Science Fiction

Sitemap of Science Fiction content for Table-Top Roleplaying Games.

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People

• By the Numbers: 3
  "... knowing that they have four lives total, many deathbringers will ..."
  
  
• By the Numbers: 4,186,232,106
  "Nobody actually died from all that sex, but many people ..."
  
  
• Dweeno
  "Right now, Dweeno lives at Dubgo Station on the second moon of Binbol, in the Poklo System, but he would really love to get out and do some exploring."
  
  
• Grikk
  "When he is not on duty, Grikk likes to engage in problem solving mind melds with his friends (roleplaying), absorb a bit of acidic rainwater (get drunk) and enter into a temporary compressive state with a female Wrok (f..."
  
  
• Hek 40
  "One day, he explored a wormhole and the next thing he knew he was crash landing on Earth in the year 1930."
  
  
• Jix the Conqueror
  "On a good day, the trillions of people he rules over merely fear him more than anything else in life. On a bad day, they fear him so much their heads explode."
  
  
• Joe Lucas, Droid Repairman
  "Man, that is one banged up K5 unit you've got there. What happened to him? Did a Wookie play kickball with him? Yeah, sure, I'll fix him up. You want the new 6.2 software upgrade while I'm at it?"
  
  
• Joe Orion, Starship Mechanic
  "Oh now, jeez, I haven't seen one of dese in years. An old Asimov 250 wit' jump drive, right? Gosh, this is a classic, don't ya know? There's a fella back home in Fargo has got one o' dese."
  
  
• Lorigal
  "Fortunately for him, ZhuKoth lifepods are virtually indestructible and the suspended animation freezing units are self repairing. Unfortunately, Lorigal's lifepod ..."
  
  
• Monek Vuu
  "Monek tried several times to escape, but the humans had them locked up tight. After a time, Monek decided to wait, study the human language and eventually try to make contact."
  
  
• R is for Robotic Raiders
  "The Robotic Raiders were a race of sentient robot pirates who landed on Earth in 1978 and proceeded to rob and pillage for about a week before beaming back up to their spacecraft with ..."
  

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Places

• Arizona "Aliens Welcome Here!"
  "Arizona, the Grand Canyon state, was admitted to the union on February 14th, 1912. Six months later, the first beings from another world landed just outside Tombstone and proclaimed their peaceful intentions."
  
  
• Bogenbroom Island
  "Of all the many villains that Doc Tempest has faced, Dr. Thaddeus Bogenbroom is one of the most deranged and dangerous. Long before the rest of the world ever dreamed of recombinant DNA research, he had discovered..."
  
  
• California "Hooray for Hollyweird"
  "No, our story now moves ahead seven years to the third upgrade of the AI that all of these robots used. You remember, the one that made them all self aware?"
  
  
• Hard Luck Station
  "Located on the jungle planet Ks'rrk, Hard Luck Station is where they send the toughest and most expendable Space Marines."
  
  
• Hawaii "Timeless Beauty"
  "Inside, it's pre-human Hawaii ... and nothing from our time can enter without dying unless it was living on Hawaii in that location back then."
  
  
• HMS Vagabond
  "Thanks to Weird Science and a large budget, the HMS Vagabond is the pride of the Royal Navy...or would be, if..."
  
  
• Iowa "Mutants R Us!"
  "... it was found that Reptoid terrorists had managed to release Yizon 88 gas in the North American state of Iowa. This vile Venusian creation almost instantly began mutating humans."
  
  
• Jump Gates
  "This can cause all sorts of problems from the minor ... to the catastrophic (you weren't there to enter the shutdown code when your tacyonic power generator went critical and turned New York city into a smoldering crater)."
  
  
• Kansas "Totally Warped"
  "Within days, it was discovered that everywhere a piece of the meteor fell, a doorway in space opened to another location on earth."
  
  
• M is for Mars
  "The planet Mars exists in most of the realities we will be dealing with here. The notable exceptions are the two realities where Mars was destroyed by a massive cometary impact, the one where ..."
  
  
• Maryland "A State of Mind"
  "1: You will be subjected to a random number of deep mindscans every day. This is for the good of all, since such scans help us find and deal with the terrorists of the so-called Free Mind Army."
  
