Ghost Dog: A fillable character sheet for a one-player arthouse gangster RPG

There a lot of RPGs based on media properties. There are a few based on obscure media properties. I’m not sure there’s a RPG based on something odder or more obscure than Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, which is based on the 1999 Jim Jarmusch movie of the same name.

In the movie, Forest Whittaker plays Ghost Dog, a hit man for a local mobster. He lives his life according to the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, a guide for ancient Japanese samurai. It’s basically an arthouse gangster movie inspired by Japanese and French cinema. It’s worth seeing.

The game is sadly out-of-print, and Guardians of Order, the publisher, went out business in 2006.

One of the interesting things about the game is that it’s designed for one player and one GM. The player can play Ghost Dog, any other character in the movie, or a custom character of their own design.

It uses the Tri-Stat system. 2d6 rolls resolve most things.

A character sheet is included in the book, but I couldn’t find a copy online. I’ve taken the sheet from the book, made a separate PDF, and made it fillable.

I’ve added this post to my collection of character sheet posts, and my collection of character sheets for dead RPGs.

Fringeworthy: Fillable Character Sheets for an interdimensional RPG

Fringeworthy is a science fiction RPG from Tri Tac games. The premise is that in the near future of 2008, scientists discovered an alien installation beneath the Antarctic ice. This installation contained a portal to other versions of Earth in parallel dimensions.

Only a small percentage of people (the titular Fringeworthy) can access these portals. The UN establishes an organization to send teams into the portals to explore the other Earths. It’s basically a cross between Sliders and Stargate SG-1.

This one is crunchy, even for an 1980s game. There are lots of stats, detailed weapon and vehicle rules, and very complex hit location rules. Possibly more than most people would be comfortable with. There are little charts and tables on almost every page. I haven’t actually played it yet, but the rules seem way more complicated than a pulpy setting needs.

While you can still get copies of this game, it’s not exactly active, and there only seem to be a few fan works on DriveThru,

There were three versions of this game 1982, 1984, and 1992. I’ve taken the character sheet for 1992 version, and a more recent color version and made them both fillable. The color version has the ability to add an image to the Character Portrait field.

I’ve added this post to my collection of character sheet posts, and my collection of character sheets for dead RPGs.

A fillable character sheet for Dicey Tales

Dicey Tales is a pulp adventure RPG using the same system as Barbarians of Lemuria and Everywhen

Everything is a 2d6 roll where you add a attribute and career. If you get a 9 or higher, you succeed. It’s a very effective, and fast-moving little system.

I’ve taken the character sheet and made it fillable. I have a version where you can add a picture by clicking the notes box, and another where it’s just text.

I’ve added this post to my ancient treasure hoard of character sheets.

Sprawl Goons: Fillable Character Sheets for a cyberpunk RPG

A few years ago, Nate Treme put out a RPG called Tunnel Goons. It’s a simple, light 2D6 system.

You roll a 2d6 and add the value of an attribute to beat a Difficulty Score (DS). It’s a good game for beginners, as there aren’t a lot of rules to memorize.

Tunnel Goons was released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, so anyone can make their own game using the same system. As a result, there’s an enormous number of hacks based on Tunnel Goons.

One of my favorite of these hacks, is Sprawl Goons from Geist Hack Games. It uses the Tunnel Goons rules to run gritty cyberpunk adventures.

I like it because it’s light, it’s easy to create characters, and it’ll probably be my go-to system if I’m going to run any quick cyberpunk one-shots. It’s also quite inexpensive.

All you need to run the game is the Sprawl Goons: Upgraded book for the main rules, but I’d recommend getting the Sprawl Goons: Booster Pack and the Sprawl Goons:Plug-In Pack for supporting material.

Alternately, all of the books are compiled in the book Sprawl Goons: Upgraded CARBON EDITION

There are two versions of the official character sheet, available for free here. I’ve made fillable versions of each.

I’ve added this post to my overflowing cred-stick of RPG character sheets.

Character Sheet for Dark Conspiracy

I’ve been keeping up with the TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam over on itch. The idea is that for each day in May, one creates a RPG character.

My project is called 31 Guys in 31 Days. I’ll be generating one new character each and posting it along with a quick description of the game, and how the character was made.

