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Coriolis: The Third Horizon - Coriolis Station

Our latest video unravels the mysteries of Coriolis station in the epic tabletop RPG Coriolis: The Third Horizon by Free League Publishing. Unlock secrets, factions, and jaw-dropping lore! 🚀🎲 Watch now! #CoriolisRPG #TabletopGaming #FreeLeaguePublishing

Coriolis: The Third Horizon [PDF]Dive into Coriolis station in the tabletop RPG Coriolis: The Third Horizon! Explore its lore, factions, and political intrigue. Don’t miss out! Welcome to another mind-blowing episode where we dive into the enigmatic Coriolis station in the captivating universe of Coriolis: The Third Horizon by Free League Publishing! Unearth the mysteries and political intrigue…

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The 10 Most Anticipated TTRPGs For 2025!

EN World’s annual vote on the most anticipated titles of the coming year, and yes, some games have appeared on this list in previous years.

10) Starfinder 2E (Paizo Publishing) The Starfinder Playtest Rulebook brings Starfinder into a new age of compatibility, as Starfinder switches to using the same rules engine that powers the popular Second Edition of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Inside this playtest for the new edition, you’ll find six new classes, 10 ancestries, new skills, new feats, futuristic equipment including augmentations and upgrades, new science-fantasy spells, and more!

9) Alien - Evolved Edition (Free League) Expanded and updated core rules and a new cinematic scenario for the award-winning RPG from Free League and 20th Century Studios. Based upon feedback from thousands of players over five years of adventures, the Evolved Edition of the Core Rulebook delivers an updated and streamlined version of the ALIEN RPG fans know and love, along with additional new artwork, new content, and a variety of new tools for players and Game Mothers alike, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.

8) 13th Age 2nd Edition (Pelgrane Press) A New Edition of the Award-Winning Heroic Fantasy Game! The coolest and most fun parts of traditional d20-rolling fantasy gaming plus story-focused rules, now with updated class and kin powers, fearsome new abilities for your favorite monsters, and revamped icon connection mechanics!

13th Age 2E has been in this chart three years running! In both 2023 and 2024 it came 3rd in the poll!

7) Coriolis: The Great Dark (Free League) Free League's original sci-fi RPG returns. Join expeditions to faraway stars and delve deep into ancient ruins.

6) Dolmenwood (Necrotic Gnome) Dolmenwood is a fantasy adventure game set in a lavishly detailed world inspired by the fairy tales and eerie folklore of the British Isles. Like traditional fairy tales, Dolmenwood blends the dark and whimsical, the wondrous and weird.

This is Dolmenwood's second appearance in this chart, coming in at #5 last year!

5) Terry Pratchett's Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork (Modiphius) Adventures in Ankh-Morpork, the Discworld tabletop roleplaying game, catapults you onto the streets of the Big Wahoonie, and once you've dusted yourself off you can adventure to your heart's content. With imagination and some shiny math rocks at your fingertips, your story on the Disc awaits. Based on the popular Discworld fantasy series by Sir Terry Pratchett, Adventures in Ankh-Morpork is an officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in its most recognisable city, complete with Sir Terry's iconic wit, humour, and humanistic satire.

4) Draw Steel (MCDM) A Fantasy RPG where your character starts, at level 1, already a hero. Maybe even locally famous! You might meet in a tavern, or start in the middle of the action! Whether you’re a group of local heroes sent to investigate mysterious goings-on in the nearby haunted wood, or famous mercenaries plotting and scheming in the big city, the MCDM RPG makes building adventures and fighting monsters fun. Basically, any adventure or story you’re running in your current Fantasy RPG, you can do that in this game. Just, in a more straightforward and fun way, unburdened by sacred cows from the 1970s.

3) Daggerheart (Darrington Press) Daggerheart is a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game of brave heroics and vibrant worlds that are built together with your gaming group. Create a shared story with your adventuring party, and shape your world through rich, long-term campaign play.

2) Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere (Brotherwise Games) The Cosmere® RPG is a "living" RPG that will grow as Brandon Sanderson writes new novels and expands his universe. This original system is designed to tell standalone stories in the Stormlight™ or Mistborn® Settings -- or sweeping Worldhopper™ campaigns that move between different worlds and realms!

