Starfall Special Edition

[JT Swift]

“Starfall The Special Edition”

Well for “Starfall” I started by making the Victory Class a Venator Class Star Destroyer (so I can use the cut away book and my little space ship model).

I then made it High Inquisitor Tremayne’s Star Destroyer (from Galaxy Guide 9) the Interrogator.

I changed the title to “The Fall of the Interrogator” (cuz that’s what the story is really about).

I replaced Wallex Blissex with Adar Tallon (so it’s now a sequel to “Tatooine Manhunt”). (I got this idea from another poster here who swapped things the other way around)

Tallon's daughter (now Lira Tallon) isn't dying – she was trying to defect to the Alliance and the Empire caught Adar when he showed up at the pickup point to recruit her.

I’m using it a jumping off point for a new campaign with mostly new players (only one of them was in “T. Manhunt”). So most of them aren’t Rebels to start with they are just people who pissed off the Empire. (But Tallon will offer them a place in the Rebellion at the end of the story).

I added an extra episode where Tremayne or some Imperial Warden (depending on the importance of the prisoner) interviews each of the heroes to explain what sort of torture, drugs, psychological manipulation, and emotional blackmail they can expect in the next couple of days. So now they are REALLY motivated not to get recaptured. Oh and the non-rebels have learned that the Empire is in fact much more evil then they ever thought.

It is NOT clear to the players (or Adar himself) that Tallon’s daughter is evil. She appears to have accidently led the heroes into a trap. And Tremayne is threatening to torture her to get info from Adar. (In reality she’s going to turn out to be Tremayne’s lover – but the players won’t find that out until AFTER they try to rescue her from Tremayne’s personal quarters/torture room).

We did our first session on Sunday. Went well. The PCs got out of the Detention Block by the end of the evening.
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[Whill]

[ZzaphodD]

I might actually borrow (read:steal) this idea, or at least part of it.. (Ill save Tremaine for later as the players are at most advanced rookies yet).

[JT Swift]

Oh, I’m still saving Tremayne. The player’s interactions with him are the same as Leia’s interactions with Vader in Episode IV. (Lots of chit-chat after being captured but barely a glimpse of him after escaping from the cell).

I’ve been working him into the background of most of my stories with my other SW group (yes, I’m running two D6 Star Wars campaigns). He either just left. Or he’s about to arrive. This will be the first story when the players believe he could walk around the corner at any minute (though he wont – at least not until they’re prepping the shuttle for take off).

Basically I’m trying to give the PCs the idea that Tremayne is directly or indirectly causing most of the problems the heroes have to face.

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[ZzaphodD]

In our last campaign a few years back Tremayne were a reappearing villain with (at least after a few encounters) a personal vendetta against the 'rebel group' (in reality fringe characters fighting the Empire through the Rebellion) known as Rainbow Warriors

[schnarre]

...Tremayne's always a good choice for a recurring nemesis, especially for rising players that are not worth the attention of more powerful enemies (Tremayne's bad enough). Some interesting twists in that modification of the module!

...Ever thought of writing out a script for that run? Who knows, you might get published!?
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[McKinley]

I love Starfall... It has a great pace. my favorite adventures are the counting clock ones.

[schnarre]

...A great thing about those classic adventures is that they don't require much modification to fit one's campaign setting! I've seen Abduction of Crying Dawn Singer with the Max Rebo band present as rival musicians in a battle of the bands. A number of variants to Tatooine Manhunt & other adventures have been put forward here as well.
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[ZzaphodD]

[JT Swift]

When I ran “Starfall” it was the first adventure of a new campaign. So only one of the players was already a rebel [the ONLY survivor of Talon’s bodyguards]. The rest were whatever the players had created and had been arrested by the Empire for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some of the PCs knew each other. But most of the characters [and the players for that matter] didn’t know each other.

I just started with then all in their cells. And made “Starfall” the story where they all got together for the first time. By the end of the story the Empire was convinced they were all Rebels and the PCs all hated the Empire. So [with a little help from the one Rebel PC] they all joined the Alliance.

Sorry for my lack of posting. Real life [and GMing 2 gaming groups every week] keeps me pretty busy.
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[ZzaphodD]

[JT Swift]

For capturing them remember that the whole thing is a trap from the get go. So having rooms rigged with multiple stun grenades and multiple canisters of knock out gas. All remotely triggered.

Follow that up with with LOTS Stormtroopers led by a Royal Guard [or just use StormCommandos] using combined fire with riot guns (the stun veriety) and tangle guns. Remember the stormies get to ignore the vision penalties from the gas. Add Demp guns and more stun grenades to taste.

Alternately you can always use oderless colorless sleep gas when they are mostly asleep on Kwenn Space Station. Lira can be taken 'hostage' and Wallex Blissex can order the heroes to put down their weapons.
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[ZzaphodD]

[garhkal]

[Zarm R'keeg]

Interesting; after a briefing, my Force Sensitive is claiming that his character (a member of the Rebellion) is going to have to object/potentially defy orders and abstain from the mission because he believes that Blissex's capture will result from the mission (well, he's not wrong about that) and that Blissex will be forced to create a new, better Star Destroyer, thus putting the Rebellion and untold lives at risk, and thus he cannot be a part of it; in his words:
"So, can we just not let Blissex go whereever the heck he wants to go? Like, just not take him into Imperial territory? The mission is to protect him. This is the most efficant way to do that. Because, here's the thing. He sounds like a stupid idiot. And he doesn't really have a good reason to do this thing. AND HE'S GONNA GET CAPTURED AND FORCED TO DESIGN A NEW STAR DESTROYER!!! And as a Jedi, I simply cant allow that to happen. I can't allow him to risk the lives of everyone in the galaxy. I'm afraid I really don't have a choice. He's risking lives, to allow him to do so would be a dark side action."

I am preparing a backup character, already captured aboard the Subjugator, for him to play as in case his character is arrested and court martialed for mutiny...
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