Aug 072015
For day 7 of RPGaDay, the question is what is my favourite free RPG?
This one is too easy – Lady Blackbird: Adventures in the Wild Blue Yonder by John Harper.
If you haven’t seen it yet, go check it out now. I’ll wait.
It’s an awesome award-winning role-playing game with everything you need to play in 16 pages. There’s a ton of fan-created extra material out there and it’s easy enough to hack if you want to change it up yourself, but it’s a great premise and a lot of fun to play. I’ve sadly only run it twice, but it’s a favourite scenario and the game system has elements (particularly keys) that I incorporate into my own hacks of other games.
Once again, check it out if you haven’t before, it’s a thing of beauty.
Justin Schmid
Justin started tabletop gaming in 1983 with Basic D&D (red box) and never looked back. He runs and plays in a wide variety of games, including Savage Worlds, Dungeon World, Trail of Cthulhu and many, many more.
He also writes professionally for role-playing games, including writing and creating Night's Edge an Alternate Reality Universe for Cyberpunk 2020. He went on to write eight more adventures and sourcebooks in the Night's Edge line, adding vampires and other supernatural perils to the already dangerous world of Cyberpunk.
As a freelance writer, he wrote The Bermuda Triangle for Call of Cthulhu, Shadows of the Mind, and Psi Wars for Conspiracy X and contributed to Last Unicorn's Star Trek RPG, as well as to Cybergeneration sourcebooks, and many other games.
When he's not creating imaginary worlds for his daughter, he's running games for his friends and writing new adventures or designing new game systems. He currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.