Free RPG Day Online Games and Webinars!

Looking to try out new roleplaying games without spending a dime? We've got a day of thrilling RPG adventures lined up!

This year's Free RPG Day has been pushed back due to the pandemic. As stores scrambled to find a way to offer events with stay at home orders or reduced store capacity. So we partnered with Source Comics & Games to bring you our first-ever all online Free RPG Day event!

We've got a buncha' space and scif-fi excitement in five roleplaying sessions. AND if you're looking to level-up as a GM, we're offering free game master clinic webinars! Choose from a variety of topics in game design or learning more about what games are out there!

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We'll send you a link to the Zoom event a few days prior. Be sure to check out our Online Game FAQ before you attend.

Here's the schedule of events:

SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2020

2:00 P.M.

RPG: STAR TREK ADVENTURES: Requiem for Miri

A century after USS Enterprise visited Earth Two and its inhabitants, the Onlies, Federation scientists are still unraveling the circumstances surrounding the Life Prolongation Project. USS Excalibur (NCC-26517) is dispatched to uncover a mystery, only to find echoes of the past. This is a TNG sequel to TOS episode "Miri."
Game time: 2 hours
Rule System: Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius
Game Master: Erik Mornes
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3:00 P.M. 

WEBINAR: Beyond D&D: Cool Games You May Not Have Tried
Want to learn more about games you've not played or had a chance to run? Get an overview of what's out there by major publishers as well as what's going on in the indie RPG scene. And get your questions answered about them!
Webinar time: 1 hour with Q&A
Presenter: Jenifer Doll
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4:00 P.M. 

WEBINAR: Creating Star Trek RPG Adventures That Feel "Trek"
Two SNSO game masters discuss their approaches to creating Star Trek roleplaying adventures, using sci-fi concepts (time travel, AI, generation ships, etc.) steeped in Star Trek mythos. Discussion also includes how the mechanics of various Star Trek game systems enable certain kinds of play and stories.
Webinar time: 1 hour with Q&A
Presenters: Erik Mornes and John Till
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RPG: STARS WITHOUT NUMBER: Pharma Couriers

Fans of Firefly and spaghetti westerns listen up! On a supply mission a medical supply ship, you and your crew travel to a distant mining colony. Save lives and help solve the colony get back on its feet before its too late--and make a few extra credits while you're at it!
Game time: 4 hours
Rule System: Stars Without Number by Sine Nomine Publishing
Game Master: Jeff Conrad
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RPG: KNAVE: Origins of Discontent (A Scifi Hack)

It was supposed to be a pleasure cruise through the most beautiful wild star systems in the galaxy, a reward for your hard work and dedication to the Galactic Alliance Investigation Bureau. The experience is every bit as grand as you'd been promised--even if slightly marred by the plethora of the insufferably wealthy who keep mistaking you for ship crew. Now, suddenly, someone is dead: an inaccessible human skeleton floating calmly through an arc chamber... but no one on board is missing, and the ship is days away from a safe port. Suspicion among the elite (and their private security teams) is quickly breeding a mutiny and the captain of the vessel is begging you for help...
Game time: 2 hours
Rule System: Knave by Questing Beast Publishing
Game Master: Jenifer Doll
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RPG: MUTANT CRAWL CLASSICS: The Unregarded Passage

In a gonzo, post-apocalyptic future where science seems more like magic and the landscape is filled with mutants of every kind, your band of Seekers finds a nondescript tunnel while exploring a ruined structure. What dangers lurk down below the stones of the past, and what treasures might you find?
Game time: 4 hours
Rule System: Mutant Crawl Classics by Goodman Games
Game Master: Matt Towle
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6:00 P.M. 

WEBINAR: Using Implied Setting in World Building and Game Design
How to use rules, character options, random tables and other tools to streamline and improve your game design and world-building process.
Webinar time: 1 hour with Q&A
Presenter: Casey Garske
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RPG: ALIEN: From A Dead Planet

Your crew is in the wrong place at the right time. The Company has asked you to retrieve a scientific package from a military transport, The Deadfall Hornet. The question is whether you can grab the goods before things go critical. Can you?
Game time: 2 hours
Rule System: ALIEN Roleplaying Game by Modiphius
Game Master: John Till
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Note: Mature audience

8:00 P.M.

WEBINAR: Ask Us Anything Zoom Party!
Saturday Night Space Opera began offering free in-person gaming at Source Comics & Games in 2015. After 5 years and more than 250 public game experiences in the Twin Cities, we've learned a few things!  After a brief overview, attendees can ask us anything game or SNSO related (e.g,event organizing, game design, running one-shot adventures, etc.).
Webinar time: 1 hour with Q&A
Presenters: All Free RPG Day Game Masters!
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SEE YOU SATURDAY, SPACE GAMER!

More details to come! Schedule and programming subject to change. All times are Central US time zone.

July SNSO: Spacetime Doctors!

Summer is finally in full swing! This month we're bringing you some of your favorite science fiction TV shows and movies. Sign up now before all the virtual seats are spoken for!

Saturday, July 11 at 6:00 pm

First up is that inimitable timelord DOCTOR WHO!

