X-plorers and Aliens!

I've been a fan of the X-plorers RPG since it first came out a few years ago, I even have the limitied edition boxed set and will pick up the latest print edition with the new cover at some point.  One thing I wish the game had was alien player character options.  Hopefully future products will have this but in the mean time the Fear No Darkness blog has put together what looks like a fun little way to randomly work up alien pc's for your X-plorers games.  I haven't gotten to test these out yet (we are neck deep in a Pathfinder Campaign at the moment) but hope to try them out at some point.  : )

The Metamorphica

My buddy Derek Holland mentioned this one to me awhile back, but due to work and real life I've just now checked it out. I'm glad he told me about it, so now I'm sharing this find with you all!

     It's a system agnostic book of random mutation tables! And best of all its FREE!
You can read more about it here!
I'll definately be using this with my various P.A. games heck I think I'll use these tables to "jazz up" the mutants in the ongoing Kihago adventure from Wizards., Mutants Laser Pistols.  : )
Have a Great Weekend!

Andre Norton : Star Rangers

On a recent outing with my wife we went into a used bookstore.  This one is a bit out of the way, most of the local used bookstores have either closed or don't carry what I'm looking for.  You see I've got a thing for those old DAW Yellow Spined books that I remember from my youth. Anyways I spied this sharp looking volume on the shelf:

Andre Norton's Star Rangers.  I have to admit the man on the cover drew me in.  I thought he looked totally cool, sort of a combination of Spock and Hawk from the Buck Rogers TV series.
Anyway, I just finished reading it and I have to say for a book written in the early 50's I found it to be quite enjoyable.  Not to give away too much but its about a group of Star Rangers during the decline of a vast Space Empire, that find themselves stranded on a forgotten world.  Good stuff, ripe for mining material for your sci fi space games i.e. Stars Without Number, X-plorers, etc...  The guy on the cover turned out to be a psychic human but I may just have to "steal" the image to work up a new alien race for SWN.
Good Gaming! -B.

Simian Saturday : Armed Apes!

I haven't posted any Simian Saturdays in awhile, not saying I'm bringing the series back, BUT I saw these posted over on The Miniatures Page recently and thought I'd share.

While the heads look a bit big to me, I gotta say I love the look of these guys...er I mean Apes!
WhiffWhaff is the sculptor, don't see that a company has bought the greens yet, but when and if that happens I will definately be picking up several of these!
Hope everyone has a Great Simian Saturday!