Astral Dreams is a free miniatures game based on the d20 Open Gaming License system. The game’s background is based on a short story of the same name, which involves a war between humans and robots.
science fiction
GrimDark Future Rules v. 2.3
The folk at One Page Rules have released a new edition of GrimDark Future, a set of one-page rules (with lots of pages of armies you can also download)
Under The Broken Moon Role Playing Game
Under the Broken Moon is an RPG based on the Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon series. The game uses a mechanic where you roll a number of dice equal to your trait score and sum the results.
Threshold Cards For Full Thrust
If you play Full Thrust, you know that checking systems for damage can consume a good deal of game time. Seeking to solve this problem, James F Clay has come up with the idea of “Threshold Cards.” It looks like a good solution, and is certainly one that I’m going to try the next time we play Full Thrust.
Imperial Mars Miniatures Rules
Imperial Mars is a set of free miniatures rules for games set in a Mars that has been colonized by the imperial powers. The author writes:
The level we have set for these actions is fairly small scale, the idea being that the transportation of large armies to the red planet is far too expensive to consider. A company of earthling infantry works out to about 24 figures, which gives a good level of playability. The Martians we use, and thus those used in the body of the rules, are either humanoid or reptilian, this is due to the selection of figures available. For simplicity I will refer to them as regular and large Martians (with or without fries!).
Whilst we cannot claim that these rules are “generic”, how could they be? We like to think that the system is so simple and open ended that any “new” races or weapons can be quickly slotted in. This seems to be so simple that most of our games involve some rule modification for the scenario. Anyway I hope that you enjoy them and at least find something in them of use.
These rules were developed initially for 10mm figures though I can see no reason why they cannot be used for other scales.