I handled hard drugs in my cyberpunkish game that way, that they would give you bonuses, but once you were on them, forced to buy certain drug-related edges, and skills like Knowledge (Drug scene) when you were leveling up. Somewhat like a drug skill/edge path...
The edges had mainly negative effects, so players really tried to get rid of their addiction as they could not get any positive character development while on it. But going turkey was not easy either...
I looked through my old notes.
Actually it was even simpler than I remembered.
There was this drug that gave you +2 on songwriting (it was a campaign about the PCs having a band in a postapocalyptic city), but as long as you were on it, you had to raise your Knowledge (Drugs) skill every time you leveled up, as this was the main thing on your mind: where to get the drug, when, and from whom...
So people became real pros with the whole drug trade and had to give up other character development. For people with high Smarts it was a little bit better, as they were longer able to raise at least another skill too.
Obviously everyone wanted to kick their drug habit quite early, which could be achieved by a Spirit test, you could try once a week.
But if someone offered you the drug later on, you still needed to pass a Spirit test not to fall back into your old habit. Especially nasty, when you would soon get your next possibilty to level up...
I was inspired by reading "Please kill me", the book on the 70ies NYC punk scene. :-D
As none of my players' characters had the skill before taking the drug or wanted to raise it by him-/herself, I simply ruled that at Knowledge(Drugs) d8, your skin would turn greenish, even greener on d10 and d12, and at Knowledge(Drugs) d12+1 you would be able to buy the edge "Complete Memory" and remember the time before the Orange War (don't ask..).Obviously you could streamline this basic system and make it more elegant, with real paths for different drugs.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Edges to make Savage Worlds more of a D&D 4th rip off
This should add some more features of crowd control and marking in Savage Worlds.
Block the retreat!
Prerequisite: Fighting d8
If an opponent tries to leave melee your character you get an extra +2 against your free attack.
[Old version: your character can adds one extra d6 to damage, if he hits with the free attack.]
Double trickster (I)
Spirit: d6
You are able to use tricks and test of wills against anyone under a small burst template.
Crowd trickster (II)
Prerequiste: Double trickster, Spirit d8
You are able to use tricks and test of wills against anyone under a medium burst template.
Mass trickster (III)
Prerequiste: Crowd trickster, Spirit d10
You are able to use tricks and test of wills against anyone under a large burst template.
Sniper's Mark
Shooting: d8
You aim on a enemy you can attack with Shooting. In case he moves or does any action your next attack against him is +2 (additional to the normal aim bonus), in case you attack anyone else or do any other action instead of moving, you loose the bonus.
Leader of the Brave
Prerequiste: Spirit d10
You can use Leadership-Edges that normally only work with Extras on Wild Cards as well.
Campaign (?) rule: Broken
If you acieve 2 raises on a Test of Will, the opponent flees or gives up.
Block the retreat!
Prerequisite: Fighting d8
If an opponent tries to leave melee your character you get an extra +2 against your free attack.
[Old version: your character can adds one extra d6 to damage, if he hits with the free attack.]
Double trickster (I)
Spirit: d6
You are able to use tricks and test of wills against anyone under a small burst template.
Crowd trickster (II)
Prerequiste: Double trickster, Spirit d8
You are able to use tricks and test of wills against anyone under a medium burst template.
Mass trickster (III)
Prerequiste: Crowd trickster, Spirit d10
You are able to use tricks and test of wills against anyone under a large burst template.
Sniper's Mark
Shooting: d8
You aim on a enemy you can attack with Shooting. In case he moves or does any action your next attack against him is +2 (additional to the normal aim bonus), in case you attack anyone else or do any other action instead of moving, you loose the bonus.
Leader of the Brave
Prerequiste: Spirit d10
You can use Leadership-Edges that normally only work with Extras on Wild Cards as well.
Campaign (?) rule: Broken
If you acieve 2 raises on a Test of Will, the opponent flees or gives up.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Brulus - My Luftenwelter Savage Worlds hunchback character
Brulus Gelmon
First draft:
"You are my friends!"
