• Book titled 'Afterburn' with a cassette tape and other items on a surface
  • Double page spread of Afterburn titled "faster than light" surrounded by cassettes and other various items
  • Double page spread of "The Science of Fiction" from Afterburn surrounded by cassettes and other various items
  • Double page spread showing "Freighters" from Afterburn surrounded by cassettes and other various items
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Orbital Blues: Afterburn

Orbital Blues: Afterburn

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Afterburn. The Afterburn.  It’s a colloquialism that fills the gap for a lot of feelings. To live in the Afterburn is to open yourself up to all the joys, all the troubles, and all the dilemmas that the Frontier galaxy has to offer. 

Orbital Blues: Afterburn is the first sourcebook for Orbital Blues and is split into three sections: 

  • The Starship Manual: A fully-illustrated in-world spaceship brochure featuring a dozen classes of characterful spaceships, complete with adverts and full of game-useable lore.
  • The Storyteller’s Guide: A varied toolkit to help run games in the Outlaw Galaxy, with info on spaceship engineering, faster-than-light travel, system and plot generation, and alternate special rules for Warmth and Joy.
  • The Tennessee Five: A richly storied adventure made up of the planets of Anchorage IV, Ediston, Gallatin, Ohrid and Rothcoe. This huge sandbox contains all manner of heists and opportunities for enterprising Outlaws to make their mark.

Finally, an appendix gives rules for Android player characters, with a selection of Troubles and Gambits. 

Saddle up, Spacefolk!

Orbital Blues is a lo-fi space western roleplaying game from SoulMuppet Publishing, exploring the dusty retrofuture worlds of the Outlaw Galaxy. Orbital Blues was created by Sam Sleney, Joshua Clark and Zachary Cox.

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See you, Space Cowboy!

ORBITAL BLUES is a lo-fi space western roleplaying game from SoulMuppet Publishing, written by Sam Sleney & Zachary Cox and illustrated by Josh Clark. A roleplaying love-letter to off-beat sci-fi, vintage music, and cooperative old-school styled roleplay, Orbital Blues allows you to play out rules-light adventures in the style of your favourite space westerns.

Stepping into the shoes of Interstellar Outlaws, players band together to form Crews, and navigate a hard-going, gig-economy living on the fringes of a space-faring society.

Developed on the critically acclaimed rules-lite system of Best Left Buried, Orbital Blues uses a simple D6 based system with 3 basic stats - MUSCLE, GRIT, and SAVVY - to handle rolls and uncertainty - putting the narrative and relationships of the player characters at the heart of play without the baggage of hefty mechanics, classes or roles.

The collection has been expanded to include a huge range of adventures, each one providing a unique perspective on the expansive Outlaw Galaxy.

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