Thursday, December 25, 2025

An Expansion for VOID RUNNER: Random Contract Generator

NUELOW Games has just released a sci-fi mini-RPG-Void Runner! We hope it's easy to learn and even easier to play. (The tables can also be used as inspiration for other sci-fi adventure games!)

Contract Generator
Roll 1d10 on each table to create a unique contract. The combination of results tells the basic story of your next desperate job.

Employer Table

  1. Broken Megacorp: A mid-tier corporation with more secrets than credits

  2. Desperate Colonists: Trapped settlers with nothing left to lose

  3. Rogue AI Fixer: An autonomous network broker with unknown motives

  4. Exiled Aristocrat: A fallen noble seeking revenge or redemption

  5. Criminal Syndicate: Ruthless gang controlling a critical trade route

  6. Independent Research Team: Scientists with dangerous discoveries

  7. Refugee Network: Underground movement helping people escape corporate oppression

  8. Watcher-Adjacent Broker: A mysterious intermediary with alien connections

  9. Decommissioned Military Unit: Soldiers surviving outside official channels

  10. Ghost Collective: Anonymous data traders who never show their faces

Objective Table

  1. Data Extraction: Steal critical information from a secure system

  2. Assassination: Eliminate a high-profile target with maximum deniability

  3. Rescue Operation: Extract a valuable asset from hostile territory

  4. Smuggling Run: Transport forbidden tech or restricted materials

  5. Sabotage Mission: Disrupt a corporate or military operation

  6. Relic Recovery: Retrieve an artifact of unknown origin and power

  7. Hostage Negotiation: Complicated extraction with multiple moving parts

  8. Surveillance Infiltration: Plant or retrieve monitoring equipment

  9. Corporate Espionage: Gather intelligence on a competing organization

  10. Quantum Courier: Transport something that defies normal physics

Complication Table

  1. Betrayal: A team member has hidden motives

  2. Time Limit: Mission must be completed before a critical event

  3. Competing Crew: Another Runner team wants the same prize

  4. Watcher Interference: Alien entities are watching or actively blocking

  5. Environmental Hazard: Extreme conditions threaten mission success

  6. Unexpected Surveillance: Corporate or syndicate eyes are everywhere

  7. Equipment Failure: Critical gear malfunctions at the worst moment

  8. Political Instability: Local conflict complicates mission parameters

  9. Quantum Anomaly: Reality itself becomes unpredictable

  10. Total Lockdown: Unexpected security upgrade traps the crew


If these tables look interesting or useful, you should probably check out Void Runner: A Sci-Fi Roleplaying Game by clicking here. It's short and dirt cheap!

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