Airship Daedalus: Retro Rulp Adventure Roleplaying

by Todd Downing

From the comic book and radio stories of the A.E.G.I.S. Tales universe comes an RPG of thrilling adventure! A past that was not our own. A dangerous future. Airship Daedalus brings all the heroic action of the classic pulps to your dining room table!

Chart a course for two-fisted excitement as a pilot, explorer, soldier, scientist, pirate, entertainer, occultist... and MORE!

Discover lost cities, befriend exotic natives, encounter ancient horrors and thwart the machinations of secret societies bent on world domination!

Includes: a complete setting based on the Airship Daedalus and A.E.G.I.S. Tales comics and radio serials; the simple, cinematic XPG system from Arrowflight, Santa's Soldiers, RADZ, Shriek X, Mean Streets, and Red Dwarf - The Roleplaying Game.; over 20 pulp adventure character archetypes; gazetteer of lost cities and civilizations; magic and psychic powers; bestiary of wild creatures and legendary horrors; and MUCH MORE!

136 pages, Paperback

Published January 25, 2016

About the author

Todd Downing is the primary author and designer of over fifty roleplaying titles, including Arrowflight, RADZ, Airship Daedalus, and the official Red Dwarf RPG. A fixture in the Seattle indie film community, he is the co-creator of the superhero-comedy webseries The Collectibles, and the screenwriter behind The Parish and Ordinary Angels (which he also directed). His first feature film, a supernatural thriller entitled Project, was included in a PBS young directors series in 1986. He has written for stage, screen, comics, audiodrama, short-form and long-form, interactive and narrative, in a career spanning three decades. The father of two adult children, Downing spent several years in the videogame industry, working on games such as Spider for the Playstation, Allegiance for the PC, and Casino Empire. He also creates book covers and marketing art for fellow authors and corporate clients, and has done voiceover work for Microsoft and the Seattle Seahawks Pro Shop.

Widowed to cancer in 2005, Downing remarried in 2009 to a singer and fiction editor. The couple's "empy nest" in Port Orchard, Washington, consists of her mother and a herd of rescued cats (or should that be a murder?). Thankfully, he has an office door that closes.