Sky Pirates of Doom World

Introduction

This setting was created when we were playing Fudge on the #fudge IRC channel, some 10 years ago. We wanted to try a new setting but nobody had any ideas. So we decided to generate one by using the Seventh Sanctum generators.

For the setting I would recommend using the Story Generator or the Quick Story Idea Generator or the Quick Story Theme Generator. Then generate a bunch of ideas and pick the one that inspires you. For Sky Pirates of Doom World I got these:

The initial Quick Story Idea was

The theme of this story: metaphorical conspiracy. The main characters: misguided inventor and unpredictable sailor. The start of the story: apocalyptic event. The end of the story: premonition.

I also used the Quick Story Theme Generator and one of the results was

Setting: pirate/cyberpunk. Theme: loss-of-technology

Here I took the main characters to present the player characters. Inventors and misguided sailors: Sounds like mad scientists and pirates to me! The start of the story is going to be the setting. So a Post-apocalyptic world with pirates and mad scientists. Hmm that sounds like steam punk to me! Combine that with the cyberpunk/pirate setting and the loss of technology and we have Sky Pirates of Doom World!

In the spirit of this system all characters were also based on randomly generated descriptions and names, and we used Fudge on the Fly.

I found this process to be quite inspirational and I am going to use it again. In fact it was so powerful that I have remembered the setting for 10 years even though we never actually did play the game. Perhaps I'll use this for my next Fudge Game! If you do use this method, please let me know!

But now, without further ado, let me present:

Doom World

Doom world is a cyber-diesel-punk setting where the world was cracked into asteroids floating in air. It happened so long ago that no-one anymore knows of the time before that. Since then humanity has learned to cope. People live on these asteroids floating in air, yet somehow the planet remains separate. Think treasure planet meets drifting dragons meets cyberpunk.

Detailed Combat rules for Fudge

Introduction

This article is part of the series where I share parts of my home-brew RPG - Rope - converted to Fudge (of course). I'm doing this to push myself to actually get the conversion done, so I can start running it again in earnest :).

As this is a port from my RPG I created before finding Fudge, and has not been tested a lot. I would love to get some feedback on this!

Fudge core rules introduce 3 ways to do combat: Story Elements, Simultaneous Combat and Alternating Combat. All these are quite generic and lack a bit of crunch and tactical elements that many other RPG systems provide. These rules resemble Alternating combat the most, and aim to provide the option for GMs who prefer a bit more detail in combat, with special moves and potentially multiple actions etc.

Item Crafting - Creating magical items in Fudge

Introduction

This article is part of the series where I share parts of my home-brew RPG - Rope - converted to Fudge (of course). I'm doing this to push myself to actually get the conversion done, so I can start running it again in earnest :).

As this is a port from my RPG I created before finding Fudge, and has not been tested a lot. I would love to get some feedback on this!

This system uses the Fudge Tasks and Spell Crafting from my previous posts. I recommend reading them first to understand the actual Item Crafting mechanic.