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8pm tonight we have our bimonthly Stars Without Number game. Up until now, the group has been on the run and outgunned, tonight they will teleport in one by one to a space station where they are manufacturing Gemini drives, the drives that allow interstellar travel, to steal one
They have scoped the place, snuck in, downloaded an internal map and located their target, tonight they have to fly in undetected and close enough to teleport in one by one, and then get the drive and get out before being detected and bringing down the whole facility on them
Getting to the facility will require avoiding patrols finding them, or their main ship which is located 50km away waiting. If they are detected when they near the station they will draw fire from fighters and station artillery, both of which can easily destroy their shuttle
They have a rich patron who has equipped them with the best money can buy, each has a Field Emitter Panoply (a force field generator equivalent to storm armor, AC 20) and various heavy duty weapons from thunder guns to shear rifles.
Their opponents have plasma cannons, a mecha (with plasma cannons and a railgun) and interior security countermeasures (gas, sealed bulkheads, sectional force fields). If they can get in, disable the surveillance and get out fast they are good. But they can’t mess around.
Also, they can’t teleport out with the drive, so they will have to blow open the facility and get it out (they have a number of small rocket units to attach to the drive, when they blow the doors it will be sucked into space then they have to get it to their ship to be towed
This has the potential to go very smoothly or blow completely up in their faces. It was fun to let them figure out the plan to break into somewhere high security armed to the teeth. This could easily be a bloodbath, or absolute chaos. All on a space station.
I love my life.
I love my life.
Starting at 8:30. I'm just reviewing specs and have decided to give the android bounty hunter that is running with them, Rinnix Phol, a pair of foot discs a la Mr Miracle. That will allow him to fly around while the rest of them can jump 20' in any direction
Well, that was fun. I'll write this up on the blog later, all I will say for now is that the resolution mechanics in this game are super flexible, I had to roll for a lot of things in this session, and it was all as smooth as silk. Based on the last few weeks I've decided...
… to add Stars Without Number to my offerings for Black Dragon Games. I've got a comfort level with the rules now that I would be happy to run games for my business. Discord and Zoom are working for the online portion of this as well. Good stuff.
