Mojave Rangers: The Game Booklet – https://mojaverangerschool.com/gamebooklet

The game booklet is made to be locally printed by Ranger Training Teams, Merchant’s and Gun Runners to distribute at their events.

Welcome to Mojave Rangers: The Game

The Mojave Rangers Game is a post-apocalyptic version of D&D, based on the Fallout: New Vegas video game, that uses video games, tabletop RPG, LARP and Milsim to teach real-world first aid, radio and outdoor skills in an immersive, family-friendly, Scouting-compatible game system that’s free to download and play at all levels.

The Mojave Rangers Game can be played from 1-player on the Commonwealth Rangers: Parks & Rec Fallout 4 video game mod, to a full live-action multi-day milsim adventure at an NCR Ranger Station in the Mojave Desert.

The game includes free downloadable Fallout: New Vegas mods, GURPS tabletop role play game modules and an online course, Field Manual and monthly training for live-action milsim players.

The Mojave Rangers Game features 10 monthly trainings and drills that teach all the first aid, radio, Search & Rescue and outdoor survival skills from a dozen merit badges plus basic milsim patrolling and bivouacs.

The training runs in 3 phases and players progress at their own pace.

Players in the game are Rangers, Raiders, Settlers, Refugees and Trainees and there are a variety of civilian roles.

Mojave Rangers Are Post-Apocalyptic Park Rangers

• The Mojave Rangers are post-apocalytic Park Rangers, organized like a volunteer fire department crossed with a martial arts school, who run security, medical and tech missions throughout the Mojave.
• The Followers of the Apocalypse are the civilian trainers who teach the first aid, radio and non-military topics and coordinate closely with the Mojave Rangers
• The Mojave Raiders are teams of raiders who are trained, armed and led by Brotherhood of Steel and Caesar’s Legion advisors, who attack NCR resources in the Mojave
  • the ‘advisors’ are actually Enclave instigators rather than BoS or Legion, which is part of the storyline

• Settlers are players who fulfill a civilian function, and their families
  • shopkeepers
  • campground hosts
  • smiths
  • artists, musicians, crafters
• Refugees are visitors or guests who aren’t club members and are renting space in the Bunker B&B
• Trainees: get free camping and free training for the Ranger Basic, Leadership, Medic and RTO courses, which all run on the same yearly schedule
  • Medic & RTO can be taken concurrently with the Ranger Basic Course

Mojave Ranger Station, 2287

Mojave Station is a 2.5-acre Fallout-themed desert fort and market village being developed 13.5 miles NNE of Edwards AFB on the western edge of the Mojave Desert. Fort Edwards sits about halfway between New Vegas and the Boneyard (LA).

The Mojave Station site is 330×330 ft. The rear 1/3^rd of the site is a 100x100ft inner fort and associated airsoft training areas. The front 2/3rds of the site is being developed as a small market village. Historically, the fort/market village combination provides security as well as a center for commerce.

Like a Martial Arts School

The game system progresses like a martial arts school with task books that allow players to sign off on skills.

• One 4-hour training each month (1st Saturday) and one 4-hour drill (last Saturday) and we’ll be running live-stream classes from the fort site in summer ’26
• Weekly free games at the fort for all players, starting this summer for those who want to camp and help build. Live-streamed so Ranger Training Clubs can participate from the outlands.
• 10 monthly drills cover all the basic first aid, rifle, radio, SAR, etc. skills for a dozen merit badges, regardless of whether Scouting is officially organized into the system, plus basic patrolling and Army basic training skills.

Yearly Schedule, Crawl-Walk-Run

Station Phase Jan-March Crawl: initial basic training at the station
Patrol Base Phase April-June Walk: trainees learn to run radio relay stations and operate away from the station
SAR Phase July-Oct Run: full-speed operations during the hottest part of the year
Expert Rifleman Challenge Nov: Rangers run an opposed orienteering course with stations for all weapons, leadership drills, etc.
YOUHAD & Winter Games Dec 23rd-26th: Yearly Operational Unit Holiday Avoidance Drill (YOUHAD) – the Mojave Rangers have been tasked with maintaining a radio navigation beacon from 0900zulu 24 Dec until 0900zulu 25 Dec, with SAR teams on standby, for an undisclosed aerial mission, no further details. You had a year to get ready for this…

• Winter Games for the beacon crew and standby SAR teams
  • Holiday Avoidance Feast
  • Skills station contests for prizes
    • full-speed, instructors against students
  •  Year-end review/Next Year Planning

Game System

• Fallout: New Vegas Mojave Rangers mod (in development): starts in 2281 with the early development of the Mojave Rangers.
  • The Player has to assemble the starting cadre and complete quests that teach radio and outdoor training
  • integrates the Mojave Rangers into the New Vegas storyline with quests and missions for each major stage
• Mojave Rangers GURPS Modules: same storyline played like D&D
  • The GURPS modules allow unlimited expansion
• LARP: Mojave Rangers training is immersive and instructors are subject matter experts who also maintain the immersion, like staff at a ren fair.
• Milsim: Force-on-force with plastic BB’s. No paper targets, at MRS your instructors shoot back. It’s the only school where teachers get bonuses for shooting students.

