The final Ephemeris sale!!!

Later this year, we will be releasing Ephemeris 2.0. At that time, all of the first edition titles will no longer be available, so this is your very last chance to download these titles.

Save 75% for a limited time at https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2805/

The year is 2185. The human race has gone to the stars, and found that they're not alone. Local space is teeming with civilizations, some hostile, some friendly, and some indifferent. This is the universe of Ephemeris.

Ephemeris is a game of galactic trade and galactic conquest; of inter-species conflict and cooperation. Ephemeris is a science fiction role playing game. Here you will be able to take on the role of your favorite alien species and your favorite class. You will be able to trade, fight, negotiate, conquer, whatever you'd like to do with your fellow players. You can play the role of an Althani Trader, or maybe an Arbonix Cyber Wizard, or maybe even a Human Nanist. You can create a party made up entirely of one species and set out to upset the trade routes of a rival species. Or maybe you want to create a party with a variety of species that preys upon the trading routes of the various civilizations. Or maybe you want to explore the ancient ruins on long dead planets, ruins that clearly show that there were other species roaming the spaceways in the past...but where are they now? You can fight in great wars, negotiate grand peace treaties, and explore sections of the galaxy that no sentient has ever explored. Or maybe your party has joined with one of the interplanetary corporations; corporations whose motives are never entirely clear. These are just some of the possibilities open to you.
The universe of Ephemeris is yours to do with as you please. What you now hold in your hands are the basic guidelines for the games. Here you'll find the races, classes, abilities, skills, weapons, and ships that allow you to create your own Ephemeris universe.

Now, step inside for the greatest science fiction adventure you've ever been on...

Another review of Insignificant

Mike Morgan's novel Insignificant has been reviewed again at Amazon. Check it out at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3G7BWBZ

And in case you've forgotten what the book is about...

The year is 2127 and the Earth is dying, and nobody seems to notice or care. The United States, run by its single party system known as the Patriot Party refuses to allow any information about the environment out to its citizens, and the rest of the world follows along.
Those headaches everyone is getting, no, that’s not CO2 poisoning…take another pill you’ll feel better…
One man who is paying attention is Thiago Castillo. He had spent years trying to clean the oceans, but even that mission has failed. Now he’s turned his massive yacht into an air-tight ship that a few hundred people hope to live out the end of the world on, but the CIA has different plans, and they’ve sent one of their best case officers to find out what Castillo is up to, but what happens when that officer is exposed to the truth…the REAL truth, and not the Patriot truth?

What can you expect in the near future?

Now that we've released our first ever science fiction card game, Traders of the Sirius Sector, which is available at https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/493147/, we're ready to get back to what we're better known for. So, what can you expect from us over the next few months. Here are a few of the titles we're currently working on...

We are not All Right, a short story collection from Mike Morgan. If you're not familiar with Mike's work, and you really should be...check out his novel Insignificant at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3G7BWBZ.

Before the end of the year we are hoping to bring you Ephemeris 2.0, a revised version of our most popular RPG. This version will be a d20 version, and we're doing everything we can to make it more player friendly. We think you'll like the changes. We're still debating if this will be released as one massive core rulebook, or if we will divide it up between a player's book and a game master's book. And, of course, we'll have lots of supplements for the new game.

Also coming in the next few months will be Do You Really Want to be a Science Fiction Writer, a follow up to the massively popular Do You Really Want to be a Writer by author and editor J Alan Erwine. If you haven't checked the first book out, you really should. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CRK79PSV, and for the next few days, it's on sale at https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/466362/.

There's more planned, but we'll save that for another post...

Traders of the Sirius Sector

We've always prided ourselves on the idea that we publish whatever we want, and in that light, we would like to present our very first card game...Traders of the Sirius Sector.

Trade is crucial in an intergalactic society. Can you be the greatest trader in the Sirius Sector? Collect ships, ship improvements, and star systems, while navigating the dangers of the trade world. Can you collect more credits than your opponents?

A science fiction card game for 2-4 players. The game features 325 cards, 200 credits cards, 4 ship cards, 20 event cards, and 101 game play cards.

You can buy the game at: https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/493147/ The price is a bit high, we'll admit, but that's mostly because of card production costs. In all honesty, our profit on this game is less than 10%, so we aren't price gouging. We are looking into a way to reduce the number of cards to try to cut the cost, but we still think you'll have fun with this one!!!

Short Story September

From J Alan Erwine's Blog:

DriveThruFiction is currently running a sale on books about writing, and this gives you a chance to download Do You Really Want to be a Writer? for just $2.39. Download it today at https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/466362/

Do you really want to be a writer? It’s a serious question that anyone thinking about entering the field of writing should ask.

In this collection of essays, prize-winning science fiction author and editor J Alan Erwine uses his usual wit and sarcasm to educate and entertain potential writers as they start their journeys.

You won’t find essays about plot or character development here, but instead, you’ll find 17 essays that talk about the business of writing. Erwine uses his more than a quarter of a century of experience to talk about the submission process, and more importantly, what to do with your writing and career after you’ve started selling.

Do You Really Want To Be a Writer? is a great source of information for the new writer as well as the experienced writer.

We Are Not All Right

Actually, we're just fine, thanks for asking. We Are Not All Right is the title to a new short story collection from Mike Morgan that will be coming your way later this year. Keep an eye on this page for cover art and a release date.

If you haven't heard of Mike Morgan, well, we don't understand how you couldn't have, but if you'd like to read something from him, check out his novel Insignificant at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3G7BWBZ.

The Rocks on the Other Side sale continues

There's still time to save 50% on the Rocks on the Other Side Role Playing Game at DriveThruRPG: https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/417789/

The year was 2032. It will always be remembered as the year that the leaders of the world truly lost their minds. That was the year that they unleashed the massive nuclear arsenals they had been stockpiling. That was the year they tried to wipe out all life on Earth because of petty differences, differences that could have easily been overlooked if they would have just had open minds, but let’s face it, how often did the leaders of the world ever actually have open minds?

Now, two years later, civilization is gone, most of life on Earth is gone, but there are still pockets of humanity that try to eke out an existence. Some of the Earth’s flora and fauna have also survived the nuclear holocaust. Unfortunately, now everyone is trying to survive, and that means that everyone else must be viewed as a potential enemy. Even worse, nuclear mutations have created horrible lifeforms. Some used to be human, some were animals, and some were plants, but now they’re horribly deformed, and incredibly dangerous. Not to mention the fact that there are pockets of radiation all over the world that threaten life that comes anywhere close to it.

And, of course, there’s no longer a need to worry about global climate change since the world is stuck in a perpetual nuclear winter, killing more and more of the life on Earth.

Radiation everywhere, almost constant cold and snow, mutated people, animals, and plants…this is the world that waits for you in Rocks on the Other Side. Do you dare venture into this world and try to survive?