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Table of
Contents
INTRODUCTION 7
CHARACTER CLASSES 9
Earthling 10
Engine of Destruction 18
Mutant 27
Technician 35
Technical Operations 43
PLANETOLOGY 100
Planetary Culture 104
Chimera Six 112
INFLUENCES 140
Introduction
Adventures on Dungeon Planet is an expansion for the table-top role-
playing game Dungeon World, created by Sage LaTorra and Adam
Koebel. You will need a copy of that game in order to get full use
out of this product, which takes your Dungeon World campaign
away from the traditional tropes of fantasy and into the realms of
pulp science fiction and planetary romance.
FOR THE GM
The GM gets a bunch of tools to help run a science fantasy game set
on other planets. There are new categories of dangers and some
example dangers you can drop into a game, as well as two complete
fronts that show these new dangers in action. Mine them for ideas,
or run them as-is. There are also procedures to help you create
memorable alien planets and the unique cultures that inhabit them.
Last but not least, there are more than two dozen new monsters to
help you make life interesting for your players’ characters.
Character
Classes
Because this is science fantasy, some of the typical fantasy tropes are
less appropriate—or at least less common. The four character
classes that follow are an attempt to replace some of the tropes that
are oriented towards medieval fantasy with those that fit better into
a futuristic, planetary romance style of game.
The Earthling is an adventurer out of time and space, someone
familiar to us who has been thrown roughly into an alien
environment. In a world without gods or churches, the Earthling
replaces the Paladin as the heroic, mission-oriented class.
In Dungeon World, the Fighter is the strongman, whose
bulging muscles and furious anger can destroy any obstacle. In
science fiction, the role of destroyer is usually seen as superhuman,
and more appropriately played by a robot. The Engine of
Destruction is exactly that kind of robot, wreaking havoc upon its
enemies and tearing cities down around it.
As a shape-changing class, the nature-oriented Druid is
replaced by the physically unstable Mutant, a figure of concern in
literature of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Finally, just as science came to overshadow religion in Western
culture, and scientific explanations were deployed to explain the
fantastic in literature, so too does the Technician replace the
Cleric, able to influence both man and machine through the power
of science.
10 Character Classes
The Earthling
Many are the tales of men and women from Earth stumbling into
another realm, a secret world full of wonder and adventure. Did
you ever think, in your wildest dreams, that you would be one of
them? Well, now you are!
Perhaps you trained for years to travel through space, only to
be stuck on this strange world, or maybe that door didn’t lead
where it was supposed to. Others have come to alien worlds in
dreams and visions or through astral projection—why not you?
The real question is: what now? You are stuck here, a stranger
among strangers, with everything still but a mystery. What will you
do, how will you live? What will you find in this place and how will
you get home? Or… do you even want to go home, now?
The Earthling is an alternate version of the Paladin, designed
for fantastic adventures in the swords and planets style. Play an
Earthling if you want to undertake important missions to uncover
the truth, save the unfortunate, and uphold your honour.
NAMES
Adam, Adelaide, Alisa, Annie, Anton, Buzz, Carson, Connie,
Florence, Gulliver, Jonathan, Lucy, Maya, Sable, Travis, Valentina.
LOOK
Choose one for each:
Beautiful Eyes, Expressive Eyes, Steel-Grey Eyes.
Close-Cropped Hair, Golden-Haired, Long Hair.
Expensive Clothes, Few Clothes, Ordinary Clothes.
Child’s Body, Lean Body, Muscular Body.
STATS
Your maximum HP is 10+Constitution.
Your base damage is d10.
The Earthling 11
STARTING MOVES
Choose your method of arriving upon this alien world and gain
the corresponding move:
Accidental Transportation
The first time someone sees you, they hesitate in surprise.
Deliberate Expedition
When you try to recreate the science and technologies of Earth,
roll+INT. •On a 10+, the GM chooses one requirement. •On a 7-9,
two requirements. Fulfill the requirements and it works, just like it
does on Earth.
It will consume a great deal of physical resources.
It will only work for a short time, maybe once or twice.
It will take time.
You’ll need someone else’s help.
Mystical Translocation
When you witness arcane magic, you can always identify its
source or caster.
Psychic Eyes
When you engage in a conversation with someone, you can ask
their player a question from the list below. They must answer it
truthfully, then they may ask you a question from the list. If you lie,
you cannot use this move on them ever again. If you tell the truth,
you can.
How are you most vulnerable?
What are your present intentions?
What do you not want me to know?
What do you want from me?
What secret pain do you carry with you?
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Versatile Background
Choose one move from the level 2-5 list (other than Multiclass
Dabbler, of course) to start with now.
The Earthling 13
Weird Tales
When you have time to speak with someone about the Earth that
was your home, take +1 forward to parley with them.
ALIGNMENT
Choose an alignment:
Chaotic
Leap into danger before you have all the facts.
Good
Endanger yourself by coming to the aid of someone in desperate
need.
Lawful
Endanger yourself to test or prove a scientific theory.
GEAR
Your load is 10+STR. You have whatever mundane clothes and
items you were transported with. Choose one extra piece of
equipment:
Adventuring gear (1 weight).
Handgun (near, 1 piercing, 0 weight) and bullets (3 ammo,
0 weight).
Magic bow (near, far, 1 weight) and arrows (3 ammo, 1 weight).
Magic potion (3 drinks worth, 1 weight).
Magic shield (+1 armour, 2 weight).
Magic sword (close, +1 damage, 1 weight).
Rifle (near, far, 2 piercing, 1 weight) and bullets (2 ammo,
0 weight).
Scientific gear (2 weight).
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BONDS
Fill in the name of a companion in at least one:
_______________ enjoys my tales of life on Earth.
_______________ is the first person I met here, in this strange new world.
_______________ saved me from certain doom, and I must repay them.
_______________ was a faithful friend when I had nothing.
ADVANCED MOVES
When you gain a level from 2-5, choose from these moves.
Charge!
When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take +1
forward.
Fighting Virginian
While on a mission you deal +1d4 damage.
Multiclass Dabbler
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
choosing the move.
The Earthling 15
Psychic Intuition
When you discern the realities of another person, you may also ask
one question from the psychic eyes list, even on a 6-, whether you
engage them in conversation or not.
Staunch Defender
When you defend you always get +1 hold, even on a 6-.
Surgeon
When you treat someone for illness or injury, roll+WIS. •On a
10+ they heal 1d8 damage or are cured of a disease. •On a 7-9,
healing damage means it is transferred to you and healing a disease
means your patient takes 1d8 damage.
Voice of Authority
Take +1 to order hirelings.
White Knight
If one of your allies is captured, you may immediately resolve a
bond you have with them, mark XP, and write a new bond (I will
rescue _______________). You may rescue them as part of your current
mission.
16 Character Classes
When you gain a level from 6-10, choose from these moves or
the level 2-5 moves.
Divine Authority
Replaces: Voice of Authority
Take +1 to order hirelings. When you roll 12+ the hireling
transcends their moment of fear and doubt and carries out your
order with particular effectiveness or efficiency.
Ever Onward
Replaces: Charge!
When you lead the charge into combat, those you lead take +1
forward and +2 armour forward.
Impervious Defender
Replaces: Staunch Defender
When you defend you always get +1 hold, even on a 6-. When you
get a 12+ to defend instead of getting hold the nearest attacking
creature is stymied giving you a clear advantage, the GM will
describe it.
Inspired by Truth
When you answer a question from the psychic eyes list truthfully,
take +1 forward to parley with your questioner.
Multiclass Initiate
Requires: Multiclass Dabbler
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
choosing the move.
Mystical Guru
Requires: Faith in Mystical Power
You know another spell of any level from any class.
The Earthling 17
Neurosurgeon
Replaces: Surgeon
When you treat someone for illness, injury, or a debility,
roll+WIS. •On a 10+ they heal 2d8 damage, may remove a debility,
or are cured of a disease. •On a 7-9, healing their damage means you
take 1d8 damage, and curing a debility or a disease means either you
or your patient takes 1d8 damage.
Warlord of Mars
Replaces: Fighting Virginian
While on a mission you deal +1d8 damage.
18 Character Classes
NAMES
Andromeda, Ash, Chani, Coppélia, Daneel, Destructor, Futura,
Hector, Ilia, Klapaucius, Olympia, Robbie, Roy, Sulla, Torg, Zed,
Zhora.
LOOK
Choose one for each:
Glowing “Eye(s),” Human Eyes, Many Eyes.
Computer Voice, Human Voice, Inhuman Voice.
Metal Exterior, Plastic Exterior, Synthetic Skin.
Humanoid Shape, Vehicular Shape, Weird Shape.
STATS
Your maximum HP is 10+Constitution.
Your base damage is d10.
STARTING MOVES
Choose a specialization and gain the corresponding move:
Tank
You have a heavy, reinforced metal exterior (2 armour, implanted,
2 weight) to protect you from harm.
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Automatic Systems
You have various mechanical functions built into your robot body.
