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The Long Way Home: Running Time Dilation at Your Table
Your pilot takes the contract. It's a good one — a fourteen-month burn out to the Kepler shelf and back, hazard pay, no questions. She kisses her daughter goodbye at the lock. When she comes home, her daughter is older than she is. That's not a twist. That's just physics doing what physics does. And it might be the single most powerful storytelling tool science fiction hands a game master — one that almost nobody at the table actually uses. The Cruelest Math in Science Fictio
Matthew David
Aug 244 min read
Charting the Unknown: Why Sci-Fi Tabletop Is Having a Renaissance
From derelict generation ships to neon-soaked megacities, science fiction roleplaying is in the middle of a creative boom. Here's why SuperNova Press thinks the genre is just getting started — and what we're cooking up in the airlock.
Matthew David
Aug 243 min read
Read the Fine Print: Running Corporate Antagonists Your Crew Can't Shoot
Your crew wins the firefight. All of it. Not a scratch on the hull, the hostiles zip-tied in the cargo bay, the data core in hand and still warm. Six weeks later a woman in a very good coat meets them at the dock with a tablet and a pleasant smile, and explains that under Section 9 of the salvage agreement they signed, the core was company property the whole time, the rescue was a billable expense, and the crew now owes ninety thousand credits. She never raises her voice. She
Matthew David
Aug 245 min read
Beyond the Event Horizon: Why the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Tabletop RPGs Has Only Just Begun
From pulp space opera to hard science worldbuilding, science fiction tabletop RPGs are entering a renaissance. We explore why now is the most exciting time in history to roll dice among the stars.
Matthew David
Apr 133 min read
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