Orbital Blues: Quickstart: An Unchained Melody
Orbital Blues: Quickstart: An Unchained Melody
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This is the rock and roll future of yesteryear that never was—and nobody wanted.
It is an intergalactic age of cowboys, outlaws and bandits playing on an interstellar stage. It is a time of hyper-capitalism and a cut-throat gig economy. Unreliable trash-heaps carry scrappy underdogs to their next gig, and corporation freighters lumber across the horizon laden with an empire’s bounty.
These are the music-fuelled, moon-age daydreams of a rebel space age.
These are your ORBITAL BLUES.
A quickstart for an RPG about SAD SPACE COWBOYS based on the Best Left Buried engine. Combining the best elements of Old School RPGs and Storygames, this 120 page PDF features:
- Six premade characters for the crew of the Unchained Melody, each with their own Troubles
- All the rules you need to play
- A short adventure, An Unchained Melody, set in the Sutler System.
This product was updated in May 2025 to reflect the layout of the Orbital Blues core book.
See you, Space Cowboy!
ORBITAL BLUES is a lo-fi space western roleplaying game from SoulMuppet Publishing, written by Sam Sleney & Zachary Cox and illustrated by Josh Clark. A roleplaying love-letter to off-beat sci-fi, vintage music, and cooperative old-school styled roleplay, Orbital Blues allows you to play out rules-light adventures in the style of your favourite space westerns.
Stepping into the shoes of Interstellar Outlaws, players band together to form Crews, and navigate a hard-going, gig-economy living on the fringes of a space-faring society.
Developed on the critically acclaimed rules-lite system of Best Left Buried, Orbital Blues uses a simple D6 based system with 3 basic stats - MUSCLE, GRIT, and SAVVY - to handle rolls and uncertainty - putting the narrative and relationships of the player characters at the heart of play without the baggage of hefty mechanics, classes or roles.
The collection has been expanded to include a huge range of adventures, each one providing a unique perspective on the expansive Outlaw Galaxy.