1) Legend in the Mist (Son of Oak) A rustic fantasy tabletop RPG based on the acclaimed City of Mist. Spin a fireside tale of unlikely villagers setting out on a quest into a greater unknown world, rife with peril and mystery, in the vein of The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, Princess Mononoke, and many other classic fantasy stories, or create your own legendary realms with the game’s open-ended system.

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This is the Starter Edition of Traveller (1983). It is the same basic rules as the black box, but repackaged in a larger format with lots of art. You can only do without illustrations in RPGs for so long! In addition to the rules, there’s also a couple of introductory scenarios, which is nice.

I didn’t have space yesterday, but I gotta say, the mechanics are extremely simple for the time. There is complexity, no doubt – space travel calculations require figuring out square roots and seeing that check mark symbol in an RPG rulebook evokes flashbacks to traumatic summer school sessions of algebra. But the core is an easy roll-to-beat system – roll two six-sided dice, add or subtract the appropriate modifiers and hope the result beats an eight. This feels featherlight and straightforward compared to Dungeons & Dragons.

Helping all of this along is the fact that Traveller was the first RPG that lines up with the popular conception of science fiction as laid out in Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the just-released blockbuster Star Wars: there are spaceships to fly, planets to explore and adventures to experience, with plenty of mechanical tools to facilitate their creation. That’s a lot easier to get a handle on than a nightmarish mutant-filled spaceship flying to its doom. Fueled in part by Star Wars mania, Traveller captured those sci-fi vibes so well that it dominated the genre for about a decade until it was dethroned, ironically, by West End Games’ Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.

Traveller still stands as the most important traditional sci-fi game, thanks to both its scope and the crisp simplicity of its systems. Any game since that involves exploring the stars or interacting with complex technology – Stars Without Number, Coriolis, MechWarrior, Rifts and more – builds on the foundation established by Traveller.

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Tabletop RPG Quickstarts

Since plenty of us seem to be in lockdown courtesy of the ongoing pandemic, I figured I’d share a few of the free starter/beginner rulesets that’re over on Drivethru RPG.  These are, by and large, ones for games I enjoy (which means most are scifi more than fantasy), but it’ll give you something if you have an online group wanting to try something new.

Those of you not familiar with quickstart sets, they’re an often slimmed down version of the full rules, an adventure (or two), and pregenerated characters for groups to try and see if they like a game before going in on the full version.

Dragon Age RPG: Listed first because I get the feeling this is the one most folks’ll want.  It’s exactly what it says on the tin: The quickstart set for Green Ronin’s Dragon Age RPG.

Star Trek Adventures: Another exactly what it says on the tin entry; this is the quickstart ruleset for Modiphius’ Star Trek Adventures.

Coriolis: The Third Horizon: Coriolis is probably one of my favorite tabletop RPGs from the past few years.  It’s a space opera with a very distinct 1001 Arabian Nights feel and influence to it (amongst other things) done by Fria Ligan (Free League in English) Publishing.

Cold and Dark: Cold and Dark is what you get when you toss Dead Space, Doom, and the Alien franchise in a blender.  Very much worth a look, I think, since it tries for the scifi horror thing.  (And because the Alien RPG hasn’t got a quickstart that I can find.)

Elite Dangerous RPG: Yes, the sandbox space sim has a tabletop RPG.  I recommend it, but I’m pretty biased on that one.

Capharnum: If you ever wanted to do Prince of Persia on the tabletop, this is the game.  Arabian Nights style fantasy.

Numenera: Earth a billion or so years down the line and after at least eight apocalypses (apocalypsi?), you play denizens of the Ninth World, where the technology of the old worlds is as magic.  Adventure, fame, fortune, and the titular numenera await.

City of Mist: The only game whose rulebook(s) I don’t actively own on this list yet as I write this.  This is film noir with a mythic twist; a very unique urban fantasy setting that I genuinely want to run a full game of at some point.

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Coriolis Atlas Compendium. This thin booklet is at the same time an indispensable complement to the core Coriolis rulebook (in particular because it details some of the mysteries that the core rules lay out) and a frustrating exercice in trying to facilitate immersion. The Atlas part is mostly uninspired and lacks some forethought on what the PCs can do in each system. The mysteries part is OK although a tad too short, it could have done with more. The system generator is perfunctory and lacks flavour. The mission generator is a little better thought out but very generic. All in all, necessary, but frustrating.

