Category: Mindjammer

Mindjammer Press at Dragonmeet 2018!

Dragonmeet logo

Mindjammer Press is going to have its own table at Dragonmeet in London this year. Come and visit us at table 51 in the Trade Hall at the Novotel London West, Hammersmith, London, from 10am to 7pm on Saturday 1st December!

We’ll have some special goodies this year. In addition to our Mindjammer line of RPGs and fiction, we’ll also have:

  • our brand-new RPG Capharnaum – The Tales of the Dragon-Marked
  • the Capharnaum quickstart adventure The Tears of Ampharool
  • The Swallower of Souls, the quickstart for our up-coming cosmic fantasy RPG The Chronicles of Future Earth.
  • hard-copies of the Monsters & Magic RPG.

And some exceedingly rare goodies, including:

  • Mindjammer Fate Dice and Tokens Bag – 4 custom Fate dice and 25 custom Fate tokens, all in a monogrammed bag!
  • Copies of the French-language Mindjammer screen, for completists, collectors, and fans of gorgeous screens!
  • Perhaps even a few copies of the classic Chronicles of Future Earth supplement for Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying!

Stocks are limited, so come early to avoid disappointment!

Also joining Sarah Newton and Jason Juta on the stand is François Cédelle, co-author of the original French version of Capharnaum – he’ll be signing copies of Capharnaum – The Tales of the Dragon-Marked throughout the day.

See you there! The Commonality salutes you!

Mindjammer Press at GenCon!

Capharnaum_KS_Header_with_book

Mindjammer Press is at GenCon this year! Sarah Newton (Mindjammer, The Chronicles of Future Earth, Monsters & Magic, Achtung Cthulhu, Capharnaum) will be there with John Snead (Mindjammer, Aeon Trinity, Star Trek) and François Cédelle of Studio Deadcrows (Capharnaum, Venzia, AmnesYa 2K51) will be at booth 2563 (MODIPHIUS ENTERTAINMENT) from Thursday 2 August right through to Sunday 5. As well as the whole Mindjammer and Monsters & Magic ranges, we’ll also have a special limited number of the gorgeous new hardback of CAPHARNAUM – THE TALES OF THE DRAGON-MARKED for launching the game! François Cédelle, one of the two lead creators of Capharnaum, and Sarah Newton, translator and publisher of the English-language version, will be signing copies and talking about this awesome new game.

Sarah, François, and John will be joined by Stephan Barat and Morgane Munns of Studio Deadcrows, the French RPG publisher behind the Capharnaum RPG and also the translation of Mindjammer into French.

Sarah, of course, will also be talking about Mindjammer, Monsters & Magic, and our exciting new project THE CHRONICLES OF FUTURE EARTH – COSMIC FANTASY ROLEPLAYING IN THE POST-HISTORICAL AGE, kickstarting in September 2018. In addition, Sarah will also be participating in Chaosium’s panel on the new RuneQuest – Adventures in Glorantha at 11am on Friday 3 August, talking about the writing she’s doing for this awesome new edition of one of the most famous and venerable of RPGs.

Please stop by and say hi, and help spread the word!

Available Today – The MINDJAMMER RPG PDF Bundle!

Today we’re really pleased to announce the release of the Mindjammer Complete Bundle”, a mighty PDF bundle of sci-fi source books, campaigns and fiction, from Sarah Newton’s amazing universe of transhuman adventure – including the complete core rules and all its supplements currently available!

The Mindjammer Complete Bundle is available at DriveThruRPG.com.

This fantastic bundle saves you around 25% or $34 off the PDF books and campaigns when sold separately, and if you’ve already purchased any of the Mindjammer PDF books, they will be discounted from the total bundle price!

The Mindjammer Complete Bundle comprises:

  • Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game core book
  • Mindjammer – The Novel
  • Dominion Quickstarter and Introductory Adventure
  • Hearts & Minds Adventure
  • The City People adventure
  • BLUE – Adventures on an Alien World
  • Children of Orion – the Venu Sourcebook
  • The Core Worlds Sourcebook
  • The Far Havens campaign pack
  • The Mindjammer Companion
  • The Mindjammer Player’s Guide
  • The Enhanced Commonality Space Schematic poster map
  • BONUS: The Tears of Ampharool Quickstart for the upcoming Capharnaum RPG.

