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SPACE DOGS RPG


The Sandwich Rule
Sandwiches are delicious, but they're not usually something to make and eat in the middle of a TTRPG session with your friends. That is,...


The Volucris
Thought to have been created many millennia ago as a weapon in an ancient interstellar war, the volucris rove the starlanes in search of...


Starship Boarding - The Alpha Tactic?
In Space Dogs RPG, starship combat is designed to be streamlined. Once you and your table get used to it, any given space combat should rarely take more than about 10 minutes. But that doesn't mean that the battle will be done. Instead, the alpha tactic for the players 80-90% of the time will be to board the enemy starship, while the rest of the time the enemy will be trying to board them. This helps push gameplay back to the infantry/mecha ASAP, which is the focus of Space D


The Builders
The builders, or turuni in their language, which means ‘builders’, were the first and only alien species to contact Earth, on August 16,...


Emergent Complexity
As I designed the mechanics of Space Dogs RPG, one of my guiding principles has been trying to shift as much of the game's complexity as...


The Initiative System
Nearly every Table-top RPG and their kid brother uses some sort of initiative system. It's one of the main combat rules, so that each...


What is Space Dogs RPG?
Space Dogs RPG is a swashbuckling space western roleplaying game set in the near future where the galaxy has been opened up to humanity,...
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