“Buy less, choose well, make it last.” – Vivienne Westwood
Last update: April 2025.
I buy a lot of RPG stuff, and often review it; but what I use on a regular basis, years later, is the best guide I can offer to what I think is worth getting.
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Savage Worlds by Pinnacle Entertainment. Low-prep, multi-genre RPG, best suited to pulp action-adventure stories; my go-to RPG since 2008. Worthwhile third-party add-ons: The Scheme Pyramid by Wine and Savages; Modern Traps and Obstacles and Trader Voyages, both by Veiled Fury Entertainment.
Solo by Zozer Games. Cepheus Engine supplement adding support for solo space opera campaigns. Works equally well with Traveller and Savage Worlds. I've used this on and off since 2017.
The Traveller Map. So much better than anything I could create that it's embarrassing. My default starmap since 2020.
Space Corsair's Random Word and Sentence Generator. Does what it says on the tin for the languages of Charted Space, the Official Traveller Universe; I've used it since about 2020.
Dormant
- 5150 by Two Hour Wargames. Solo space opera. (2012-2022).
- All Things Zombie, by Two Hour Wargames but now available from Rebel Minis Press. Solo zombie apocalypse. (2009-2025).
- The Dracula Dossier by Pelgrane Press. Epic campaign for Night’s Black Agents, though I used Savage Worlds; superspies vs vampires in contemporary Europe. (2022-2024).
- The Pirates of Drinax by Mongoose Publishing. Outstanding Traveller campaign and sandbox , though again I used Savage Worlds. (2020-2022).
- Original D&D – yes, the White Box edition. (1976-2024, same campaign throughout).
