 May 4, 2010 - 11:33am | I'm finishing up an encounter/adventure, was thinking about challenges and wanted to give a shout out. Adversaries are a person or group your players overcome in an adventure. Everyone thinks of NPC's, thugs and robots. But what about other obstacles and challenges? ... a narrow walk on a cliff face, a mechanical interlock on a door, software program that has an interface deflector, creature, room full of deadly toxin or even a room with a jedion357 in it. Never mind the Georgie! Consider writing up a paragraph of two describing a challeng and how to overcome it. Maybe it takes more than one skill check or one player to overcome! Once we get 100 or so I'll make a table.  Give me a J Give me a E Give me a D Give me a I Give me a O Give me a N What's that spell? jed - i - on, younger brother of jed-i-off. |
 May 4, 2010 - 4:45pm | Not so much an adversary but rather a long term campaign goal, my biggest of course is the Sovereign Domain Authority who overtakes the Frontier, reigning for a healthy few decades... (paging w00t and jedion to update that game - http://www.mfbb.net/?mforum=starfrontiers ). Suffice it to say, it's not something that will be overcome in one or two play sessions...but players can expect to be challenged once they stray too far from the long arm of SDA law, which most citizens tend not to support (albeit not publicly claiming such dissension). Eventually, the party can expect to encounter some of the magnate general's stooges (in the form of higher ranking officers, agents, or other such types) that may need to be verbally or physically fended off. |
 May 4, 2010 - 5:50pm | Classic cannon challenges: shoot lava in the crystal caverns of death SF-0 They gave new meaning to crash and burn the loon toons erona inmate trap in SF-1 where the assylum inmates trap the party and the room is loosing air and the party has to figure out how to get out of the trap. salvaging the exploration balloon after it crashes in Mutiny on the Ellanor Moraes I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 May 4, 2010 - 8:19pm | Never mind the Georgie! ...wait, what?? \me sets up an EMP device in w00t's closet. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of
the strong. * Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi |
May 4, 2010 - 8:26pm | This five meter square room grants access to a lab, ship bridge, boardroom, whatever. The walls have no notable features, the floor is tiled as well as the ceiling. Each tile in the ceiling has a small 24cm hole. Some of the holes contain lighting while others are dark, perhaps containing a different type of light. The floor tiles are pressurized plates that sense weight. When someone enters the room a panel opens on the far wall and a digitized voice says, "Please enter authorization access code." If a character attempts to defeat security, tangler nades drop from some of the holes in the ceiling catching any character in the room. However a successful bypass security will get you through the next door. Of course, if you have an authorized person with you.... :-P |
May 4, 2010 - 8:31pm | Never mind the Georgie! ...wait, what?? \me sets up an EMP device in w00t's closet. My bedroom?   |
May 4, 2010 - 8:43pm |  The PCs live in a city/planet with a depressed economy, high crime rate, and are desperate for work. They are hired by an ambitious Vrusk starship captain to crew a deep space salvage ship. Of course, the ship itself isn't in much better condition then the salvage... buggy computers, inaccurate astrogation, questionable life support, and intermittant power outages that occur at the worst possible moment. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of
the strong. * Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi |
May 4, 2010 - 9:17pm | The PCs live in a city/planet with a depressed economy, high crime rate, and are desperate for work. They are hired by an ambitious Vrusk starship captain to crew a deep space salvage ship. Of course, the ship itself isn't in much better condition then the salvage... buggy computers, inaccurate astrogation, questionable life support, and intermittant power outages that occur at the worst possible moment. How about a Starship malfunction table? "For each light year travelled roll on the starship malfunction table. If the captain skipped this months maintenance, roll twice." Plumbing leak - A nauseating smell permeates the life support system. 2d10 hours to clean up then make a tech skill check to fix leak. Orbital controls - As the ship enters orbit the orbital control circuitry fails. The pilot must make a successful pilot check to use the ships main drive system or start speeding towards the planets surface. Power system failure - Roll d100, this is the percentage of the ship that is without power, even emergency lighting is down. The characters might have to eat in the dark or fix the power grid! |
May 5, 2010 - 6:46pm | Oooo! Some to add to my existing table. Thanks! The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of
the strong. * Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi |
May 5, 2010 - 7:12pm | Oooo! Some to add to my existing table. Thanks! The table your going to submit or share? That table?  hehe ;-) |
May 5, 2010 - 7:20pm | I dont know if this really counts but I've long wanted to have a map then you fold the map to bring the 2 edge panels together and it creates a new map. Naturally NPC have to drop clues that the map hold the clue. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
May 5, 2010 - 8:14pm | What about the map in War Machine? I need to re-read that but I think my copy is missing some image or information. |
May 5, 2010 - 9:02pm | yeah that was good idea in War Machine too my idea has been with me for 20 years since a co worker folded a pack of camel cigarettes and produced a picture of a naked woman grabbing her crotch. I kid you not I tried to reproduce the feet 7-9 years ago waiting for the bus with a cig. pack I found in the street and got nothing but this guy was able to do it. I didn't plan to have nude women in my map just have a picture that became a map or a map that became a picture by bringing the end panels together. Then I found this little gem a few years ago and was inspired all over again.  I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 May 10, 2010 - 11:18am | Every Starship malfunction table MUST have an entry for a squeaky chair! It drives PC's buggy trying to find where the squeak is coming from! |
May 16, 2010 - 2:32pm | And never crack open the Space Herpe egg... |
 May 18, 2010 - 3:33pm | OMG! Space herpes! I forgot all about those. Man, if only I could find Ice Pirates anywhere. That movie rocked. If anyone could burn a copy of that for me, I would be their servant! View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
May 19, 2010 - 9:43pm | It's $9.95 at Amazon.com (one of these days I'll finally bite) Those space herpe scenes was the crowning moments of the movie! Princess: "How long have you known about this?" Jason and another guy in unison: "Three days/We just found out." (pause) "We just found out/Three days." |
