In the small town of Hillview, teenage hoverboarders sneak into other dimensions to explore, film tricks, go viral, and get away from the problems at home. It’s dangerous. It’s stupid. It’s got parent groups in a panic. And it’s the coolest thing ever.This is Slugblaster. A table-top rpg about teenagehood, giant bugs, circuit-bent rayguns, and trying to be cool.
Who are you going to be? A sassy rich kid with a pair of modified time-skipping Scram Cat® sneakers? A chill loser with a lovable robot sidekick? An ultra-dimensional princess with a hoverboard made from pure light?What are you going to do? Will you blow off school and sesh the abandoned mall in Vastiche? Get the Miper sponsorship by speed-running Prismatia? Salvage power crystals from the mossy decommissioned gundam in The Golden Jungle? Sneak into the hottest party in Operaeblum?But be careful! Make sure you get home before the demiplane melts, or the bloodwhip swarm sucks your marrow out, or your mom finds out where you've been and sends you away to a camp for troubled youths.
Slugblaster uses a stripped-down Forged in the Dark system, lovingly designed to support:
Collaborative, player-driven sandbox campaigns and free-form cinematic action.
Looking cool and doing tricks! Pop your gum in slow-mo while you do a 1080 over jets of slime.
Gear-hacking and component-collecting.
Fame and popularity! Get fans, earn sponsorships, wear a t-shirt with your face on it.
Narrative downtime arcs, where you buy scene prompts with points you earn during your adventures.
Dramatic, push-your-luck, third-act disasters.
Really dope chases.
Sci-fi adventure like Big Hero 6, Paper Girls, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and the Spider-Verse movies.
Coming-of-age stories like Eighth Grade, The Edge of Seventeen, and A Goofy Movie.
Stuff about skateboarding like Skate Kitchen, Mid90s, or Lords of Dogtown.
Saturday morning programming like Ben 10, Earthworm Jim, Cyberchase, Power Rangers, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Anime like SK8 the Infinity, FLCL, Eizouken, and Paprika.
Video games like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Jet Set Radio Future, OlliOlli World, and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk.
The way the bug aliens exploded into slime in Men in Black. Remember how cool that was?
"Just read through SLUGBLASTER, and wow it is fantastic! Highly, highly recommended." —John Harper, designer of Blades in the Dark"I have never had more fun reading a game manual." — Sam Leigh of @GoblinMixtape"It made me feel 20 years younger and a thousand years old at the same time." — Chris Lowry in Tabletop Gaming“A combination of all the elements that make a game unique and readable and playable and beautiful and innovative and evocative and... fun?” — Alex Sprague, IGDN Events Coordinator"I read Slugblaster and now I have to redesign my game" –Riley Daniels"Strong Mountain Dew-brained sensibilities... A beautiful art-style combined with THE best page layouts I've ever seen in a game" - Zayda The Forward Thinker
Print Playsheets
Printable playsheets for Slugblaster.
Online Playsheets
An updated character keeper for Google Sheets. (Huge thanks to Marc Majcher and @Colinaut).
Location Maps
The GotY Edition location art for The Golden Jungle, Thennis Spar, The Waking Pits, and Calorium.
Slugblaster Turbo X
Ultra-lite one-shot Slugblaster, great for demos, cons, kids, and hacking. Free!
Official Actual Play
Two full-length Slugblaster campaigns on the fantastic Quantum Kickflip podcast.
Official Soundtrack
Original, loopable instrumentals for every world, multiple scene-types, and more, beautifully produced by Robin Slack. (Comes free with the Game of the Edition Box!)
Pinterest Board
A massive fan-made pinterest board filled with Slugblastery images and inspiration.
More Actual Plays
Three-part playthrough on the Calamity Vault Podcast!
Third-Party License
Make stuff based on Slugblaster!
Community Content
A huge collection of community-made Slugblaster supplements on itch.io
A trick generator by @stormwarning
Another trick generator by @ThisisVictor that can be easily copied into your Google Sheet character keeper.
A Panic Energy® flavor generator by @DMRawlings
Third-Party License
You are welcome (and encouraged!) to create and share third-party projects using Slugblaster content under the following conditions:
Permitted Uses
You may create, share, and sell tabletop games, supplements, and game aids based on Slugblaster, including lore and world material.
You may create, share, and sell actual play podcasts, streams, and videos based on Slugblaster, including lore and world material.
You may create and share fiction, art, and other works based on Slugblaster, including lore and world material, but cannot sell them without special written permission.
Non-Permitted Uses
Print publications (books, magazines, zines, etc.) using Slugblaster lore and world material are not allowed without special written permission.
Art, logos, and trade dress from Slugblaster cannot be used in any project without special written permission.
You cannot create works based on Slugblaster that promote hate speech, harassment, or harmful material.
All other rights are reserved, and permission may be revoked at any time.
Attribution
Any work using Slugblaster content must include the following credit line:“Slugblaster is copyright © Mikey Hamm. Used with permission. [Your Product Name] is an independent work and not an official Slugblaster product.”