"You got this face for free!" (VCR)
Brulus is a hunchbacked mongrelkin rogue who never had a place to fit and follows his new found friends around like a dog.
He does not have any extrordinare qualities except that he does not feel abuse and pain any more.
He speaks funnily through his broken teeth and likes to hug.
Despite all the abuse he naively easily trusts anyone who shows him some respect or even sympathy.
Second draft:
Brulus is a deformed and hunchbacked human that looks as if he had blood of all kind of races in him. He is always tinkering with all kind of magic potions and disgusting ingredients.
He was shunned all his live in the big city and treated as an outcast. Now that he finally found a "family" he will try his best to keep them together.
Skills
Weird Science (Alchemy) (sm) 6
Edges
Arcane Background: Weird Science (Alchemy)
Nerves of Steel
Improved Nerves of Steel
Hindrances
Ugly (min)
Loyal (min)
Yellow (maj)
Powers
Heal (Trapping: Hertie - slimey toad that licks off wounds)
First draft:
"You are my friends!"
"You got this face for free!" (VCR)
Brulus is a hunchbacked mongrelkin rogue who never had a place to fit and follows his new found friends around like a dog.
He does not have any extrordinare qualities except that he does not feel abuse and pain any more.
He speaks funnily through his broken teeth and likes to hug.
Despite all the abuse he naively easily trusts anyone who shows him some respect or even sympathy.
Second draft:
Brulus is a deformed and hunchbacked human that looks as if he had blood of all kind of races in him. He is always tinkering with all kind of magic potions and disgusting ingredients.
He was shunned all his live in the big city and treated as an outcast. Now that he finally found a "family" he will try his best to keep them together.
Attributes
Agility 4
Smarts 6
Spirit 6
Strength 4
Vigor 10
Skills
Boating (ag) 4
Climbing (st) 4
Fighting (ag) 4
Guts (sp) 4 (-2)
Lockpicking (ag) 4
Notice (sm) 4
Lockpicking (ag) 4
Notice (sm) 4
Persuasion (sp) 4
Repair (sm) 4
Repair (sm) 4
Stealth (ag) 4
Taunt (sm) 4
Throwing (ag) 4Weird Science (Alchemy) (sm) 6
Edges
Arcane Background: Weird Science (Alchemy)
Nerves of Steel
Improved Nerves of Steel
Hindrances
Ugly (min)
Loyal (min)
Yellow (maj)
Powers
Heal (Trapping: Hertie - slimey toad that licks off wounds)
Idea Brainstorming for the last CmC episode.
Okay, we played it already and we had to go for a cliff hanger end because after more than 3 hours our creative juices were all ejected, but it was amazing, especially until we nearly got stuck in the last scene. The next day I realized, it was the perfect first partof a 2 eposiodes season finale, but we will probably never play the last one. Still I got inspiration for a "hail the formless one!" conclusion for Tali.
This was some brainstorming I did before. Not everything was used though.
The captain was a integral part in creating the chemical weapon that ended the Freedom Wars.
The blue fog is the the chemical weapon.
The Federation left the soul of the captain on the holodeck, as a trap for the crew of the Gilgamesh.
The female captain ESTENGRA that abducted him is waiting down in the weapon factory with his body.
WAINE has to find a way to reconnect body and soul of the captain.
The captain's body was supposed to be the key to set free the ULTIMATE WEAPON.
TANI will be able to take over the factory with help of CLARA and ALGERNON.
Captain JAMES J. HERBERT will make an unpopular decision, once he is back alive.
He will be able to jump to the FEDERATION homeworld and blow it up - with his old crew?
This was some brainstorming I did before. Not everything was used though.
The captain was a integral part in creating the chemical weapon that ended the Freedom Wars.
The blue fog is the the chemical weapon.
The Federation left the soul of the captain on the holodeck, as a trap for the crew of the Gilgamesh.
