The Fantasy Trip Compendium of Resources

Metagaming’s The Fantasy Trip is one of my favorite games of all time. It’s one of the core products that drew me inexorably into the gaming world. Here’s a page with a great number of resources for The Fantasy Trip.

Force Nine Science Fiction RPG

Force Nine is a free science fiction Role Playing Game in the spirit of Aliens.

FORCE 9 is a science-fiction roleplaying game set in a galaxy at war with a bug-like alien menace. The Player Characters are part of a special Space Marine unit assigned to combat the bug Hive Mind before it comsumes all of mankind. FORCE 9 takes much of its inspiration from the Alien films (especially the second), and more recently, Starship Troopers.

FORCE 9 has been designed as a “pamphlet game” – in other words, only the essentials required for play are included here (spiced up a tad with cool graphics, of course). The hardcopy, plain text version of the game should take up no more than nine letter size pages. Future expansions will be provided, detailing other parts of the setting, more Space Marine missions, new equipment and enemies, etc.

FORCE 9 may have grown a little beyond its origins, but it was initially designed as a “beer and pretzels” game – something simple and fun to play as a break from your regular roleplaying. We think it still works great in this respect. Character creation is fast, the setting and tone are familiar to any sci-fi fan, and missions seem to write themselves. If your gaming group finds itself with a free afternoon, don’t pick up those Magic decks, generate some Space Marines and kick alien ass!

Dragonraid Christian RPG

Dragonraid is an RPG that was created in the 1980s as a “Christian” alternative to Dungeons and Dragons. According to this article on Uproxx, it encourages a refreshingly different style of RPG play.

 

Third Doctor Sourcebook

A fan of the Doctor Who universe has put together a sourcebook of material for the Third Doctor’s extracanonical adventures from novels, audios, comics and the like. The book is designed to go with the Dr. Who role playing game. It looks very professionally done.

Microlite ’78 Free RPG

Microlite ’78 is “trimmed down” set of rules designed to recreate the feel of the 1978 version of the world’s most popular fantasy role playing game. This is a major work, and author asks only that you might consider consider contributing something to his efforts to pay off bills from his wife’s cancer treatments.