Well after a spell of nearly  three years of daily blogging I kind of ran out of steam. Late 2019 to 2023 were the glory years, set up a second blog for visits around Shetland and then Boom it all stopped…so why bring this up now, well Roger did a great post yesterday that really got me thinking!

Roger’s Post

His blog is well worth visiting.

Yes his post gave me the kick to maybe try again. Now as you know long COVID hit me hard, it’s a reason for last years absence. To be brutally honest I could have posted stuff from Mid August onwards and didn’t. The Blog Mojo had gone. And I also became an admin on Ark, what with trying to play the game and support other players it did become a bit of an all consuming role.  I am actually trying to pluck up the courage to quit as I know it will drop them in the cacky a bit.

So what about the update. Well I managed to make some cultists for Five Leagues and a few more townsfolk for Traitor’s Toll.

I also bought Five Parsecs From Home, the forerunner to Five Leagues.

Well I love Fantasy and my Son loves Sci fi and he does like Lore and making stories so I decided to splash out and see if he would be interested. To get going I made my crew and ship. As yet they have no names, but I really did like how the Dice Rolls made the storyline…

So take a couple of characters here. I rolled three crew as the first three were automatically human, I got two more humans and a strange character. So I then rolled up six backgrounds, and the motivation. Basically Drifter and Freedom then Long term space mission and Discovery in the two examples above. I then rolled up the class for all six, getting petty criminal and scientist.

So instead of rolling each character up separately I actually rolled everything up and scribbled it down. This allowed me to then allocate the different rolls to specific characters.

So we ended up with a drifter  who was searching for Freedom amongst the stars, probably not the most honest crew member as he is a petty criminal.  The weapon choice also seemed appropriate from the ones rolled.

The Strange character was emotionally surpressed and when a long term space mission arrived with the dice roll it fit perfectly. I then rolled Scientist among the rolls. So Bingo, poor person had their mind altered to allow them to travel deep space without going all mad and dangerous. They became the science officer for the mission and as you can see kept some gear with them from their expeditions…these being an analyser and a communicator. They also managed to acquire an infantry laser on their travels.

So the crew as it stands have an ex soldier as leader (getting Firefly vibes here). A wealthy Merchant, the drifter and scientist. A Bounty hunter (ex law enforcement) and finally the, what I think is another interesting one, is the person from the mining colony who received a bionic arm after an accident. They found faith and are now a special agent. Are we talking Opus Dei in space here. They are also armed with a military grade heavy shotgun. You really don’t want to fall asleep in their sermons do you!

I am looking forward to hunting out some suitable miniatures. Once I find something suitable I will come up with names.

Oh and as you could see from the pic earlier, they are in a worn out Freighter with 1D6 plus 20 credits left to pay off on it. It has a hull rating of 30 (basically armour) and no weapons. You can buy ship upgrades in game too.