An Elf,

 a Ninja,

 and a Carnivorous Teddy Bear 

 Walk Into a Bar…

 An Elf, a Ninja, and a Carnivorous Teddy Bear Walk Into a Bar… 

...what happens next is up to you!​

If entering your favorite tavern deposited you in a strange space bar, what would you do? Try to get home? Celebrate missing your coworker’s dumb baby shower? Open “diplomatic relations” with those aliens in the corner?

In Tales from The Floating Vagabond, you can do all this and more!

In the middle of an asteroid field sits The Floating Vagabond, a bar with a random dimensional portal generator built into the door. It scoops up unsuspecting patrons from across the multiverse for a roleplaying experience like no other.

This is the RPG for you if you want to play a space western, a superhero saga, and a high fantasy quest AT THE SAME TIME.

It’s the RPG Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Weird Al Yankovic would have created if they designed games. It’s a genre-mixing, dimension-hopping, ludicrously good time!

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Tales from the Floating Vagabond: a drinking-themed comedy roleplaying game

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 Tales from the Floating Vagabond 

Created by Lee Garvin

First published in 1991, this iconic cult RPG almost vanished into the game closet of history, but a team of dedicated weirdos resurrected it in defiance of the gods themselves!

Interior - Tales from the Floating Vagabond

Why buy the second edition?

  • Fun new powers like teleportation, flight, and invisibility
  • New mechanics for sidekicks and villains
  • Drunk Dice: a new bonus for inebriated characters
  • Expanded union rules for every character
  • All-new artwork and color layout
  • It's better organized than the first edition
  • An all-new TF2V adventure: Cat Out of Hell
  • Every purchase helps fund more books and swag!
  • Support the volunteers who spent hundreds of hours and four years working on this game!

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The Vagabond Team

Lee Garvin

Creator

Game designer and author Lee Garvin is best known for creating Tales from The Floating Vagabond. Although never quite as popular as some other RPGs, TF2V was nonetheless so beloved that Lee successfully ran a Kickstarter in 2013 to publish a second edition.

Unfortunately, the Universe shared Lee’s twisted sense of humor but not his warm heart or generous spirit. It spent the next six years sticking it to him, and Lee shuffled off this mortal coil in 2019 with the second edition still unfinished.

Lee lives on in the games he created – TF2V, The Noble Wild, Dravakor, and Badass Zombie Killers – and in the hearts of his friends. Several of them decided that the Universe wasn’t playing fair, and volunteered their time, money, and alcohol budgets to finish Tales from The Floating Vagabond for him.

Wherever you are Lee, we hope you’re proud.

Kira Woodmansee

Art Director

Drink: Irish coffee

Kira Does All The Things, from designing the book and creating graphics to wrangling the writers and building this website. She did her first freelance illustration at age 5 and has provided artwork for Dravakor, The Noble Wild, and the fantasy novel Ember of Dreams. Her myriad skills prevent people from realizing that she's actually a hyena in a human suit who once accidentally tattooed a barcode on herself for a LARP. Twice.
Favorite bar joke

Sean Ellis

Lead Writer

Drink: Campari & soda with a slice of orange

Sean Ellis is an author of several third-party supplements for Dungeon Crawl Classics from Stray Couches Press, Moon Dice Games, and Shield of Faith Games. He is the creator and sole author of Children of the Sun, described as “Mad Max meets the Aztecs,” available on DriveThruRPG. Sean is also a historical fencing instructor and competitor and has edited several books by historical European martial art luminaries.
Favorite bar joke

Sandy Antunes

Writer

Drink: Guinness 0.0

Sandy is. Beyond that, Sandy has written multiple gaming books (including Miskatonic University and Pioneer) and short form works (such as Doom: Semper Fidelis and other 1KM1KT entries) as well as LARPs, and was a co-founder of RPG.net. Sandy chooses not to accurately recall details from sessions of Vagabond, which is likely a good thing for all involved.
Favorite bar joke

Bill Keyes

Writer

Drink: Mike's Hard Lemonade

Bill is known as "teh ebil bunneh" (for reasons we can't explain). He claims to have won a rigged election for President, conquered the Midwest, been shot and killed at least once, sworn (and achieved!) vengeance on the gods themselves, crowned himself King of the World, become the archenemy of a llama, deposed the Pope, and had torrid love affairs with several starlets. It's unlikely any of it is true, but it's best to just humor him when he gets like this.
Favorite bar joke