DayTrippers: Core Rules

by Tod Foley

A surreal reality-hopping roleplaying game set in a near-future science fiction multiverse, in which an assortment of colorful character classes pilot unique machines into dream worlds and pocket universes to retrieve items of value and bring them back home. The setting was inspired by the surrealistic fiction of Moebius, Moorcock, Rucker, Weinbaum, Heinlein, Vance, and other masters of weirdness . . .The time is shortly after the year 2100, the location is the first world. Massive megacorporations dominate the economic landscape and incredible advances in technology make the most miraculous things possible, from dream recording and genetic modification to medical nanotechnology and microfusion power generators. But the most earth-shaking development of the 21st century is one we’re only beginning to see the ramifications of... As the 22nd century dawns, the inner and outer realities of SlipSpace are opening for exploration in new and experimental vehicles known as "SlipShips" . . . The bold explorers who pilot these vehicles face a multiverse of physical and psychological dangers to bring back priceless scientific knowledge and powerful artifacts from far-flung dimensions and alternate timelines. They’re called "DayTrippers," and you’re one of them.

43 pages, Paperback

Published January 2, 2015

About the author

Tod Foley is a writer, editor, game designer & interactive artist, curator of the UbiquiCity project and other literary series as the founder of As If Books.

He's also the author of numerous roleplaying games including CORE (2019), Other Borders (2016), DayTrippers (2015), Watch the World Die (2014), and CyberSpace (1989). He produced the award-winning online "World of South Park" for Comedy Central, designed the award-winning "Ocean Explorer" for Times-Mirror Magazines, authored and produced the theatrical LARP "Ghosts In the Machine" (CyberArts International, 1992), and edited a tiny but nationally-distributed magazine called PIX-elation (1993-1996).

All these years and he still doesn't have a job. You can contact Tod online at TodFoley.com.