Creating Cool Sci-Fi Props for RPG Games

This week­end I ran a game called ‘The Star­ship Res­cue’ at Tex­i­con in Fort Worth using the ENnie award Nom­i­nated Sav­age Worlds rules. Gamer and free­lance writer Mark Chance did a  review of the game on his Spes Magna blog.

The game was well received with some play­ers ask­ing for a con­tin­u­a­tion of this game and set­ting at the next Tex­i­con. I’m mak­ing plans to do just that.

Sev­eral folks have asked me how I cre­ated the visual props for the game.

I used both fig­ure flats, star­ship schematic hand­outs and a nice star­ship map that were visu­ally impres­sive and really helped set the tone of the game. Below is a list of resources to cre­ate your own ‘Star­ship Res­cue’ type game — but really, any sys­tem set in a Sci Fi uni­verse where you would like nice maps and inex­pen­sive paper minia­tures would ben­e­fit from these resources.

Read the full arti­cle over at DFWRole­play­ers.