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retrofit this partway through a campaign ahoaki the port authority contact on sink didn t even have a name to start with but now she s the pcs friend and has quite a detailed personality i didn t expect their base world to be sink either but there we are that s players for you fortunately the perilous void allows for that first impression when we first encounter an npc in passing we generate their species 43 commonest species in the campaign for me that s human and occupation 0 94 high priest or cult leader second glance add 1 3 details let s say two 2 71 scars and 8 73 sarcastic introduction now you find out the npc s pronouns 9 they them and name for that i roll on the generic space opera tables which generate names a syllable at a time and get oncan bolmar very star wars what makes them tick as gm you use this to work out what they do next or when they need to make a decision until they need to decide on something you don t need this motivation 8 70 pleasure this npc is a hedonist how do they behave when the npc first needs to react to a situation roll three traits 0 52 opportunistic 1 45 honourable 9 30 devious loyalty decide if the npc belongs to a faction if so either pick one of the existing ones or create a new one embellish flesh out the npc further as time and your needs dictate no tables for this really now that looks like quite a lot of detail and it is but only if that s what you need remember you re only adding layers of detail as and when you need them there is a different and somewhat faster process for the case when you want to fill a particular position in the narrative with an npc archetype an antihero for example rolls on the neutral part of the motivation table 53 knowledge and also rolls for one neutral and two negative traits let s say 39 disruptive 66 sinister and 37 malevolent site roll for type 99 ruin roll for theme 39 discovery revelation as it s a ruin i now need to roll for its origin 84 precursor civilisation cause of collapse 14 natural disaster theme might as well use the one above and architecture 25 fluidic floating shifting sketch a map choose or roll key locations from the site s area tables and establish their relationship with a simple node map assigning each node a number let s just roll one as a taster 04 a connective structure or hall this step is where the site profile form comes in letting you record the node map areas and whatnot judging by the classifications at top left it is intended for communities as well as sites it has one of those strange isometric grids though so not sure what a square is for scale purposes populate areas using detail and prop tables let s just look at our sample area detail 87 structural damage cracks might be how we get in prop 06 ancient armour defence maybe a force screen protecting the inside from sand blowing in through the crack establish threat bearing the site s type and theme in mind 28 energy surges maybe the force screen is starting to overload and occasionally sheds sparks finalise content conclusions the downside of using random tables like these is that you get quite of lot of results which are not immediately useful for the kind of pulp action adventure games i prefer to run which mostly use melodramatic stereotypes i think the perilous void probably works best when you have some ideas already and use the generators to flesh them out of the tables i ve looked at so far i found the development and npc ones a bit meh and probably wouldn t use them in play myself however i did like the setting overview and site generator and you may see those again later overall i think the perilous void is closest to ironsworn starforged in feel although the latter is a complete solo rpg you probably don t need both the former gives you a broader range of setting options but assumes you re using something else as the rpg engine share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading aslan route 010 swamp thing march 4 2025 march 3 2025 andyslack 1 comment previously on the aslan route investigating the monastery on sink the pcs discover it has a gold mine and jewellery shop supporting a hospice their former free trader contact has probably been impressed into the drinaxian star guard so the macavity offers to take over that run at night vila breaks into the monastery and copies all their digital data something strange is going on here and the pcs are set on finding out what now read on sink 136 1105 to 140 1105 analysis of the stolen data reconfirms that the monastery is what it claims to be with only a few points of interest why did they buy a jacuzzi what is the enigmatic house of shrouded mirrors on pourne why do meeting minutes sometimes record the meeting was adjourned so the abbot could ease a patient s passing and finally who is eating all that curried goat the purloined records indicate this cult is an offshoot of buddhism but the monks believe being buried in the swamp allows one to pass directly to nirvana without all that tedious death and rebirth discarding the idea of deliberately hastening the demise of a hospice patient so they can observe a swamp burial the crew set up remote surveillance cameras to watch the swamp and the monastery then return to the abbott explain that they re off to byrni and points coreward and would he like to send some missionaries with them he agrees and thus it is that sister raquel embarks jumpspace 141 1105 to 147 1105 most of this jump is spent getting to know sister raquel who it turns out is a hacker from pourne who joined the cult as a way of getting offworld when the police got a little too interested in her difficult data retrieval service dr matauranga makes sure her inoculations are up to date and takes dna samples she easily finds the bugs in her cabin and sets them to pipe cat videos into the system vila arranges to pay her for hacking lessons she accepts the cult s views but seems too hard headed and rational to go along with the magic fairy in the swamp side of things leading the crew to believe that whatever is in the swamp there s a rational explanation byrni 148 1105 to 154 1105 everyone except mazun decides to wear their ayloi following the trend set by vila who decides that being easily identifiable as an honourable aslan female he s an engineer under the protection of the iuwoi clan is worth the risk of being expected to defend his honour in a duel if challenged while mazun is bogged down in paperwork the others go with sister raquel to meet the cult s agent on byrni brother christian they explain to him that they are replacing the russell s teapot and why brother christian presses them for details and seems concerned muttering that the fury is on the move again he asks for passage back to sink and the crew agree to take him so that they get a chance to interrogate him en route mazun further establishes his cover as a reputable merchant captain by briefing the local government and the gedeco pirate hunters about what s going on at torpol fast travel 155 1105 to 210 1105 the macavity now travels from byrni to ergo tech world and paal before returning to sink ergo has the population of a small city spread over an entire planet and despite the radioactive wastes cannibals and pirate bases the macavity which limits itself to orbital and low altitude surveys manages to identify some sites where a small group of enterprising ihatei could carve themselves a home out