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threeravenspublishing · 5 months

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Do you love listening to Audiobooks?

MAD CAP Then we’ve got the fix for you. Love a great fantasy adventure? How about strong female characters with a sprinkling of scifi? Then Mad Cap by Charity Ayres will be right up your alley. Pillage, plunder, mayhem, and wicked magical tattoos… …sounds like the perfect life for pirate Captain Maggy Low. Her life is a dream of violent chaos if you don’t count the fact that magic causes her…

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vintagerpg · 5 years

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OK, so, way back in 1980, Steve Jackson Games released Car Wars, a post-apocalyptic vehicle combat simulation board game. It came in a baggie, as was the way of things back then. You might think it was inspired by Mad Max (1979), but it actually came out of an Alan Dean Foster story, “Why Johnny Can’t Speed.” Car Wars is cool, and I will probably cover it eventually, but as a board game, it kind of falls apart after it introduced vehicles that weren’t cars or trucks.

Autoduel (1986) has no such problems. While Car Wars was limited by maps and table sizes, Autoduel, like most tabletop RPGs, just needs space inside your brain. Mostly.

In Autoduel, you get the setting background (a post-apocalyptic America, where autoduelists roam the highways looking for adventure), character creation rules, vehicle creation rules and a super robust system for vehicle to vehicle combat. This allows you to participate in all the vehicular manslaughter you could possibly desire.

Funny thing, though: Autoduel holds up as a solid campaign setting even if your characters never take the wheel of a car. The world, with is clones and competition circuit and political factions, does more than just provide an excuse to play chicken on a ruined highway. SJG thought so too, publishing seven regional sourcebook over the years as well as a pile of scenarios. It is easy to see how this would hold up on its own, or be an invaluable component of a custom post-apocalyptic game.

Bonus: this is a GURPS book with pretty good art, too!

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threeravenspublishing · 9 months

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We're Grateful to our Amazing Readers, Fans, and Supporters!

Less than a week in, and our readers and supporters have already raised over $4,000 for the Car Warriors Kickstarter project! Our modest goal of $500 was blown past in the opening hours, and we are already deep into the stretch goals, with more to access and even more to uncover as the numbers continue to climb. We’ll get into some of those stretch goals in a moment, but first: thank you to all…

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threeravenspublishing · 11 months

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Need something new to read over the weekend?

The long-awaited kick-off of the Car Warriors: Autoduel Chronicles universe is finally here!

The long-awaited kick-off of the Car Warriors: Autoduel Chronicles universe is finally here! Burning Roads, Book one of the Dead Man’s Run series is out and available on all platforms that books are sold. Not sure what the story is about? Here’s the back cover blurb. Atlanta cabbie by day, amateur autoduellist by night, Ricky Turner is living the dream. That is, until he wakes up in a Gold…

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threeravenspublishing · 11 months

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What's Your Idea of the Best Science Fiction?

Science Fiction is a very broad field, with many different genres and subgenres falling under the label. Stories range from focusing heavily on exploring a scientific concept to action-adventure stories set in a futuristic world to everything in-between. For me, I tend to prefer what I guess are called space fantasies. Action-adventure stories with cool characters blasting their way against bad…

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threeravenspublishing · 11 months

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Do you love action? The next summer blockbuster is almost here! Are you ready?

Atlanta cabbie by day, Amateur Autoduelist by night, Ricky Turner is living the dream. That is until he wakes up in a Gold Cross facility to discover his last match was more than a failure, it was a Fatality.

That’s right, Burning Roads, Book 1 of the Dead Man’s Run series is live for prerelease on Amazon! What is Burning Roads you ask? Well, it’s the officially licensed kick-off novel of the new Car Warriors: Autoduel Chronicles universe, based on the world of Car Wars by Steve Jackson Games. Atlanta cabbie by day, Amateur Autoduelist by night, Ricky Turner is living the dream. That is until he…

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