Field Manual, Online Course, Task Book: https://mojaverangerschool.com/FMdownload

The basic storyline is that the Mojave Rangers were Park Rangers for the Mojave National Park, but then Shady Sands was nuked and the ‘battalion’ is in bureaucratic limbo, but still forming as a civilian volunteer group sponsored by some local businesses, because the raiders are still growing…

Working at the Station Shops

• Gute-N-Berg Laser Engraving shop: a Shopkeeper makes a per piece commission on patches, posters and other products made at the shop on weekends
  • fulfills Etsy and online engraving orders
  • $.50 per package for packaging (paid from the S&H fees)
  • makes products that gets shipped (through the Pak-N-Ship) to our Merchant’s Guild vendors
• Gun Runners Armory: a Gun Runner makes a direct commission on any sales + a per day stipend
  • fulfills airsoft gun orders
  • $.50 per package for packaging (paid from the S&H fees)
• Vista de Nada General Store: 10×12 old west style general store with some snacks, sodas, munchies and accessories
  • managed by a Shopkeeper
  • makes a commission on daily sales + daily stipend
  • fulfills orders for the Merchant’s Guild vendors
  • $.50 per package for packaging (paid from the S&H fees)
• Mojave Express Pak-N-Ship: the storage and shipping center for the mail order products
  • A Shopkeeper makes $.50 per each package collected, inspected and shipped (from the S&H fees)
• Atomic Cafe: hosts a Wasteland Cooking demo each weekend with dutch oven and in-ground cooking
  • free food for players from demo’s, first come, first served
  • very simple made-to-order sandwiches and sodas
  • assembles home made MRE’s for field players
  • managed by a shopkeeper who makes a per-day stipend from the General Fund
• Out of Tune Music Shop: used instruments and home made wasteland musical instruments
• Wasteland Gallery: the only known official wastelands art gallery
• Shops available for wasteland crafters: Fort Edwards has 10×12 shops with a 10×12 courtyard available for monthly weekend rental
  • includes a 10×12 cabin/courtyard for the weekend
  • available long-term, but non-residential
  • makes a great immersive weekend workshop for certain types of smith or crafter
  • NOTE: Mojave Station isn’t organized for large-scale ren-fair-style operations, but a shop is a great place to make videos and work on projects in an immersive atmosphere

Sponsored Milsim Team & General Fund
75% of the Amazon and VdN General Store net income goes to the General Fund. The General Fund pays,

• Ranger Training Club insurance and operating costs
• Air, BB’s, mileage reimbursement and event fees for the Mojave Ranger Troop 4 Milsim Team
  • Course Completion Gear
    • Baofeng Radio for Team RTO’s
    • Team 1st Aid Kits for Team Medics
    • Airsoft Pistol for Leadership Course, etc.
• Mileage Reimbursement for Convoy Drivers
•  The Milsim Team has a Team Sales Link with a joint 20% commission on any products sold through the link. Team fans are encouraged to spread the link
  • paid as a rank-based group commission to 1099 contractors for GNB

Publishing & PIO Team

• Mojave Ranger School paying book royalties for the Field Manual and Task Books, GURPS and game manuals, etc.
• Wasteland News (YouTube channel) is like a Wastelands Public Access TV channel that helps train other producers
• PIO Team members have an individual sales link for 20% and we market their links on YouTube, etc.
  pays rank-based commissions from the joint account

Trade Route Convoys
Mojave Station is actively preventing casual drive-in access and not providing public parking at the site because of the vehicle damage issues, road maintenance with the County, etc.

Mojave Ranger School sponsors Ranger trade route convoys with drivers in Fresno, LA and Vegas who carpool players to the fort on the weekends.

• Convoy crews have a Team Sales Link that gives a 20% joint commission,
• rank-based stipends for the drivers
• mileage reimbursement ($.72.5 per mile) from the General Fund
• The long term goal is shuttle buses in Fresno, LA and Vegas and we may be able to charter those next year
  • Players who like being shuttled are encouraged to spread the Convoy links

Banning Politics, Sexuality and Religion on the Entire Project

There’s been a lot of misunderstanding and Facebook hatred from the Champions of Inclusivity so be clear about this rule,

When You Can’t Be Equally Fair to Anybody The the Only Option is to Be Equally Unfair to Everybody

It will not be said, by anyone, that we’re training Muslim terrorists, or Catholic terrorists, or red, blue or rainbow terrorists.

• Politics, sexuality and religion are the most divisive topics on Earth
• Instigators use those topics to start fights in whatever group they are in, regardless of the theme of the group
• Those topics break the immersion of the game, like when some ahole drives a modern car through the middle of Wasteland Weekend (or walks around naked in the Mojave Desert)
• This is not about
  • sex
    • homophobia, etc.
  • the 1st Amendment
  • God, in any form

This is a fairly small club and people who can’t leave those topics at home are not invited to play and will be asked to leave if they can’t stop forcing their views and agendas on our players. It’s a simple rule that’s equally unfair for everybody.

Recruiting in August
As soon as I have the public-facing parts organized I’ll be,

• at the local farmer’s market
• going to airsoft fields looking for a place to run free classes every Saturday morning locally

Training starts in Sept.
I’m going to run my first training day the first weekend of Sept. and get the process started, even if no one shows up.

OK there’s the game; free, fun for the whole family and you can get paid to help market it, if you’re a player. Once I get this setup done then it’s mostly a weekend gig, even for me.