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Aug. 1st, 2022
Merging two unrelated ideas
Aug. 1st, 2022 09:08 amA comment on the Watsfic discord made me realize that this venerable SPI magazine game
could easily be adapted for an Aliens RPG adventure.
The basic set up is characters wake up from hibernation after a mishap disables the ship. With the clock ticking down, they have to reboot important subsystems or the ship will do dark and everyone on it will perish.
There are just two minor complications:
A: The ship collected a wide variety of specimens, all of which escaped during the mishap.
B: The mishap had the side effect of causing short-term amnesia in the crew, so nobody remembers which animals are safe and which extremely dangerous.
It strikes me that it could be amusing to try something I've seen suggested, which is that the players start off not knowing much more about their characters than what's supplied on their uniform tags. Want to see if your character has certain skills? Try to accomplish a task and see what happens.
could easily be adapted for an Aliens RPG adventure.
The basic set up is characters wake up from hibernation after a mishap disables the ship. With the clock ticking down, they have to reboot important subsystems or the ship will do dark and everyone on it will perish.
There are just two minor complications:
A: The ship collected a wide variety of specimens, all of which escaped during the mishap.
B: The mishap had the side effect of causing short-term amnesia in the crew, so nobody remembers which animals are safe and which extremely dangerous.
It strikes me that it could be amusing to try something I've seen suggested, which is that the players start off not knowing much more about their characters than what's supplied on their uniform tags. Want to see if your character has certain skills? Try to accomplish a task and see what happens.
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Aug. 1st, 2022 06:03 pmNothing says "cutting edge" like an illustration from Cole and Cox's 1964 Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids, https://t.co/OZtSst1BAJ
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