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Forgotten Futures

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Complete Rules For Adventures in Victorian and Edwardian Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Remember how the future used to be?

When vast fleets of flying ships blackened the sky . . .
When psychic investigators used electric pentacles . . .
When Venus was a paradise, never fallen from grace . . .
When the government's main job was to make the airships run on time . . .
When a gentleman could build his own spaceship and still have change of a million pounds . . .
When there were still dinosaurs and monsters in the unexplored corners of the Earth . . .
When you could find a complete role playing game with twelve supplements on line . . .

Probably the first shareware tabletop RPG, now freeware, Forgotten Futures has been published on disk and on line since 1993. Like all of the core Forgotten Futures RPG material, this PDF is a free download. It contains all of the rules that you'll need to play the game, including many of the optional "extras" that have been added in various worldbooks and adventures. More than a hundred megabytes of background material and adventures are available from the author's web site, with much more supporting material available as a downloadable CD-ROM image.

Note - most of this material still asks you to become a registered user; registrations are no longer accepted, but you can support the site (and Cancer Research UK) via donations, or by buying it here.

The Forgotten Futures PDFs are now "pay what you want" files, which includes the option to download them free of charge. Income from payments will be used to cover the running expenses of the Forgotten Futures web site, which has a lot more resources for these games, with at least 25% donated to Cancer Research UK.

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Michael T. [Featured Reviewer]
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April 29th, 2011
Forgotten Futures has a great premise: take the innovative and often strange imaginings of the early 19th and 20th centuries and use those pseudo-scientific ideas as a fertile ground for a role-playing game. It's this largely unexplored part of literat [...]
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December 10th, 2010
Forgotten Futures has everything you would expect from a professional RPG: an introduction to roleplaying, a clear index and glossary, detailed equipment tables, solid GM chapters with plenty of examples of play throughout and don't forget the many sup [...]
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January 13th, 2009
How can you give a free RPG a bad rating? Its not very well organized, but there is a lot of useful detail for anyone gaming in this period. [...]
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ROW004
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This title was added to our catalog on December 17, 2008.