So, You Accidentally Crushed Lord Kelvin with a Time Machine

It’s a brisk day in September of 1849. Thomson strolls through Kelvingrove Park on his way to the University of Glasgow for a lecture he’s giving after working at the University for four years.

He has no idea how influential he will come to be in telecommunications, thermodynamics, marine navigation, and meteorology. Rather, how influential he could have been, were it not for the mechanical box that hurtled down from the sky, squashing him into a pancake of lost potential.

You climb out of your time machine and realise what you’ve done… whoops.

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So, You Accidentally Crushed Lord Kelvin with a Time Machine is a rules-lite TTRPG and winner of the Kelvin 200 Game Jam. The mechanics are loosely based on the Dread RPG's alternate 'playing cards' rules.

Mechanical and Encounter design by Maxine Armstrong, Tadhg Redfern, Daniela Shchegelskaya, and Dai Zhang

Character and Background Art by Dai Zhang

Layout by Tadhg Redfern