of the wilderness although they might have to fight a few cannibal pirates for it at tech world sister raquel disembarks unsure whether to spread the word or shed her nun s habit and return to a life of dubious morality the crew goes shopping for armour state of the art drones including some hunting targets for the prince and psionic shield helmets as vila is convinced that he narrowly escaped psionic cultists on blue and tells an embellished version of the story in the solitary starport bar mazun sends off a report to his handler on cordan and says the best place to contact the team for the foreseeable future is sink with almost two months for the crew to wheedle secrets out of brother christian they dig out of him that the swamp is not as they suspect a hive mind but something closer to a data storage unit hungry for information dense input the monks recruit terminally ill patients explaining to them that they can live forever sort of in the nirvana of the swamp the swamp records their personalities which it considers valuable items and they live on after a fashion their memories and personalities are not entirely part of a hive mind but nor are they entirely individuals sometimes the swamp decides it needs more direct contact with the monastery and it repairs and regurgitates one of the hospice patients this is how abbots are made or as brother christian puts it they are blessed by the swamp however certain of the swamp s data is highly confidential and is maintained in a secure satellite facility on pourne the house of shrouded mirrors this the excitable brother christian informs them is where the information on the fury is held his knowledge and instructions are limited to this if worlds start developing human purist fascist tendencies and an inexplicable liking for black and silver uniforms something bad is about to happen and he is to alert the abbot as soon as he can the abbot will know what to do gm notes naturally as soon as i abandoned the space plague storyline as the players didn t want to pursue it they became interested in it and started to pursue it that s okay i build the campaigns around their decisions starting with the pc builds and then using their decisions and questions to drive it and they know that what s going on here is one part pattern jugglers from alastair reynolds revelation space series one part schlock mercenary one part mind flayer elder brain pool and three parts unused adventures from heart of the fury for the bulldogs rpg which i tried running a few years ago one of the players has already been through the first five adventures so i can t use those again but then the campaign folded that happens quite a lot lately as is my usual habit when a player started getting close to the real explanation i gave out a benny players in sf games often spend hours whacking the bushes in their search for clues and i find it useful to reward them with bennies when they re onto something so that they don t wander off after random shiny bits of irrelevant fluff the npc names come from an online random generator and their personalities come from mythic gm emulator 2e our schedules dictate no more aslan route sessions for the next 2 3 weeks so no more traveller tuesdays for a while share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading aslan route big picture march 1 2025 february 25 2025 andyslack 1 comment here i m using the big picture approach to setting creation from perilous void to codify the trojan reach in its terms think of this as an experiment with the perilous void or perhaps another part of my review of the product normally the table would do this as a joint effort involving both discussion and dice rolling but here i am documenting what the group has already agreed as a way of gaining insight into perilous void a blurred and shadowy summary of what we work out below i do better with screenshots than photos what can i tell you it was a dark and stormy afternoon we begin on page 14 of perilous void i m deliberately doing this from memory so that it focuses on the big bold colourful strokes of the setting rather than the minutiae which have built up over almost 50 years of traveller s charted space campaign frame looking at the current campaign in the trojan reach the three potential frames that stand out for me are cosmic cold war trade war or space plague cosmic cold war is essentially what we did in the pirates of drinax and the players have politely informed me that they re not interested in the space plague storyline i was setting up that leaves us with trade war mercantile conglomerates and megacorporations are vying for supremacy pcs might be free traders mercenaries hired for protection or pirates on the hunt jump technology of the technologies mentioned traveller jump drive is closest to hyperdrive technology permits passage through a parallel dimension where distances are compressed enabling ships to cross vast distances quickly nonhuman species while charted space is rife with sentient species the trojan reach has only three that travel extensively humans aslan and florians we ll come back to that when we look at societies and their interactions but for now we ll check the basic profile of the latter two for perilous void which means deciding the archetype descriptor and special ability for each aslan feline warriors clawed tan humanoids natural weaponry florians diminutive mystics at least the barnai are the feskals are more like giant artisans pink humanoids no special ability i couldn t see a suitable other descriptor so i left it blank you could perhaps make a case for many limbed or multicephalous depending on which publisher s version of them you re using you could perhaps argue for a kind of telepathy as a special ability but let s not go there interstellar societies i would always suggest three of these more is confusing and fewer doesn t give my players their preferred option of playing them off against each other conveniently each of the species has an interstellar state although none of them align especially well with the society types on page 19 the ones listed are more like stars without number factions than whole societies but we do the best we can and get aslan hierate interplanetary alliance florian league religious order my view of florians is now indelibly coloured by the guvnor s darrians in spaaace campaign third imperium interplanetary alliance society relationships the florians are largely indifferent to both the imperium and the hierate while the imperium and the hierate are wary of each other interestingly i can show those relationships by drawing the main trade routes on the setting overview worksheet and when i do that the relationships join together at cordan reinforcing my belief that cordan should be the base world for the campaign i think the points where the relationship lines intersect are good candidates for places of interest at the interstellar level and i ll be actively looking for them from now on other elements for this outing i m sticking to the setting overview worksheet and it stops at society relationships to develop a full campaign from scratch we would now create a sector locate home systems and establish the main jump routes those already exist and in more detail than would be necessary for perilous void we can easily tag systems in the imperium or hierate as core systems and those in between the two as frontier ones we d then pick a system and zoom i...