For day four of the challenge, I wanted to make a character for Dark Conspiracy.

Dark Conspiracy was originally published in 1991 by GDW. It’s an action horror game set in a Crapsack World near future Earth. The economy has collapsed, public authority has weakened, and the environment is a mess. Underlying all this is the growing secret influence of otherdimensional and extraterrestrial threats – basically evil monsters.

There’s still quite a bit of fan interest in the game at sites like https://www.darkconspiracytherpg.info/, so I thought I’d have no problem finding a fillable character sheet for DC. I was mistaken.

So I’ve taken the character sheet pages from the original rulebook, made a separate PDF, and made it fillable. You can import an image into the portrait box just by clicking on it.

I’ve also added this page to my ever-growing, unwieldy list of RPG character sheets.

I have updated my custom character sheets for The One Ring and the PDFs are now digitally fillable! Grab them for free (although a few coins in the tip jar are always much appreciated!) from the Treasure Box on the Voyager’s Workshop website!

https://thevoyagersworkshop.com/products/character-sheets-for-the-one-ring-2e

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Character Sheets for Dead RPGs

A collection of character sheets for forgotten, obscure, or out-of-print RPGs. All free to download.

Click on the sheet caption to go the original blog post and download link. Click on the image to zoom in and see the slideshow of all of the sheets. They’re also listed individually at the bottom of the page. You can see a full list of my character sheets here.

Individual Links

Ghost Dog: A fillable character sheet for a one-player arthouse gangster RPG

Fringeworthy: Fillable Character Sheets for an interdimensional RPG

Character Sheet for Dark Conspiracy

Daredevils – a fillable character sheet for the 1980s Pulp Adventure RPG

Lords of Creation – Character Sheets for a long-dead RPG

For Faerie, Queen, & Country – Character Sheets

Danger International – Character Sheets

Mercenaries, Spies, & Private Eyes Character Sheets

Phoenix Command – Complicated Gun Nonsense – 1980’s style

Valley of the Pharoahs – Character Sheet for yet another dead RPG

The Mechanoid Invasion – Character Sheets for yet another dead RPG

Gary Gygax’s Cyborg Commando – Fillable Character Sheet for a dead RPG

Nexus: The Infinite City – Character Sheet for yet another dead RPG

Psi World: New Fillable Character Sheets for a dead RPG.

Terra Incognita: Fillable Character Sheet

The Price of Freedom: Fillable character sheet for yet another dead RPG

Boot Hill 1st Edition: Fillable Character sheet

Character Sheet for the 1978 Star Trek RPG

K.A.B.A.L: a character sheet for another long dead RPG

Night of the Ninja: A Character Sheet for an extremely dead RPG

The Spawn of Fashan: Some notes on a mostly-dead RPG and a new character sheet

ZeFRS: A mini-review and free character sheet for the Conan retroclone

Daredevils – a fillable character sheet for the 1980s Pulp Adventure RPG

Daredevils was an early pulp adventure game from FGU first published in 1982. I’ve had the PDF version in my collection for years, but really never found to time to run, or even read it, despite my love of the pulp genre.

Recently, after a request from Reddit, I’ve taken the character sheet from the PDF version of the book and made it fillable. This gave me the opportunity to look at the book a bit. It looks interesting so far. It’s skill based, a bit crunchy, as FGU games from the eighties tended to be, but it’s no Aftermath. I may actually end up trying a one-shot.

Here’s the character sheet:

I’ve added this to my ever-growing list of character sheets.

Other Daredevils Resources

FGU’s Daredevil site
https://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/fgu/daredevils/

An overview of Daredevils on the Grognardia blog:
https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/05/retrospective-daredevils.html

Some adventures and resources for Daredevils:
https://www.godsmonsters.com/Features/daredevils/

A video unboxing of the original boxed set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr4b5sGQcHc

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A character sheet for Far West, the Kung Fu Western RPG

I recently ran a one-shot of Far West, the Wuxia/Spaghetti Western mashup RPG. I had fun running it, and even extended the session to a second session.

I’m planning on writing a full review, but for now I wanted to share the character sheet I created for the game. It’s essentially just a printer friendly, fillable version of the character sheet in the rule book.

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