DOCTOR WHO: Peril on Peladon

GM: John Till
Game system: Doctor Who Roleplaying Game by Cubicle 7
Chat platform: Zoom

Join the Eleventh Doctor on a journey to a place where the Third and Seventh Doctors have visited before: the feudal backwater planet of Peladon! In earlier incarnations, the good Doctor mixed it up with kings and queens, scheming chancellors, perilous horned bear-pig gods, rebellious miners, renegade Ice Warriors, helpful Mole Men, and alien ambassadors from the interstellar Federation. Now it is your turn to visit Peladon! As mysterious forces once again destabilize this world, can you spare it from spinning out of control?    

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Emergency on the bridge!
Join the crew of an emergency medical/science vessel called to the Neutral Zone in this TOS movie-era adventure!

USS Aegimus, Medical/Science vessel

STAR TREK: Medical Logs

GM: Jeff Conrad
Game system: Star Trek The Roleplaying Game by FASA
Chat platform: Zoom

Set during era of Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock, the USS Aegimus, a lightly-armed Oberth Class Medical/Science vessel is on an emergency supply run near the Romulan Neutral Zone, when it receives an urgent transmission from Starfleet. A mysterious civilian ship intends to cross into The Zone. How will your crew--with no other help in the area--decide which takes priority and how to handle what comes next?   

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Must Read: SNSO Online Games Primer

Before you beam up to our Zoom rooms, you'll need to read and be familiar with how we're running games these days. Check out our online gaming FAQ!

JUNE SNSO: Sword and Planet Adventures!

Summer is JUST ABOUT here and we've got a plethora of planetary escapism! Games are always free and you don't need anything to play. Newbies and veterans alike are encouraged to sign up!

Games fill up fast so set your sights on these science fantasy epics and sign up now!

Saturday, June 13 at 6:00 pm

Leading the way is John Carter of Mars, the classic tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs re-spun into a fantastic roleplaying game!

JOHN CARTER OF MARS: The Sand Sargasso of Mars

GM: John Till
Game system: John Carter of Mars from Modiphius
Chat platform: Zoom

On your way back to the Twin Cities of Helium from overthrowing the terrible tyrant of the City-State of Amhor, your flyer crashes in the desert amidst the ruins of numerous flyers that fell in a terrible ancient battle.  Can you find the parts you need to get back in the air? Are their treasures to find among the wrecked sky ships? And what is rumbling within the ruins?   

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More futuristic fantasy...
GM Leo has cooked up something special with an original adventure for Masters of Umdaar, a setting  that pays tribute to themes like Masters of the Universe. And check out the art he illustrated for the game!

MASTERS OF UMDAAR: Have (Lo)Gun - Will Travel

GM: Leo Winstead
Game system: FATE Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions
Chat platform: Zoom

An evil master seeks the Gurn, a powerful relic of the ancients.  The cyborg creation of a mad inventor roams the desert, leaving a trail of misfortune in its wake. The cyborg holds the key to unlocking the relic's power.  It's up to the PCs to prevent the relic from falling in the wrong hands. 

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Must Read: SNSO Online Games Primer

Before you beam up to our Zoom rooms, you'll need to read and be familiar with how we're running games these days. Check out our online gaming FAQ!

More games to come, watch this page for upcoming events!

MAY SNSO: Star Trek, Space Elves, and Traveller!

We're back with a bevy of interstellar adventure to keep you energized in quarantine! Check out what we've got in store over the next two weekends...

Saturday, May 16 at 6:00 pm

First up is a Star Trek Adventures session from March that we're finally getting into warp speed.

Star Trek Adventures: The Search for Spock 2 - A (Re)Animated Adventure

GM: John Till
Game system: Star Trek Adventures from Modiphius
Chat platform: Zoom

Whatever happened to Spock 2, that giant clone of the galaxy's most famous Vulcan? Do flying plant pterodactyls actually exist, or is this another one of Captain Kirk's unverifiable claims? The crew of the U.S.S. Infinity head to the planet Phylos to continue their investigations into the legendary fourth-year missions of the U.S.S. Enterprise (i.e., the Animated Series).   

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Also that night, Jen runs an adapted version of an original scifi adventure for AFF that she says is "elves in space with an acid-fantasy twist!"

Advanced Fighting Fantasy: Stars Above As Below

GM: Jenifer Doll
Game system: Advanced Fighting Fantasy (2nd Ed.)
Chat platform: Zoom

Negotiating with the Demondrive of your ship is difficult at the best of times. Far more so now that an astral spider has knocked you out of the Etherstream and left you adrift in an unfamiliar starfield, near a strangely compelling Terra-like planet... 

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Saturday, May 23 at 5:30 pm 

The following weekend, Matt is taking you grunts back into space on a Traveller adventure!

Traveller: Across the Bright Face

GM: Matt Towle

Game system: Traveller from Mongoose Publishing (2nd Ed.)
Chat platform: Zoom

It started like any job. Your band of mercs provided security for your patron as she visited the mining facilities on Dinom. The eccentric orbit of the planet means you stayed in the habitable Twilight Band, neither boiling hot, nor frozen solid. What disaster compels you now to leave that safety behind and venture ACROSS THE BRIGHT FACE?

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Must Read: SNSO Online Games Primer

Before you beam up to our Zoom rooms, you'll need to read and be familiar with how we're running games these days. Check out our online gaming FAQ!