I’m always looking for material to draw from for game content, and inspired by a recent Cards Against Humanity card, I thought I’d do something a bit larger scale this week. Introducing the Pangender Space Octopus, searching the cosmos for love, a starship tier creature. PANGENDER SPACE OCTOPUS TIER 5 […]
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Boldly go where venomous unicorn apes attack! Just like how fantasy rpgs draw from a wealth of myths and legends to draw inspiration for monsters, Sci-Fi is full of strange and terrible creatures to adapt and throw at your players. This week I bring a famous (or perhaps infamous) beast […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Hello space cowboys and cowgirls! Alien Archive 2 introduced us to the squox, and rules for having a little animal friend that can help you in certain situations. You know who else had an adorable animal buddy? The bounty hunters of Cowboy Bebop, of course. So forget that squox and […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Star Trek Discovery is back this week, and to celebrate I thought I’d stat up one of the many alien monsters that threatened the crew during the original series. Much like last week’s alien, the M-113 alien (or Salt Vampire) disguises itself in order to move freely among its prey, […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Winter is here, and with the coming of the cold and snow I can’t help but think of a certain Antarctic scientific outpost and the terribly alien shape shifter that showed up one day. I am, of course, referring to The Thing, as chronicled in the 1982 movie by John […]
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Something that seems to come up a lot in my Starfinder games lately is what loot the players find on their latest foe. In Starfinder, unlike a lot of fantasy RPGs, that enemy is likely to be some sentient race with equipment not all that dissimilar to the gear the […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
I admit it’s been awhile since I’ve watched any Ben 10, but for the purposes of stating out a rough adaptation of Ben’s original Omnimatrix, I think I’ve got a clear idea of how it is supposed to work. And thanks to Alien Archive 2 we have a clear polymorph […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
To celebrate the upcoming holiday and the play test paizo is running right now for the three new classes coming out next year, I thought I cook up an encounter with two of the new classes you can throw at some low level characters. And so I give you Hollee […]
Estimated reading time: 14 minutes
With the new Starfinder playtest, one of the fun new additions to the system are shields (not like force field shields on ships, actual physical shields). Energy swords and a host of other strange melee weapons are common enough in the genre, but how many Sci-Fantasy settings actually use shields? […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Made in 2801 by the Friendly Robot Company, robot Santa Claus brought season’s beatings to the Planet Express crew of Futurama for many a holiday season. It’s December 2nd and there’s no reason its brutal rampage has to stop just because Futurama is over, so why not bring ol’ bot […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes