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Gen Con Survival Guide 2026 Edition on The Gaming Gang Dispatch #1344
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I sitll haven't had a chance to play it or really even read it, but I've always felt like #OrbitalBlues is overflowing with style and promise - and now there are two #BundleOfHolding deals up for it:
The original June 2024 bundle with the core book and initial supplements: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Orbital2026
A new bundle with Afterburner, the big expansion, and some more adventures, along with quickstarts for the publihser's other games (including #PaintTheTownRed) https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Afterburn
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I sitll haven't had a chance to play it or really even read it, but I've always felt like #OrbitalBlues is overflowing with style and promise - and now there are two #BundleOfHolding deals up for it:
The original June 2024 bundle with the core book and initial supplements: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Orbital2026
A new bundle with Afterburner, the big expansion, and some more adventures, along with quickstarts for the publihser's other games (including #PaintTheTownRed) https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Afterburn
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I sitll haven't had a chance to play it or really even read it, but I've always felt like #OrbitalBlues is overflowing with style and promise - and now there are two #BundleOfHolding deals up for it:
The original June 2024 bundle with the core book and initial supplements: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Orbital2026
A new bundle with Afterburner, the big expansion, and some more adventures, along with quickstarts for the publihser's other games (including #PaintTheTownRed) https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Afterburn
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I sitll haven't had a chance to play it or really even read it, but I've always felt like #OrbitalBlues is overflowing with style and promise - and now there are two #BundleOfHolding deals up for it:
The original June 2024 bundle with the core book and initial supplements: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Orbital2026
A new bundle with Afterburner, the big expansion, and some more adventures, along with quickstarts for the publihser's other games (including #PaintTheTownRed) https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Afterburn
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I sitll haven't had a chance to play it or really even read it, but I've always felt like #OrbitalBlues is overflowing with style and promise - and now there are two #BundleOfHolding deals up for it:
The original June 2024 bundle with the core book and initial supplements: https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Orbital2026
A new bundle with Afterburner, the big expansion, and some more adventures, along with quickstarts for the publihser's other games (including #PaintTheTownRed) https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Afterburn
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The latest production from the 'Stations' team is here. A Fistful of Stars - an adventure setting book for Orbital Blues (Soul Muppet Publishing).
I've done some art, @lonearchivist is on layout and design, Kayla Rat Wave on writing duties, Adam Good and Jamie Perez on art direction and general wrangling.
Already more than 200% funded.
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The latest production from the 'Stations' team is here. A Fistful of Stars - an adventure setting book for Orbital Blues (Soul Muppet Publishing).
I've done some art, @lonearchivist is on layout and design, Kayla Rat Wave on writing duties, Adam Good and Jamie Perez on art direction and general wrangling.
Already more than 200% funded.
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The latest production from the 'Stations' team is here. A Fistful of Stars - an adventure setting book for Orbital Blues (Soul Muppet Publishing).
I've done some art, @lonearchivist is on layout and design, Kayla Rat Wave on writing duties, Adam Good and Jamie Perez on art direction and general wrangling.
Already more than 200% funded.
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The latest production from the 'Stations' team is here. A Fistful of Stars - an adventure setting book for Orbital Blues (Soul Muppet Publishing).
I've done some art, @lonearchivist is on layout and design, Kayla Rat Wave on writing duties, Adam Good and Jamie Perez on art direction and general wrangling.
Already more than 200% funded.
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The latest production from the 'Stations' team is here. A Fistful of Stars - an adventure setting book for Orbital Blues (Soul Muppet Publishing).
I've done some art, @lonearchivist is on layout and design, Kayla Rat Wave on writing duties, Adam Good and Jamie Perez on art direction and general wrangling.
Already more than 200% funded.
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CW: Crowdfunding
Etwas, was mir an #OrbitalBlues gut gefällt ist, dass die Macher das Regelwerk konsequent mit neuem Material unterstützen. Ob es gleich ein #OrbitalBluesMounth werden musste? Weiß ich nicht. Aber ich finde vor allem die Rennerweiterung thematisch passend und ansprechend: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month?ref=bk-discover-project-banner
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CW: Crowdfunding
Etwas, was mir an #OrbitalBlues gut gefällt ist, dass die Macher das Regelwerk konsequent mit neuem Material unterstützen. Ob es gleich ein #OrbitalBluesMounth werden musste? Weiß ich nicht. Aber ich finde vor allem die Rennerweiterung thematisch passend und ansprechend: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month?ref=bk-discover-project-banner
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Folks looking for a #CowboyBebop style #TTRPG might want to take a look at #OrbitalBlues Month in April on #BackerKit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month
It's a collection of 6 different projects for the game - adventures and mini-settings, etc. Always great style, of course.
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Folks looking for a #CowboyBebop style #TTRPG might want to take a look at #OrbitalBlues Month in April on #BackerKit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month
It's a collection of 6 different projects for the game - adventures and mini-settings, etc. Always great style, of course.
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Folks looking for a #CowboyBebop style #TTRPG might want to take a look at #OrbitalBlues Month in April on #BackerKit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month
It's a collection of 6 different projects for the game - adventures and mini-settings, etc. Always great style, of course.
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Folks looking for a #CowboyBebop style #TTRPG might want to take a look at #OrbitalBlues Month in April on #BackerKit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month
It's a collection of 6 different projects for the game - adventures and mini-settings, etc. Always great style, of course.
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Folks looking for a #CowboyBebop style #TTRPG might want to take a look at #OrbitalBlues Month in April on #BackerKit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month
It's a collection of 6 different projects for the game - adventures and mini-settings, etc. Always great style, of course.
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Yeah! Heute geht’s nach #Osnabrück zum #Rubicon - und dann wird zwei Tage lang gezockt! Heute biete ich eine Runde #StayFrosty und #OddGobs an - morgen dann #OrbitalBlues . Oder was anderes. Schauen wir mal. Treff ich da wen aus meiner Timeline? #PnPde https://rubicon-osnabrueck.de/aktuelle-convention/
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@HeyeBodo #OrbitalBlues ! I just got the digital copies of the first official supplement (After Burner) which reminded me that I never got the game on my table:
“This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was—and nobody wanted.” It’s such a cool setting & a beautiful rules book! https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues -
@HeyeBodo #OrbitalBlues ! I just got the digital copies of the first official supplement (After Burner) which reminded me that I never got the game on my table:
“This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was—and nobody wanted.” It’s such a cool setting & a beautiful rules book! https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues -
@HeyeBodo #OrbitalBlues ! I just got the digital copies of the first official supplement (After Burner) which reminded me that I never got the game on my table:
“This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was—and nobody wanted.” It’s such a cool setting & a beautiful rules book! https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues -
@HeyeBodo #OrbitalBlues ! I just got the digital copies of the first official supplement (After Burner) which reminded me that I never got the game on my table:
“This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was—and nobody wanted.” It’s such a cool setting & a beautiful rules book! https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues -
I've finished up all of my custom Orbital Blues character sheets, and they're available for free download:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2024/07/26/orbital-blues-a-small-constellation-of-character-sheets-for-the-low-fi-sci-fi-rpg/ -
I've finished up all of my custom Orbital Blues character sheets, and they're available for free download:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2024/07/26/orbital-blues-a-small-constellation-of-character-sheets-for-the-low-fi-sci-fi-rpg/ -
I've finished up all of my custom Orbital Blues character sheets, and they're available for free download:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2024/07/26/orbital-blues-a-small-constellation-of-character-sheets-for-the-low-fi-sci-fi-rpg/ -
A self-described “lo-fi space western”, Orbital Blues is a simple 2d6 system, in some ways quite similar to Traveller, with a lot more emphasis on emotional stakes. I recently ran a one-shot and ended up making some custom character sheets.
The Game
Players in Orbital Blues will be playing low-rent adventurers in a run-down sci-fi frontier.
The three stats are Muscle, Savvy, and Grit. They start off with values from 0-2. Heart is basically hit points. It starts out as Muscle plus eight.
Each character also has Gambits, which are essentially Feats or Stunts.
For most actions, the player makes a Stat Check – roll 2d6, add the appropriate stat. 8+ is a success. Heart points can be spent to add points to a roll, and some rolls will have advantage or disadvantage.
So far, this doesn’t seem wildly different from Traveller/Cepheus Engine games. However, the heart of the game, the thing the makes the game unique, is the system of Troubles and Blues.
Troubles are described in the book as “summations of a character’s past misgivings, misdeeds, vices or regrets.” A number of Troubles are listed in the book. One is selected at character creation. Each trouble has a series of questions attached. New characters need to select two questions to answer. This allows the player to fill out the character’s background, and to provide plot hooks for the GM.
Blues are a measure of the emotional stress a character suffers. Whenever something bad happens, especially if it relates to a character’s Troubles, characters must make a Blues Check – roll 2D6 + Grit. If the roll is 8+, the character gains one Blues point. Each Trouble has a list of events that will cause characters to gain Blues points automatically.
When a character acquires 8 Blues points, they enter a dramatic scene called Trouble is Brewing where they confront the source of their trouble. After the scene, the character advances by doing one of the following: Restore Heart, gain a point in a stat, or gain a new Trouble\Gambit. Blues are then reduced to zero.
The point of all of this is clearly to promote more character-focused, emotional gameplay. The Trouble/Blues system is really interesting, but it seems likely that you need to run a campaign to get the full effect. A one-shot game will probably just feel like a session of Traveller.