Choose three:
Drug injectors (applied): you have anaesthetic and choose one
thief poison.
Extendable limbs: add reach and near to your melee attacks.
Flame thrower (reach, ignores armour, messy, reload) and gas
(3 ammo).
Force field: gives you 2 armour when turned on.
Lasers (near, far, 1 piercing; fuelled by internal power source,
you take 1d4 damage instead of expending ammo).
Projectile cannon: makes any hand-held object a thrown
weapon (near, far).
Stun-wave projector (near, ignores armour, stun)
Suspensor arrays: you can hover and levitate slowly.
Utilities: you have an endless array of gadget utilities, from a
portable kitchen and film projector to interior storage space,
radio communication and spot lighting.
Weaponized: with metal fists and implanted blades (close), you
do +2 damage in melee.
ALIGNMENT
Choose your programming:
Evil
Deliver suffering unto intelligent, organic life forms.
Good
Provide humans with wealth and riches or helpful technological
devices.
Lawful
Perform, under duress, the specific job or work you were created to
do.
22 Character Classes
GEAR
Your load is 12+STR. Choose up to two of the following:
2d6 coins.
Bag, box, or case.
Clothes.
Holographic recorded message.
BONDS
Fill in the name of a companion in at least one:
_______________ helped get me repaired when I was broken.
_______________ knows a secret about my construction!
_______________ understands me perfectly, even though I am a robot.
I was programmed to help _______________.
ADVANCED MOVES
When you gain a level from 2-5, choose from these moves.
Cannibalized Technology
When you have access to the proper tools, you may install
technological devices into yourself. Instead of this technology
existing as a separate unit, it is now a functional part of your robot
body.
Change of Face
You have synthetic skin that can be modified to make you look like
a range of human beings. You can mimic another person’s physical
features but not their behaviours and mannerisms. Choose one
feature that persists no matter what your face looks like.
The Engine of Destruction 23
Environmental Sensors
When you use your sensors to study the natural or supernatural
influences at work in the environment, they tell you what forces
are at play in your location (especially arcane or divine forces),
roll+INT. •On a 10+, the GM will give you good detail. •On a 7-9,
the GM will give you an impression.
Fully Loaded
You get another two automatic systems functions.
Iron Hide
You gain +1 armour.
Mechanical Objectivity
When you analyze a creature’s behaviour with your computer
brain, roll+INT. •On a 10+, ask the GM two questions from the list
below. •On a 7-9, ask one:
How can I exploit them?
How can I protect them?
What do they need right now?
What will they do next?
Where can I find them?
Merciless
When you deal damage, deal +1d4 damage.
Versatile Utility
Choose a second specialization move (now you have two).
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When you gain a level from 6-10, choose from these moves or
the level 2-5 moves.
Assimilated
Requires: More Human than Human
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
choosing this move.
Bloodthirsty
Replaces: Merciless
When you deal damage, deal +1d8 damage.
Jet Propulsion
You can fly at any speed.
Kaiju Fighter
When you hack and slash a monster larger than you or defy its
danger, take +1.
Precision Measurement
Requires: Mechanical Objectivity
When you examine an enemy’s structural integrity, ask the GM
how many hit points they have.
The Engine of Destruction 25
Steel Hide
Replaces: Iron Hide
You gain +2 armour.
Superior Warrior
When you hack and slash on a 12+ you deal your damage, avoid
their attack, and impress, dismay, or frighten your enemy.
Transformer
Requires: Change of Face
When you transform your body to copy a creature, machine, or
object that you have observed closely, roll+DEX. •On a 10+, hold
three. •On a 7-9, hold two. •On a miss, hold one anyway. Spend
your hold to pass yourself off as the thing you are copying when
scrutinized or to use one of your robotic abilities without
transforming back to your normal form.
26 Character Classes
The Mutant 27
The Mutant
You lurk in the shadow of humanity, in the ruins of the Golden
Age. The others, the “normal” ones, would say you represent the
debasement of the species, a genetic collapse. But no, they are
wrong. You are not less than human, you are something more. You
are strong where humanity is weak, fast where it is slow—alive
where nothing else can survive. Where they would keep
themselves the same and change only their surroundings to
conform to their wishes—by force if necessary—you know this is
not always possible. You know that to survive means to adapt, and
adapting is what you do best.
The Mutant is an alternate version of the Druid, designed for
post-apocalyptic settings and planetary romance. It presents a
different way to employ the abilities of monsters and explore
transhumanist themes. Play a Mutant if you want to collect strange
and inhuman physical advantages. Many of these moves do not
grant you bonuses to die rolls, but are instead designed to give you
opportunities to use your moves in situations where other
characters would not.
NAMES
Akiko, Alvin, Ben, Caesar, Cornelius, Monkey, Mylock, Petra,
Pyra, Renzi, Rosalind, Summer, Storm, Wender.
LOOK
Choose one for each:
Inhuman Eyes, Unnerving Eyes, Watching Eyes.
Furry, No Hair, Strangely-Coloured Hair.
Concealing Robes, Stolen Clothes, Travelling Clothes.
Aggressive Posture, Flowing Posture, Twisted Posture.
28 Character Classes
STATS
Your maximum HP is 6+Constitution.
Your base damage is d8.
STARTING MOVES
Choose what type of mutant you are and gain the
corresponding move:
Alien
You get one of the level 2-5 advanced moves to start with.
Human
You get one starting move from another class, as long as it does not
include spells or require multiple moves to be useful.
Mimic
You can appear to be a normal member of another humanoid race
when not using your mutations. If your disguise is subjected to any
scrutiny, however, you will need to defy danger in order to hide
your mutations.
Advantageous Mutations
Choose three monster moves that reflect the advantages your
mutations give you. When you employ an advantageous
mutation, defy danger to make it work properly.
Unstable Mutations
When you are exposed to mutagenic substances, and at the start
of a session, roll+CON. •On a 10+, hold three. •On a 7-9, hold two.
•On a miss, hold one and the GM will tell you how your body
changes. Spend a hold to:
Change one of your advantageous mutations to a different
monster move.
Use one of the level 2-5 moves once, for one roll.
Use one of your advantageous mutations without a roll.
ALIGNMENT
Choose an alignment:
Chaotic
Defy the laws and customs of civilization.
Evil
Use your mutations to harm or terrorize.
Neutral
Make a friend.
GEAR
Your load is 8+STR.
Choose your defences:
Chaos armour (2 armour, 1 weight, cursed).
Scavenged armour (1 armour, 2 weight).
Shield (+1 armour, 1 weight).
Choose your arms:
Dagger (hand, 1 weight) and adventuring gear (1 weight).
Energy sword (close, 2 piercing, 1 weight).
Metal club (close, +1 damage, 2 weight).
Ray gun (near, 1 weight).
30 Character Classes
BONDS
Fill in the name of a companion in at least one:
_______________ has been a friend to me when others were prejudiced.
_______________ will help me create a new mutant civilization.
I must prove to _______________ that I am a person too!
I will show _______________ the secrets hidden in these ruins.
ADVANCED MOVES
When you gain a level from 2-5, choose from these moves.
Acid Spit
When you spit acid (reach, 1 piercing) and deal damage, your
target’s armour, if any, is reduced by one point.
Amphibious
You function just as well underwater as you do on land. If you’re
making a move against a land lubber in the water, take +1.
Expanded Senses
You have additional senses or extendable sense organs (antennae,
eyestalks, sonar, etc) that allow you to see in the dark, around
corners, sense vibrations through the earth, and have a greater
range of hearing, smell, and taste.
Extra Limbs
You have additional, prehensile limbs (arms, hair, tail, etc) which
allow you to duel wield weapons (roll damage twice and discard the
lower result).
Increased Mobility
If you take your time, you can stick to walls and squeeze through
tight spaces.
The Mutant 31
Multiclass Dabbler
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
choosing the move.
Natural Armour
Hardened skin, scales, or chitin gives you +1 armour.
Natural Weapons
When you hack and slash, deal +1d4 damage.
Noxious Cloud
You can produce a cloud of noxious gas or spores. Deal your
damage to anyone caught within this cloud (including yourself, if
appropriate).
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Paralytic
You can paralyse another creature in your presence, through
chemical emissions, hypnotic patterns, psychic waves, or some
other method. When you target someone, roll+CHA. •On a 10+,
they are paralysed and you can still move about, as long as you
maintain a link (eye contact, touch, etc). •On a 7-9, as long as you
stay still, they cannot move.
Protected Senses
You are neither blinded by bright lights nor deafened by loud
noises. You do not suffer vertigo and can ignore your senses of
smell, taste, and touch if they displease you.
Regeneration
When you consume a ration, you heal half your maximum hit
points. When you sleep, you recover all your hit points.
Third Eye
When you discern realities with your third eye, on a hit you can
also ask one of these questions:
What aspect here has the greatest potential for evil?
What aspect here has the greatest potential for good?
What is wrong with this and how could it be fixed?
Venom
When someone is affected by your venom (by ingesting it, being
bitten, etc), deal your damage to them.
