Introduction to Warpspawn Games

ACTION DECK CARD NOTATION

B = Battle Event

ACTION DECK CARD LIST

Tactical Maneuver 15 E Move 1 Stack

Operational Maneuver 10 E Move 2 Stacks

Strategic Maneuver 5 E Move 3 Stacks

Scanners 2 E Look at target Stack

Hand-To-Hand 2 B All your Assault Units get Force +3

High Morale 2 B All Units in Stack get Force +1

Surprise Attack 2 B Attacking Stack gets Force +8

Ambush 2 B Defending Stack gets Force +8

Retreat 2 B Negate Target Casualty

Botched Orders 2 E Negate an Event Card Just played

Initiative 2 E Draw 3 cards

Manifest Destiny 2 E Look at next 7 cards in deck

Spy 2 E Look at opponents Hand

Forced March 2 E Move target Stack a Second time this turn

Assassination 2 E Discard target Leader

Freelancers 2 E Hire a Force = 3 Slow Core Unit Cost = 3

Strafe 2 B All your Flying Units get Force +3

Missiles 2 B All your Barrage Units get Force +3

Insertion 2 E Move Infiltration Unit

Sortie 2 E Move Flying Unit

Raiding Party 2 B All your Infiltration Units get Force +3

Deadly Gasses 2 B All your Poison Units get Force +3

Absorb Punishment 2 B All your Armor Units get Force +3

Combat Tactics 2 B All your Core Units get Force +3

Kill Zones 2 B All your Fortification Units get Force +3

Leadership 2 B Leader Unit gets Force +5

Mystic Arts 2 B Brotherhood Unit gets Force +5

Dark Symmetry 2 B Dark Legion Unit gets Force +5

Quality 2 B Bauhaus Unit gets Force +5

Loyalty 2 B Mishima Unit gets Force +5

Efficiency 2 B Cybertronic Unit gets Force +5

Opportunity 2 B Capital Unit gets Force +5

Discipline 2 B Imperial Unit gets Force +5

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ESKIMO

INTRODUCTION

Each player is an Eskimo (Inuit) Hunter.

WINNING

Food points are gained by collecting (hunting) Animal cards.

The game ends when all Animal cards have been collected.

Get 1 FP for each Special card in your hand at the end of the game.

THE BOARD

Space # Name: Type Notes:

1. Ice I

2. Coast H

3. Ice I

4. Igloo S Snowhouse (Season of Dark)

5. Ice I

6. Thin Ice H

7. Ice I

8. Domoid S Sod & Whalebone

9. Ice I

10. Tundra H

11. Ice I

12. Tent S Skin Covered (Season of Light)

13. Ice I

14. Ice Bergs H

15. Ice I

16. Stonehouse S Stone & Driftwood

S = Shelter

H = Hunting Grounds

I = Ice

PIECES

Six sided dice are needed.

THE DECKS

1. The Animal Deck

2. The Hunter Deck

THE ANIMAL DECK

Each Animal can only be hunted with certain types of Weapons.

THE HUNTER DECK

1. Hunting Weapons

2. Transportation

3. Special

SETUP

Each player draws to cards from the Hunter Deck.

Roll high on 1D6 to see who goes first.

HUNTING GROUND SPACES

If at any time a Hunting Ground is empty, immediately draw the next

Animal card from the Animal Deck and place it on the Hunting Ground.

TURN SEQUENCE

Each turn has 5 Phases

Travel Phase

Ice Phase

Shelter Phase

Hunt Phase

Transport Phase

TRAVEL PHASE

ICE PHASE

SHELTER PHASE

Hunter deck, Show it to all players & put it in your hand.

If you drew a Special card, you may not move again until after your

Next turn (At home not hunting); However you may search the deck for

A Weapon & a Transport card & put them in your hand.

You may carry a maximum of 4 Hunter cards.

Discard excess cards.

HUNT PHASE

To get the Animal, discard an appropriate Weapon card.

Your Eskimo has caught the Animal and must carry it back to any Shelter.

The Eskimo cannot hunt again until after it visits a Shelter.

Keep all Animals you’ve hunted in a pile beside you.

To catch a Walrus or Whale you must also discard a Boat card.

