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The Ultimate Apocalyptic Planet - 77 Worlds RPG James M Ward

Created by Stephen Lee

AS3 Earth Prime - The Blasted Earth is James M. Wards vision of the ultimate apocalyptic planet. This book details the basic rules of the Lost 77 Worlds RPG and Earth 300 years into the future after it has been blasted to the brink of oblivion. 9 Character Classes, Three major terrain types and many subtypes, Mutants, Aliens, Rogue Androids, Cyborgs and all that you can imagine on a world who's failed xeno-forming has left the home of man in shatters.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

May Projects for the Lost 77 Worlds
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 09:19:44 PM

May is right around the corner

I expect several new releases for 77 Worlds at the end of May or early June starting with Andrew Jensen's BE3: Ruins of Cincinnati. This module will feature an array of things from the riverside market place for the local region to riverboats from two settlements unfriendly to each other to a classic post-apocalyptic subway adventure by James M. Ward that will take your party deep into the ruins of the ancient city. This adventure provides a market place setting for your campaign, riverboat intrigue which can be resolved without combat, and a small settlement on the edge of a ruined city to provide for many game nights of exciting adventures. 

We also expect to release BE1 Landing Zone and CA1 Dragon Hunt for the Camelot Resort. These have been on the back burner waiting for the new boxed set and we have decided to release them as the new boxed sets are taking a slightly different direction and will not be available until the end of the year.

April 2020
about 4 years ago – Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 08:18:44 AM

Good Morning

I hope all of you are safe and in good spirits. We had a few backers recently reach out to get PDFs from our first KS project so I thought a general update on the game was due. The PDFs are still online and available to all of you. A few of those PDFs will be updated over the next few weeks and the updates will be available to you for free as well. Thank you for backing the game. Please note, all our books are produced in these United States and our ability to provide products has not been impacted by recent events. http://firesidecreations.com

The Future

We are currently working on the Apocalyptic Mars sourcebook and a half dozen adventures. Some of the adventures link back into the Lunar Resort and require minor updates for the Blasted Earth BEAS2017 series. Part of this effort is to push out two modules talked about early in the project that were never produced. While anyone who selected those adventures received other products, we plan to make these free to every backer as soon as they are done. Happy gaming

Card Decks

We have released all card decks created over the last 5 years to the store. Some have limited quantity. In this release, we revealed the Thebes card deck which is available for purchase. The Thebes deck is part of a fall project that will revisit the Lunar Resorts adding a Gamemaster guide for each resort, a few battle maps, and the map of the underdome. In doing this work, we will also place all the player's information into a booklet and include it with the new resort specific products. These updates will be available to everyone who bought the Basic Boxed set as a PDF for free while the print version will be available in the store. This project is running parallel to the Jupiter Shipyards project James M. Ward is currently working. 

Core Rules update

The AS1 is long overdue for a major update. We will rework all the core rules, optional rules, and character types for inclusion into this book. AS1 will become the Players handbook for the game while all Resort GM information will move into the AS2 Adventures (retitled as the Lundar Resort Adventure Book). A game master book is planned as an addition that walks new GM's through running the game and offers many useful suggestions for running encounters, expanding the game into a long term campaign, and doing unique things with jokers and the wild card. This book will also include all the GM content for skills, talents, mutations, and so forth from the major sourcebooks so you have one place to reference as the game master.

Projects underway

We have a number of projects underway. Most of these are not near term and will release later in the year or next year. The active projects include:

  • The GM Reference Guide and campaign guide
  • The Jovian System (Jupiter Shipyards)and related Adventures
  • Apocalyptic Mars (Colony World 1) and related Adventures
  • Wards Dark Star (Colony World 2) and related Adventure
  • AS1 Players handbook and basic rules update and new basic adventure
  • Lunar Resort supplement books for each resort and related Adventures

Convention's in March and June
about 4 years ago – Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:15:02 AM

Convention's in March and June

We will be at the Atlanta Science Fiction and Fantasy Expo this weekend (March 14th) at North Dekalb Mall in Decatur, Georgia, if you are in the area and want to drop by.

We will also be attending the North Texas RPG Con June 6th in Dallas, Texas

Final shipment update
over 4 years ago – Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:58:55 PM

The last few modules which are due to 6 or 7 people are finally getting their maps update. I expect them to ship very soon. The Backer adventure Ruins of Cincinnati is back in development and the PDF will be available for everyone by the end of the month.

Initial writing has been completed for both Apocalyptic Mars and The Jovian System (Jupiter shipyard). These will ship in the spring. James M. Ward went all out on the Jupiter shipyards going beyond the adventure and detailing all of the moons that we knew about at the time. So this has turned into a sourcebook. He is busy writing Wards Darkstar which will be the first colony world supplement published later this year.

Finally, I am running an online game and we have up to 5 slots available should you be interested.

Happy New Years!

November 2019 - Quick update
over 4 years ago – Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 05:45:41 PM

Greetings from the Apocalypse

I wanted to broadcast a general update to everyone. We have, I believe, 7 people waiting on two adventure modules. Those will ship along with the newsletter in December. 

ACW01 MARS and AS4 Mutants of MARS

We will also launch our campaign for Apocalyptic Mars which adds general mutation rules, Cyborg rules, and Android player character rules along with the setting for the First Colony World - MARS. These two  source books are already in initial editing and we plan to ship in February 2020.

Redoubts of the Apocalypse

The first redoubt adventure will be available for free to everyone who has backed any of our campaigns. I expect this to be released at about the same time as ACW01. Along with this adventure, we will release to everyone the production MAP book for BEAS2017 12 adventure series on the Blasted Earth. This will contain high resolution maps and battle maps for all 12 adventures including the factory in Juneau. I anticipate an April release for the new maps and LDP Quest guidebook.

AS5 Jupiter Ship Yards (JSY)

The fifth core book for the boxed set is planned to ship in March. We will launch the campaign for this book in February. This book adds space stations, deep space mining facilities, and a few starships to the game along with related rules as well as details of the Jovian system and all of its moons. (well most of them they keep growing in number as discoveries are made every few months.)

Where is the Love for the Lunar Resort?

We have new adventures for the Lunar Resort in the works for 2020. Some Gang Lands in Old Chicago dome, two Lunar surface adventures and two "under dome" adventures. We also plan updates to AS1 which was released in 2014 to bring it up to date. Also the AS2 Lunar Resort adventure book will be reformatted and more details for each dome, under dome, and other lunar facilities will be added. Both AS1 and AS2 are expected to grow to just over 100 pages each (more than doubling the current content).