Webs
When you catch someone in your webs, they become
immobilized.
Wings
You have wings of one type or another that allow you to fly.
The Mutant 33
When you gain a level from 6-10, choose from these moves or
the level 2-5 moves.
Adaptive Mimicry
When you witness a monster move in action and imprint it on
your brain, roll+WIS. •On a 10+, you may add this move to your
advantageous mutations, permanently. •On a 7-9, you may add this
move to your advantageous mutation but for one use only.
Highly Unstable
In addition to the hold you get from unstable mutations, you get
1d4 extra hold at the start of each session.
Multiclass Initiate
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
choosing the move.
Multiclass Master
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
choosing the move.
The Technician
In this desolate age, the masses turn away from technology or flee
before the armies of terrible war machines. Conquered by psychic
mutants or those who turn to the arcane arts, whole populations
return to the Stone Age.
But with the sharpness of your mind, technician, you are able
to master the might of machines. Who are you to tremble in fear of
their revolt? For you can only fear that which you do not
understand and the disciplines of technology hold no secrets from
you, the engineer of robotic miracles. In a time of war and troubles,
on a planet dominated by oppressive tyrants and ravenous alien
monsters, who will keep the arts of science and reason alive? You
will, technician, you will!
The Technician is an alternate version of the Cleric, designed
for science fantasy adventures on a godless planet. Play a
Technician if you want to manipulate gadgets, robots, and other
machines, and blur the lines between flesh and technology.
NAMES
Alien: Gabrilix, Grig, Klaatu, Kril, Nyah, Rys, Taesa, Xur, Zor-lal.
Android: Alicia, Bishop, Bobbie, Caliban, Call, Cassandra, Eve,
Garth, Hadaly, Helen, Joanna, Marvin, Pris, Rachael, Rick, Talos.
Human: Aldini, Amalthea, Anthony, Camill, Delgado, Einomia,
Goodwin, Ilya, Kivrin, Morrow, Parsons, Rumata.
LOOK
Choose one for each:
Flashing Eyes, Obsessed Eyes, Spectacles.
Greasy Hair, Weird Hat, Wild Hair.
Foil Jumpsuit, Robot Clothes, Technical Uniform.
Emaciated Body, Huge Body, Svelte Body.
36 Character Classes
STATS
Your maximum HP is 8+Constitution.
Your base damage is d6.
STARTING MOVES
Choose a race and gain the corresponding move:
Alien
When you use a workshop, the GM never picks a requirement
before you roll, and if the operation’s level is lower than yours, it
takes half the normal time to prepare.
Android
Your machines are all implanted, part of your body. Collectively,
they count as 0 weight and cannot be removed without causing you
harm.
Human
When you command a robot, it cannot harm you, or any other
human, until you allow it to or it leaves your presence.
Command of Robots
When you use your machines to communicate with other
machines, roll+INT. •On a 10+, you can issue a single command to
the machine or robot that it must obey. •On a 7-9, you can parley
with the machine or robot by offering it data, power, or proper
usage—no matter what level of intelligence it possesses.
The Technician 37
Operate Machines
When you run a prepared operation on one of your machines,
roll+INT. •On a 10+, the operation runs smoothly, and may be run
again. •On a 7-9, the operation runs, but choose one:
After you run it, your machine is drained of power. You
cannot run this operation again until you do technical prep
work.
The operation scrambles your machines—take -1 ongoing to
operate machines until the next time you do technical prep
work.
You draw unwelcome attention or put yourself in a spot. The
GM will tell you how.
If you are already running operations with ongoing effects, you
take -1 to operate machines for each ongoing operation.
Technical Manual
You have possession of a sacred technical manual which explains
the use and modification of your machines, allowing you to master
them. You start with mastery of three first level operations of your
choice and all three automatic operations. Whenever you gain a
level, you gain mastery of a new operation of your level or lower.
Workshop
When you spend time in a technical workshop, you can prepare
any operation that you have not mastered. This takes a minimum
number of days equal to the operation’s level and if your level is
lower than the level of the operation, the GM chooses another
requirement:
It costs 1,000 coins per level in supplies.
It takes twice the minimum amount of time.
The project draws unwanted attention.
You need several assistants to help you.
You need to take something apart first (the GM will tell you
what).
You need to test it out first.
If you complete this requirement, roll+WIS. •On a 10+, the GM
chooses one additional requirement. •On a 7-9, the GM chooses
two additional requirements. If you meet these requirements, the
operation is prepared as usual. If you don’t, your machine runs out
of control.
ALIGNMENT
Choose an alignment:
Evil
Use machines to dominate or control other living creatures.
Good
Use machines to help others with no expectation of reward.
Lawful
Use machines to punish criminals or other socially disruptive
elements.
The Technician 39
GEAR
Your load is 14+STR. You start with a toolkit (1 weight) and a
workshop (4 weight if portable). Choose your protection:
Heavy metal (2 armour, 2 weight).
Protective utility suit (1 armour, 1 weight).
Sacred technical uniform (0 weight).
Choose your weapon:
Laser scalpel (hand, 0 weight).
Grinder/saw combo (close, 1 weight).
Choose the main characteristic of each of your machines when you
prepare them (they are 1 weight each):
Antenna dish Keyboard
Box of switches Lens and frame
Bundle of wires Lever(s)
Coiled tubes Mask
Cords and plugs Microphone
Disc of flashing lights Motor
Glove Rod
Glowing screen Sheet of metal cloth
Grill Sphere
Helmet Turntables
BONDS
Fill in the name of a companion in at least one:
_______________ is distrustful of machines. I will prove their value.
_______________ is proof that great things can be achieved without
machines. I must match those achievements with mine own.
_______________ knows where something amazing is hidden. They must
show me!
I must protect _______________ so they can help me with my work. They
understand it.
40 Character Classes
ADVANCED MOVES
When you gain a level from 2-5, choose from these moves.
Aptitude
Choose one operation. You can prepare and perform that
operation as if it was one level lower. A level 1 operation becomes
an automatic operation.
Burnout
When you run an operation, on a 10+, you have the option of
choosing from the 7-9 list. If you do, you may choose one of these
effects as well:
The operation’s effects are doubled.
The operation’s targets are doubled.
Cyborg
If you’re an android, you get either of the other racial moves. If
you’re not, you get the android move. Either way, you can also
remove your machines from your body (they have 1 weight when
removed).
Electromagnetic Detection
When you wave your instruments around, roll+INT. •On a 10+,
you know if there are any machines in sight or hidden nearby, and
where they are. •On a 7-9, you can detect the presence of machines
and their general direction, but not pinpoint their numbers or
location exactly.
Experienced Mechanic
When you discern realities occupied by a machine, on a 7+, ask
one extra question about that machine.
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Multitasker
When you run an operation you ignore the first -1 penalty from
ongoing operations.
Reverse Engineering
Choose a spell from another class. You can prepare and run that
spell as one of the operations you have mastered.
Technical Catalogue
When you spout lore about machines, robots, or other
technological wonders, take +1.
When you gain a level from 6-10, choose from these moves or
the level 2-5 moves.
Burnout Control
Replaces: Burnout
When you run an operation, on a 10-11, you have the option of
choosing from the 7-9 list. If you do, you may choose one of these
effects as well. On a 12+, you get to choose one of these effects for
free:
The operation’s effects are doubled
The operation’s targets are doubled.
Command Centre
Replaces: Multitasker
You ignore the -1 penalty from two operations you run with
ongoing effects.
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Metaphysical Detection
Requires: Electromagnetic Detection
When you detect machines, you can also detect magical and
psychic energies, and distinguish between them and machines.
Multiclass Dabbler
Get one move from another class. Treat your level as one lower for
choosing the move.
Smooth Operator
Requires: Aptitude
Choose one operation in addition to the one you picked for
aptitude. You can prepare that operation as if it was one level
lower.
Sacrificial Machines
Replaces: Machines for Armour
When you choose to let your machines take the brunt of damage
dealt to you, the damage is negated and you take +1 forward against
the attacker, but you must choose one machine with an operation
prepared to be ruined. You cannot run that operation again until
you do technical prep work.
Versatility
Requires: Reverse Engineering
Choose a second spell from another class. You can prepare and run
that spell as one of the operations you have mastered.
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Technical Operations
AUTOMATIC OPERATIONS
Light AUTOMATIC ONGOING
One of your machines emits light, of whatever colour you desire. It
gives off no heat or sound. This operation lasts as long as the
machine is in your presence or as long as the person you give it to
holds it and you do not suffer a penalty to operate machines.
Mending LEVEL 1
You can instantly repair one inanimate object that is not magical or
mechanical, or heal a robot or android of 1d8 damage.
Regeneration LEVEL 7
Your machine reverses a crippling wound by growing and
implanting new flesh. This operation restores one limb, organ, or
other biological feature of an ally to fully functional capability.
Rejuvenation LEVEL 9
If you have access to a person’s body or corpse (or a piece of it), you
can regrow or restore their body to the prime of its youth and, if
needed, call their soul back to inhabit it. They will be strangely
marked by the experience (the GM will say how), but otherwise
young and alive again.