TRANSPORT PHASE

CARD LIST NOTATION

FP = Food Points

H = Hunting Weapons

T = Transportation

S = Special

ANIMAL DECK CARD LIST

Seal 4 2 Sea Mammal

Sea Lion 2 2 Sea Mammal

Walrus 1 4 Sea Mammal

Bowhead Whale 1 4 Whale

Bottlenose Whale 1 4 Whale

Narwhal 1 4 Whale

Char 1 2 Fish

Salmon 2 2 Fish

Sea Birds 1 1 Birds

Waterfowl 1 1 Birds

Migrating Birds 1 1 Birds

Bird Eggs 1 1 No Weapon card needed

Caribou 1 3 Hoofed

Reindeer 1 3 Hoofed

Musk Ox 1 3 Hoofed

Small Game 2 1 Wolves, Foxes, Hares

Polar Bear 2 4 Hibernating

HUNTER DECK CARD LIST

Harpoon 3 W Sea Mammals & Whales only

Spear 3 W Any

Bow & Arrows 2 W Any

Bait & Snare 2 W Small Game & Birds only

Fish Hooks 2 W Fish only

Sledge 2 T Dogs

Sled Dogs 2 T Dogs

Huskies 2 T Dogs

Kayak 4 T One Seat Boat

Umiak 2 T Deep Rowboat

Clothing 1 S Fur Parka, Mittens, Boots

Sports 1 S Ball, Blanket Toss, Hand Football

Games 1 S Cats Cradle, Bones

Fun 1 S Storyteller, Tongue Twisters, Funny Faces

Music 1 S Tambourine, Singing, Pentatonic Scale

Customs 1 S Ridicule Contest, Hospitality

Food Preservation 1 S Frozen, Air Dried, Decayed

Food Preparation 1 S Eat Raw Flesh or Lightly Boiled

Tools 1 S Seal oil Lamp, Knives, Pots, Ivory Needle

Carvings 1 S Toys, Fetishes, Ivory, Bone, Soapstone

Language 1 S Aleut, Eskimoan, Syllable Language

GOLDEN AXE

INTRODUCTION

Based on the side Scroller Video game of the same name.

DISCLAIMER

This is merely a Fan site.

VICTORY

CHARACTERS

Characters: Hits Magic Speed Damage Notes:

Warrior 10 2 2 +1 Bastard Sword

Dwarf 10 1 1 +2 Battle Axe

Woman Warrior 8 3 3 +0 Long Sword

Sprite 6 4 4 -1 Trident

Centaur 12 1 3 +1 Staff

Hits = Damage Character can take before perishing

Magic = Damage done by Magic cards

Speed = Foes avoided by using an Evade card

Damage = Bonus Damage done by Attack cards

SETUP

Place the Death Adder card on the bottom of the deck.

Choose which Character you are starting with.

TURN SEQUENCE

Fight Phase

Foe Phase

Fini Phase

FLIP PHASE

If it is a Foe card place it face up on the table.

If it is any other type of card put it in your hand.

If the deck runs out, shuffle the discard & draw from it.

FIGHT PHASE

The Damage done by a Attack card must go to a Single Foe.

Use coins to keep track of Damage.

A Foe with damage equal to or greater than its Hits is destroyed.

Discard a used Attack card.

You may use additional Attack cards from your hand vs additional targets.

The Running Charge card does damage equal to the Speed of the Character

You may play a Magic card to do X damage to all Foes in play.

X = Magic Level of Character.

FOE PHASE

Foes do damage equal to their Hits minus their Damage.

A Character Reduced to Zero or less Hits is Destroyed.

If a Character is destroyed, you may continue play with one of your remaining Characters.

You may negate damage from X Foes by playing an Evade Card.

X = The Speed of the Character

FINI PHASE

X = The Magic of the Character.

Max hand size is 5 cards. Discard excess cards.

