Probably the most fun of the Cephus style games out there.
Is it as glossy as some of the other systems? No. This product is also a fraction of the cost, and is a self contained system unto itself. No frills, just quality gaming material that can be used stand alone, or stripped the material down to its parts and harvest into other cephus style games.

This OSR is a very nice contribution to OSR Whitebox style games with some interesting additions. The game book begins by introducing the game makers.

The game itself contains the usual four classes of the original game, but the importance of the Cleric is stressed as they are the only character that can permanently destroy undead. The Mage, in turn, has clear rules for buidling a laboratory and creating magical items; this is something that is not explained in most short rulesets.

Each class has a unique set of special abilities, and the Cleric and Mage have 6 spells for each spell power (spell level) which is helpful for rolling a random spell.

The simply one roll resolution of the classes for saving throws or skills such the the thievery subterfuge is very nice and in keeping with the likes of OSR such as Whitebox: FMAG. The art is well chosen historical pen and ink which gives a good medieval feel.

Something else new in the game is optional race as classes - all of which are unque to Whitebox - the Antedlluvian, the clockwork Dwarf, and the Lizard-Kin at the end of the book.

Some other nice additions include an aging table (the formatting could have been tweaked a little but overall a nice find!), streamlined and easy to use encumbrance rules (finally!), and some random dungeon flavor tables (note: these are not encounter tables, but rather evoke mood and tell what objects are in a room...)

The treasure lists are very interesting as well, and include helpful random tables.

One minor quibble with the game is that it is not clear how many spells a day a Cleric can cast on page 8. But like other OSR rules, we can easily extrapolite using the Mage rules, but it does leave guess work for a novice gamer.

Also, the list of monsters is great with some unique ones though I prefer OSR games with random encounter tables for dungeons and wilderness like other Swords and Wizardry or Whitebox games to help cut down on GM prep and also allow for solo game experience. This is perhaps a design choice, and a GM can of course create their own encounter tables from the list of monsters provided.

Finally, I found a few minor errata that I shared with the creators. They are small ones, so the game is still completely playable.

Overall the book and content give the game a unique take on Whitebox. Despite a few minor hiccups that I found in the rules or editing, this is a very solid and playable game with well-thought out game rules. I recommend it strongly as an addition to anyone's Whitebox style OSR library!

A very nice pocket RPG. Great to bring along on a camping trip or short vacation for a one shot or 2-3 session run.

The great heavenly sage of the west approves of this product. Buy it now !

This was my introduction to Cepheus (though I've played the game it is based on). Really enjoy Cepheus, it does everything you might expect from a good science fiction rpg. Has some great generative tools as well. If your on the roam for a good game in the same flavor of great Sci-Fi shows such as Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, or even Star Trek or Babylon 5. I'd say the default flavor is definetly more toward the former rather than the latter, but this game has a pretty great kit that can be tweaked and added to quite easily.

Love the system, one of my favorites. It's a D6 based system rather than the more popular d20 system, but that's not a downside. The system is easy to learn. Even if you've only ever played a d20 based game or haven't played an rpg before, this system isn't too tricky to pick up and play.

I love these rules, they combine the best of Classic Traveller and Mongoose Traveller, with other original ideas thrown in as well to improve on both systems. They are simple and easy to use, very clear to understand and well written with no obvious mistakes (there are a few mistakes in the associated character/planet design forms though - Reecon, etc but I will use my own anyway). I love the chargen system, even though I am an old fan of the Classic Traveller randomness I can see the benefits of choosing your path to create a more desirable character to play. Just need to make a Referee's Screen now! Could do with better illustrations and possibly a more subtle colour pallette, but I can live with them considering how good the rules are.

" Flying through the air throwing blasts of energy from your hands, stopping otherwise doomed passenger trains with super-strength, and always thwarting the evil plans of villains bent on world domination: such is the life of superpowered heroes!"

"Superpowered! is a lightweight, 2d6-based role-playing game that allows players to play these superpowered heroes, with highly varied powers, as they work to keep their city, country, world, and the universe safe from the evil plots of those who would destroy all that is right and good."

"Superpowered! is based on the Quantum Engine and is thus compatible with Stellagama Publishing's Cepheus Atom post-apocalyptic rules, Barbaric! sword & sorcery rules, and Quantum Starfarer space-opera rules."

Superpowered! By Richard Hazelwood From Stellagama Publishing For Your 2d6 OSR Campaigns came my way vie Stellagama Publishing. So what does Superpowered! By Richard Hazelwood bring to the table?! A 2d6 superhero rpg that brings the caped heroes to the 2d6 table top arena. And it looks like a pretty solid entry into the genre being powered by the Quantum Engine. Superpowered! acts as both a supplemental system & a stand alone super hero rpg.

Superpowered! By Richard Hazelwood From Stellagama Publishing is a full service super hero rpg within it's own right. And can add a real nice wrinkle to the 2d6 rpg & campaign world. Superpowered! includes a full array of super powers, genre tropes, ideas, & much more for your 2d6 powered campaigns. At five dollars for a hundred pagess worth of game it's a well worth investiment of time & man power on Stellagama Publishing. And it's really a worth addition to your 2d6 campaigns! If combined with Barbaric then the mutant populations of the 2d6 wastelands are going to become much more interesting places. And Stellagama Publishing's Barbaric can add a flare for failed colonies, wild planets, and even whole cloth battle worlds. Is worth Stellagama Publishing's efforts including Superpowered! By Richard Hazelwood worth getting?! In a word, oh yes! That's because the 2d6 landscape of the hobby has been changing for the better. There's tons of options & world settings for 2d6 meaning that DM's & players can really customize their PC's as the system allows fast character creation, lots & lots of options, and a solid system for role playing with 2d6 games. Superpowered! By Richard Hazelwood brings a ton of that to the table top with really solid mechanics, a great system, and a really nice price point. Thanks for reading our review Eric Fabiaschi Swords & Stitchery blog Want to see more OSR action? Please subscribe to https://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/

Amazing! I have read this book cover to cover a few times now, and I am very impressed. I am particularly fond of how the career pages look compared to the previous version of Cepheus Deluxe. I think that the overall visual theme is great, it looks very professional the colors choices are spectacular.