The female captain ESTENGRA that abducted him is waiting down in the weapon factory with his body.
WAINE has to find a way to reconnect body and soul of the captain.
The captain's body was supposed to be the key to set free the ULTIMATE WEAPON.
TANI will be able to take over the factory with help of CLARA and ALGERNON.
Captain JAMES J. HERBERT will make an unpopular decision, once he is back alive.
He will be able to jump to the FEDERATION homeworld and blow it up - with his old crew?
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The story board game
I will set an agenda for my story board game.
1. Find artists from the German Manga fan scene or from Deviant Art that can do semi-professional work
2. Decide on a setting
1. Find artists from the German Manga fan scene or from Deviant Art that can do semi-professional work
2. Decide on a setting
Monday, May 19, 2008
Captain, My Captain - Episode 2 - Scene Overview
Scene 1 (Producer): Plot
A space ship appears and the ship's captain tells that for crossing the Triton sector (where they ended up after the fail jump in the last episode) they need to pay customs to pass. They are undecided.
Waine (and Tali) decide to offer their nemeses as price.
Conflict: ?
Outcome:
Scene 2 (Tali's player): Plot
Captain Xis and 3 of his minions come on board- Tali takes the personality of Captain Bob.
Conflict: none
Outcome:
Conflict ideas afterwards that would have been easier to integrate with the agenda given by the players:
Scene 3 (Algernon's player): Plot
Conflict:
Outcome:
(Added scene:)
Scene 4 (Waine's player): Character
Captain Xis checks out the lab of Waine. After he meets Algernon and explains himself.
Conflict:
Resolution:
Scene 5 (Producer): Plot
Mafalda and Captain Xis steer near the black hole.
Conflict:
Resolution:
Conflict ideas afterwards that would have been easier to integrate with the agenda given by the players:
Scene 6 (Tali's): Plot
They leave the ship and Xis explain the shape changer conspiracy.
Conflict:
Resolution:
New opened plot developments: what influence do the shape changers really have?
Old open plot thingies: the memory crystal with Tali spying on Algernon & Co., the cooks collar of
A space ship appears and the ship's captain tells that for crossing the Triton sector (where they ended up after the fail jump in the last episode) they need to pay customs to pass. They are undecided.
Waine (and Tali) decide to offer their nemeses as price.
Conflict: ?
Outcome:
Scene 2 (Tali's player): Plot
Captain Xis and 3 of his minions come on board- Tali takes the personality of Captain Bob.
Conflict: none
Outcome:
Conflict ideas afterwards that would have been easier to integrate with the agenda given by the players:
Scene 3 (Algernon's player): Plot
Conflict:
Outcome:
(Added scene:)
Scene 4 (Waine's player): Character
Captain Xis checks out the lab of Waine. After he meets Algernon and explains himself.
Conflict:
Resolution:
Scene 5 (Producer): Plot
Mafalda and Captain Xis steer near the black hole.
Conflict:
Resolution:
Conflict ideas afterwards that would have been easier to integrate with the agenda given by the players:
Scene 6 (Tali's): Plot
They leave the ship and Xis explain the shape changer conspiracy.
Conflict:
Resolution:
New opened plot developments: what influence do the shape changers really have?
Old open plot thingies: the memory crystal with Tali spying on Algernon & Co., the cooks collar of
Sunday, May 18, 2008
My 3.5 D&D character - now
While I am waiting for Dungeons&Dragons 4th Edition, and generally think that everyone who is staying behind is an enemy of innovation, I was invited to join a 3.5 game now. Ironic?
Anyways this is my basic character idea. I wanted to fill a niche in a party with a sorcerer and a rogue/sorcerer. Obviously a defender would be needed, but also a healer. So Paladin seemed pretty obvious.
I decided to go for something angsty that is not introverted. I want to have a character that I can't turn into the funny relief guy. Happens too easily with me.
I also try not to go for the lawful stupid archetyp - as a Palladin screams for that.