CARD LIST

Jumping Attack 2 A 3

Throw Opponent 2 A 2 Flip

Slash 2 A 1

Thrust 2 A 1

Cut 2 A 1

Beat Down 2 A 2

Dragon Mount 2 A 3 Fire Breathing

Lizard Mount 2 A 2 Tail Swipe

Running Charge 2 A S

Magic Attack 4 A M

Evade 4 D S

Healing Potion 4 H M

Skeleton 5 F 1 Tulwar & Shield

Ork 5 F 2 Club

Barbarian 4 F 3 Spiked Mace

Amazon 4 F 4 Hand Axe

Hill Giant 3 F 5 Large Hammer

Knight 2 F 6 Sword

Death Adder 1 F 7 Big Axe

CARD LIST NOTATION

D = Defend

H = Heal

F = Foe

M = Magic

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OUT WORLDS RPG

This is a Role-playing Game, using, as its basis, the worlds of Golden Age SF authors including: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert H. Heinlein, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Philip K. Dick, Paul Anderson, Greg Bear, and others. The goal is to incorporate Characters, worlds, situations, and technologies from books written by these authors. For example: Lazarus Long (Heinlein) accompanied by a Sentient Robot (Asimov) may meet an Overlord (Clarke) in orbit around a Ringworld (Niven). The intent is to get a particular Retro feel. Certain SF worlds are to be avoided, specifically Star Wars and Star Trek, not because we don’t love them, but because we want to give these other older sources their due. Game mechanics will be addressed, but are very much secondary to the source material. Some of these SF worlds may seem incompatible, but the universe is a big place, and inconsistent things can be put at opposite ends. For example many of these books feature Earth as a setting. The solution would be to move a setting to another Earth-like planet in a different part of the galaxy. Another goal is to make newer generations of RPG & SF fans aware of these older books. I intend for this to be a lengthy project and hopefully not a solo one. I ask readers to contribute entries about their favorite books describing characters and settings on a RPG level. To start, I am providing a few sample very rudimentary entries that will hopefully soon be (replaced) fleshed out by me or someone with better writing skills.

CHARACTERS

Main Characters in this geonra are most often scientists, astronauts, government or military agents. They are always tough, practical, resourcefull, independent, intelligent, square jawed, clean living, heroic, decent and honourable. Protagonists are usually normal humans, though you get the occasional telepath, immortal, or android.

SETTING

In Out Worlds, humanity has settled Tens of thousands of worlds across long stretches of the Galaxy. Humanity is fragmented into numerous empires, federations, foundations, alliances, commonwealths, independent worlds, and forgotten worlds. Technology levels run the gamut.

(From Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clarke)

Large demonic looking Aliens. In all ways stronger & smarter than humans, but without a soul. They are servants of a higher Intelligence.

THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS

(From I Robot by Isaac Asimov)

Robots of the future must follow 3 rules:

1. A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by the human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict the First or Second Law.

RINGWORLD

(From Ringworld by Larry Niven)

An artificial world in the shape of a ring that circles a star. The side facing the star is inhabitable and has a much larger surface area than a regular planet.

LAZARUS LONG

(The Number of the Beast and others by Robert H. Heinlein)

A long-lived rugged individualist.

THE SPACE BEAGLE

(Voyage of the Space Beagle by AE Van Vogt)

A large Human exploration space ship containing hundreds of scientists.

ELLIOT GROSVENOR

(Voyage of the Space Beagle by AE Van Vogt)

Social scientist whose specialty is Nexialism, the science that

fuses the known and the unknown.

PSYCHOHISTORY

(Foundation Series by Asimov)

Developed by Hari Seldon, a branch of mathematics that uses the law of mass action to predict the future on a large scale, such as of planets or empires.

RAMA

A huge alien vessel complete with large cities and strange mechanical inhabitants.

LINKS

Ultimate Hard SF

Timeline of the Cosmic Future

Childhood’s End

Quotable Heinlein

Asimov Home Page

Ringworld RPG

Hard SF

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REAL TIME CARNAGE

INTRODUCTION

The game is called Real-Time Role-Playing Game (RTRPG).

It is a system that can be used for any shoot-em-up game, like UT or BF or CS or what have you.

It is played on graph paper, and requires two six-sided dice.

Okay, so you start out by sketching whatever environment you like on the graph paper.

What's really fun is playing it at a friend's house and then drawing the house and playing there.

It doesn't have to be too detailed a drawing, but you should put in furniture and

doors and poles and what have you.

Then each player picks their weapons.

You arbitrarily pick a point count, and each player gets that many points to spend on weapons.

Now, I have a system set up for counting points that's not perfect, but it'll do.

Each weapon has Damage, ToHit, Refire, Range, Clip and Use stats. More on this later.

The objective of the game is to blow the bajesus out of your enemies.

You take turns moving and shooting. Each turn, you get two actions.

Actions are usually either moving, shooting, aiming or reloading.

Each of these usually cost one action.

Move: Depending on the size of the arena chosen, usually you can move 5 squares.

Running allows you to move twice that, but you get -2 penalty to firing a weapon.

Shoot: Depending on the weapon, a Shoot action fires a certain amount of shots at a target.

If you hit a target, roll for damage.

Note that if you have less bullets in your clip than you are allowed to fire per

Shoot action, that sucks for you.

You can't Reload for free to get the rest of your money's worth.