I have been playing 2D6 SF RPGs since '78. Deluxe is the best such rule set I have ever played with. Enough detail but not too much. Char Gen is great. PC centric rather than machine centric. Ship design easy and covers all the bases. I have had to only make one house rule (very minor) rather than a couple of pages worth as with other most recent offical 2D6 Space RPG. Cannot recommend enough.

It Came from the Scriptorium is an excellent adventure for Halloween, and very much lends itself to an Evil Dead feel.

The abbey itself is a 15 room dungeon with a central chamber of doors, leading to ample choices for player interaction and layout familiarization...

The actual key itself is just about 5 pages, so it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with a read ahead, instead of running it at the table blind.

For the price of the adventure, it's hard to go wrong, especially around the end of October.

Last night's regular game fell through with two players unable to attend for a huge fight they had kicked off. But I had written a brief point crawl for this system based on a few Conan stories. First, we went through the character creation. It took about an hour. I'm glad spells are chosen randomly, as that could have taken hours if the player chose each one. The ship cruised up the Poison River searching for a lost city, with poisonous snakes and giant centipedes dropping on the ship along the way. The barbarian characters had great fun with the Frenzy rule to burn through minor enemies. Later, after dropping anchor at the site of the city and helping carry tents and equipment to the expedition campsite, they witnessed a great white ape kidnap a sailor from shipboard and climb into the jungle. The PCs ran off in pursuit, finally provoking a fight and slaying the ape, Conan style, with a critical hit from a thrown dagger piercing the fierce beast's heart! Great fun was had all around, with half of the table hamming up their mighty thewed warriors and the sorcerer player attempting the mightiest spells on the list, failing miserably, and suffering magical corruption as a result. Didn't get to playtest my whole adventure, but our first session of Barbaric was a huge success! I think a few of them bought a copy for themselves too. Bibon son of Phola, Grigor the Archer, Astrid the Hammer, and Elatos of the Cave approved!

Great theme and style. love the dark forboding atmosphere of this adventure, which gels nicely with the achemical technology.

A great romp through horror, I will look for a GM to help run a party through this. Thanks for writing it.

Upgraded or Downgraded?

Firstly, this is a playable game; if you know anything about Traveller, you are good to go with a slightly streamlined, system. I say“slightly” because the new wounding system is needlessly fiddly, replacing a paragraph with a page-and-a-half.

It was a shame to see the ship creation chapter stripped of many of the necessary rules—you can’t design your own ship with this version of the game. Additionally the newly added animal creation rules are incomplete, I solved the problem by referring to the original 1977 rules…but I shouldn’t have to do that. Should I?

Another way in which the new Upgraded rules let themselves down is the careers section; five of the originally presented careers have been removed leaving (almost) the six from 1977. For the missing material the author directs the reader to Cepheus Deluxe.

So a downgrade? I’m afraid so. If you have the original release, hold on to it; the download included a .doc file containing the complete rules which encouraged me to mod and house-rule as I desired, which was not much. There you would find a system that cuts much closer to the LBBs.

So what’s going on here? The Upgraded rules are now no longer designed to provide a complete original 1977 Traveller experience, instead they have become a Basic D&D-style game which directs you to the larger, more complete and more expensive Cepheus Deluxe to continue your adventures. Disappointing the goal of the original release has been lost in the mix. Some of the new material seems to use some cut-and-pasting and the new material is just wrong, the skill Medical is referred to as Medicinal in the wound rules. A bit sloppy lads.

The score…if I had not seen the original Cepheus Light rules I would have given this Upgraded version a solid 3, some of the streamlining is good and I can use the LLBs to fill the vital gaps needed it. But ultimately I would have returned to the LLBs for completeness But I have to score this game against the original release, I can’t play the game as I would like, it's incmplete in vital ways. This wasn't my experience with the original release, which means I have to give the Upgraded version a one.

Just wanted to say that I really, really love what this system offers. Big fan of Traveller/Cepheus type stuff, and, in running a Rider campaign recently, I decided to take a look to see what else was offered in the same style, and Sword of Cepheus scratched so, so many itches for me. Dangerous magic, the character creation common to the engine I've come to love, a charming old-school DND art style, and, this absolutely is a blessing, the book is fairly short! In a good way, you got right to the point and I didn't have to spend long finding what I needed or digging through fluff. Gotta say that the magic/mutation system is probably my favorite part, I ABSOLUTELTY plan on playing around with it for my cowboy campaign.

I think my only complaint is that the weapons don't have a lot of diversity beyond handedness and dice damage, but honestly that's fine- and sort of the norm for rpg's anymore, if 5e DND is anything to go off of. Other than that, book good, 10/10, cast spells and crush skulls. If you, dear reader, are seeking a quick and easy way to experience some of the best the Cepheus system has to offer, give this a gander. If you, Publisher, are reading this, you did real good!