  
• Michigan "The Amphibian State"
  "At a point about 9,000 years ago, something happened that caused some humans to begin slowly changing into an amphibian form. This is similar to the change that created ..."
  
  
• Mississippi "The Blue Runner State"
  "On Earth 5, the heavily forested state of Mississippi is the setting for one of the most interesting and extreme military training functions ever devised: The Mississippi Survival Run."
  
  
• Montana "Water, Water Everywhere!"
  "The most interesting iteration of the Big Sky State is the one on Earth 109, where most of the state is ..."
  
  
• Nevada "Robostate!"
  "Two years into the Human/Robot War, the robots, who were winning, made the world an offer they couldn't refuse: Give them ... and they'd stop fighting. The humans agreed without hesitation."
  
  
• New Atlantis
  "In the waning years of the 20th Century, humankind got several wake up calls telling them that global warming was coming and coming fast. A few mega hurricanes, a few years of killing summer heat, an ice sheet breakaway half the size of California ... unlike our Earth, ..."
  
  
• New York "Teslafied!"
  "It's really simple: The Age of Steam came to a screaming halt when Thomas Edison died of a heart attack and Nikola Tesla took over and ..."
  
  
• North Dakota "The Nexus State"
  "For two years, the dome just sat there doing nothing but frustrating scientists. Then on May 14, 1990, a voice heard worldwide on all radio and television frequencies said ..."
  
  
• Ohio "The Steam State"
  "What this Ohio does is make steam engines. Lots and lots of steam engines ... huge ones, tiny ones, super efficient ones, lightweight ones ..."
  
  
• Pennsylvania "The Quarantined State"
  "Since the shrinking is permanent and you'll die if you leave the state, it's not a place most people are hot to go visit. Also, it's against Federal law and you'll be shot on sight."
  
  
• Pink Blobs
  "...when a miner dying from the bite of a veeth spider was suddenly engulfed by a Pink Blob."
  
  
• Quantronico Labs
  "Founded in 2003, Quantronico Labs designs and builds all manner of very specialized high tech equipment used in quantum physics research. Fortunately for them, most of the actual manufacturing is done at their facility in Los Angeles, because their main labs in Palo Alto are no longer there most of the time."
  
  
• Right in the Middle of the Park... NEW! Unexpected Places
  "Ya know it's funny; I've been eating at that stand maybe twice a week since I was a kid and ..."
  
  
• South Carolina "A State of Change"
  "A week later, the entire state changed to a desert environment and the people all turned into 5 foot tall very dark blue skinned humanoids."
  
  
• South Dakota "A Moving State"
  "On no less that 9 alternate United States ... the State of South Dakota just won't stay put. Every decade since 1950, at 2:17 pm on June 4th a, it moves to ..."
  
  
• Tennessee "The Invisible State"
  "... used his Light Diffusement Cannon to render the entire state invisible, with the intent of then ransoming Tennessee for millions of dollars. Imagine his surprise when ..."
  
  
• The Golden Moon
  "Ask anyone what the most famous legend of the Galactic Federation is and 99% of the time, regardless of the tech level of the world, the reply will be..."
  
  
• Three Blocks Down on the Left... NEW! Unexpected Places
  "... as far as the chances go of hooking up with some mutant hottie, well, let's just say ..."
  
  
• Virginia "An Uplifting State"
  "Over the years, Virginia has been first to introduce many advanced animals, including NeoGorillas, SuperDogs, Octopoids, CyberCats and the amazing Oliphants, the smartest and largest of all the so called 'Critters 2.0.'  "
  
  
• Washington "Welcome To The Future"
  "On the rainy morning of March 19th, 1999, a 400 square mile portion of Washington state, mostly centered on Seattle, swapped places with the Seattle of March 19th, 2039."
  
  
• Wisconsin "The Big Cheese"
  "Roy was very much still alive when the mix of molds, bacteria, algae and various illegally dumped chemicals began to enter both his body and the cheese."
  
  
• Z is for Zero Day
  "On August 11th, 1958, at exactly 12:01 AM, every human being on the planet Earth blacked out for exactly 24 hours."
  

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Things

• By the Numbers: 25
  "Little did she know when she and her dog Andy went hiking that ..."
  
  
• By the Numbers: 47
  "Mind you, that's a young Yurb, weighing no more than ..."
  
  
• By the Numbers: 397
  "When ... took total control of their minds, they were screwed."
  
