Science Fiction

Works that speculate on potential futures or different realities.

Only Libre Resources

Works

• A Vessel For Offering ● 'Hard boiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir with squishy (and doomed, of course) romantic bits.'
• Adventures Of The Space Patrol ● Retro-Cute Sci-Fi Role-Playing
• Adventures on Dungeon Planet ● 'Adventures on Dungeon Planet is a science fantasy supplement for the award-winning role-playing game Dungeon World.'
• Arkfall ● A World of Dungeons hack that allows you to play post-apoc sci-fi.
• Astral Dreams ● A space opera miniatures wargame.
• Biodigital ● 'Biodigital is a novel, first published as an Ebook via Unglue.it, about a Silicon Valley tech genius/messiah and the quasi-religious cult of transhumanist computer designers and brain hackers who follow him.'
• Bounty Hunter Blues ● A playset for the Fiasco role-playing game
• Cascade Failure ● Life in a post-apocalyptic future.
• Crash!/Lanterns of The Dead ● "Crash / Lanterns of the Dead is two game in one: a game about a crashed astronaut, and a game about an alien culture."
• Diaspora ● Singularity FATE-based role-playing.
• Engine Heart ● An RPG in a post-human world.
• Entropy Of Imagination ● 'The inhabitants of this future Web reside in a closed system, where all possible experiences will soon be exhausted. The Web is winding down, falling into stasis. Here, Flatline is a brief infusion of novelty, bringing chaos to the system.'
• Explorations of the Haunted Island ● Described as "an attempt to use the mechanics from the board game Splendor to tell a story of investigating a mysterious island like in the TV show LOST or the videogame Myst."
• FUBAR ● You've been screwed … and at least one person wants you dead.
• Ghost Runner ● As a Ghost Runner, you the players must track down rogue Ghosts, pulled from the afterlife and embedded into cybernetic SHELS which are used to hold these spirits to the world.
• Green Comet ● A sci-fi novel.
• Gunwave ● A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
• Longshot ● A science fiction Western.
• Lunatics ● "Lunatics is a story about the first permanent settlement off of the Earth, in a tiny colony on the Moon near Sinus Iridium."
• Mutant Future ● Post-apocalyptic role-playing compatible with Labyrinth Lord.
• Open Adventure ● 'Open Adventure is a full-featured tabletop adventure game that offers out-of-box support for medieval fantasy and science-fiction expeditions.'
• Shakespeare 2985 ● A "science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners."
• So Now You're a Time Traveler ● A 'simple little two page hack of Cthulhu Dark made to run a stropped down time travel game comparable to Continuum.'
• Star Blades ● Science fiction role-playing using the original Dungeons & Dragons rules.
• Sufficiently Advanced Technologies ● A 16-player LARP inspired by Doctor Who.
• Tears of Steel ● The results of the Blender Foundation's Mango Project: a sci-fi romance.
• Tears of Steel (Chinese) ● A remake of Blender's Tears of Steel
• Tech Noir ● A cyberpunk game that uses a d20.
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• The Fifth World ● Humans after civilisation - a tabletop roleplaying game that has been extensively revised.
• Traveller ● A long-lived role-playing game with some setting details.
• Uncharted Worlds ● 'Uncharted Worlds is a Space Opera roleplaying game built upon the Apocalypse World rules. It’s inspired by the big, bold, larger-than-life space-faring epics like Mass Effect, Firefly, Star Trek, and by games like Traveller, Masters of Orion, Starcraft (and a bit of Galaxy Trucker).'

Sources

• Blender Foundation ● Creators of the 3D graphics/video software Blender and films using Blender.
• Greg Christopher ● An author of RPGs.
• Jeff Preston ● An artist.
• Lunduke ● A game designer and comic creator.

