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The Comae Engine

By Clarence Redd

4 Apr, 2024

**Roleplaying Games**

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Clarence Redd’s¹ The Comae Engine (V. 1.0) is a tabletop roleplaying game. First published in Beta in 2022, the most recent update came out in 2024.

The first thing buyers will notice on receiving the perfect-bound rulebook might be Axel Sauerwald’s striking cover art. The second would be the book’s length, or rather lack thereof. Comae is just fifty-four pages long. As they say, more words, deeper hole. Brevity can be strength.

Hands Up And Touch The Sky

M‑Space

By Clarence Redd

Clarence Redd’s 2016 M‑Space is an SF table-top role-playing game. It uses the D100-derived Mythras Imperative game engine, which is to say it is a close relative of RPGs like Runequest, Call of Cthulhu, and Future World. M‑Space is published by Frostbyte Books, headquartered in Sweden. It is also the specific game that inspired me to do the BRP series of SFRPG reviews.

Onward to the stars!