In low wind and bright sunshine, we guide our sloop, HMS Review, to the leeward and scan the shores with our telescopes for signs of life. A cluster of skerries on the very outskirts of the OSRchipelago are glimpsed on the horizon.

Dark streets and darker secrets