Games
This is what it is all about – the creating, playing and enjoying of games is the sole purpose of Peril Planet. There are all kinds of things here, a lot of it totally free. Have a browse, see what you like and leave some feedback, either by email or on the forums.
Big Game Hunt
Free!
A game of dinosaur hunting for ages 7 and up! These straightforward, fun rules take up an entire 2 pages, including character record sheets! Plenty of fun with miniature figures, toy dinosaurs and anything else you have lying about.
Come With Me If You Want To Live!
Free!
The world is ending and only You have any chance of saving humanity. A lighthearted board game for four.
Conquest of the Lost World
Free!
A miniature battle game of Victorian-Pulp adventure.
Droog Family Songbook
Free!
The hills are alive with the sound of Nazis! An RPG that mashes up The Sound of Music and A Clockwork Orange. Yes, it is as disturbing as you are afraid it will be!
Dungeon Quest
Free!
A straight-forward fantasy RPG totally free for you to use and abuse. It is released to the world under a Creative Commons-Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike License, which means you can use it for free so long as you don’t try to make money off it or claim it as your own.
Fantasy Character Hotseat
This resource provides more than 240 inspirational prompts that you can use to create interesting backgrounds and agendas for your fantasy characters.
Frogger the board game
Free!
Created as part of a game design course, this is the first, rough iteration of a game based on the old Atari classic. It works, is playable solo, and is fun. One day I will refine it a little further, simply some of the clunky stuff and rename it a non-trade-marked name! In the meantime, get it for free!
Space Rat
The competative roleplaying game of space opera adventure. The award-winning Space Rat: The Jack Cosmos Adventure Game! is a comedic game of over-the-top action and outrageous fun!
Space Rat – original 24 hour version
Free!
Written as part of Ron Edward’s “Ronnies” challenge, this is the precursor to the fully tricked-out 74-page game. The themes and core concepts in this first 24-hour game made it through to the final game, so check it out.
StarCorps
Free!
Join the StarCorps, see the galaxy and kill some aliens! A “mini” RPG I wrote waaay back. It was the test piece for a range of games that I am yet to get to. It has everything you need to create characters, and a sketch of a system that should get you started. Check it out and let me know what you think.
System Free Resources
These are versatile resources that are useful no matter the game you play. Each System Free Resource provides details, ideas and essential game aids that you can integrate into your favourite game.
Templar
Free!
The land of Lenor is engulfed in darkness and besieged by evil, only the Templars can bring the Light to the Darkness. This is a setting for a campaign I ran back in 2005. Detailed enough for casual campaign play. It was originally written for D&D and I am contemplating re-fitting it for True20. This document has no system info – it is all fluff.
The Beast of Limfjord
An RPG of dark age fantasy, inspired by the Norse sagas. It has everything you need to play out epic adventures!
The Green and the Tan
A fast-play and easy game of toy soldiers. Use traditional plastic soldiers to play out exciting tabletop battles with these simple rules.
The Last Human
Free!
When the robots re-awoke their human charges were dead. All but one, an infant girl. You are one of the robots left to protect and care for this child. What will you do now? This was my very first 24-hour RPG.
Verge
Free!
Trapped in a city, surrounded by enemies, life at the bottom is rough and the troubleshooters will do what it takes to survive one more day. This is gritty fantasypunk in a world where the danger is green. Another 24-hour rpg, I am quite pleased with the way this turned out.
Vignette
Free!
A simple universal rpg that I have used to run everything from super-heroes to grotty, goblin-based fantasy. This is the game that FU is based on.
All documents are copyright 2009, Nathan Russell
