Steve's Gaming Articles

These articles are an ecclectic collection, to say the least. They're things I've written for various games, either for use in a campaign, or simply when I've felt inspired by something. Comments and feedback are, of course, welcome at talonmail@aol.com.

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Last Updated: 1/8/04

Aberrant

• Aberrant Review: A review of the Aberrant game from White Wolf.
• Brainwaves: Unpublished material I wrote for an Aberrant sourcebook.
• Marvels, Portents, Monsters: My own Aberrant campaign.
• Quantum Powers: Thoughts on a free-form power system based on the Mage magic rules.

Castle Falkenstein

• A Dire Plot: Wherein the Heroes confront the sinister Lord Anton Dire.
• 7th Sea: A brief conversion of Falkenstein abilities to use the Great Game with the 7th Sea setting

Dragonlance: Fifth Age

• Fantasy SAGA: Modifications to the SAGA System for a classic fantasy game.
• Fighting the Good Fight: A new ability to even out fights.
• High Magic: Alternate rules for a high-magic game.
• Magical Miscellany: Variant magic system ideas.
• Middle Earth: Fourth Age: Character creation rules for a short-lived Middle-Earth SAGA game.
• SAGA Options: Some ideas for Dragonlance based on the Marvel SAGA rules.

Earthdawn

• The Bone Bell of Kaer Talloria: An Earthdawn legend.
• Earthdawn d20: An adaptation of Earthdawn to the d20 system.
• Earthdawn Love: Some thoughts about love (and sex) in Barsaive.
• Emergence: An introductory Earthdawn adventure (based on the first adventure in my Daralon game).
• Epic Earthdawn: A conversion of Earthdawn to the SAGA System.
• The Hand of Daralon: Information on my Earthdawn campaign.
• Iceheart: A magical arrow with a cold secret.
• Masks of Legend: Universal Mythology and Earthdawn.
• Night's Shadow: An enchanted bow.
• The Spirit Warrior: A new discipline.
• The Thief Who Stole from Death: An Earthdawn legend.
• The War Dancer: A new fighting discipline.
• The Windling Flowers of Love: An Earthdawn legend.
• Wyrmseeker: A magical dragon-slaying blade, with a price.

FUDGE

• The Superlative System: An adaptation of the classic Marvel Super-Heroes RPG to the FUDGE engine.

Gamma World

• The Mutant Manual: Over 30 creatures from the 1st edition, adapted for use with the 5th.
• New Mutations: A few new mutations for the 5th edition of Gamma World.

GURPS

• CyberYrth: GURPS Fantasy with cyberware.
• Extended Telepathy Range Chart
• Jedi Knight Template
• Superpunk: The dark future, in four-color.

Hero System

• Freedom City Hero: Hero System stats for some of the characters from the Freedom City sourcebook.

Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game

• The Guardians: My own Marvel game.
• The Marvel Phile!: A collection of Marvel game resources, rules, adventures, and roster books.
• M-Fuzion: A point-based character design system for Marvel based off the Fuzion rules.

Mutants & Masterminds

• Freedom City Annotated: Notes on the homages and "Easter eggs" found in my Freedom City sourcebook

Shadowrun

• A Change for the Better: Some thoughts on shapeshifting magic.
• A Little More Familiar: Ideas for ally spirits.
• African Awakened: New critters from the Dark Continent.
• Arabian Magic: A look at the world of the Arabian mage.
• Awakened Seattle: A chapter cut from the New Seattle sourcebook for space reasons.
• Bad Blood: A story I wrote for Dunkelzahn's Secrets, cut for space reasons.
• The Daremo: Ninjas for the Sixth World.
• Demon in a Bottle: What happens to people who mess with unknown magics.
• Film at 11: A short adventure idea involving the media.
• The Gang's All Here: A gang-campaign outline.
• Get Out of the Water: Da-Dum, Da-Dum... a simple smuggling run turns into trouble.
• MITS Miscellany: Some ideas that weren't included in the Magic in the Shadows book.
• Necromancy: Ghosts, undead, and the Black Arts.
• No Jack City: Cyberpunk settings without the cyberware. Originally published in Shadis.
• Out for Blood: A group of vampires hires shadowrunners for help.
• Radical Faeries: The San Francisco queer underground.
• Shadow-Psi: Some ideas for including psionics in Shadowrun.
• The Ways of Magic: Some alternate magic variations.
• The World of Shadow: Shadowrun meets White Wolf's World of Darkness
• Wraiths: These nasty critters accidentally got cut from Magic in the Shadows.

7th Sea

• The Secrets of Porté: Some home-brew rules and ideas for fixing up Porté magic.

Star Trek

• The Lost Episodes: Material I originally wrote for Last Unicorn's Star Trek RPGs, now available for free on the Web!

Star Wars

• Star Wars Saga: Basic information for a Star Wars game using the SAGA game rules.

Torg

• Eternity Street: By far the most unique location of my Torg campaign.
• Nirvana-9: A cosm I came up with for a never-used alternate Torg game.
• Unified Special Effects: A new special effects system for Torg.

Trinity

• Telepathy Tricks: Some new options for telepaths.

Underworld

• Bio-Comps: A brain is a terrible thing to waste...
• Primitives: A look at urban tribes.
• Slumberland: Adventures in virtual reality.