Spacefreak Monthly: Issue 1

Fresh atrocities for Machinations of the Space Princess

Space is enormous.

Unfortunately, this means the Games Master is expected to fill it.

Spacefreak Monthly comes to the rescue with a cargo hold full of new characters, enemies, weapons, factions, disasters and adventure material for Machinations of the Space Princess.

This is not forty pages of interstellar history for you to memorise before anything interesting happens. It is material intended to be robbed, mutilated, recombined and hurled directly at your players.

Inside Issue 1

The Three Warlord Alliance

Three bloodthirsty interstellar tyrants have agreed to work together.

This is obviously an excellent idea and cannot possibly end in betrayal, mass murder or the incineration of several inhabited moons.

Meet the warlords, discover what has driven them into their deeply unnatural alliance and decide which of them will stab the others in the back first.

The Rankfiled

Cybernetic clone Napoleons.

An army of ambitious, mechanically augmented little emperors with military genius, colossal egos and absolutely no intention of accepting orders from anybody—including one another.

What could possibly go wrong?

The Havoc Protocol

A heist conducted in the heart of a neutron hell.

There is something valuable enough to tempt thieves into one of the most catastrophically hostile environments in space. Getting in will be difficult. Getting out will require nerve, preparation and a willingness to redefine “acceptable casualties”.

La Bionda

Karaoke has never been this fatal.

A piece of musical unpleasantness for those occasions when your crew makes the perfectly reasonable mistake of believing that a bar, nightclub or entertainment venue might be relatively safe.

It will not be.

Time Glitch

There is always time for insanity.

Temporal distortions, impossible sequences and the sort of chronological catastrophe that leaves characters meeting themselves, contradicting themselves or attempting to murder themselves before somebody else gets the opportunity.

Weapons of the Warlords

The galaxy’s most unpleasant rulers do not buy their weapons from the discount rack.

This collection provides new toys of massive mistrust: extravagant instruments of intimidation, conquest and personal overcompensation suitable for villains, treasure vaults and player characters who should never be trusted with anything more dangerous than a spoon.

Princess Tease

Three Space Princesses appear within this issue.

Another waits in the shadows.

Use them as patrons, rivals, enemies, objectives, catastrophes in expensive clothing—or several of those things simultaneously.

An Entire Issue to Loot

Run the material as presented, scatter it across an existing campaign or dismantle it for useful parts.

Spacefreak Monthly: Issue 1 gives you:

• New interstellar antagonists and factions.
• Adventure situations ready to develop into full sessions.
• Peculiar characters and dangerous personalities.
• New weapons and technological absurdities.
• Plot hooks, complications and campaign inspiration.
• More of the anarchic, excessive science-fantasy that makes Machinations of the Space Princess what it is.

It is written for Machinations of the Space Princess, but enterprising Games Masters should have little difficulty stealing its contents for other old-school science-fiction and science-fantasy games.

Because the universe does not need another tidy little trade federation.

It needs clone Napoleons, murderous karaoke and a heist inside a neutron hell.

Buy Issue 1, open the airlock and let the freaks in.

This purchase contains Spacefreak Monthly: Issue 1 as a digital PDF. It is not a subscription and does not include a physical product.