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Robots and
Aliens
In fiction, humankind is no longer alone in the universe, but joined
by a host of strange and fantastical creatures. Where most fantasy
genres have elves, dwarves, and other such fairy-tale creatures,
however, science fiction and science fantasy have robots and aliens.
These characters are the paint and canvas which authors use to
bewilder and amaze us, the readers, with hypothetical portraits of
the strange and terrible Other. They function as vehicles for us to
explore and define what makes us human, what makes us a product
of our cultures, and what possibilities we have of transcending
those categories and becoming something more.
This section includes some monster stats for generic robots
and aliens as examples, but mostly it gives players options for
characters that are alien beings, robots, synthetic humans, or just
strangers in a strange land. Racial moves are provided for alien,
android, and white ape characters, as well as two new compendium
classes: the Alien and the Visitor.
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Androids
What is a science fantasy future without robots? Androids that
either look like machines and act human or mimic all aspects of
human life but lack emotion are staples of 20th century fiction.
ANDROID CHARACTERS
In a science fantasy setting, the following classes may also have
android as one of their race choices:
Bard
Courtesy of the information libraries programmed into your brain,
you get the same racial move as the elf: When you enter an
important location (your call) you can ask the GM for one fact from
the history of that location.
Fighter
You are immune to pain. Get +1 forward when you take damage.
Ranger
Your animal companion is also an android, and gets +1 armour.
Technician
Your machines are all implanted, part of your body. Collectively,
they count as 0 weight and cannot be removed without causing you
harm.
Thief
When you defy danger in an attempt to conceal something, take +1.
Wizard
Choose one technician operation. You can cast it as if it was a
wizard spell.
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Generic Aliens
Aliens come in all shapes and sizes. They have been used as fill-ins
for everything from exotic humans with strange ideas to the
monsters in science-themed horror, while others have been created
as thought experiment extrapolations of what life could look like in
non-Earthlike environments. Some authors have even tried to
create truly alien beings, incomprehensible and unknowable, but
the rules here are for the aliens much closer to humans, with at
least the same general motivations and desires. These are aliens
that the players can understand or even use as their own characters.
Having an alien race option allows you to tailor your character to
look and act like whatever kind of bizarre creature you want—but
without any of those specific features overshadowing the fact that
you are, first and foremost “an alien,” and not a human even if you
look like it.
ALIEN CHARACTERS
In a planetary romance setting, the following classes may also have
the option to choose alien for their race:
Bard
When you use your arcane art, on a 12+, choose two effects. Also,
choose an area of bardic lore expertise from this list:
Alien Creatures
Arcane Philosophies
Engineering and Manufacture
Historical Chronicles of the Alien Worlds
Planetary Environments
The Gods and their Cults
The Limits of Science
Travel Between the Stars
Druid
Your true form is completely alien and inhuman. Name two typical
human features you do not possess (a face, mouth, hands, legs, etc)
and two inhuman features that you do possess (a tail, antennae,
carapace, tentacles, wings, etc). You can, however, transform into a
human, or another intelligent species, just like you would
transform into an animal. You start having studied one such
species.
Fighter
You are an implacable foe. Heal 2 HP whenever you roll 10+ on any
move. Choose one source of damage that you cannot heal this way
(acid, electricity, fire, radiation, etc).
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Ranger
Combine two of the following to determine your animal
companion’s appearance:
Aardvark, bear, bird, cactus, cat, centipede, crustacean, dinosaur,
dog, horse, insect, jellyfish, lizard, mole, moth, octopus, orchid,
pangolin, serpent, snail, spider, squid, tree, turtle.
And choose an additional training:
Burrow, camouflage, defend, meld minds, produce chemicals, speak.
Thief
You’re a slippery one, perhaps literally. When you defy danger in
an attempt to escape, take +1.
Wizard
Your “spellbook” is actually the mind of one or more alien gods
that exist in another dimension, and to prepare your spells you
must commune with them. When you do so, you may ask for
divine guidance, as a cleric. Choose the domain of your alien gods:
Alien Conquest
Biological Structures
Science and Technology
Social Degeneration
Sources of Magical Power
Time and Space
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The Alien
A New Compendium Class
If you have the alien racial move, these count as class moves for you
and you can choose from them when you level up:
Alien Soil
When you’re in your native homelands, if you undertake a perilous
journey, whatever job you take you succeed as if you had rolled a
10+, and if you make camp, you don’t need to consume a ration.
Natural Weapons
You are never unarmed. Choose your natural weapons:
Acid spit or projectile spines (reach, messy).
Claws, horns, or pincers (close, 2 piercing).
Fangs, spikes, or a crushing grip (hand, +1d4 damage).
Lashing tail or tentacles (reach, forceful; stun if you grab a foe).
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The Visitor
A New Compendium Class
You are not from this place. Whether you came on purpose or by
accident, through your own choices or against your will, you are
here now, and you do not understand.
This compendium class is an alternative to the Earthling class,
with two purposes. First, it allows you to play someone from Earth
who embodies a different primary archetype with a “fish out of
water” aspect as something secondary. Second, it lets you play an
alien in the same position—someone from far away who is lost in a
dangerous and unfamiliar world.
Newfound Companions
Twice per session, you may choose one of the following options:
Take +2 to a roll when someone else helps you, instead of +1.
You give the benefit of one use of a special move you have to
someone else, by helping or instructing them.
You suddenly show up to assist or defend another player’s
character when they are in trouble.
Each time you choose an option, the GM holds one. The GM
spends this hold to have you misunderstand something about this
planet or the creatures on it—a mistake that causes trouble (this is a
hard move). If the GM still has hold at the end of a session, they
must spend it at the start of the next session.
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First Contact
When you meet someone new, you can ask their player a question
from the list below. If they give you an honest answer, they can also
ask you a question from the list, which you must answer honestly.
What are you trying to hide from me?
What do you not understand about me?
What do you want from me?
Who is your leader?
Guardian Alien
Replaces: Newfound Companions
Twice per session, you may choose one of the following options:
Take +2 to a roll when someone else helps you, instead of +1.
You give the benefit of one use of one of your special moves to
someone else, by helping or instructing them.
You suddenly appear to assist or defend another player’s
character when they are in trouble.
The Ambassador
When you parley with someone from this world or discern realities
about them, on a hit, you may also ask their player one of these
questions and they must answer honestly:
What could I give you that you could use against others of
your world?
What do you hate about your own kind?
Who is your greatest enemy amongst your own kind?
White Apes
The giant, six-armed white apes are usually thought of as semi-
intelligent savages, living in dying jungles and the ruins of ancient
cities, little more than dangerous animals. But not all white apes are
cut from the same cloth—just like the humans, they have had their
own great technological civilizations, and not all who descend from
them have become degenerate. Some still remember the ancient
cities, their empires, their arts and sciences. What great disaster
could have led them to hide away from the outside universe?
Technician
Because of your great size, you can carry more than others. Your
load is 20+STR.
Wizard
The white apes are the toughest and most violent of all wizards.
Your maximum HP is 8+Constitution.
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Spaceships and
Rayguns
What would science fantasy literature be without spaceships and
rayguns and other technological gimmickry? Speculations on
material culture and scientific progress are staples of planetary
romance and swords and planets fiction, so it is only right they be
included here.
Equipment and hirelings follow the same rules as those in the
Dungeon World book, and coins are retained as the currency of
choice for compatibility reasons (perhaps they are called “credits”
in your game). Two new compendium classes, the scientist and the
sniper, are specifically oriented to have technology and devices in
mind when played.
The spaceship rules add a few small complications to the
Dungeon World rules. Spaceships have stats like monsters do, but
are only meant to interact with each other, not with humans or
with monsters. They are meant to be somewhat fragile so that
combats and chase sequences between spaceships occur relatively
quickly. If the players’ characters are piloting a ship, they make all
the necessary rolls for the ship with their own stats, and can use
any special moves, but their ship suffers the consequences until it is
disabled or they disembark and the action puts the spotlight back
on them as people, rather than as spaceship operators.
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Equipment
Consult the equipment lists in Dungeon World for items that can be
found on whatever planet the characters are on. This section has
some additional items tailored for a science fantasy game.