All Shareable Resources

Works

• ... in Spaaace! ● Zany space adventures powered by the Token Effort system.
• A Vessel For Offering ● 'Hard boiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir with squishy (and doomed, of course) romantic bits.'
• Acts Of The Apostles ● 'In 1990, hardware engineer Todd Griffith is shot after discovering a secret function in a computer chip. Years later, Todd’s best friend Nick stumbles onto a conspiracy involving nanomachines, mind control, Gulf War Syndrome and an insane Silicon Valley messiah.'
• Ad Astra ● A science fiction campaign setting.
• Adventures In The 41st Millennium ● A modification of Dungeon Squad for the Warhammer 40K universe.
• Adventures Of The Space Patrol ● Retro-Cute Sci-Fi Role-Playing
• Adventures on Dungeon Planet ● 'Adventures on Dungeon Planet is a science fantasy supplement for the award-winning role-playing game Dungeon World.'
• Alien Survivor ● Fight off the alien menace in this Lady Blackbird hack.
• Arkfall ● A World of Dungeons hack that allows you to play post-apoc sci-fi.
• Astral Dreams ● A space opera miniatures wargame.
• Biodigital ● 'Biodigital is a novel, first published as an Ebook via Unglue.it, about a Silicon Valley tech genius/messiah and the quasi-religious cult of transhumanist computer designers and brain hackers who follow him.'
• Bounty Hunter Blues ● A playset for the Fiasco role-playing game
• Bugs of Venus ● Earth has been under siege for 200 years.
• Cascade Failure ● Life in a post-apocalyptic future.
• Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now ● Six of Cory Doctorow's short stories in comic book form.
• Crash!/Lanterns of The Dead ● "Crash / Lanterns of the Dead is two game in one: a game about a crashed astronaut, and a game about an alien culture."
• Danger Patrol ● A role-playing game set in the sci-fi imaginings of the 1950s.
• Diaspora ● Singularity FATE-based role-playing.
• Dynamo ● A sci-fi/fantasy webseries.
• Eastern Standard Tribe ● A book of the near future.
• Eclipse Phase ● "Humanity stands on the cusp of a new age, with accelerated technological growth converging toward a singularity point, promising an undreamt-of future."
• Engine Heart ● An RPG in a post-human world.
• Entropy Of Imagination ● 'The inhabitants of this future Web reside in a closed system, where all possible experiences will soon be exhausted. The Web is winding down, falling into stasis. Here, Flatline is a brief infusion of novelty, bringing chaos to the system.'
• Escape from Thanatos ● A Space Opera where one takes on the roles of Captain Talia Mercury, Merchant Prince Marcus Dunn, ageing Space Knight Sir Lux Angelo, Francisco - Talia's stalwart companion, and Mona - a mysterious stowaway as they crash land on the planet Thanatos after escaping the Omegan Empire!
• Explorations of the Haunted Island ● Described as "an attempt to use the mechanics from the board game Splendor to tell a story of investigating a mysterious island like in the TV show LOST or the videogame Myst."
• FUBAR ● You've been screwed … and at least one person wants you dead.
• Ghost Runner ● As a Ghost Runner, you the players must track down rogue Ghosts, pulled from the afterlife and embedded into cybernetic SHELS which are used to hold these spirits to the world.
• Green Comet ● A sci-fi novel.
• Gunwave ● A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
• Icar ● A detailed sci-fi RPG and setting, beautifully decorated with 3D images.
• Iliamna Unknown ● Vacationing software engineers search for the Iliamna Monster.
• Little Brother ● A hacker, wrongly imprisoned, tries to take down the police state.
• Longshot ● A science fiction Western.
• Lunatics ● "Lunatics is a story about the first permanent settlement off of the Earth, in a tiny colony on the Moon near Sinus Iridium."
• Maschine Zeit ● The story of the beginning of the Machine Age.
• Metropole Luxury Coffin ● The Metropole Luxury Coffin is home to the dregs of society. You’re not like them, though. You’re going to get out of here someday.
• Mutant Future ● Post-apocalyptic role-playing compatible with Labyrinth Lord.
• Mutant Hunter ● Uses a handful of Warhammer 40K miniatures.
• My Darn Ex-Wife ● Play a squid mechanic or a redneck father in this Hackbird.
• Open Adventure ● 'Open Adventure is a full-featured tabletop adventure game that offers out-of-box support for medieval fantasy and science-fiction expeditions.'
• Out of the Violent Planet ● A REIGN supplement, where humans match alien supertechnology with unrelenting violence. (REIGN Supplement #15)
• Quasar ● Generic sci-fi game rules.
• Rosalind Wells, Ambassador to Space ● A five-year-old girl named Rosalind tries to resolve the problems of her alien visitors.
• Shakespeare 2985 ● A "science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners."
• So Now You're a Time Traveler ● A 'simple little two page hack of Cthulhu Dark made to run a stropped down time travel game comparable to Continuum.'
• SpacePirates ● Space opera in what appears to be German.
• Star Blades ● Science fiction role-playing using the original Dungeons & Dragons rules.
• Star Empire ● Arcade gamers are recruited for a stellar war.
• Star Quest ● A science fiction game and a setting with no strict cannon.
• Star Wreck ● An RPG based on the movies that parodied Star Trek.
• Sufficiently Advanced Technologies ● A 16-player LARP inspired by Doctor Who.
• Tears of Steel ● The results of the Blender Foundation's Mango Project: a sci-fi romance.
• Tears of Steel (Chinese) ● A remake of Blender's Tears of Steel
• Tech Noir ● A cyberpunk game that uses a d20.
• The Fifth World ● %%form_data{intro}%%
• The Fifth World ● Humans after civilisation - a tabletop roleplaying game that has been extensively revised.
• The Third Year of Our REIGN ● Three alternative settings for REIGN.
• The Ware Tetralogy ● Sci-fi about human-cyborg relations.
• Time & Temp ● Time & Temp is a game of time travel and underemployment for 3 to 5 players.
• Torus One ● "Torus One RPG is a science fiction role-playing game, where all the action happens in a crowded ring-shaped space station with a circumference of 1609 meters."
• Traveller ● A long-lived role-playing game with some setting details.
• Two-Page Space ● 'Two-Page Space is a complete d20 sci-fi game, including spaceship rules, that can be printed on the front and back of one piece of paper.'
• Uncharted Worlds ● 'Uncharted Worlds is a Space Opera roleplaying game built upon the Apocalypse World rules. It’s inspired by the big, bold, larger-than-life space-faring epics like Mass Effect, Firefly, Star Trek, and by games like Traveller, Masters of Orion, Starcraft (and a bit of Galaxy Trucker).'
• Valence ● Rebuild the fallen Human Empire.
• Vector 3 ● Sci-fi based tabletop board game.
• Zamani ● A detailed pulp-and-planet game.
• Zap! ● a science fiction tabletop RPG using the SFX! system

Sources

• Blender Foundation ● Creators of the 3D graphics/video software Blender and films using Blender.
• Charles Stross ● A sci-fi author.
• Cory Doctorow ● An author who pioneered using free ebooks to sell hard copies.
• Greg Christopher ● An author of RPGs.
• Jeff Preston ● An artist.
• Lunduke ● A game designer and comic creator.
• Peter Watts ● A hard sci-fi author.
• Storn R Cook ● An artist, primarily of fantasy portraits.
• Strolen's Citadel ● "[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource"