Move quickly around the table, asking what the characters want to do and only explaining rules as necessary. Other factors (such as the jostling of the ship) may raise the target number. Explain how the mechanic works: d6, aiming for a normal target number of 4, with each spent point from a skill pool adding +1 to the roll.
All characters start in the correct locations. If the explosive is not disarmed 10 rounds after the scenario starts, the ship is destroyed along with all life aboard it. As soon as the sabotage is fixed and the alien is defeated, the alien’s explosives must be vented to space or disarmed. Meanwhile, the pilot uses his skills to try and pull the ship out of its fatal dive, with successes buying time, and can influence the fight through technology on the bridge. This combat is complicated by the shuddering of the ship and requires athletic rolls. This skill works, so you see the problem immediately.’) The players spend skills from their pools to fix the sabotage and quickly combat the alien. Players use their investigation skills to quickly diagnose the sabotage (with the GM saying flat-out ‘you know how One or two of the PCs are in the cockpit and piloting the ship, with the rest of the PCs in the engine room fixing the sabotage and killing the alien saboteur. In 15 minutes the PCs have to (a) diagnose the sabotage, (b) save the ship, (c) kill or capture the Class-K alien entity, (d) disarm the alien’s explosive bioweapon. The demo starts in media res with the sabotaged ship spiraling down towards a planet’s surface. It has also set a bio-explosive that will render the ship completely inoperable for hours, long enough for the jaggars to attack them without fear of resistance. It has crashed its small shuttlecraft through the bulkhead, slipped inside and ripped apart wiring for the ship’s propulsion and life support systems. 198 of the Ashen Stars core book) has been sent from its mothership on a suicide mission to infiltrate and disable the players’ ship. Don’t explain any rule until it actually becomes necessary in the demo.ĭEMO SUMMARY A jaggar serf (p.
Ignore all extraneous rules and skills and only focus on the relevant ones. Just be sure to split up the tasks between different PCs, and have only 1-2 PCs on any given task. A quick game like this gives the player the cinematic feel of ‘holy crap we’re all going to die,’ lets them save the day against high stakes, and lets them see how general and investigative skills work. This requires a cinematic demo that stays ruleslight, even as it explores the game’s major mechanics and themes. Stowaway DEMO GOAL Your job is to give new players a fast 20 minute experience that feels like the best part of Star Trek, Firefly and Aliens put together.
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