We hope you’ll take this chance to complete your MINDJAMMER RPG PDF collection, and also sample the wonders of our upcoming new roleplaying game Capharnaum, in the bonus quickstart The Tears of Ampharool – a complete adventure and introductory rules, the romance, mystery, and adventure of the One Thousand and One Nights, filled with ancient magics, terrifying foes, and a forgotten betrayal which might change the world!

Look out for more great releases from Mindjammer Press, including the launch of the full Capharnaum RPG core book coming soon!

The Mindjammer Player’s Guide and the Enhanced Commonality Space Schematic – OUT NOW!

We’re delighted to announce today the release of The Mindjammer Player’s Guide – Adventuring in the New Commonality of Humankind, a major new rules release for Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game, from ENnie-award winning writer Sarah Newton (Mindjammer, Legends of Anglerre, Achtung! Cthulhu, Monsters & Magic).

The Mindjammer Player’s Guide is a book specifically for players of Mindjammer—The Roleplaying Game. It contains all the rules you need to play as a player, with complete character creation sequences, new genotypes and cultures, and a whole new octant of Commonality Space in which to set your character stories and adventures. It contains:

  • The essential Fate Core system, all the rules you need to create and play characters in the Mindjammer universe—including rules for creating and playing sentient starship characters!
  • Descriptions and histories of the New Commonality of Humankind.
  • New starmaps, homeworlds, and genotypes of Commonality Space.
  • Rules for the Mindscape and virtual worlds.

Note that while the Mindjammer Player’s Guide contains some new content, it also reiterates much of the material of the Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game Core book. You don’t need the Player’s Guide if you already have that book – although your players may love a copy!

At the same time, we’re also releasing The Enhanced Commonality Space Schematic poster map, a gorgeous remastered and updated version of the New Commonality Schematic from the Mindjammer Core Book and Mindjammer Player’s Guide. Expanded with new information and illustrations of key worlds and system data, the Enhanced Schematic comes in both high-resolution PDF and TIF formats and also as a Desktop Wallpaper for your tablet or PC! Visualise the vastness of the New Commonality of Humankind with this gorgeous artwork schematic by Mindjammer lead artist Jason Juta (Mindjammer, Shadowrun, Gamma World, Warhammer 40K, Battletech, Song of Ice and Fire).

The Mindjammer Player’s Guide and The Enhanced Commonality Space Schematic are available now in PDF digital format on Modiphius.net and DriveThruRPG, with the print edition available from the 23rd November.

Mindjammer: The Core Worlds Sourcebook and The Mindjammer Companion – OUT NOW!

We’re delighted to announce the launch today of two brand new supplements for Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game!

First up is The Core Worlds Sourcebook, by Sarah Newton (Mindjammer, Achtung! Cthulhu, Legends of Anglerre, Monsters & Magic, The Chronicles of Future Earth), David Donachie (Mindjammer, Legends of Anglerre, Solipsist), Paul Mitchener (Mindjammer, Age of Arthur, Mythic Britain, Starfall), and John Snead (Mindjammer, Aeon Trinity, Exalted, Blue Rose, The Dying Earth).

The Core Worlds Sourcebook details a vast sector of Commonality Space for your Mindjammer games. Focussing for the first time on the ancient, decadent, and sophisticated heart of the Commonality, it provides you with deep background and material to explore this fascinating region. Play Fringe Worlders experiencing the strangeness of the Core first-hand, or Core Worlders, sure of their superiority, until they leave their homes and are found wanting. Play planetary sentiences ruling whole worlds, ancient dynasties with plans crossing millennia, illegal xenomorphs fighting oppression and neglect in the forbidden substrates beneath the towering arcologies. Push the boundaries of transhuman science-fiction gaming—explore what it means to be human itself. A bright, bizarre, and thought-provoking milieu for your Mindjammer games!

The Core Worlds Sourcebook includes:

  • The history and background of the Core, including lavish maps, new genotypes and strange subcultures.
  • Deep detail on Manhome, including maps and descriptions of Old Earth, Old Mars, Green Moon, and more!
  • The Fargate Network and the mysterious 3-Space Instrumentality.
  • Descriptions, artwork, and stats for the Custodians—the secret rulers of the Core Worlds.
  • Guides for Core Worlds campaigns. Go beyond what it means to be human!