Rius Diovrie
Rius is the first born of the current generation of a noble family, rulers over a small barony in the borderlands. Rius' parents, grandfather and countless generations before have served as Paladins. So it was pretty obvious since his birth that Rius would one day become a divine fighter too.
At the age of 14 Rius finally told his family he had heard his calling - everyone was already waiting hard if it would happen at all - and for the better part of the next decade he received his training - lessons in swordplay, morale, the arts and especially how to serve Dalanos - the father of the gods.
Sometimes Rius was a little worried that he did not feel many of the things he was told about, like compassion or charity, but he just pushed himself in studying harder to come up for that.
The closer the day of his final test and knightly accolade came, the more it became clear to him that all the studying would not help in front of the priesthood examining his heart. They would see that he just pretended perfectly all the years and that following the code with discipline was not enough.
So that very morning - waiting for the ceremony in his shiniest armor - Rius ran off.
Since this day he tries to do his duty as a paladin although he is missing the divine powers. Rius may look like a paladin and behave like one, but in the end he is just a fighter with a strict code. He follows this noble code the same way a lifeless machine would do.
He wants to be good and believes in divine law, he just does not feel compassion, charity or any of those things that would make him a real paladin. At the moment Rius thinks that if he serves as one, one day he will be "healed".
In the meantime he sometimes pretends to others to be a palladin and sometimes he whines about not being one instead. He also fights his tendencies to be a braggart.
His biggest wish is that one day he will be able to return to his parents' land and prove that he always was a palladin. Nearly a paradox as he would have to lie to a certain degree to prove that.
Important people to Rius:
Reto and Estenda, parents, palladins
his younger real palladin sister Franja, a prodigy,
his left behind (female) squire Sorin
(he also was sent as a kid for some time to other noble families/castles)
Stats:
Strength: 16 +3
Dexterity: 12 +1
Constitution: 16 +3
Intelligence: 12 +1
Wisdom: 9 -1
Charisma: 13 +1
Rius is 190 cm in height and athletic. He wears his blond hair long and bound and seems to be perfectly shaven all the time.
Alignment: LN
Human
Language: Common + 1 bonus
1 extra feat
4 extra skill points (+1 extra/lvl)
Palladin
Skills: (2+int)x4 start; +2+int/lvl
Feats:
Power Attack (double with 2 hands...)
Cleave
Mounted Combat [next: Ride-by-Attack]
Age: 19
Attack Bonus: 6 = 3 (BAB) + 3 (Str): Greatsword (2d6(+4,5) 19-20/x2 Slashing)
Power Attack: Attack Bonus: +3 Dmg: 2d6+10
AC 19 (Full Plate: Armor Bonus 8)
Skills: Rank Skill
Climb 3+3-6= 0 (+6 without Armor)
Diplomacy 3+1 = 4
Handle Animal
Heal
Knowledge (Nobility/Royality)
Knowledge (Religion)
Ride
Swim
Anyways this is my basic character idea. I wanted to fill a niche in a party with a sorcerer and a rogue/sorcerer. Obviously a defender would be needed, but also a healer. So Paladin seemed pretty obvious.
I decided to go for something angsty that is not introverted. I want to have a character that I can't turn into the funny relief guy. Happens too easily with me.
I also try not to go for the lawful stupid archetyp - as a Palladin screams for that.
Rius Diovrie
Rius is the first born of the current generation of a noble family, rulers over a small barony in the borderlands. Rius' parents, grandfather and countless generations before have served as Paladins. So it was pretty obvious since his birth that Rius would one day become a divine fighter too.
At the age of 14 Rius finally told his family he had heard his calling - everyone was already waiting hard if it would happen at all - and for the better part of the next decade he received his training - lessons in swordplay, morale, the arts and especially how to serve Dalanos - the father of the gods.
Sometimes Rius was a little worried that he did not feel many of the things he was told about, like compassion or charity, but he just pushed himself in studying harder to come up for that.
The closer the day of his final test and knightly accolade came, the more it became clear to him that all the studying would not help in front of the priesthood examining his heart. They would see that he just pretended perfectly all the years and that following the code with discipline was not enough.
So that very morning - waiting for the ceremony in his shiniest armor - Rius ran off.
Since this day he tries to do his duty as a paladin although he is missing the divine powers. Rius may look like a paladin and behave like one, but in the end he is just a fighter with a strict code. He follows this noble code the same way a lifeless machine would do.
He wants to be good and believes in divine law, he just does not feel compassion, charity or any of those things that would make him a real paladin. At the moment Rius thinks that if he serves as one, one day he will be "healed".
In the meantime he sometimes pretends to others to be a palladin and sometimes he whines about not being one instead. He also fights his tendencies to be a braggart.
His biggest wish is that one day he will be able to return to his parents' land and prove that he always was a palladin. Nearly a paradox as he would have to lie to a certain degree to prove that.
Important people to Rius:
Reto and Estenda, parents, palladins
his younger real palladin sister Franja, a prodigy,
his left behind (female) squire Sorin
(he also was sent as a kid for some time to other noble families/castles)
Stats:
Strength: 16 +3
Dexterity: 12 +1
Constitution: 16 +3
Intelligence: 12 +1
Wisdom: 9 -1
Charisma: 13 +1
Rius is 190 cm in height and athletic. He wears his blond hair long and bound and seems to be perfectly shaven all the time.
Alignment: LN
Human
Language: Common + 1 bonus
1 extra feat
4 extra skill points (+1 extra/lvl)
Palladin
Skills: (2+int)x4 start; +2+int/lvl
Feats:
Power Attack (double with 2 hands...)
Cleave
Mounted Combat [next: Ride-by-Attack]
Age: 19
Attack Bonus: 6 = 3 (BAB) + 3 (Str): Greatsword (2d6(+4,5) 19-20/x2 Slashing)
Power Attack: Attack Bonus: +3 Dmg: 2d6+10
AC 19 (Full Plate: Armor Bonus 8)
Skills: Rank Skill
Climb 3+3-6= 0 (+6 without Armor)
Diplomacy 3+1 = 4
Handle Animal
Heal
Knowledge (Nobility/Royality)
Knowledge (Religion)
Ride
Swim
Saturday, May 10, 2008
All the RPGs I ever played
=============== 1988-1997 (Carinthia)
1. The Dark Eye 1 and 2
(+DIY TDE1 scifi system "The Black Future Eye" I was 9 when I came up with the name and system...)
2. Marvel Super Heroes (TSR)
3. Shadowrun 1
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
5. Plüsch, Power und Plunder (alive teddies RPG)
6. Talislanta
7. AD&D2
8. Rolemaster
9. Rifts
10. Spacemaster (One Shot)
11. Star Wars (WEG) (One Shot)
12. Warhammer RPG 1
(Unisys20, my self created Proto-D20 with heavy GURPS character creation influence and Rolemaster-like critical damage tables - done in 1996 )
Via mIRC: Heroes Unlimited
=============== 1998-2004 (Vienna)
PbeM: Nightbane, Marvel Super Heroes and Risus.
13. Werewolf: The Apocalypse (One Shot)
=============== 2005-2006 (Vienna)
14. Savage Worlds (50 Fathoms)
15. Unknown Armies (One Shot)
16. D&D 3.5 (also Castles&Crusades and Microlite20)
=============== 2007 (Cologne)
17. Call of Cthulhu
18. Universalis (One Shot)
19. Primetime Adventures (Con One Shot, more 2008 in Dublin)
=============== 2007 (Vienna)
20. Marvel Universe RPG (One Shot)
================ 2008 (Dublin)
21. World of Synnibarr (One Shot)
22. Serenity/Firefly (Double Shot)
================ 2009 (Dublin)
23. D&D 4 (online via RPtools.net)
24. Agon (Double Shot)
25. The Mountain Witch (Double Shot where only first half happened)
================ 2010 (Dublin)
26. Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Spacve RPG
1. The Dark Eye 1 and 2
(+DIY TDE1 scifi system "The Black Future Eye" I was 9 when I came up with the name and system...)