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Coriolis: The Third Horizon - People of the Third Horizon

Ready to meet the people who make Coriolis: The Third Horizon more than just stars and spaceships? 🌌 Our latest video dives into the cultures, conflicts, and stories of the Third Horizon! 🎲✨ #CoriolisRPG #FreeLeaguePublishing #TabletopGaming

Coriolis: The Third Horizon [PDF]Meet the people of the Third Horizon in Coriolis: The Third Horizon! Explore unique cultures and conflicts in this must-see tabletop RPG video. Hey there, space adventurers! In today’s video, we’re zooming in on the diverse people of the Third Horizon in Coriolis: The Third Horizon by Free League Publishing! Discover the unique cultures, riveting conflicts, and…

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Coriolis: The Third Horizon - Equipment, Weapons, & Armor

🌟 Gear up for cosmic adventures! Explore the vast arsenal of equipment, weapons, and armor in Coriolis: The Third Horizon by Free League Publishing. Prepare for interstellar challenges like never before! #CoriolisRPG #TabletopGaming #EquipmentGuide

Coriolis: The Third Horizon [PDF]Explore the gear, weapons, and armor in Coriolis: The Third Horizon RPG. Equip your character for cosmic adventures in this tabletop universe. Gear up for interstellar adventures in Coriolis: The Third Horizon by Free League Publishing! The game offers a vast array of equipment, weapons, and armor to suit every cosmic explorer’s needs. From energy weapons and…

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Coriolis: The Third Horizon - Combat System [Part 2]

🌌 Prepare for more epic battles in Coriolis: The Third Horizon by Free League Publishing! Learn the combat system's intricacies and strategies in our (second of two) videos. Get ready to engage the cosmos like never before! #CoriolisRPG #TabletopGaming #CombatSystem

Coriolis: The Third Horizon [PDF]Unlock the secrets of Coriolis: The Third Horizon’s combat system in this informative video! Dive into interstellar battles. The combat system in Coriolis: The Third Horizon, a captivating tabletop RPG by Free League Publishing, is a thrilling blend of strategy and narrative immersion. With its focus on cinematic action, it brings the vastness of interstellar…

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Coriolis: The Third Horizon - Combat System [Part 1]

🌌 Prepare for epic battles in Coriolis: The Third Horizon by Free League Publishing! Uncover the combat system's intricacies and strategies in our (first of two) videos. Get ready to explore the cosmos like never before! #CoriolisRPG #TabletopGaming #CombatSystem

Coriolis: The Third Horizon [PDF]Unlock the secrets of Coriolis: The Third Horizon’s combat system in this informative video! Dive into interstellar battles. The combat system in Coriolis: The Third Horizon, a captivating tabletop RPG by Free League Publishing, is a thrilling blend of strategy and narrative immersion. With its focus on cinematic action, it brings the vastness of interstellar…

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Coriolis: The Third Horizon (2016) is the closest Free League’s got to a traditional science fiction game. By which I mean, instead of Star Trek and Star Wars as touchstones, the game’s key references seem to be the Arabian Nights, Dune, Mass Effect, Fading Suns and maybe a touch of Firefly. It is a moody universe, with great swaths of isolating emptiness, where forces known as Icons provide blessings and something lurks in the darkness between the stars.

It’s a Year Zero Engine game and probable most closely resembles Alien in terms of the basic mechanics here, though it isn’t a horror game (not really), so no Stress or Panic. Instead, when you call on an Icon, you gain a Darkness point that the GM can use down the line to complicate your life, using predetermined narrative moves. The hook (every Year Zero game has a unique hook) is the groups’ space ship(s). A big chunk of the rulebook is dedicated to building, modifying and maintaining the modular ships — it’s a pretty great base-building mechanic, deep but not too noodly, with lots of cool quirks you wouldn’t expect to find on a spaceship (greenhouses and shrines and stuff like that). Ship to ship combat plays out with every player manning a specific station, an idea derived from the old FASA Star Trek RPG and used to great effect here (the ships feels a good deal more like a home than in Trek).

The universe is unusual, with most of the cultural touchstones reflecting Middle Eastern and North African culture, but refracted through hundreds of years of further development in a new part of the universe. There is a clash of cultures between the original settlers who left last but arrived first via alien jump gates, and the new population that arrives on a cryoship (the titular Coriolis station is the seat of their power). Factions and plots abound. It is a rich setting that rewards exploration with many, many surprises — the whole line is top notch!