Second up, the Mindjammer Companion welcomes you to the turbulent worlds of the Outremer subsector, out on the Commonality frontier. It’s the heart of the Rim Sector, a spectacular, violent place of feuding polities in the no-man’s land between the Commonality and the Venu Empire. In the aftermath of war, everything is up for grabs: Successor States rise and fall, the new xenomorph Sentient Alliance flexes its muscles, and the Commonality and the nefarious Venu jostle for position, knowing that war could break out again at any moment.</p

The Mindjammer Companion includes:

  • History and background of the Outremer Subsector, including subsector octant maps.
  • Essays on the conflicting economic systems which vie for supremacy out beyond the Frontier, far from the Resource Allocation Sentiences of the Commonality core.
  • The five generations of Commonality starship design.
  • New cultures and genotypes.
  • An octant map of the Heritage Contestation and planetary maps and writeups for 30 adventure-packed worlds!

The Mindjammer Companion presents material which originally appeared in the Mindjammer (Traveller Edition) sourcebook, converted and repurposed for use with the Fate Core system and Mindjammer—The Roleplaying Game. The Mindjammer—The Roleplaying Game core book is required for play.

Both The Core Worlds Sourcebook and the Mindjammer Companion are now available in PDF format on Modiphius.net and DriveThruRPG, with the print edition available from the 23rd November.

Children of Orion: The Venu Sourcebook – OUT NOW!

We’re delighted to announce the launch today of CHILDREN OF ORION – THE VENU SOURCEBOOK, the brand new supplement for our transhuman science-fiction RPG Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game, by Mindjammer creator Sarah Newton and David Donachie (Legends of Anglerre, Solipsist).

YOU WILL KNEEL BEFORE THE EMPEROR—OR DIE!

“To dwell on the past is weakness! We were born from nucleonic fire. We were forged in flame and suffering. And now we march to the stars and make the spawn of abomination burn!”

Welcome to the Bright Empire of Venu—the interstellar civilisation of the “bad guys” of Human Space! An ancient people of xenophobic human supremacists, survivors of an ancient war, now hellbent on cleansing the cosmos of abomination and bringing the purifying word of their undying God-Emperor to the stars.

Children of Orion—the Venu Sourcebook provides a whole new universe of adventure for your Mindjammer games—a harsh and violent interstellar empire beyond the Commonality frontier. Play rebels against the domineering rule of the God-Emperor, mutated troopers and servitors of the sinister Dark Radiance fighting against the cultural inroads of the Commonality—or Commonality agents themselves, working behind enemy lines to defeat an implacable foe which once devastated the Core Worlds! It’s a completely different vibe for your Mindjammer games—darker, more desperate, where the survival of an entire people is at stake.

Children of Orion—the Venu Sourcebook includes:

  • Prehistories and histories of the Empire of Venu
  • The strange powers of the Dark Radiance
  • Starmaps and world descriptions
  • Full details for creating Venu characters, including genotypes, occupations, and cultures
  • Venu tech and starships
  • Guidelines for playing Venu campaigns. Fight against the Venu, or play a Venu character yourself!

Also check out Sarah Newton’s blog post today on the genesis of the Venu and Children of Orion.

Children of Orion—the Venu Sourcebook is now available in PDF format on Modiphius.net and DriveThruRPG, with the print edition available from the 23rd November.

Mindjammer Press – Fifth Birthday Sale! 20% off!

Late last month Mindjammer Press turned five years old, marking half a decade of publishing role-playing games and related fiction! It’s been an absolute whirlwind – two RPGs, over a dozen books, and three expansive and exciting settings for adventure. And of course we couldn’t have done any of this without you!
To celebrate our fifth birthday, we’re holding a one-week sale of all our Mindjammer Press products (Wed 4th October thru Tuesday 10 October), with a full 20% off all our PDF products and selected print products on both DriveThru RPG and the Modiphius Entertainment webstore. The sale covers the Mindjammer – The Roleplaying Game range of RPG and fiction products (core book, supplements, and novel), the Monsters & Magic roleplaying game, and the new novel for the upcoming Chronicles of Future Earth RPG setting, The Worm Within. Check it out today!
We’d like to say a HUGE thank-you to everyone who has supported us over the past five years, buying and playing our games and books, backing our Kickstarter, helping spread the word, and encouraging us to keep producing our games and worlds, and of course a special thanks to Chris and Rita Birch and all the team at Modiphius Entertainment for being such awesome distribution partners. We hope you’ll join us for many more years and worlds to come!
Best,
Sarah Newton, Chris McWilliam, Jason Juta, and the whole team at Mindjammer Press

