science fiction

Battle For The Pudding Small Unit Combat Rules

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The Death Zap blog offers a set of free wargames rules for small unit combat. There’s also a fun battle report that goes with them.

Full Thrust Starship Rules Wiki

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I absolutely love the Full Thrust starship rules. If you can’t get enought of the rules, there’s now a Full Thrust Wiki.

Science Fiction Terrain From CD Spindles

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We all knew that cds — especially those free ones you get in the mail — make great bases for terrain pieces. But who knew that you also could use the spindles. Here is a photo tutorial on using the spindles to make science fiction terrain pieces — such as fuel tanks, etc.

The site is in Spanish, but the photos speak for themselves.

Legends of Old Mars LotR LotOW Variant

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Legends of Old Mars is a Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom variant of Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings / Legends of the Old West game. I think that system is perfect for playing games involving John Carter, Tars Tarkas and the other denizens of Burrough’s Barsoom.

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Warlords of The Wasteland

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Marcus Reynolds offers Warriors of the Wasteland, a set of skirmish level science fiction rules that he devised when he became tired of the shenanigans of a certain miniatures gaming company who shall remain nameless but whose initials are GW.