Forgotten Futures
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All material is free for download from the Forgotten Futures website.
Complete Rules For Adventures in Victorian and Edwardian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Remember how the future used to be?
When vast fleets of flying ships blackened the sky...
When psychic investigators used electric pentacles...
When Venus was a paradise¸ never fallen from grace...
When the government's main job was to make the airships run on time...
When a gentleman could build his own spaceship and still have change of a million pounds...
When there were still dinosaurs and monsters in the unexplored corners of the Earth...
When you could find a complete role playing game with twelve supplements on line...
Probably the first shareware tabletop RPG¸ now freeware¸ Forgotten Futures has been published on disk and on line since 1993. Like all of the core Forgotten Futures RPG material¸ this PDF is a free download. It contains all of the rules that you'll need to play the game¸ including many of the optional "extras" that have been added in various worldbooks and adventures. More than a hundred megabytes of background material and adventures are available from the author's web site¸ with much more supporting material available as a downloadable CD-ROM image.
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A Victorian adventure RPG based on early science fiction writings: not only Jules Verne¸ but also ""forgotten"" sci-fi works such s George Griffith and Rudyard Kiplings. This appeared as a shareware download on the Internet for several years¸ and later was published in print. Although the rules are cheaply downloadable¸ the core rulebook is 151 pages - illustrated with an index. It uses a rules-lite system with 3 attributes and broad skills. There are both printed and downloadable supplements on various early sci-fi works. cf. the official website. - A description from https://darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/ with kind permission of John H. Kim"