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Welcome to a 1938 that never was
and a Solar System that should have been.
Rocket Age is an alternate history pulp fiction role playing game.

​​Rocket Age is played around the world.
​Author Ken Spencer won the ENnie Spotlight Award for Rocket Age. 

Blood Red Mars–Savaged Coming to GenCon

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Welcome to the 1938 that never was and the Solar System that should have been!
 
Blood Red Mars–Savaged is a radium punk sci-fi game of exploring the Mars, fighting Nazis, Stalinists, aliens, and the bizarre environments the Red Plane. It is a game of ancient ruins hiding long lost technology, strange beasts, RAY guns, chromed rocket ships, radium fuel, hot exhaust, and fins. So many fins on things you didn't know you could put fins on.
 
  • A dozen playable species including the robomen!
  • New edges, hindrances, and powers!
  • The exciting technology of 1938, RAY guns, rocket packs, and more!
  • Cutting edge tech such as the ready for field testing E-Series and the not yet out of the ab X-Series.
  • Artifacts of Ancient Mars, fear the power of the genetic modification machine! Marvel at the might of the planet killer rocket!
  • A complete gazetteer of Mars from the Great Silt Sea to the South Polar Region and everything in between!
  • Plot generators! Savage Tales! 
  • Over 60 alien flora and fauna ready to eat our heroes! Villains of the foulest kind! Scheming Nazis! 

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CHOOSE YOUR SYSTEM

Rocket Age 5e

ROCKET AGE CLASSIC

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Rocket Age Classic uses the Vortex system,
​a traditional RPG welded to a narrative style system.
2D6 + attribute + skill

Rocket Age 5e

ROCKET AGE 5e

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Rocket Age 5e is fully compatible
​ with other 5e games.

HOT SELLERS

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Buy Caturday 5e
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Buy Blood Red Mars 5e

PLAY WEIRD

The Play Weird series takes a different approach to 5e games. In addition to the ancestry traits and statistics, backgrounds and cleric domains, feats and equipment, Play Weird provides the cultural background to bring the most out of these numbers. More than just a few pages of rules, Play Weird is an ethnography, a story of a people, presenting everything from government to food ways, art to religion, family life and material culture.
Caturday 5e
Surial Bear Folk of the North
Little Gray Aliens
Prehistorica 5e

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