Well - the synth-cat is out of the bag! I've written a sequel to Those Dark Places - PRESSURE: INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE FICTION ROLEPLAYING, written by me & illustrated by Nathan J. Anderson. It's a slightly different beast - it uses the original rules but has expanded skills so that you can more define your PC as well as use them in campaign games, options to play the game grim but less lethal, vehicles, starship rules, a complete setting from life on earth to the outer stars, expanded information on the companies, optional rules for cybernetics, an adventure, and the original game is fully com ..read more

Farsight Games is a small indie publisher producing official material for the Those Dark Places #rpg from Osprey Games, and new #ttrpgs for the rules-light Hi5 System. All quick, cheap and easy to play. Perfect for one-shots and convention games ..read more

That's pretty much me done for 2022, so all that remains is for me to wish you all a very Happy Holiday and a fantastic New Year!  ..read more

 LAY IN A COURSE FOR ADVENTURE! COSMIC QUEST AVAILABLE NOW! Those Dark Places was conceived and written as a dark sci-fi roleplaying game, where players faced the dangers and horrors of working in deep space. I was emulating my favourite dark science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. However, I also have a deep love for other kinds of science fiction, especially the kind where adventures take place on treks into unexplored space (wink wink). Where heroes can fight against the darkness, or bring hope to those who have none, or further the boundaries of mankind. These characters and adventur ..read more

I'm not saying I'm going to write it - yet - but I've already figured out adapting the Fireteam rules to make it specific for the genre as well as making it... a bit weird. It's the fault of The English ..read more

After watching a video about the Yamato anime it struck me that a huge part of military sci-fi is about the starships, so I'm having some ideas about a sourcebook regarding the vessels of the Fireteam universe and the people that crew them. Space navy campaigns can be fun ..read more

 ... and then there's Titan Gate, something I still haven't decided on what it's going to be, adventure or sourcebook. It details a central staging area for the Combine war machine which comes under attack. I guess it could be both There's a lot in the pipeline for Fireteam ..read more

This another project for Fireteam I'm working on - I'm experimenting with short combat missions, to open new ideas, equipment and locations. This one is a mashup of The Thing and Starship Troopers - at least, that's my pitch to myself. It will end up far different, I'm sure ..read more

FIRETEAM Rules Light Military Science Fiction Roleplaying is now an Electrum Best Seller! Thanks to all who got it this far ..read more

I was really hoping to get Invasion finished by Christmas but I've decided to delay it - after rejigging the core book with better art and layout I want to make some changes to this and adjust the focus. Let's just say I'm changing it so that the title should be LIBERATION and not INVASION. It's still going to happen. Anyway, here's a test cover ..read more