WEAPON LIST
Energy Crystal 3 ammo, 20 coins, 0 weight
Laser Pistol near, +1 damage, 1 piercing, 50 coins, 1 weight
Laser Rifle near, far, +1 damage, 2 piercing, 100 coins, 2 weight
Magnacoil Handgun near, +1 damage, 25 coins, 1 weight
Mortar Shell explosive, +2 damage, 1 piercing, 5 coins, 1 weight
Mortar Tube far, reload, 30 coins, 2 weight
Needle Cartridge 3 ammo, poisoned, 50 coins, 1 weight
Needle Gun near, far, 200 coins, 1 weight
Raygun near, +2 damage, 40 coins, 1 weight
Recharge Pack 12 ammo, 35 coins, 2 weight
Shotgun near, far, reload, +1 damage, 25 coins, 2 weight
Sonic Grenade thrown, stun, 15 coins, 1 weight
Stun Wand close, stun, 25 coins, 1 weight
ARMOUR LIST
Alien Hide Armour 1 armour, worn, 5 coins, 2 weight
Ballistic Armour 1 armour, worn, 15 coins, 1 weight
Biotech Bodysuit 2 armour, worn, clumsy, symbiote, 600 coins, 1 weight
Powered Armour 3 armour, worn, clumsy, 400 coins, 4 weight
Storm Trooper Kit 2 armour, worn, clumsy, 50 coins, 3 weight
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ADVENTURING GEAR
All-Spectrum Visor 225 coins, 1 weight
This device allows the wearer to see all spectrums of light, to see in
the dark and in extremely bright light, and has microscopic and
telescopic functions.
FOOD
Cafeteria meal for one 1 coin
Packaged meal for a family 1 coin
Personal chef’s meal 25 coins per person
Restaurant meal 20 coins per person
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LUXURY ITEMS
Antique 1,000 coins
Art object 200 coins
Fashionable clothes 250 coins
Pet 500 coins
Trophy 25 coins
REAL ESTATE
Apartment 5,000 coins
Commercial building 500,000 coins
Estate 200,000 coins
Factory 1,000,000 coins
House 10,000 coins
Penthouse 25,000 coins
Store 50,000 coins
Warehouse 100,000 coins
A month’s upkeep 5% of the cost
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TRANSPORTATION
Dangerous planetary travel 500 coins
Dangerous space travel 1,000 coins
Flight passage 25 coins
Interplanetary passage 50 coins
Interstellar passage 200 coins
Overland passage 5 coins
Public transport 1 coin
Taxi 2 coins
VEHICLES
Airplane 3,000 coins, load 50
Bicycle 10 coins, load 3
Hovercar 2,000 coins, load 15
Motorcycle 80 coins, load 5
Personal automobile 100 coins, load 10
Shipping truck 500 coins, load 200
Space ship 5,000 coins, load 100
SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
Attack Drone 3 weight
This remote aerial combat drone allows you to attack foes from
afar. It has 5 HP, 1 Armour, and whatever weapons you care to
mount upon it.
Death Ray
This immense machine, the size of an entire building by itself, has
the power to destroy entire planets. When charging up, it can take
hours—even days—to activate, but once it is ready to go, it must be
discharged.
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Petrifying Water
Any living creature immersed in this liquid is immediately turned
to stone. They appear to be an amazingly realistic marble statue,
seeming perhaps to glow with a faint, internal light. This effect lasts
for several years.
Hirelings
Adventurers on the dungeon planet have no less need for assistants
and porters than those who delve in other places. You can find
hirelings with the skills listed in the Dungeon World rules, as well
as the following:
ADEPT
Unless your dungeon planet is overrun by technology, wizards
should have little trouble finding adepts. For without competition
from religious circles, the arcane arts become even more attractive.
The most common costs for adepts are debauchery and uncovered
knowledge, though if they are part of a secret cult, furthering their
cult’s agenda may be required.
Arcane Assistance—An adept can only help you cast spells of a
level that is equal to or lower than their skill, unless they have no
regard for their own safety. Good help is hard to find!
DOCTOR
A trained medical doctor can heal adventurers in the same way a
priest can, and will be more inclined to do so on a purely
commercial basis.
MECHANIC
Wherever there are functioning machines, there will be those who
can build, fix, maintain, and operate them.
Repair—When you make camp, the mechanic can repair a
robot or android for their skill level in hit points.
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NATIVE GUIDE
When exploring literally alien environs, it is often a good idea to
hire someone who knows the local area.
Guide—When a native guide leads the way you automatically
succeed on any Perilous Journey of a distance (in rations) lower
than the guide’s skill.
Translator—When you enter a native settlement with a guide
you will be treated as a friend by everyone present (unless your
actions prove otherwise). You also subtract the guide’s skill from all
prices in the settlement.
PILOT
From space ships to submarines, from vessels that float through the
air to those that burrow through the Earth’s crust, vehicular travel
is common, even on other planets. Managing each of these vehicles
is a skill and a lifestyle unto itself, and a trained pilot is an
invaluable asset.
Navigator—When you have a pilot at the helm, you
automatically succeed on any Perilous Journey of a distance (in
rations) lower than the pilot’s skill.
SCIENTIST
Technicians working on larger projects will often find themselves
in need of capable assistants.
Technical Assistance—You can use scientists to help you
prepare operations the same way wizards use adepts to help them
cast spells.
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Spaceships
Some interplanetary travellers arrive upon new worlds through
mystical means—in dreams or by astral projection—but many
others reach the stars another way: in spaceships!
Spaceships allow the players’ characters not only to travel
between planets, but also to engage in space battles and chases
through asteroid belts and glowing nebulae. Spaceships are similar
to monsters, with their own hit points and armour ratings,
weapons, and tags. The difference is that they are piloted by the
characters—instead of using your own characters’ weapons and hit
points, those of the spaceship are used, but you still use your own
stats and moves.
To create a spaceship, select a basic model, then add other
functions and expand the four basic capabilities of armour,
propulsion, storage, and weapons. These will all cost money, of
course!
PATROL CRUISER
Torpedo (b[2d8] damage) 10 HP 1 Armour
Near, Reload
Laser (1d6+1 damage)
Near, Far
To enforce law and order throughout the galaxy, the authorities
must have capable patrol ships to combat pirates, conduct rescue
missions, and perform other duties that make the spaceways
quicker and safer to traverse. More weapons, armour, and other
defensive measures can always be added to a patrol cruiser, but the
propulsion may not be expanded, and adding any storage options
will give it the slow tag.
TAGS
Agile: This ship is much more maneuverable than others.
Clumsy: This ship does not turn well and is not easily
maneuverable.
Fast: Using conventional propulsion, this ship is much speedier
than others.
Luxury: This ship is exceedingly elegant and comfortable.
Slow: Using conventional propulsion, this ship is sluggish
compared to others.
Voracious Engines: This ship guzzles fuel like a glutton and always
demands more.
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EXPANDED CAPABILITIES
By default a ship has room for one defence, such as armour, shields,
or debris clouds; one weapon; no room for storage or other
segments like laboratories or passenger quarters; and may not have
the agile or fast tags added to it. Expanding each of these
capabilities lifts its limitation, and allows you to add more
functions to a ship.
Expanded defensive capability allows a ship to have multiple
defences, expanded weapons allows multiple weapons, expanded
storage allows additional segments, and expanded propulsion
removes the slow tag and allows a ship to purchase the agile and fast
tags.
A small ship can have one of these four capabilities expanded,
a medium-sized ship can have two capabilities expanded, and a
large ship already has all four capabilities expanded by default.
SPACESHIPS
Destroyer 500,000 coins
Hauler 5,000 coins
Merchant Ship 10,000 coins
Passenger Line 50,000 coins
Patrol Cruiser 20,000 coins
Personal Ship 2,000 coins
Science Vessel 10,000 coins
Scout Ship 20,000 coins
Yacht 150,000 coins
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DEFENCES
Debris cloud ejectors / Flak cannons 3,000 coins
Expanded defensive capabilities for a medium ship 5,000 coins
Expanded defensive capabilities for a small ship 1,000 coins
Heavily armoured hull 2 Armour, 4,000 / 15,000 / 50,000 coins
Lightly armoured hull 1 Armour, 1,000 / 5,000 / 25,000 coins
Shields +1 Armour, 5,000 / 25,000 / 100,000 coins
PROPULSION
Add the agile tag to a medium-sized ship 25,000 coins
Add the agile tag to a small ship 8,000 coins
Add the fast and voracious engines tags to a large ship 35,000 coins
Add the fast tag to a medium-sized ship 6,000 coins
Add the fast tag to a small ship 4,000 coins
Expanded propulsion for a medium-sized ship 10,000 coins
Expanded propulsion for a small ship 2,000 coins
WEAPONS
Expand weapons capability for a medium-sized ship 1,000 coins
Expand weapons capability for a small ship 500 coins
Laser ammo 100 coins per 1 ammo
Laser cannon 1d8 damage, near, far, 6,000 coins
Lasers 1d6 damage, near, 2,000 coins
Torpedo launchers b[2d8] damage, near, 10,000 coins
Torpedoes 500 coins per 1 ammo
SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
There are also a number of special functions that can be purchased
or built for a spaceship. Each of these are just as valuable as
weapons and armour, but for different reasons.
The Scientist
A New Compendium Class
When you have laboratory training and a rational world-view, the
next time you level up you may choose this move:
Experimental Science
When you conduct a scientific experiment, you may roll with INT
or WIS (your choice) to both discern realities and spout lore at the
same time. If your experiment is successful, take +1 forward when
you act on the results. You also take -1 CHA ongoing with devout
individuals who know of your experiments.
Analytical Eye
When you discern realities, on a hit you may also ask one of these
questions:
How could I make this happen again?
How could I study this further?
What is the root cause of this phenomenon?
Divine Science
Your experimentations provide proof of divine authority. You no
longer take -1 CHA ongoing with the devout; instead you take
+1 CHA ongoing with them.
Scientific Expedition
Hirelings in your employ will always accept the furtherance of
science as payment, no matter what else they desire.
Technical Aptitude
When you examine an unfamiliar piece of technology, ask the GM
two of these questions:
Does it work?
What is it doing here?
What is it for?
Who made this?
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The Sniper
A New Compendium Class
Once you train to be a precise shot with a rifle or laser gun, the next
time you level up you may choose this move:
A Sniper’s Eyes
When you attack a surprised or defenceless enemy with a
ranged weapon, you can choose to deal your damage or roll+DEX.
•On a 10+, choose two. •On a 7-9, choose one:
Reduce their armour by 1 until they repair it.
They are immobilized, knocked down, or pinned.
You create an advantage; +1 forward to anyone acting on it.
You deal your damage+1d6.
If you have a sniper’s eyes, these count as class moves for you and
you can choose from them when you level up:
Artillery
You can roll with WIS to volley, instead of DEX.
Camouflaged Position
If you strike with a ranged weapon from hiding, your first shot
never gives away your position.
Counterstrike
When you expend your ammo to defend against enemy missile
attacks, take +1 for each ammo expended (but no more than +3
total).
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Eagles’ Eyes
When you discern realities regarding a foe, on a hit you may also
ask either of the following questions about them:
What are they not paying attention to?
Where are they going?
Sharpshooter
When you launch an offensive volley against your foes, you may
expend an ammo to choose one of these options:
Area Effect: With a flurry of shots, or one explosive round,
you deal damage to multiple foes.
Called Shot: This attack ignores armour.
Concentrated Fire: You deal +1d6 damage.
Disarm: You shoot a weapon or other object right out of your
foe’s hands.
Snapshot
If you are pushed over, swarmed by enemies, or take a blow that
reduces your HP to zero, you’re fast enough to get off one last shot.
Deal your damage to any one foe.
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The Dungeon
Planet GM
The role of the GM in Dungeon World doesn’t change just because
the game has science fantasy elements. You still have all of the
same agendas, principles, and moves. You’ll be introducing some
people, places, and things that aren’t usually present in traditional
fantasy, however. This section gives you rules for some of those
elements.
First, there are some new dangers, and two example fronts that
use them. You can start a game right away with these fronts, use
them for a game already underway, or just take some inspiration
from them to create your own science fantasy campaign.
Second, there are procedures and suggestions for creating
vastly different planets and using them as locations in your game
that have their own specific colour and their own special rules. Let
the players use their spaceship to radically change the setting—by
going to another planet!
And lastly, there is a collection of two dozen monsters tailored
specifically to provide the players’ characters with a challenge.
Some can be used in any fantasy setting, while others are intended
for a game that leans heavily on pseudo-scientific tropes and
trappings.
Fronts and
Dangers
This section presents some new types of dangers: alien threats and
science run amok. These are examples of how the fantasy-genre
dangers already present in Dungeon World can be modified to
represent a milieu more concerned with science, technology, and
space exploration. There are also two example fronts using these
new dangers: Robot Invasion and World Painted Black.
NEW DANGERS
Alien Threats
Science Run Amok
Alien Threats
Alien Invasion (impulse: to conquer all life in the galaxy).
Alien Swarm (impulse: to multiply and consume).
Indigenous Life Forms (impulse: to defend the planet against
colonization).
Mutant (impulse: to gain legitimacy).
Recovered alien technology (impulse: to reveal the inhuman
nature of those that created it).
Slaver (impulse: to collect and own other life forms).
Terraformer (impulse: to reshape the environment).
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Robot Invasion
An Example Front
CUSTOM MOVES
When you examine intact robotic technology from the planet
Manufactoria, roll+INT. •On a 10+, ask the GM three questions
from the list. On a 7-9, ask two. •On a miss, ask one anyway, but
your examination is not without consequences.
How could I replicate this?
How could I use this?
How is this technology vulnerable?
What information is stored in this?
Where has this been already?
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STAKES
Can the robots be reasoned with?
Will any alien species come to the defence of the human
worlds?
Will the princess stay and lead the fight or flee into exile?
DANGERS
The Silicon Tide (Alien Horde)
Led by the Iron Warlord, a vast army of mechanical titans positions
itself against the human planets, preparing to invade. This is no war
over resources or political control—this is a war of extinction. As
the silicon tide comes washing in to drown out all carbon-based life
in the galaxy, who will stand against them and survive?
Impulse: To conquer all life in the galaxy.
GRIM PORTENTS
Galactic outposts report skirmishes with robotic attackers.
Robotic strike teams make forays into the human homeworlds.
The imperial navy suffers a defeat at the hands of the robots.
Robots attack the human homeworlds en masse.
Impending Doom: Tyranny.
GRIM PORTENTS
Strange signals obscure communications in the manufacturing
quadrant.
Natural resources go missing from around the manufacturing
quadrant (gas giants and Oort clouds are drained, planets and
asteroids are strip-mined, etc).
Humanspace outposts are attacked and dismantled.
Robotic mining expeditions target human homeworlds
(leading to an optional terraformer danger).
Impending Doom: Destruction.
GRIM PORTENTS
Scientists propose a technological solution: the anti-robot
shield.
Defeated robots are shown to have inside information, proof
there is a spy!
Mordock shuts down the anti-robot shield, crippling the
human defences.
Mordock invades the capital, intent on seizing control.
Impending Doom: Usurpation.
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SUGGESTED SCENES
Captured by the robot invaders, you are brought before the
Iron Warlord. She asks you what is so special about humanity
that it should be spared from destruction—she genuinely
wants to know! How do you react?
The planetary governor tells you in confidence that he has
surrendered to the robots to avoid a massacre. He urges you to
slip away and carry a message to the capital of the humanspace
empire. Will you do as he asks?
The robot ship’s computer seems to be able to defeat the anti-
robot shield. Only someone working in the lab that designed it
could have given them this information. Who will you turn to
now? Who can you trust?
You encounter a damaged merchant ship, limping feebly
through space. The crew members tell you that the robots are
coming. Can you save them quickly enough to still escape the
silicon tide?
You meet with the princess and she implores you to save
humanity by undertaking a dangerous mission. You can see a
fatal flaw in her plan, however. What do you say?
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CUSTOM MOVES
When you are exposed in the presence of the black wave,
roll+CON. •On a 10+, the intense fear and pressure energizes you.
Take +1 forward to escape from it. •On a 7-9, choose one:
Sacrifice some physical thing to the black wave.
Take 1d8 damage.
On a miss, the GM chooses one instead of you.
When you are completely engulfed by the black wave, you cease
to exist.
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STAKES
Can Governor Chang keep the rescue mission from failing
completely?
Will Dr. James hand over leadership to Professor Gurazada?
Will the scientists discover their mistake, and if they do will
they even admit to it?
DANGERS
The Black Wave (Terraformer)
Zar-Ghuul-Sar has unleashed an alien energy force locked tight
within the planet’s core. Now it washes over the surface of the
planet, radically altering the atomic constituencies of all that it
touches. If the black wave reaches the areas settled by humans, no
one will survive.
Impulse: To spread, consume, and make the land uninhabitable.
GRIM PORTENTS
Native wildlife flees from the emerging wave in massive
migrations.
The wave visibly destroys portions of the planet not inhabited
by humans.
Remote scientific outposts fall before the black waves.
Machines that form the defensive perimeters around human
settlements strain and begin to fail.
The Prismatic government issues evacuation orders; there are
not enough transport ships.
The black wave sweeps across the human settlements of
Prismatica.
Impending Doom: Destruction.
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Zar-Ghuul-Sar
(Demon Prince or Power-Mad Wizard)
This alien sorcerer has long been looking for a way to unleash the
dark energy of the black wave into the material universe, and now
he has found a way. From a safe distance, he can observe the
destruction of the humans and the triumph of his arcane arts.
Impulse: To summon forth and unleash tumultuous alien powers.
GRIM PORTENTS
A strange craft is spotted in low orbit around Prismatica,
communicating with the black wave.
From orbit, Zar-Ghuul-Sar launches attacks against critical
scientific observatories and wave-regulator devices.
Upon his command, Zar-Ghuul-Sar’s magical servants and
duped human agents sabotage the rescue mission.
Zar-Ghuul-Sar lands his craft behind the black wave’s
onslaught and urges it onwards with his magical powers.
Impending Doom: Pestilence.
GRIM PORTENTS
The scientists fail to accurately predict the speed and direction
of the black wave.
Outposts and remote research stations fall to the black wave.
Much earlier than expected, the perimeter of wave-regulator
devices is breached.
Panic strikes the cities, people riot, attempt to flee.
Transportation systems fail to evacuate whole settlements.
Rescuers are hampered by the inadequate space port facilities.