There’s also a system of Credits & Debts to keep track of how much money the character has, without doing a lot of accounting. Basically, all you really need to know is – are the players flush or in debt?
Character Sheet
There’s already a perfectly serviceable character sheet available for Orbital Blues, but I wanted to play around with Affinity and some free fonts I’ve been collecting, so I made some alternate versions. They’re all visually distinct, but have essentially the same fields. They’re also all fillable, and allow you to enter a character image.
Boxes for Heart will be automatically generated. I’ve added this to my aging, rickety list of character sheets.
OrbitalBlues_CharSheet_BWDownload OrbitalBlues_CharSheet_BlueDownload OrbitalBlues_CharSheet_Mono_GreenDownload OrbitalBlues_CharSheet_YellowDownloadOrbitalBlues_CharSheet_BW
This one is probably the most practical one. It’s designed to be printed. Mostly used the Block font for the titles.
OrbitalBlues_CharSheet_Blue
This one is probably the least practical, and is mostly designed to be a literal version of the title – blue items in orbit. I used a Bauhaus 93 font for the titles.
OrbitalBlues_CharSheet_Yellow
This one was sort of inspired by industrial safety signs, like you might find on a run-down space station. The title font is blooop.
OrbitalBlues_CharSheet_Mono_Green
This one was designed to look like a monochrome monitor for online play. It’s based on a character sheet I made for Hostile. The title fonts are OCR-A II.
#CharacterSheets #FreeStuff #OrbitalBlues #Review #RPG #SciFi
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Not sure why, but I keep making custom Orbital Blues character sheets.
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Not sure why, but I keep making custom Orbital Blues character sheets.
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Not sure why, but I keep making custom Orbital Blues character sheets.
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Messing about with a custom character sheet for Orbital Blues. Still a WIP.
Not 100% sure about the font choices.
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Messing about with a custom character sheet for Orbital Blues. Still a WIP.
Not 100% sure about the font choices.
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Messing about with a custom character sheet for Orbital Blues. Still a WIP.
Not 100% sure about the font choices.
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Just finished up a one-shot of Orbital Blues. We had fun, ending the session in a dramatic hotel shoot-out.
I don't think, however, you can get the full effect of the Blues/Troubles system in a one-shot.
Orbital Blues seems best suited for a short campaign.
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Just finished up a one-shot of Orbital Blues. We had fun, ending the session in a dramatic hotel shoot-out.
I don't think, however, you can get the full effect of the Blues/Troubles system in a one-shot.
Orbital Blues seems best suited for a short campaign.
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Just finished up a one-shot of Orbital Blues. We had fun, ending the session in a dramatic hotel shoot-out.
I don't think, however, you can get the full effect of the Blues/Troubles system in a one-shot.
Orbital Blues seems best suited for a short campaign.
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There's a few days left for the Orbital Blues sale at the Bundle of Holding.
I'd recommend it.
Orbital Blues is essentially Emo Traveller.
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There's a few days left for the Orbital Blues sale at the Bundle of Holding.
I'd recommend it.
Orbital Blues is essentially Emo Traveller.
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There's a few days left for the Orbital Blues sale at the Bundle of Holding.
I'd recommend it.
Orbital Blues is essentially Emo Traveller.
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@kadomi Oben auf dem #PileOfShame liegen bei mir #DeathInSpace , #CorpBorg , #OrbitalBlues und demnächst #Dolmenwood . Oh, und #GOZR . (Ja, einige liegen da schon länger…)
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@kadomi Oben auf dem #PileOfShame liegen bei mir #DeathInSpace , #CorpBorg , #OrbitalBlues und demnächst #Dolmenwood . Oh, und #GOZR . (Ja, einige liegen da schon länger…)
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via @popgeeks Orbital Blues RPG Review – Space Western Role Playing https://popgeeks.com/orbital-blues-rpg-review/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News #Reviews #TabletopGames #orbitalblues #SoulmuppetPublishing
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via @popgeeks Orbital Blues RPG Review – Space Western Role Playing https://popgeeks.com/orbital-blues-rpg-review/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News #Reviews #TabletopGames #orbitalblues #SoulmuppetPublishing
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via @popgeeks Orbital Blues RPG Review – Space Western Role Playing https://popgeeks.com/orbital-blues-rpg-review/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News #Reviews #TabletopGames #orbitalblues #SoulmuppetPublishing
