Den of the Lizard King

Over two years ago I wrote an outline for a near-Earth, near-future setting called Hard Space . Since then, Stellagama Publishing has publ...

I have updated the Hard Space map. This reflects my rethinking of the Trading Blocs. The two veteran players in interstellar colonizat...

Artwork by Philippe Bouchet AKA "Manchu" for Robert Heinlein's Time For the Stars Torchship "Lewis & Clark" ...

In a previous post, I have detailed the Trading Blocs , the Earthbound polities, of my Hard Space setting. In this post, I'll detail...

I am developing my own Lovecraftian magic system for use in Traveller and the Cepheus Engine. This will be especially useful with my Hard...

So far I have detailed many aspects of my Hard Space setting for Classic Traveller and the Cepheus Engine, from spaceflight to histor...

Here is a short historical background of my Hard Space setting. I posted a history two years ago , but this one is a revised, expanded...

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn! As I already noted, Hard Space has a prominent Lovecraftian flavor to it. Insanity is a major theme in Lovecra...

Hard Space inherits all its physical world data from Near Space , as well as its baseline map . However, I am now generating the colonies...

I've updated the map of my Hard Space setting. The main change is the inclusion of 9 new outposts to the Trailing. These are Jump-3 fro...

After discussing the subject of sub-light, real-space travel in my Hard Space setting , it is time to discuss the second part of travel,...

How do you travel between planets in Hard Space ? I've written about this subject before , in the previous iteration of Hard Space,...

Below are some preliminary notes on technology in my Hard Space setting for Classic Traveller and the Cepheus Engine. Hard Space is...

Here is the Hard Space work-in-progress map. It uses my Near Space map as a baseline and the world's physical stats are identical to t...

Over two years ago I wrote an outline for a near-Earth, near-future setting called Hard Space . Since then, Stellagama Publishing has p...

A common convention in (modern-day) Traveller and similar sci-fi RPGs using jump-drives and a hexagon star-map is that you can jump into ...

The Near Space hexagon-based poster star-maps are now available for order from Zazzle! High-res, high-quality 2D maps of the space and st...

Stellagama Publishing proudly presents: Near Space! The area of space surrounding Sol warrants a proper sci-fi role-playing game ad...

Decisions regarding spacecraft and starflight in my Hard Space setting for Classic Traveller: 1) In this setting, there are no empty...

Here is a short historical background of my Hard Space setting. History World War III came about in the early 2040's, but luck...