2. Marvel Super Heroes (TSR)
3. Shadowrun 1
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
5. Plüsch, Power und Plunder (alive teddies RPG)
6. Talislanta
7. AD&D2
8. Rolemaster
9. Rifts
10. Spacemaster (One Shot)
11. Star Wars (WEG) (One Shot)
12. Warhammer RPG 1
(Unisys20, my self created Proto-D20 with heavy GURPS character creation influence and Rolemaster-like critical damage tables - done in 1996 )
Via mIRC: Heroes Unlimited
=============== 1998-2004 (Vienna)
PbeM: Nightbane, Marvel Super Heroes and Risus.
13. Werewolf: The Apocalypse (One Shot)
=============== 2005-2006 (Vienna)
14. Savage Worlds (50 Fathoms)
15. Unknown Armies (One Shot)
16. D&D 3.5 (also Castles&Crusades and Microlite20)
=============== 2007 (Cologne)
17. Call of Cthulhu
18. Universalis (One Shot)
19. Primetime Adventures (Con One Shot, more 2008 in Dublin)
=============== 2007 (Vienna)
20. Marvel Universe RPG (One Shot)
================ 2008 (Dublin)
21. World of Synnibarr (One Shot)
22. Serenity/Firefly (Double Shot)
================ 2009 (Dublin)
23. D&D 4 (online via RPtools.net)
24. Agon (Double Shot)
25. The Mountain Witch (Double Shot where only first half happened)
================ 2010 (Dublin)
26. Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Spacve RPG
PtA: Player Thoughts
By accident I stumbled about one of my player's thoughts on the game: It's on the rpg.net boards
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Things we did not according to the PtA rule set
We made some errors again. Different ones than the first time though:
1. We did not properly set up the scene with Agenda, Focus and Place...
2. We forgot that the player with the highest single card tells the output... Instead it was mostly the Producer.
3. The players' did not want to decide up front who would have a spotlight episode when. It seemed like that the want to grow the spotlight out organically. (That reminds me of the way I was very sceptical about the "unorganic" drama model in my first script writing course.)
4. I was really stupid to misinterpret the rules and tell the players that they could only spend on fan mail in each scene. I have no idea, where I picked that up. I reread the rulebook and it is definitely not the case...
1. We did not properly set up the scene with Agenda, Focus and Place...
2. We forgot that the player with the highest single card tells the output... Instead it was mostly the Producer.
3. The players' did not want to decide up front who would have a spotlight episode when. It seemed like that the want to grow the spotlight out organically. (That reminds me of the way I was very sceptical about the "unorganic" drama model in my first script writing course.)
4. I was really stupid to misinterpret the rules and tell the players that they could only spend on fan mail in each scene. I have no idea, where I picked that up. I reread the rulebook and it is definitely not the case...
Captain, my Captain s01e01 Scene Overview
Scene 1 (Producer): Plot
Cook and Assistant take over commando and tell about their ship from back in the Freedom Wars
Conflict: ?
Scene 2 (Tali's player): Character
Meeting of the protagonists in a small room to discuss what to do now
Conflict: Crew member Michael is sent to order them back and wants to convince them to cooperate
Outcome: The protagonists come along, although Waine stays in control of the situation and bullies Michael
Conflict ideas afterwards that would have been easier to integrate with the agenda given by the players: there would have been a NPC like Michael as part of the meeting and he would have discussed with them instead of giving orders
Scene 3 (Mafalda's player): Plot
The pilot tries to steer the ship dispite being drunk
Conflict: will she be able to take it to Zebulon
Outcome: she fails and it goes somewhere random
Scene 4 (Algernon's player): Plot
The ship comes out of hyperspace near a space station that is attacked by 2 pirate ships. It is on collision course.
