A Heroic Start

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Revision as of 05:11, 10 March 2010

by Bill Logan

Create Characters. This article should help get a new campaign started. Have the players assemble, and give them some simple guidelines on character generation: Roll ability scores like normal, select a race and a PSA and two starting skills and roll for money – but buy nothing. Tell each player they must come up with why his character is boarding a starliner bound from the Prenglar system to the Timeon system. They are not adventurers, they are normal professionals of some sort or another. They don’t have to know one another (though some can). Perhaps one went to Prenglar to service a robotics plant, and is returning home. Perhaps one is a military scout coming home on leave. Maybe one is an archaeologist going to study fossils on Lossend. It doesn’t matter, as the character’s current occupation will change by adventure’s end.

New Enemies. On the ship, have one of the characters get into a scuffle with a jerk human named Icharus Wade, a traveler used to getting what he wants (including the seat one of the character’s have been assigned to). If things come to blows, his big bodyguard will put a quick stop to the hostilities – and starliner attendants will help out. Eventually everything should settle, but Icharus Wade becomes established as a pompous selfish man with money and clout. His bodyguard is a veteran soldier of some skill (create him with 100xp worth of development) but no moral code.

New Friends. Have a player hit it off with a small child (of whatever race) as the voyage gets underway. The child plays peek-a-boo and is generally adorable. Have another player flirt a little with an attractive member of the opposite gender (but of the same race). Have another talk about interesting topics with an old man using his last credits to enjoy life and see the Frontier since he’s only got a few weeks to live... be corny.