STORMCHASERS
A downloadable game
WELCOME TO THE ANOMALOUS ZONE
Warm up your engine and check your spare fuel tank, it's time to hit the road!
Explore the weird new landscape of the American Southwest in the aftermath of an extradimensional incursion in this Guided by Firelights pamphlet roleplaying game.
Help survivors, escape terrifying alien beings and try to determine the source of the alien changes with a deck of cards, a handful of dice and your favorite old toy car.
Stormchasers is a solo journaling game created with the Firelights Creator Kit by Fari RPGs. You play by yourself, writing down your actions and answers to the questions posed. These documents will guide you, but you are ultimately in control of where you want the story to go.
To play this game, you will need:
- A journaling method
- A flat surface to build your map on
- A standard deck of cards without the jokers, shuffled
- Two six-sided dice
- Index cards or random slips of paper
- A small token (I recommend the most beat-up die cast toy car you can find.)
Time to play: 30 - 90 minutes, though it can run as long as you wish.
Touchstones:
Ghostbusters by Ivan Reitman,
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, by W.D. Richter
The X-Files by Chris Carter et al,
Control by Remedy Games,
and quite possibly Pacific Drive by Ironwood Studios,
Content: This game consists of one double-sided trifold pamphlet and a character sheet insert.
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We look forward to your contributions in furthering scientific understanding!
License: Released under CC-BY-SA 4.0. You are welcome to take this game and make it yours, hack it, or create something totally new with its mechanics, even commercially.
07/01/24: Updated to fix issues with the Insert sheet.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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My pdf has redeacted parts I imagine it's for myself to determined?
I LOVE this idea! Downloaded the PDFs a while back and now I can't wait to give it a try! :)
Quick question: on the back of the dashboard, for Seekers, the last entry for What's Their Deal? reads, "Will sabotage your ride at the next XXXXXX lose all Chassis." Does that basically mean, "Will Sabotage your ride. At the next area that's {REDACTED}, lose all Chassis"?
Yes! Thank you for catching that. I'll update the PDF. The [REDACTED] is such a secret that I had to doubly erase the info!
Haha, thanks for the clarification! I mean, obfuscation ;)
Just to let you know - I just downloaded the PDFs and I'm still seeing this
Thank you for reminding me! I think that has finally been taken care of.
Now to work on a bigger version of this game!
Heck yeah, can't wait! :)
Nice. Well written!
However, my OCD keep me looking at this part:
Please, do something about it 😁
EDIT: apparently I can't successfully upload pieces of pictures... :(
However, I'm referring to the 1st page, central part, with RED, YELLOW etc. (some have spaces between the suits, some other not; also, there are weird spaces between that dashed line, something like: - - - ------ - ------).
Finally, there's a "gether data" in the lower corner.
Thank you for the notes! Those are relics from a font change earlier, and all will be fixed this coming week.