Conflict: the cook-captain has post war trauma and tries to attack the space station, there will be people injuried
Outcome: they can't stop the cook and the Michael (scene 2) is killed in the crash as Waine is not able to save him
(Added scene: flashback to Waine's and Michael's happy times in the holo deck)
Scene 5 (Waine's player): Character
There is a space funeral for Michael.
Conflict: will the crew blame Waine for Michael's death? especially as he bullied him before?
Resolution: they don't blame Waine
Scene 6 (Producer): Plot
The Federation commander of the space station comes on board to find out who was guilty for the destruction
Conflict: will they offer the cook on a silver plate or play the card that they were able to scare of the pirates and therefore helped?
Resolution: they cook is blamed and receives the Collar of Punishment
Conflict ideas afterwards that would have been easier to integrate with the agenda given by the players: Tali's role as daughter would have been used, for example as an excuse...
Scene 7 (Tali's): Plot
Tali sneaks shape changed on board of the ship and seduces the captain of the station to steal data about the Captain James Herbert
Conflict: can she get the data while the captain wants her to "explore the galaxy"
Resolution: she can
Scene 8 (Mafalda's): Plot
Can Tali escapefrom the space station while Mafalda is able to start the ship despite her alcohol problem
Conflict: straight forward, action scene
Resolution: they can
New opened plot developments: what's really on Zebulon?, 2 space pirate ships running of, the cook's collar of punishment, the data from the Federation's space station
Old open plot thingies: the memory crystal with Tali spying on Algernon & Co.
Cook and Assistant take over commando and tell about their ship from back in the Freedom Wars
Conflict: ?
Scene 2 (Tali's player): Character
Meeting of the protagonists in a small room to discuss what to do now
Conflict: Crew member Michael is sent to order them back and wants to convince them to cooperate
Outcome: The protagonists come along, although Waine stays in control of the situation and bullies Michael
Conflict ideas afterwards that would have been easier to integrate with the agenda given by the players: there would have been a NPC like Michael as part of the meeting and he would have discussed with them instead of giving orders
Scene 3 (Mafalda's player): Plot
The pilot tries to steer the ship dispite being drunk
Conflict: will she be able to take it to Zebulon
Outcome: she fails and it goes somewhere random
Scene 4 (Algernon's player): Plot
The ship comes out of hyperspace near a space station that is attacked by 2 pirate ships. It is on collision course.
Conflict: the cook-captain has post war trauma and tries to attack the space station, there will be people injuried
Outcome: they can't stop the cook and the Michael (scene 2) is killed in the crash as Waine is not able to save him
(Added scene: flashback to Waine's and Michael's happy times in the holo deck)
Scene 5 (Waine's player): Character
There is a space funeral for Michael.
Conflict: will the crew blame Waine for Michael's death? especially as he bullied him before?
Resolution: they don't blame Waine
Scene 6 (Producer): Plot
The Federation commander of the space station comes on board to find out who was guilty for the destruction
Conflict: will they offer the cook on a silver plate or play the card that they were able to scare of the pirates and therefore helped?
Resolution: they cook is blamed and receives the Collar of Punishment
Conflict ideas afterwards that would have been easier to integrate with the agenda given by the players: Tali's role as daughter would have been used, for example as an excuse...
Scene 7 (Tali's): Plot
Tali sneaks shape changed on board of the ship and seduces the captain of the station to steal data about the Captain James Herbert
Conflict: can she get the data while the captain wants her to "explore the galaxy"
Resolution: she can
Scene 8 (Mafalda's): Plot
Can Tali escapefrom the space station while Mafalda is able to start the ship despite her alcohol problem
Conflict: straight forward, action scene
Resolution: they can
New opened plot developments: what's really on Zebulon?, 2 space pirate ships running of, the cook's collar of punishment, the data from the Federation's space station
Old open plot thingies: the memory crystal with Tali spying on Algernon & Co.
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