Someplace in Time (A Timepunk Game with Everything Needed to Play)

Core Rulebook by Skirmisher Publishing

PocketQuest 2026 is DriveThruRPG’s 5th annual game jam. All the games must be standalone titles and 25 pages or less (inlcuding cover). This years theme is Time Travel.

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Monsters are threatening the very fabric of space-time! The players assume the roles of agents of the Office for the Research of Unusual Science (ORUS) who must skip through time to capture several Lovecraftian Mythos monsters. As described in the Call of Cthulwho adventure, these creatures recently escaped from the secret Area 4791 ORUS research facility.

After the monsters fled from the facility, the cosmic overlord of time and space, Cthulwho, took them aboard his time and space warping Radio’Luminescent Yonder-Epoch Habitationizer (R’LYEH) to engage in malicious mischief. Unfortunately, the R’LYEH malfunctioned and propelled the hapless monsters to disastrous points in time and space, where each is engaged in transforming the existing disasters from bad to worst. If the characters succeed in capturing the monsters and eventually banishing Cthulwho, the outcomes of disasters in past and future history may be averted or lessened; if the characters fail, the path of humanity may take an unpleasant turn.

Someplace in Time (SiT) is a self-standing roleplaying game in which one or more players take on the roles of agents of ORUS, the Office for the Research of Unusual Science, while a storyteller serves as the guide and describes the outcomes of Challenges that determine the results of character actions. 

SiT uses the TSRPG system, a set of easy and flexible rules, to play through a series of opposed Challenges. SiT includes supplemental mechanics to provide additional depth and unique flavor to the setting and the characters. 

Someplace in Time is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.

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