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#RPGaDay2023 The coolest looking RPG product? #OrbitalBlues just blows me away by setting the mood through the images and design. I also like the aesthetics of #DeathInSpace , which gives the whole book a great 80s #Artzine feel, which fits the rules and the setting. https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues
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#RPGaDay2022 The coolest looking RPG product? #OrbitalBlues just blows me away by setting the mood through the images and design. I also like the aesthetics of #DeathInSpace , which gives the whole book a great 80s #Artzine feel, which fits the rules and the setting. https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues
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#RPGaDay2022 The coolest looking RPG product? #OrbitalBlues just blows me away by setting the mood through the images and design. I also like the aesthetics of #DeathInSpace , which gives the whole book a great 80s #Artzine feel, which fits the rules and the setting. https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues
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#RPGaDay2022 The coolest looking RPG product? #OrbitalBlues just blows me away by setting the mood through the images and design. I also like the aesthetics of #DeathInSpace , which gives the whole book a great 80s #Artzine feel, which fits the rules and the setting. https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues
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#RPGaDay2023 My favourite game which I never got to play? #OrbitalBlues - I love the setting and the rules are OK. The problem is that it always comes in 2nd when I ask my players. It’s also a game that I only want to play with people I know and trust due to role of trauma and mental health integrated in the mechanics of the game. https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/collections/orbital-blues
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@LeviKornelsen @Whidou #TTRPG stuff for me:
#AdventuresinMiddleEarth/#LordoftheRingsRoleplaying
#OSR &#NSR
#TalesfromtheLoop
#bladesinthedark
#CallofCthulhu
#D&D5e (if pushed)
#TheOneRing
#T&TLiking the look of:
Otherwise:
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@LeviKornelsen @Whidou #TTRPG stuff for me:
#AdventuresinMiddleEarth/#LordoftheRingsRoleplaying
#OSR &#NSR
#TalesfromtheLoop
#bladesinthedark
#CallofCthulhu
#D&D5e (if pushed)
#TheOneRing
#T&TLiking the look of:
Otherwise:
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@LeviKornelsen @Whidou #TTRPG stuff for me:
#AdventuresinMiddleEarth/#LordoftheRingsRoleplaying
#OSR &#NSR
#TalesfromtheLoop
#bladesinthedark
#CallofCthulhu
#D&D5e (if pushed)
#TheOneRing
#T&TLiking the look of:
Otherwise:
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@LeviKornelsen @Whidou #TTRPG stuff for me:
#AdventuresinMiddleEarth/#LordoftheRingsRoleplaying
#OSR &#NSR
#TalesfromtheLoop
#bladesinthedark
#CallofCthulhu
#D&D5e (if pushed)
#TheOneRing
#T&TLiking the look of:
Otherwise:
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Aprovechando un cupón de descuento que tenía en drivethrurpg me he pillado el Orbital Blues, que lo describen como el juego de rol de Cowboy Bebop, sin ser Cowboy Bebop.
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Aprovechando un cupón de descuento que tenía en drivethrurpg me he pillado el Orbital Blues, que lo describen como el juego de rol de Cowboy Bebop, sin ser Cowboy Bebop.
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8. Favorite #TTRPG for the art: I am going to cheat and pick a few again. It’s just so hard to only pick one!
- Orbital Blues
- Tales From the Loop/Things From the Flood
- A Field Guide to Memory
- The Shape of Shadows#ttrpg #OrbitalBlues #TalesFromTheLoop #FieldGuideToMemory #ShapeOfShadows
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8. Favorite #TTRPG for the art: I am going to cheat and pick a few again. It’s just so hard to only pick one!
- Orbital Blues
- Tales From the Loop/Things From the Flood
- A Field Guide to Memory
- The Shape of Shadows#ttrpg #OrbitalBlues #TalesFromTheLoop #FieldGuideToMemory #ShapeOfShadows
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7. Sadly I haven’t yet played either The Spire or Orbital Blues, both of which I bought in very beautiful hardcover and I have no regrets. I don’t have any games that I’ve invested more than the cost of a nice hardcover that I haven’t played at all, although my kiddo has gotten a lot more use out of the 5e books than I have. 😆 #TTRPG #TheSpire #OrbitalBlues
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7. Sadly I haven’t yet played either The Spire or Orbital Blues, both of which I bought in very beautiful hardcover and I have no regrets. I don’t have any games that I’ve invested more than the cost of a nice hardcover that I haven’t played at all, although my kiddo has gotten a lot more use out of the 5e books than I have. 😆 #TTRPG #TheSpire #OrbitalBlues
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My last campaign has come to a close. Star Trek: Weird Original Planets, a twelve session, 11 episode TOS era Strange New Worlds inspired episodic Star Trek Adventures game, finishing on an explosive two parter where the USS Metcalf ventured through a wormhole into the mirror universe.
It's going to be weird not running a regular game. I've got one more session of the now long-overrun Orbital Blues oneshot I was running with the group I play with on Wednesdays, and then I'm going to be just a player again!