Orbital Blues: A Space Western RPG
This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was-and nobody wanted.
It is an intergalactic age of cowboys¸ outlaws and bandits playing on an interstellar stage. It is a time of hyper-capitalism and a cut-throat gig economy. Unreliable trash-heaps carry scrappy underdogs to their next gig¸ and corporation freighters lumber across the horizon laden with an empire's bounty.
These are the music-fuelled¸ moon-age daydreams of a rebel space age.
These are your ORBITAL BLUES.
ORBITAL BLUES is a lo-fi space western roleplaying game from SoulMuppet Publishing¸ written by Sam Sleney & Zachary Cox. A roleplaying love-letter to off-beat sci-fi¸ vintage music¸ and cooperative old-school styled roleplay¸ Orbital Blues allows you to play out rules-light tabletop adventures in the style of space westerns such as Cowboy Bebop¸ Firefly and Guardians of the Galaxy
Stepping into the shoes of Interstellar Outlaws¸ players band together to form Crews¸ and navigate a hard-going¸ gig-economy living on the fringes of a space-faring society.
Developed on the critically acclaimed rules-lite system of Best Left Buried¸ Orbital Blues uses a simple D6 based system with 3 basic stats - MUSCLE¸ GRIT¸ and SAVVY - to handle rolls and uncertainty - putting the narrative and relationships of the player characters at the heart of play without the baggage of hefty mechanics¸ classes or roles.
Art by Joshua Clark. Layout and Cartography by Lone Archivist.