Now, you generally roll 2d6 to fire a weapon, and it takes a 7 or greater to hit.

Since there are all sorts of interesting things to do with an environment, most

conditions won't be listed here.

The rule of thumb is that a favorable condition is +1 ToHit and an unfavorable condition is -1 ToHit. Cover of varrying degrees prevents damage: if a person is completely behind a wall, no dice.

If a person is half behind a wall, the limbs of that half of the body can be hit.

If a person is standing at a waist-high wall, their torso, arms and head can be hit.

A damage roll indicating a leg hit is no good.

Aim: The Aim action gives you a +2 bonus to firing a weapon (1 shot, the recoil makes your aim go bad).

Reload: Once you run out of bullets, you gotta switch guns or reload.

That's it. Each player is considered to have infinite ammo.

Or you can play with limited amounts, it doesn't matter.

If you're using two weapons, you must reload both of them to continue to use both.

Damage: When you damage an enemy, roll a d6.

1 Left Leg

2 Right Leg

3 Left Arm

4 Right Arm

5 Torso

6 Head

Both legs hit decreases your speed to 1 square per move action.

One arm hit gives you a -4 penalty when using a weapon that requires both

hands, and you can't use a one-handed weapon in that hand.

Both arms hit means you're powerless, and out of the game (with your life, at least).

All limbs shot means it's too painful to move, and you're out of the game

(with your life, at least, but crippled completely).

If you get hit in the torso twice, you die.

If you get hit in the head once, you die.

Now, range is generally:

Short (10 squares or less), Medium (20-11 squares), or Long (40-21 squares).

When using a weapon at ranges greater than intended, it's a -2 penalty at one range

increment too many, and a -4 penalty at two range increments too many.

When using a weapon at ranges lesser than intended, if the weapon is

Cumbersome, it's a -2 penalty at one range increment too little and a -4 penalty at

two range increments too little.

Weapons:

Generally, the worst weapon in the game has no Damage or ToHit bonuses, Short

range, a low clip, a normal refire rate, and no Use statistics.

The Damage bonuses/penalties are obvious.

They change your roll for damage.

Now, a damage penalty of -2 means you can't actually kill a person with the gun, but

you can knock them out of the running by hitting all four limbs.

Note that roll totals above 6 still count as 6.

ToHit bonuses/penalties are also obvious.

They change your roll when attempting to hit someone.

So a roll of 6 with a +1 ToHit bonus gives you 7.

Refire is basically how many shots you can fire with a Shoot action.

You roll ToHit (and damage for hits) that many times.

Range is the distance a weapon is best used at.

Clip is the amount of bullets that the gun can fire before you need to reload.

Use is a special category. There a certain Use effects.

Refire Penalty: When using this weapon, there is a subsequent (and stacking) -2 penalty ToHit for

each additional shot fired by the weapon.

This means that the first shot fired has no penalty, the next shot has a -2 penalty and the

third shot has a -4 penalty.

Cumbersome: See Shoot. This normally applies to rifles and such.

Double: You can use two of these, one in each hand.

This normally applies to pistols, and can be mix-and-matched (1 Uzi and 1 Pistol).

Slow Reload: This weapon takes longer to fire than just a slap-in-the-clip action.

It takes two actions to reload this weapon.

Well I think that's it, but if you uncover all the gory rules you get a pretty simple shoot-em-up game.

I've enclosed the stats for a few modern weapons.

Realize that I didn't go to the trouble to label various types of each weapons (M-16, Desert Eagle).

The differences in those weapons are slight.

Name (Damage, ToHit, Refire, Clip, Range, Use, Cost)

Pistol (0, 0, 1, 10, S, Double, 320)

Uzi (0, -1, 5, 20, S, Double & Refire Penalty, 640)

Rifle (+1, +1, 1, 10, L, Cumbersome, 470)

Machine Gun (+1, 0, 5, 20, M, Cumbersome & Refire Penalty, 1500)

Sniper Rifle (+2, +1, 1, 1, L, Cumbersome & Slow Reload, 510)

Shotgun (0, +2, 1, 5, M, Cumbersome, 295)

Sawed-Off Shotgun (-1, +3, 1, 5, S, Double, 330)

Here is the "calculator" I used to come up with the prices.

Start at 100.

Add or subtract (accordingly) 100 for damage bonuses/penalties.

Add or subtract 50 for to hit bonuses/penalties.

Multiply this by the refire.

Multiply this by 1.2 for short range, 1.4 for medium range and 1.6 for long range.