  
• By the Numbers: 500
  "For the first year, things went well and the ... prgramming of the robot ... allowed it to ..."
  
  
• By the Numbers: 4,761
  "... the other truck involved in the head on collision was hauling ... After that, things got strange."
  
  
• C-115/B AKA Dogbot
  "...it would begin shipping 'the cutting edge in robotic pets,' Dogbot. This canine robot would be, the press releases said, 'the ultimate pet and the finest robotic unit' available to the general populace. Then came the disastrous product demonstration ... which was ... broadcast worldwide."
  
  
• Canadian Time Bombs
  "On another Earth, in 1990, Canadian scientists working at a top secret lab found a way ...
  
  
• Clankwell
  "... when this wispy haired old chap strolls in with some sort of mechanical man thingy. Why, it caused Biffo Lumley to miss his shot and very nearly put the dart in his bulldog, Jasper. Well, as you might cogitate, we all had to investigate ..."
  
  
• Darwin AKA Mars Biological Experiment Robot
  "Darwin was the nickname given to the robot that landed on Mars in 2002 for the express purpose of conducting experiments designed to see how certain Terran lifeforms fared on the Red Planet. This was not supposed to be an exercise in terraforming. Oops!"
  
  
• Dogzilla, King of the Monsters (Katsuko Films, 1954) NEW! Movies Not of This Earth
  "... the enormous 300 foot tall Dogzilla breathed ... and left ... wherever he went."
  
  
• Geeberite Boom Discs
  "But after the Kirk left, they found something a couple of crew members had lost: a frisbee."
  
  
• Halfling Fireball Eggs
  "There have been very few halfling wizards over the last couple of millenia, but there is one whose name will forever be remembered: Poldo Farmer."
  
  
• Heroskin
  "And, like, it ain't always HERO skin. I mean, where do you think villains like Mr. Molten come from?"
  
  
• Ixote Fruits
  "The fruits grow larger than a basketball and are prized for the thick pulpy flesh that lies just beneath the rock hard and thorny shell."
  
  
• Jadrian Love Bombs
  "The Jadrian Love Bomb is a mix of quantum physics, chemistry, genetic manipulation and psionic activity."
  
  
• N is for Nanoids
  "Nanoids are any humanoid appearing artificial lifeform made up of nanites (cellular sized or smaller nanotech devices) which usually function the same way that the various cells of the human body do."
  
  
• Powered Armorsuit Dragonfire
  "The basic idea was to construct a weapon that could be used to fight the Demon Robots that were on the rise and terrorizing the country."
  
  
• Project Rampage
  "From 2021 to 2046, the big thing in military & police hardware was power armor."
  
  
• Ruduborian Heat Bombs
  "The second thing the S.A. team learned was that the Ruduborians used their skewed view of the universe to actually build things that should not be possible."
  
  
• Surf Robots (Skynet Studios, 1968) NEW! Movies Not of This Earth
  "Anyway, these daring athletes, who risk shorting out or rusting away at an early age, fascinated young DirectorBot Scorsese 37/Y, ..."
  
  
• The Badass Blue Suede Shoes
  "Simply put, these are the shoes that will let you kick ass and take names. You will be absolutely..."
  
  
• The Brain Boosting Sensible Shoes
  "These shoes are not even a little bit cool, stylish or sexy, but once you put them on,..."
  
  
• The Growing Stones
  "It's quite simple, really. If you get 'em wet, they start to grow, and brother, they grow fast!"
  
  
• The Hot Sneakers
  "Please do be aware that these are by far the most sought after Cool Shoes and there are ugly people out there who will..."
  
  
• The Sandals of Strength
  "It's rumored that these are the same sandals that ... Long hair is optional. 
  
  
• The Spider Shoes
  "As you might imagine, these ordinary looking slippers give the wearer the ability to..."
  
  
• The Spike Heels of Stealth
  "Once you're wearing them, you become invisible, totally silent and..."
  
  
• The Spirit Boots
  "The Spirit Boots are highly prized among people who want to ... and those folks who just enjoy..."
  
  
• The Stealth Suit
  "It was spectacular to see (or is that not see?) in use and those uses were many, because..."
  
  
• Woolongi Lizards
  "They are, by and large, pretty inoffensive creatures when not disturbed."