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Stars Without Number
Factions

This game uses the faction system from Stars Without Number (pg.113), the PDF can be read here and is available for free here.

The winner is either the first player to reach 10 total exp or the last player standing.

Making a Faction
•   One attribute at 6, one attribute at 5, and the last attribute at 3 (attributes are Force, Cunning, Wealth).
•   One tag (pg.124).
•   Two assets from your highest attribute (pg.118-123).
•   Two assets from your other attributes (pg.118-123).

Faction Sheet
Faction Name
A short description, not necessary.
Force: - | Cunning: - | Wealth: -
Hitpoints: 29/29
Income: 4/turn (or 5/turn if you choose Wealth as your highest attribute)
Current FacCreds: 0
Homeworld: Choose one from the map. Multiple factions can have the same homeworld.
Tags: Choose one (pg.124)
Current Goal: Choose one (pg.116)
Assets
Asset name - (HP)/(total HP); (Force/Cunning/Wealth); asset type; attack; counterattack; location
(Alternatively: Asset name - (HP)/(total HP); location)

Map

Orange - TL: 4; A series of floating cities dot this ocean planet.
Planetary Government: National Union (14/14 HP; F3, C4, W1; Secretive)
Base of Influence: Nationalist Union (Homeworld)
Assets:
National Union - Seditionists 8/8; Cunning; Special Forces; None; None
National Union - Zealots 8/8; Force; Special Forces; FvF 2d4; 2d6
Nationalist Union - Psychic Assassins: 4/4; Force; Special Forces; CvC; 2d6+2; None
Nationalist Union - Strike Fleet: 8/8; Force; Starship; FvF; 2d6; 1d8
Nationalist Union - Cracked Comms: 6/6; Cunning; Tactic; None; None
Nationalist Union - Postech Industry: 4/4; Wealth; Facility; None; None; 1d4

Yellow - TL: 1; The native fishpeople welcome strangers to their pseudo-medieval society.
Planetary Government: New Dawn Syndicate (29/29 HP; F3, C6, W5; Theocratic)
Assets:
New Dawn Syndicate - Demagogue 10/10; Cunning; Special Forces; CvC 2d8; 1d8
New Dawn Syndicate - Organization Moles 8/8; Cunning; Tactic; CvC 2d6; None
New Dawn Syndicate - Zealots 8/8; Force; Special Forces; FvF 2d4; 2d6
New Dawn Syndicate - Marketers 8/8; Wealth; Tactic; CvW 1d6; None

Blue - TL: 4; The population of this snow planet see spies in every shadow.
Planetary Government: Zaitsev Society (14/14 HP; F4, C3, W1; Machiavellian)
Base of Influence: The Dark Collective (Homeworld)
Assets:
Zaitsev Society - Guerilla Populace 6/6; Force; Military Unit; FvC 1d4+1; None
Zaitsev Society - Saboteurs 6/6; Cunning; Special Forces; CvC 2d4; None
The Dark Collective - Commodities Broker - 10/10; Wealth; Special Forces; WvW 2d8; 1d8
The Dark Collective - Monopoly- 12/12; Wealth; Facility; WvW 1d6;1d8
The Dark Collective - Organization Moles- 8/8; Cunning; Tactic; CvC 2d6; None; Blue
The Dark Collective - Heavy Drop Assets - 6/6; Force; Facility; None; None; Blue

Cyan - TL: 5; This desert planet is home to multiple technologically advanced megacities.
Planetary Government: Neogen Megacorp (29/29 HP; F3, C5, W6; Plutocratic)
Assets:
Neogen Megacorp - Venture Capital 10/10; Wealth; Facility; WvW 2d6; 1d6
Neogen Megacorp - Shipping Combine 10/10; Wealth; Facility; None; None
Neogen Megacorp - