Orbital Blues x2 – new and revived through Wed 29 July

Through Wednesday, July 29 we present two offers – one new, one revived – featuring Orbital Blues, the lo-fi space Western SFRPG from SoulMuppet Publishing (Best Left Buried). If you’re new to this retro-future game of Interstellar Outlaws scrounging a living across the Frontier Galaxy, start with the core rulebook and early supplements in the revived June 2024 Orbital Blues Bundle. Then find new jobs and new dangers with the recent supplements in the all-new companion offer, Orbital Blues Afterburn.

This is the rock’n’roll future of yesteryear that never was and nobody wanted. It’s an interstellar age of cowboys, outlaws, and bandits, of hypercapitalism and a cutthroat gig economy. With your ship and your crew of Interstellar Outlaws, you eke out a living in the Frontier Galaxy, chasing the dream of freedom. Orbital Blues lets you play out rules-light old-school adventures in the style of Cowboy Bebop, Firefly, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Developed using the rules-light system of Best Left Buried, Orbital Blues uses a simple D6 based system with three basic stats (Muscle, Grit, and Savvy) to handle rolls and uncertainty. Characters also have Gambits (special talents or unique abilities) and Troubles (heartbreaks and setbacks). With these simple values players can build a wide variety of unique characters to explore the Frontier Galaxy.

Working together, Crews generate a scrappy ship to call home, and must balance their Credits and Debts to stay aloft. Not knowing how they’ll pay for a bowl of bell peppers and beef, or where they’ll find another clip for their 9mm, Interstellar Outlaws live rollercoaster lives in a constant search for work, whether it’s hauling salvage across backwater systems or getting boots on the ground sniffing out the Frontier Galaxy’s most dangerous bounties.

1. ORBITAL BLUES [from June 2024]

This June 2024 Orbital Blues Bundle presents the core rulebooks and key supplements for a bargain price even an Interstellar Outlaw can scrounge. If you’re new to the game, start here. Pay just US$7.95 to get all three titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $38) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete Orbital Blues core rulebook (plus the free quickstart set An Unchained Melody) and the full-length adventures All That Glitters and Chega de Saudade.

And if you pay more than this revival’s threshold (average) price, which is set at $17.95 to start, you’ll level up and also get this offer’s entire Bonus Collection with four more titles worth an additional $43.50, including the sandbox setting A Starborn Resistance; the adventures Everjoy and Trouble at the Rock of Tariq; and the artbook Wayward Stars.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Orbital2026

2. ORBITAL BLUES AFTERBURN [all-new]

This new Afterburn companion adds recent Orbital Blues supplements. Pay just $9.95 to get all three titles in this offer’s Afterburn Collection (retail value $45), including the game’s first sourcebook, Afterburn; the Rogue Anthems anthology of pamphlet scenarios, and the solo adventure The Wanderer. As a convenience to customers, we also include four free quickstart rules sets for recent and forthcoming SoulMuppet RPGs: Doomspiral, Mad as Hell, Paint the Town Red, and the mythic Greek fantasy Atrapos, launching soon on Kickstarter.