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Chord
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 Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:14 pm Post subject: Starfall advice |
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So a group of friends and I have started paying SW REUP. I'm the GM and the last time I GM'd was in the 90s 
So far we did a simple intro adventure. We have 6 players (pirate, bounty hunter, mechanic, retired imperial officer, and a quixotic jedi).
I want to run starfall as our first big adventure. Any recommendations? My players tend to just do crazy stuff that is not accounted for in adventures. |
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Raven Redstar
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A good way to keep the players on track with the Starfall adventure is to constantly remind them that they're on a sinking ship, have panels explode periodically, view ports crack, or maybe toxic fumes vent into corridors if your players try to take too much time deciding and discussing what to do. Large areas of the ship are exposed to space, which keeps player characters from doing too much exploration. This constant environmental hazard should be more than enough motivation for getting them moving.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks great advice!
Should I use the little mini cutouts they provide for the final big battle?
Also I noticed that in our first adventure the stormtoopers can't seem to hit anything. Do they just suck at shooting people (like in the movies)? |
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If you think the mini cutouts will be helpful, then by all means. I tend to enjoy playing more in the theater of the mind, and having distances and such be more abstract concepts. I've found that sometimes with a map and minis, players can be so distracted with where their little guy is on the map, that they don't really pay attention to the game. But, this is just in my experience with D&D players.
If your Stormtroopers aren't providing enough of a challenge for your players, you can always give them skill boosts to make them more dangerous. I'll sometimes use the standard Imperial Army troopers armed with Stormtrooper gear to make them a little more challenging, or I use a fan made supplement of NPCs, using Clone Troopers in place of my Stormtroopers. But, the stats are meant to reflect what we see in the original 3 movies.
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| Raven Redstar wrote: |
If your Stormtroopers aren't providing enough of a challenge for your players, you can always give them skill boosts to make them more dangerous. I'll sometimes use the standard Imperial Army troopers armed with Stormtrooper gear to make them a little more challenging, or I use a fan made supplement of NPCs, using Clone Troopers in place of my Stormtroopers. But, the stats are meant to reflect what we see in the original 3 movies. |
Alternately you can have a group of storm troopers, be experienced, so don't suffer the -1 dex penalty from the armor...
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As pointed out above, keep them on their toes with things happening reminding them being on a sinking ship.
Also, keep a time track, real or just for show, to enhance the feeling of a count down to disaster..
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All this talk about how the VSD Subjugator is a "sinking ship" reminds me of a line from the Firefly episode "Out of Gas" when the Serenity gets disabled (and running out of oxygen) in deep space and Mal decides to stay behind to wait for (a very unlikely chance of) rescue:
| Quote: | INARA: Mal, you don't have to go down with the ship.
MAL: She's not going down; she's not going anywhere. |
Now if the Subjugator was disabled and in a decaying orbit, that would be different. IMHO, I think that situation would qualify as "sinking." 8)
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Well, while not in a decaying orbit, it has had the self-destruct system activated. So, sinking ship - ship about to explode, same difference to me.
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Yeah, sinking, doomed, dead is dead.
If you want to toss at bit of problem solving at your players, play up the failing systems and areas open to space or flooded with radiation or toxic gas to block their path. You can also play around with artificial gravity and life support! The Poseidon Adventure is a decent inspiration if you skip ahead to the wave actually striking the ship.
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What kind of ship failing story moments would you recommend?
I like the idea of using a timer!
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| ZzaphodD wrote: | As pointed out above, keep them on their toes with things happening reminding them being on a sinking ship.
Also, keep a time track, real or just for show, to enhance the feeling of a count down to disaster.. |
I will agree time trackers are great, but only when the bad thing Does happen should it hit 0..
| Pel wrote: | Yeah, sinking, doomed, dead is dead.
If you want to toss at bit of problem solving at your players, play up the failing systems and areas open to space or flooded with radiation or toxic gas to block their path. You can also play around with artificial gravity and life support! The Poseidon Adventure is a decent inspiration if you skip ahead to the wave actually striking the ship. |
OOHH.. Loss of gravity, is a cool thing to hit players with.
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| Chord wrote: | What kind of ship failing story moments would you recommend?
I like the idea of using a timer!
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The timer is a great idea, but I'd save that one until the players discover the self destruct is ticking away. Maybe pause the countdown while they declare actions or for a brief sidebar, but otherwise keep it going for dramatic effect.
As for what else to throw at them, the adventure already covers most of what we mentioned, including one we forgot: utter darkness. Try navigating around a strange starship with no lights! Add in crazed droids and lurking Stormtroopers and your players are in a bit of a pickle. If they get lost at least they have Blissex with them to act as guide. Oh, and I believe the text mentions exploding panels and such if the players decide to loiter.
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| Pel wrote: | | Chord wrote: | What kind of ship failing story moments would you recommend?
I like the idea of using a timer!
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The timer is a great idea, but I'd save that one until the players discover the self destruct is ticking away. Maybe pause the countdown while they declare actions or for a brief sidebar, but otherwise keep it going for dramatic effect.
As for what else to throw at them, the adventure already covers most of what we mentioned, including one we forgot: utter darkness. Try navigating around a strange starship with no lights! Add in crazed droids and lurking Stormtroopers and your players are in a bit of a pickle. If they get lost at least they have Blissex with them to act as guide. Oh, and I believe the text mentions exploding panels and such if the players decide to loiter. |
The 'timer' should be implied in the beginning, to create a sense of urgency. Just let the players see you take hidden notes and keep asking the players how much time they will spend on certain tasks. The players don't know why. I placed a red herring about some 'brass' coming. Together with the talk about Blissex being a SD designer this created paranoia about Vader or another Imperial force user arriving...
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Thanks for all the advice! It went well, I used a phone stopwatch to keep them in character and moving along. There was some grumbling about losing inventory from the bounty hunter but since this is only their third game they didn't have anything to lose.
The players loved the script! |
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