Hey everyone, I'm Lisara Peterson, your friendly medical officer for this journey.

Hey there Lisara.

Lars Van Horn. Security Chief here.

I am going down the tech, modifications and upgrades, path.  I find that there is always some value to renewing the looking for players advertisement, even updating it.  More players will show up, particularly if we demonstrate game stability and character advancement.

So we are going to get started. I still have new people trickling into the game but before we get started I want to make it clear the tone of the game:

https://youtu.be/1TRzemJbUsw?si=kBs22tp5ZnYzwSp9

If you have HBO Scavenger Reign is what I am using a rough guide with a bunch of other ideas thrown in. A change from that plot is that the people in that are just space travelers so it's less about survival and more about them just bouncing around. In this game survival is a common tactic that I can not stress.

You will have all manner of chance to run into really weird things that make zero since. Once we start you will have to the ability to have a notepad/Journal/Etc that you likely take notes. This will be your own private journal that is reserved for you and only you unless you decide to share.

That looks like a very cool series; thanks for sharing!

Neat!

Are we waiting for more players to join up, or process through their RTJ anyways?

Sorry about the delay. I am on vacation and it has been a challenge to find enough time to get on but rest assure. I get back on Thursday and everything will return to normal and I believe we can move forward at full speed.

Sounds good.

Sorry back from vacation starting today

I think we have lost Lars.

I have a question for Lisara and Sara. A pretty good one at that. Would you two be more interested in the following:

Shifting the game from Stars with Numbers to something more akin to either FATE or Savage Worlds? Reason being, I think we could possibly get a larger player base from these?

FATE is more freeform with some decent rules thrown in.

Savage Worlds would be harder rule driven but I believe it would work for the more dynamic characters.

If so what I would do is restart...tweak the story a bit to make it more dramatic. And hopefully recruit more players with the new system.

I have never quite understood why the stars without numbers community is so limited, but if that is where we are I would suggest switching to Savage Worlds as a roughly equivalent game.  Fate is not a game I can or will play as it isn't nearly game enough for me to engage with.

I don't disagree with this at all. I think Stars with Numbers is a great system but the lack of support in the community means it doesn't go very far.

Savage Worlds has much more support on here for that. I think it would almost play better but I wanted to offer both just encase.

I am not really familliar with either, but I am willing to try both. Another system that I think would be perfect for this is traveller, but the choice is yours.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:46, Mon 13 Nov 2023.

I considered Traveller because I have heard that it's a pretty good system but I wonder if there is enough interest to support it?

I honestly also don't really have a clue, except that previous traveller games used to fill quite quickly.

I did a quick, completely unscientific count of active players in the games I could find for both Savage Worlds and Mongoose Traveller, and they seem to be about equal between SW and Mongoose Traveller. Again completely guesswork since I don't know about doubles, or if savage world games use different terms than I looked at, etc.

That said, this would be a slightly unconventional game of traveller, normally you crew a ship, not immediately go down with it, so not sure if that would put people of. Then again, I don't know SW so I don't know how that community would feel about a game like this.

Sara: do you have a preference?

I almost never play Traveler games, even when I do see them pop up they tend to fail quickly.  Savage Worlds isn't what I would call big on RPOL but it is bigger than the other options, and easier to use.

The only advantage I could see traveler having is fairly easy to find custom space ship building rules but I imagine Savage worlds has those rules somewhere too.

The newest savage world's does have this. For fantasy it's called Fortress rules. Pretty sure you can adapt it for Sci-Fi to ships but I am sure there are specific rules for it.

Okay. Let's redo the characters. You two have an advantage as you are already in. Going to make a new posting and let people know I am looking.

Seems like this group might be dead on arrival. I'll give it a week but if it looks like a majority of the players who have posted interest aren't coming back, I'll can it.

I might try something more space-fantasy and see how that goes. Less realistic using some of the general rules/settings I can find online.

Savage worlds can incorporate any fantasy aspects you need, the question I would ask is if you want to involve non human races or try and stick to more of a tech vs magic setting?

If I reboot the setting it will have aliens and androids.

I would suggest just starting with the two of us, unless you really need more people for your campaign idea.

Perhaps people will be more eager to join once we have a story going.

So I am almost done creating what I would call the basic world idea. I think it's going to be pretty unique. You won't find typical humans, elves, or anything like that here. Give me another day to flesh it out and then I will rename this and brand it. Put it out to the world.

I've decided since the water is too muddy with this game I am going to close it and reopen it with the correct information. Anyone who wants in should feel free to join.