FORGOTTEN FUTURES XI

ROLE-PLAYING IN THE WORLDS OF
STANLEY G. WEINBAUM'S
1930s SCIENCE FICTION
BY MARCUS L. ROWLAND

This is a complete role playing game setting based on Stanley G. Weinbaum's acclaimed 1930s SF stories, including details of all nine worlds and the asteroids and major moons, spaceship operation and construction rules, a detailed adventure campaign, three long adventures and eighteen adventure outlines, twelve ready-to-use characters, and much more.

As a bonus to registered users, this distribution CD-ROM contains a sampler of material from the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM.

Forgotten Futures XI

PDFs

Planets of Peril - Worldbook and adventures etc.
High-resolution version of the front cover
Alternate covers etc. for printing FF XI as two volumes
Stanley G. Weinbaum's Planetary Stories
A League of Nations Patrol Ship
The Smithsonian Institute Low-Gravity Research Submarine
A Mobile Factory for the Salt Flats of Venus
Spaceship Design Template (Excel)

HTML files

Planets of Peril - Worldbook and adventures etc.
Science Fiction by Stanley Weinbaum (The Planetary stories and more)

Bonus Material

The Forgotten Futures Rules

PDF Version
Single-File HTML
Multi-File HTML

Taking The Tunnel

PDF version
HTML version
An introductory adventure for Forgotten Futures, in which the adventurers must save Queen Victoria and the Empire from a deadly foreign plot...

The Forgotten Futures Compendium

PDF only
A bonus collection of adventures and adventure ideas; The League of Extraordinary Geometers, for Forgotten Futures and The Original Flatland Role Playing Game, Alex Stewart's Curse of the Leapordmen, and The Advertising Supplement, a collection of Victorian and Edwardian advertisements with adventure ideas.

Samplers for some other games by Marcus L. Rowland (all PDF)

Diana: Warrior Princess
Elvis: The Legendary Tours
The Original Flatland Role Playing Game
Published in aid of Doctors Without Borders

Material from the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM

1,000,000 A.D.
An anonymous satirical poem on the future of humanity, published in Punch in 1893.

War of the Wenuses
An 1898 parody of The War of the Worlds, by C.L. Graves and E.V. Lucas, in which London is invaded by "Wenuses," alien women from space.

Advertisements from Pearson's Magazine, February 1899
A snapshot of period advertising, useful as a source of period imagery and styles.

A Twentieth Century Dinner - Foods of the Future.
An 1899 article by Alfred Arkas from Pearson's Magazine, looking forward to a future of concentrated food pills and medicines.

The Newest Thing in Railways.
A short anonymous article on the Barmen-Elberfeld Mono-Rail Suspended Railway, from Harmsworth's Magazine July 1901 (there is another longer article on the FF CD-ROM)

Two Miles A Minute!
A short article by Fritz Volkmann describing German electric train trials in 1904.