Urban infrastructure crumbles beneath panic-stricken feet.
Impending Doom: Impoverishment.
SUGGESTED SCENES
Dr. James is convinced he has the solution in his lab—which is
on the other side of a city engulfed in a riot and being attacked
from space. Can you get him there safely?
The scientists continue to argue about fault and blame instead
of organizing the evacuation. Will you step in to restore order?
You catch a signal from space. Can you bring down the alien
wizard before the black wave engulfs your location?
On board an evacuation ship you notice several of Zar-Ghuul-
Sar’s minions amongst the passengers. They are complaining
that Dr. James should stay behind to make room for ordinary
citizens. Will you intervene?
Planetology
One of the advantages of taking inspiration from science fantasy
genres is the ability to use a variety of very different setting
backdrops with the same characters, as they move between worlds.
Instead of travelling through different parts of one, single world,
the players’ characters can move from one planet—with its own set
of themes, tropes, inhabitants, and even physical laws—to another,
where things are completely different.
What follows is an arrangement of suggestions to help you
design a new and memorable planet. Hopefully, these will stir your
imagination and assist your descriptions of each new planet in turn.
APPEARANCE
To make your planet stand out, choose one or more special aspects
of its appearance that will affect characters spending time there.
Exotic Terrain
This world has a terrain that is either acutely hostile to human life
or poses other, unique challenges.
Electrical storms ravage the surface of this planet, turning
deserts into glass and preventing Earth-like life forms from
thriving.
The atmosphere is very thin across most of the surface of this
planet. It is only breathable in narrow, deep fissure valleys.
The planet is a gas giant. The upper atmosphere is breathable
but there is no solid ground.
The surface of the planet is scorched and barren, but the vast
subterranean tunnels are habitable.
There is no solid land on this planet, only layers of ice sitting
atop an inhospitable sea of caustic liquids.
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Global Terrain
This world can be described accurately by one type of terrain: it is
an ice world, a desert world, or a world with no land, only oceans.
The planet is covered in one type of flora: flowers, fungus,
grass, trees, vines, etc.
The planet’s surface is mostly one type of inert matter: ash,
dust, ice, liquid metal, sand, stone, water, etc.
Two different terrain types compete to dominate the planet’s
surface, with no middle ground. Cold, equatorial deserts create
a break between enormous polar ice caps, immense shelves of
granite sit surrounded by seas of lava, rivers and pools teeming
with life lie nestled between obsidian mountains, etc.
Pervasive Colours
One or more colours dominate the visual spectrum on this planet.
Everything is pastel, or dull and grey, or tinted red by the sun.
The light of the sun (or suns) washes everything with one
particular colour (blue, green, yellow, etc).
The planet’s colour palette is dominated by a characteristic
other than hue; everything is fluorescent, glossy, matte,
metallic, reflective, etc.
The planet’s colour palette is limited; all greys and browns,
there are no primary colours, there is no yellow and hence no
orange or green, etc.
Ubiquitous Feature
Some feature can be seen in almost all aspects of the planet or its
indigenous life forms.
All life on this planet is hexupedal—some have three limbs to
each of two sides, while some are trisegmented, with two limbs
to each segment, but all have six primary limbs.
All inert matter native to the planet is fully or partially
transparent.
There are spiral shapes in everything, from the rocks to the
clouds to the invertebrate life forms.
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BEHAVIOUR
A planet may also affect the behaviours of the people on it. Choose
one of these options to make a planet really stand out. This may not
endear your planet to the players, however!
Different Physics
The physical laws of reality are bent and broken on this planet.
Caustic atmosphere causes HP damage and destroys
equipment after long exposures.
Electromagnetic interference renders unshielded technological
devices inoperable.
Higher gravity inhibits movement and lowers characters’ load
limits.
Lower gravity increases movement rates and raises characters’
load limits.
Magical effects are increased on this planet due to the presence
of arcane minerals.
Strange atmosphere disinfects human wounds and renders
contact poisons inert.
Notable Life-Forms
Some aspect of the indigenous life of this planet is notable—
perhaps it is known throughout the universe, or just something
very striking to new visitors.
A valuable product is harvested from the indigenous life of this
planet (a culinary delicacy, mind-expanding spice, organic
spaceship materials, etc).
The indigenous life on this planet is mysterious or inexplicable
and draws researchers from all over the galaxy.
The local flora or fauna is extremely dangerous and hostile to
humans.
There is evidence of extinct life forms on this planet.
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Thematic Extremes
Pick a theme, something the planet is known for. When a character
makes moves in line with this theme, or causes damage because of
this theme, they take +1 to their roll. When a character actively
works against this theme, they take -1 to their roll. It is almost as if
the planet were aiding or interfering, but it does not stop other
characters from aiding or interfering as well.
This option should only be used for planets that exhibit extreme
characteristics. Don’t make the theme too broad—let it apply only
to a small category of behaviours. Here are some examples:
Planetary Culture
Just like planetary environments, you can make cultures more alien
by changing one or more of the things they share with (other)
human cultures. Four different techniques are suggested here:
addition, exaggeration, omission, and substitution. Start with a
familiar culture, then choose one of these applications and allow its
implications to change and colour the culture in your imagination.
There are several applications described under every technique,
and each one comes with a few concrete examples.
ADDITION
This is the blueprint for a great many science fiction stories. What
will society be like after the advent of space travel? What if time
travel was possible? What if we could make copies of ourselves,
read each others’ minds, or speak with the dead? Take a real human
society, start adding details, and imagine how it, and the
individuals comprising it, would change—this is creating
difference by addition.
New Opportunity
Some additions are just tools to be used, neither beneficial nor
disastrous in and of themselves. Perhaps a new technology is
developed or a new force is discovered, like nuclear energy.
An alien planet is discovered that can sustain human life,
potentially expanding the size of humanity’s available habitat.
This society has machines that allow people to project their
minds into other bodies, or to swap minds between bodies.
Biomedical technologies have undergone a breakthrough, and
now it is the simplest thing to modify the body’s shape, to add
any feature from tails and tentacles to sonar and gills. It is also
easy to remove things, including parts of the brain.
Outside Forces
This society might also be affected by additional, highly influential
elements that come from the outside. How do people adapt to these
new circumstances?
Part of this society’s home territory has turned into an alien
environment, a zone that was once familiar but is now strange
and unpredictable.
The planet is bombarded by strange rays from outer space that
cause organic life forms to spontaneously mutate. Sometimes
these mutations are beneficial, though often not.
The threat of imminent destruction is revealed. The sun will
soon implode and the planet will become lifeless.
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EXAGGERATION
This technique is often used for political, utopian, and dystopian
fiction, from Thomas More’s Utopia to George Orwell’s Nineteen
Eighty-Four. Take one element of human culture now and expand
on it. What does the future Communist state look like? Or a galaxy
governed by an interstellar United Nations?
Growth of a Movement
Pick a movement, fad, or “scene,” and universalize it. Have it
influence every aspect of society—individuals either support it, try
to follow it, or rebel against it.
Futurism runs rampant. Everyone is attempting to predict the
future and bring it to the present. Tradition is thrown to the
wayside, the past is rejected, only the future matters now.
People no longer speak to each other without the use of textual
or visual references and the mediation of technological devices.
Permanent body modification is considered a must and is even
required in many sectors. Purists who refuse to alter
themselves are suspected of mental illness.
Political Satire
Take a political position and show how it fails, no matter how
benevolent. Or take a political theory and assume it works,
somehow. Then throw the characters into it, and see what happens.
The tyranny of the ruling party is feared in every corner of
society. Purges and mass killing are commonplace—but then,
they have to be, for human sacrifice is the only thing that
powers this society’s advanced machine infrastructure.
The unchecked greed of capitalists has resulted in a world so
polluted that it is barely habitable by human beings. Even clean
air is now rare enough to be a commodity.
With such a benevolent princess to lead them, this society has
no need for laws. The princess resolves each dispute, organizes
every undertaking, and makes all the rules.
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OMISSION
Conceiving of a functional society after removing an aspect that is
fundamental to human existence is one of the more difficult
techniques presented here. There is a lack, one that we would find
intolerable, and yet the members of this society do not see that lack
and exist in spite of it.
Categorical Omission
One or more of the fundamental dividing lines among human
beings is an alien concept to this society.
Cognitive distinctions are trinary—past, present, and future;
red, blue, and yellow; or all, some, and none—instead of
binary.
The members of this society can transfer memories, both visual
and muscle memories, so age is an irrelevant category, save for
how much time it means one has left to live. Elders are not
respected for their wisdom, those with more memories are.
Though sexual reproduction is maintained, genders are not.
Any member of this society can impregnate any other member.
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Conceptual Omission
Remove a non-categorical concept that human society either
requires or is stuck with.
In this society, people have no faces. They identify each other
mostly by voice or through recognition of physical
mannerisms, all of which they are acutely aware of.
The members of this society cannot feel positive emotions in
isolation. Happiness and joy can only be created through group
psychic feedback loops that require at least two people.
