Ghostbusters International RPG - Character Sheet

Even more presents for my loyal readers.

My ongoing Ghostbusters RPG campaign has taken a break for a couple of weeks, set to resume very soon.  When we started, I handed out character sheets printed off from scans of the rulebook, and looking through them today they look tatty.

So, I've gone ahead and made some fresh ones from scratch.  Here they are, for you, dear readers, should you be able to make use of them (which I heartily encourage -- the Ghostbusters International game is unquestioningly one of the rules-lite classics).

Ghostbusters International RPG PDF character sheet at 1 per page (A4/Letter)

A bit of Google Fu tells me this isn't the first GBI character sheet on the web, so I'm going to give a shout out to the unknown hero who released this in 2007.  Well played, sir or madam.

Mini-teaser: this might not be the last mention of this character sheet here; I've got some plans.

Advanced Heroquest - Character Sheet

Click above if you're happy using a PNG file, look below for the PDFs

Not quite a board game, not quite a roleplaying game, definitely a miniatures game but entirely unlike a wargame, Advanced Heroquest is somewhat of a forgotten gem, in my mind.  Preceded by Milton Bradley's Hero Quest and succeeded by Games Workshop's Warhammer Quest, it has the difficulties of the middle child, but it's somehow always been my favourite of this type of game.

And, arguably, the internet's least.

A good few years ago, I ran AHQ regularly for a group, and we had a blast.  As a result of that, I made up loads of my own houserules, and supporting miscellanea -- like this character sheet I'm posting today.

The character sheets that came with the game were printed on the back of the rulebook, and occupied one half of a page of A4 -- the other being given up to graph paper that dungeons would be mapped out on by the players themselves.  My players always found that to be insufficient cartography room by far, so I always handed out full sheets of A4 graph paper for them to map away to their hearts' content.

The character sheets I'm posting today have been updated just a bit to be suitable for the outside world.  It's 100% my own creation based off the original design, but otherwise this is a product from an age that has passed.  It's my fond hope that at least a few of you will get some use from it.

Advanced Heroquest PDF character sheet at 1 per page (A4/Letter)

Advanced Heroquest PDF character sheet at 2 per page (A4/Letter)

Printable Senet Boards 2

Sorry for my minor absence, if that's what you call a little over a week without a post.  I'm sure I'll be able to give you longer and more unexplained hiatuses in the future, so don't feel disappointed if this one wasn't long enough for you, my faithful readers.  All six of you.

Baron vonKadreisehn has sent me a new bunch of themed senet boards, and frankly I think they put my own efforts squarely in their place.  He's granted kind permission for me to include them here, so get your printers heated up and pick your favourite from these three.

Post-Apocalyptic Senet Board
Baron vonKadreisehn explains: I'd recommend using bottlecaps as counters and bolts/nails/chicken bones (boiled clean) as "sticks".

Steampunk Senet Board
Baron vonKadreisehn beclaims: Good day sir, may I joyously present for your senet related appreciation a board based upon the theme of steampunkery!  May I recommend gears or small brass octopods as counters and possibly clockhands and slender brass nicknackery as sticks?  Splendid! ...if perhaps somewhat awkward to obtain.

Biomech Senet Board
A terrifying whisper permeates from places unknown: Greetingssss two-leg-meat, we the Hissnastypoids have sssubverted your feeble senet board to our biomechy-hivey based purposessss. We demand that as counters and sticksss you use ...pitiful human countersss and sticks (unless you can find nasssty biomech-y counters and sticks upon your worthlesss dirtball.)

Printable Senet Boards

As part of my quest to play more Senet, I mentioned last post that I'd make myself a Senet board to play on.  As such, I've thrown together a few printable boards that I think are worth sharing, and if they're not to anyone's taste I guarantee a full refund.

The first one is based on how, if I made a board from wood, it would look in my head before I ended up ruining a small pile of good wood and gluing my fingers to anything and everything in sight.  (All the images are clickable, so feel free to do just that.)

The next one is the board I'll actually be printing off for myself.  It's image conscious.  It's sleek and professional.  It's printer friendly.

Finally, just for the lulz, is one that isn't so much styled after ancient Egypt as a forgotten spaceborne race who left behind their own game that just so happened to be just like Senet.  Only made of alien rock and glass, obviously.

Feel free to use these and let me know how you get along with them in the comments.  Likewise, shout out if you've got any requests.