Add 10 for each bullet in the clip minus the refire (for the Machine Gun, you'd add 150).

Subtract 25 for Refire Penalty, Cumbersome of Slow Reload.

Multiply by 1.5 for Double.

Round the number to the nearest tenth.

SILVER SURFER

INTRODUCTION

DISCLAIMER

This is merely a Fan site.

VICTORY

The game ends when the deck runs out.

THE DECK

There are 7 cards types:

SK = Surfer Skill

SE = Surfer Energy Attack

SA = Surfer Allies

SS = Surfer Speed

ST = Surfer Toughness

SB = Surfer’s Board

SC = Surfer Action

V = Villains

F = Foes

X = Superpowers (Used by Villains)

L = Locations

P = Plots

Every card has a Plot Point (PP) Value.

SETUP

TURN SEQUENCE

Each turn has 5 phases:

Fate Phase

Action Phase

Resolution Phase

Plot Phase

Recovery Phase

FATE PHASE

ACTION PHASE

RESOLUTION PHASE

A Meld is a card combo that must include:

1. Exactly one Foe or one Villain

2. Up to two Surfer cards* with PP >/= to the Foe or Villain

3. Up to one Location card

4. Up to one Superpower card if a Villain was played

5. One or two Plot cards.

* = The Surfer cards cannot be of the same type.

PLOT PHASE

RECOVERY PHASE

Maximum ending hand size is 4 cards.

Discard excess cards.

CARD LIST

Cosmic Endurance ST 5

Impervious to Elements ST 5

Cosmic Blast SE 8

Flying Board SB 4

Space Born Skill SK 9

Double Back SS 6

Searing Energy SE 8

Sky Rider SK 9

Board Attack SB 4

Summon Board SB 4

Cosmic Thrust SE 8

Healing Energy SC 3

Cosmic Power Bolt SE 8

Melt Weapon SC 3

Cosmic Burst SE 8

Track Any One SC 3

Supersonic Speeds SS 6

Sentinel of the Spaceways SK 9

Herald of Galactus SK 9

The Defenders SA 7

The Avengers SA 7

The Star Masters SA 7

The Fantastic Four SA 7

Cosmic Commandos SA 7

Superhuman Strength ST 5

Indestructible ST 5

Cosmic Energy Powers SE 8

Energy Beams SE 8

Silver Skin ST 5

Hyperspace Travel SS 6

Blinding Speed SS 6

Master of Cosmic Forces SK 9

Silver Board SB 4

Dodge Blows SS 6

Pure Heart ST 5

Cosmic Shock SE 8

Disguise SC 3

Cover Vast Distances SS 6

Sense Aura SC 3

Lightning Speed SS 6

Surprise SS 6

Neutralize Device SC 3

Galactus V 17

Thanos V 16

Loki V 15

The Overlord V 14

The Stranger V 13

Mephisto V 12

Doctor Doom V 11

Quasimodo V 10

Thor F 15

The Monster of Badoon F 9

Robot Monster F 8

Cavemen F 3

Dinosaurs F 5

Naval Warships F 6

Fighter Jets F 6

Yetis F 4

The Hulk F 11

Alien Invasion Fleet F 9

Armed Guards F 3

Mind Control X 7

Magic Powers X 5

Infernal Plot X 4

Ultimatum X 4

All Knowing X 7

Protective Field X 6

Energy Drain X 6

Dematerialize X 5

Pacific Ocean L 2

Zenn-La L 4

The Underworld L 5

Deep Space L 4

Arctic Circle L 3

Modern Metropolis L 2

Asgard L 5

Savage Earth L 3

Catastrophe P 8

Decoy P 6

Hostages P 6

Kidnapping P 6

Misunderstanding P 7

Rescue Innocent P 7

Time Travel P 5

Space Travel P 4

Cataclysm P 8

Love Interest P 7

Spacecraft P 4

Scientist P 5

Meteor Shower P 7

Madness P 5

Competition P 5

Space Scrambler P 4

Null-Life Bomb P 9

Ultimate Nullifier P 10

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Author of hundreds of games. Self Published in the Warpspawn Games Website. Personal Factoids: 2 Sons and an understanding wife. Pharmacist (God help us all). Taught College Biology for 5 years. Used to work in a Pawn shop. Pack Rat: Games, Toys, and Books

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Author of: Norse Odyssey, F-14, Ypres, Winter War, Protecting the Skies, Regular contributor to the Review Page

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