Orbital Blues: Afterburn

Created by SoulMuppet Publishing

A series of new books, adventures and merchandise for Orbital Blues, an RPG about sad space cowboys.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Campaign Funded! New Stretch Goals!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 06:53:31 AM

First off we just want to say a massive thank you to all of you for supporting us in this project so far! To fund it in just over 3 hours is truly an amazing feeling and it is wonderful to see such enthusiasm for this game that the team all work so hard on.

We accidentally made the new Kickstarter exclusive "Rainbow" cover a little too exclusive so we want to take this chance to show it off again in its full technicolour glory!

the kickstarter exclusive cover!

You’ll be able to grab this one print run cover in the Billion Dollar Bounty pledge, or as an add-on to any other pledge.

So what's next?

We had an emergency meeting this morning, to plan stretch goals (and also celebrate our funding).

When we had a bit of a crazy idea…

"spacers have more fun" car bumper sticker designed by Joshua Clark

At £30k we’ll add some DIE cut bumper car stickers to every pledge above £100 GBP (that’s all those bounty pledges), or you can grab them as an addon for lower tiers.  They’ll be perfect for slapping on the side of your spaceship!

What do you mean you don’t have a spaceship?

Well I guess your laptop will do.

Everyone knows Zach has a huge pile of spaceship names, you can hear about it on the Interview with My First Dungeon. But we can’t put all 1000 of them in a book, right? Of course not.

At £40k we’ll make an ONLINE SPACESHIP GENERATOR to create encounters for the game and help you come up with NPCs on the spot. It’ll have a ship name (like the Sentimental Mood, the Rapa Nui or the Fan The Hammer), then some info about its captain and class, and what it’s doing in the big dark yonder. All in a little app thing! Nick Spence, from SoulMuppet’s cult classic Gangs of Titan City, will be adding some words to this one.

At £50k we’ll do one of the things we love most, paying our collaborators more. There will be a small pay rise for every freelancer creative on the project! These don't benefit you guys, but they do help the people people on the project 

Actual Play content!

If you haven’t already, you can listen to Episode One of this season of My First Dungeon and meet the crew of the 21st Night of September as they begin their journey through the Outlaw Galaxy.

My First Dungeon presents Orbital Blues October 10th. Drakoniques, Carolyn Page, Shenuque Tissera, Abby Hepworth, Elliot Davis, Brian Flaherty
“In debt and on a deadline, five interstellar outlaws find themselves on a crash course with their pasts…”

Over the weekend we have TWO one-shot streams ready to explore some of the VHS pamphlet adventures!

On Saturday 21st October, Girls Run These Worlds make a quick stop at the Outlaw hospital ship Charon in “They Laurel The Graves of the Dead” by Gareth Hanrahan.

Then on Sunday 22/10 StellaLunaTV and the crew of the Belafonte explore the sand-blasted wasteland of "We Built This City On .repeat()” by Nathan Blades.

Keep backing, keep sharing, and see you soon space cowboys!

~ Mol

On behalf of Sleney, Clark and Cox.