The Morrow Project File R-007, January 1986

"Desert Search"

SF role-playing game module -- 39 pages plus maps

Somewhere in the windswept Nevada desert is a Morrow Project power station. Recon Team N-2 must find it before it is captured by a mysterious group known only as the Syen. To do this they must sift through the rubble of the 20th century and fight on when all hope is gone. At stake is not only the first Morrow Project power station, but the lives of their comrades still asleep and defenseless before the coming onslaught.

The first role-playing game module I wrote was actually an oversized Morrow Project adventure intended for publication in a magazine, but the editors who saw it said it was too big--and one of them, Tadashi Ehara over at Different Worlds, suggested that I take it to the publishers of The Morrow Project and pitch it as a full-blown module. I did, and that started my career of writing SF rpg modules for Timeline Ltd. This module took the game in a new direction, as all of their adventures to date had been set in the American midwest, with one sidetrip into Texas; after this module, the adventures began to be set in various other locales around the United States.

The module is currently available directly from the publisher at Timeline Ltd.