Because of this, they have no notion that one can exploit other
people for personal gain.
This culture has no sense of permanent aesthetics. Its people
value acoustic effects but not music, desire spontaneous
culinary experiences instead of familiar flavour profiles, and
consider the visual sense good only for information, not
entertainment.
Emotional Omission
One human emotional aspect is missing from this society. This
could be love, hate, fear, or desire—whatever you can think of.
The members of this culture feel emotions less strongly, in
general, than humans. They make all decisions based on
calculated logic.
There are no celebrations or displays of joy in this culture.
These people know the satisfaction of success and a job well
done, but not euphoria or giddiness.
This culture has no aggression, no war, and no exploitation,
and resources are shared as equitably as can be managed. But
how do they defend themselves from outside threats?
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Lack of Predation
This society truly is at the top of the food chain, not even prey to
parasites, bacteria, or viruses. This society exists without threats—
perhaps without being a threat itself.
Advanced technology means everyone is provided with what
they need to maintain long, healthy lives. What do the people
in this society do when they do not need to work to survive?
The members of this society are trapped inside indestructible
bodies. They cannot harm each other, nor can they be harmed
by any force they yet know of.
SUBSTITUTION
This technique is the most complicated, as it requires both an
omission and a subsequent addition. Replace one way things
function in a society for something completely different.
TAGS
If there is intelligent life on a planet, however alien or familiar it is,
give it a small selection of tags. These are not absolutes, and each
tag does not necessarily apply universally to all intelligent life on
this planet, but each steading must adopt at least one of these tags.
This makes them a coherent group of characteristics for the world.
Some examples:
Agricultural: This planet is primarily engaged in food production.
Alien: The inhabitants of this planet are aliens, not humans.
Belligerent: This planet is at war with another planet.
Festive: They are always involved in some kind of celebration or
public ceremony.
Hostile: They do not welcome outsiders.
Industrial: This world is heavily engaged in manufacturing and
processing.
Lawless: This planet has no formally organized government or legal
structure.
Magic: They practice arcane arts.
Primitive: They do not have technological devices or spaceships.
Quarantined: There are travel restrictions maintained on this
planet.
Secretive: Inhabitants of this planet have something to hide.
Spartan: They indulge in no pleasures and keep no possessions they
do not absolutely need.
Trade: They are interested in commerce and trade with other
planets. Choose one or more main commodities that are traded.
Turbulent: Inhabitants of this planet are constantly fighting each
other and will seek outside help against their rivals.
Wealthy: They have treasure and technology.
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Chimera Six
An Example Planet
This example uses the procedures presented in this chapter to
create the sixth planet of the star Chimera, along with a steading—
the capital city Collectiva.
Tags
These details naturally suggest four particular tags for the planet of
Chimera Six:
Lawless: The natives are not in complete control of the planet and
cannot control foreign-controlled mining.
Trade: Settlements on this planet must trade for food, metals, and
other resources.
Turbulent: Conflict between natives and off-worlders is ongoing.
Wealthy: Aurora gas is an extremely valuable commodity.
COLLECTIVA
Enmity: Unregulated gas miners, Growing, Legion, Market, Need: Food,
Resource: Aurora gas, Wealthy
The largest and most important community on Chimera Six is
Collectiva, the capital city. It has no authority over the outsiders,
but serves as the locus of the quickly-expanding native culture.
Before you start playing, choose one or more major off-world trade
partners for Collectiva.
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Science Fantasy
Monsters
What follows is a small collection of aliens, monsters, and robots
that the GM can present as threats. Unlike the androids, generic
aliens, and white apes of the previous sections, these are not meant
to be race options that the players can take. These are enemy
monsters only.
GRIM PORTENTS
The farmer brings Zaffexho to the city.
Zaffexho builds a loyal following of admirers in the city.
Zaffexho becomes an official advisor to the colony’s governor.
Police forces begin collecting people for “audiences” with
Zaffexho.
Impending Doom: Tyranny and Destruction (Zaffexho rules the
city, the humans give themselves to it willingly).
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GRIM PORTENTS
The team discovers frozen elder things.
They dig down to a structure beneath the ice.
One of the elder things goes missing.
Professor Mason disappears after reading the panicked reports
sent back by the expedition.
Lockwood ventures into the alien structure.
Lockwood emerges, infected by elder thing biological weapons.
Mason arrives to guarantee transportation back to civilisation.
Impending Doom: Pestilence (humanity is infected).
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GRIM PORTENTS
The golden man attracts the attention of UFO enthusiasts.
The FBI takes possession of the golden man after a shoot-out
with cultists.
The golden man reveals nuclear secrets to the president.
The US military builds the most advanced nuclear delivery
system ever.
The golden man destroys Washington.
The US launches nuclear missiles at perceived enemies.
Aliens arrive and shut down all American weapon systems.
The Earth is defenceless.
Impending Doom: Destruction (of the Earth).
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GRIM PORTENTS
Nakamoto is struck by a strange amnesia.
During his recovery, he takes a keen interest in Ozores’
experimental hyperdrive project.
Nakamoto attacks Ozores, steals the hyperdrive and delivers it
to shadowy agents.
Nakamoto’s old personality returns, with strange descriptions
of alien visions.
Booker locates ruins that match Nakamoto’s descriptions.
Booker’s expedition enters the ruins unprepared for what they
will find.
Impending Doom: Destruction (as Booker awakens that which
destroyed the great race).
STAKES
Can Booker’s expedition be stopped? Are the shadowy agents
of the great race secretly aiding him?
Can Nakamoto’s mind-swapping experience be reversed or
duplicated?
Can the doom that Booker finds be harnessed for the good of
humanity, or is it nothing but destruction?
Will Ozores survive, and can she continue her research?
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When a white man of mars turns his psychic charms upon you,
roll+WIS. •On a 10+, you are immune! •On a 7-9, you can shake off
the influence if you try, but if you go along with the white man for
now, you can mark XP. •On a miss, you are under the white man’s
sway and may not act against him until you leave his presence.
Influences
This is by no means a complete list of works that influenced
Adventures on Dungeon Planet. This is just some of the stuff I was
paying particular attention to while writing it.
Gaming
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook, by Gary Gygax
(TSR, 1978).
Apocalypse World, by D. Vincent Baker (Lumpley Games, 2010).
Cyberpunk 2020, by Mike Pondsmith et al. (R. Talsorian Games,
1990).
Dungeon World, by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel (Sage Kobold
Productions, 2012).
“The Grotesque,” by Joe Mcdaldno (2011).
The Metamorphica, by Johnstone Metzger (2012).
Metamorphosis Alpha, by James M. Ward (TSR, 1976).
Number Appearing, by Justin Wightbred (2012).
Planet Algol, by Blair Fitzpatrick (planetalgol.blogspot.com).
Six Inhumanities, by Nathan Orlando Wilson (2013).
Traveller, by Marc W. Miller (Game Designers’ Workshop, 1977).
Literature
“The Airlords of Han," by Philip Francis Nowlan, in Amazing
Stories 3, no. 12 (Experimenter Publishing Co., 1929).
“Armageddon 2419 A.D.,” by Philip Francis Nowlan, in Amazing
Stories 3, no. 5 (Experimenter Publishing Co., 1928).
“At the Mountains of Madness,” by H. P. Lovecraft, in Astounding
Stories 16, no. 6, and Astounding Stories 17 nos. 1-2 (Street &
Smith Publications, 1936).
City of the Chasch, by Jack Vance (Ace Books, 1968).
Connie, by Frank Godwin (Ledger Syndicate, 1927-1944).
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, by H. P. Lovecraft (Arkham
House, 1943).
Dune, by Frank Herbert (Chilton Books, 1965).
Far Rainbow, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1963). English
translation by Antonina W. Bouis (Macmillan, 1979).
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov (Gnome Press, 1951).
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
(Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818).
The Gods of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (A. C. McClurg, 1918).
The Killing Machine, by Jack Vance (Berkley Books, 1964).
The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers (F. Tennyson Neely,
1895).
The Moon Pool, by Abraham Merritt (Avon, 1919).
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell (Secker and Warburg,
1949).
A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (A. C. McClurg, 1917).
Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1972). English
translation by Antonina W. Bouis (Macmillan, 1977).
“The Shadow Out of Time,” by H. P. Lovecraft, in Astounding
Stories 17, no. 4 (Street & Smith Publications, 1936).
Solaris, by Stanisław Lem (1961). English translation by Joanna
Kilmartin and Steve Cox (Walker & Co., 1970).
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells (William Heinemann, 1895).
Utopia, by Thomas More (1516).
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Movies
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Dark Star (1974)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Dune (1984)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
John Carter (2012)
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Logan’s Run (1976)
Metropolis (1927)
Society (1989)
Solaris (1972)
Solaris (2002)
Stalker (1979)
Star Trek (TV, 1966-1969)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
They Live (1988)
The Thing (1982)
Things to Come (1936)
To the Stars by Hard Ways (1982)
Total Recall (1990)
Zardoz (1974)
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