Games like The Rain Thieves ☉ VEN002

We asked our banshee (technical director), Aaron H., to choose an excerpt to show off his book—our second full venture and setting sourcebook, The Rain Thieves.  There was certainly a lot of material to draw from: this eco-exploration book—set on the literally forgotten minor province of Radanaar—is full of desert and cave locations, communalist NPCs, optional survival rules, strange archaetech, f…

Uniquely flexible mechanics. An unforgettable game cosmos. Politically charged cosmic fantasy at its weirdest. Set in a paradoxically bleak and vibrant superfuture, Stillfleet is a sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game that empowers players with simple, intuitive mechanics and hundreds of options for powers. Built on a foundation of political tension between the Co. and its medieval market-worlds, Sti…

"The Dheleb Cross" is a hulk-tastic short venture that is highly philosophical and melancholy in tone and introduces players to the physics-breaking wilderness of the Escheresque. This 12-page philosophical science-horror venture can be used as an introduction to Stillfleet or as a story in the middle of an ongoing campaign. It has two parts: the exploration of a Late Tephnian hulk (an empty milit…

"Around the Dome" is the Stillfleet Studio's 6th official mini-venture as well as a 22-page preview of Qadida, the full-length gazetteer (setting sourcebook + venture) by Ian Derk. Whether or not your group intends to run a spy-themed campaign in the domed city, this quick story—weaving across both Worshipful Qadida (run by the W.Co.) and Free Qadida (a fledgling anarcho-socialist state backed by …

Stillfleet is a new tabletop RPG about exploring ruined spacecraft—hulks—and habitable earth-like planets, cut off from contact with Terra for decades or centuries—rocks. Players take the roles of "voidminers"—explorers working for the Worshipful Company of Stillfleeters, more often known simply as the Co. Their home, the alien space station nicknamed Spindle—a sea slug made of undulating black st…

[h2]Welcome to the Otherworld[/h2] "Estrella Frontier" is an open-world survival and construction game that combines survival, action-adventure, and building elements within a Japanese-style otherworldly backdrop. In this journey, you will take on the role of exiled Princess Lizelotte, wandering through a border region spanning over 100km^2. Explore every corner of the map freely, discover new tre…

A mystery aboard a Late Tephnian mining facility on a sinking moon: what—or whom—will the voidminers discover in the little time they have? This 15-page science-horror venture can be used as an introduction to Stillfleet or as a story in the middle of an ongoing campaign. It focuses on a hulk (an empty space station) and is intended to be run in a single session. This venture includes: A playable …

A sci-fi detective homage, originally written for spooky season 2022. Inspired by everyone's favorite 1990s show about paranormal investigations, "The Nocturnal Lights"—our third official mini-venture (MV), written by our editor, Stephen Aubrey—sends the voidminers to a remote rock to check out rumors of a mysterious visitation… Also, there are lots of jalasti around. Interesting bits contained in…

"Desert Moon of Karth" is a space western sandbox adventure for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG, taking place on the lawless boomtown of Larstown, a moon filled with dangers and strange phenomena. Players can harvest coral corpses, explore ruins, and hunt creatures, with the only way in or out being an antique space elevator. Survival is not guaranteed in this harsh and unforgiving setting.

R'lyeh is a story-driven, open-world, Lovecraftian Horror and Survival game with a scifi twist. It follows the story of Elias Frost, a lone survivor who crash-lands on a mysterious planet. Earth has been decimated by monstrous beings and the last of humanity scurried to send ships into space. They were hoping to find a new world to colonize and re-establish mankind. After a devastating incident,…