Mindjammer – Traveller edition now available!

cover-image-muh042501_mindjammer_traveller_1e_small

Modiphius Entertainment and Mindjammer Press are delighted to announce the release of Mindjammer – Transhuman Adventure in the Second Age of Space (“Mindjammer Traveller”), a complete 384-page hardback setting supplement for the second edition TRAVELLER RPG from Mongoose Publishing. The ENnie Award-winning transhuman science-fiction RPG setting returns, in a brand new edition for use with the TRAVELLER roleplaying game!

Available now in print + PDF bundle and PDF-only version from the Modiphius webstore and in PDF-only version from RPGNow / DriveThruRPG.

Mindjammer Traveller has been written by Sarah Newton and John Snead (who did all the heavy-lifting on the conversion), with gorgeous layout and artwork from Jason Juta and his team of visioneers, and features:

  • full rules for starships, organisations, and culture operations;
  • detailed character cultures, genotypes, and new careers – play a sentient starship!
  • new and innovative systems for describing planets, star systems, and alien life;
  • deep setting material on the New Commonality of Humankind;
  • rules for the Mindscape and virtual worlds;
  • starmaps and planet descriptions, histories, and background.

    • THE UNIVERSE AWAITS!

    Never has there been a greater time of opportunity. The universe is in flux, and for the first time in ten thousand years no one knows what the future will bring. Charge your blaster, thoughtcast your orders to the starship sentience, and fire up the planing engines. Come and defend the light of humanity’s greatest civilisation as it spreads to the stars!

    (Requires the use of the Traveller Core Rulebook, available from Mongoose Publishing.)

Mindjammer: BLUE now available!

Blue Cover

We’re delighted to announce that the new Mindjammer adventure BLUE is now available for order, in physical version (with complimentary PDF) and PDF version. You can buy the physical version + complimentary PDF from the Modiphius webstore here, and the PDF version from DriveThru / RPGNow here. The physical version will be available in your friendly local game store in the new year.

ADVENTURE IN THE RUINS OF AN ALIEN WORLD

Blue. A beautiful yet alien world. Until six hundred years ago it was the home of an unimaginably advanced alien species, poised in splendid isolation on the brink of transcendence, refusing even to communicate with the lesser intelligences which had colonised its planetary twin. That’d be us—homo variens, the diverse and curious descendants of the colonists from Old Earth. Even our probes and telescopes were deflected, leaving us with tantalising glimpses of wonders beyond our ability to understand.

Then, six hundred years ago, the alien civilisation fell. Almost overnight: the lights on the surface of the planet Blue went out, the aliens’ structures seemed to dissolve, and the barrier which had protected them from prying eyes for millennia collapsed. But where had they all gone? Amid magnificent ruins we found devolved life forms, as confused and as uncomprehending as we.

None of us ever knew what had been lost. Until now. Now the Blues are back—and no one knows if even the Commonality can resist them. Let’s hope they want to be friends…

There’s been a murder on the fallen world of Blue, a planet of ragtag survivors and curious human colonists researching the remains of a near-transcendent alien civilisation. But the culprit is stranger than anyone had imagined; and, as factions manoeuvre for influence and control, a mystery is uncovered which threatens to change the Commonality forever!

BLUE includes:

  • Two whole alien worlds: maps, ecosystems, exointelligences, cultures, and more;
  • A multi-session adventure of intrigue, conspiracy, and mystery spanning an entire star system;
  • Secrets of the Commonality and the Mindjammer setting!

Buy your copy of BLUE today, in physical version + comp PDF copy, or in PDF-only version. The Commonality salutes you!

BLUE – Adventure in the Ruins of an Alien World.

Softback, 80 pages.

A Mindjammer adventure.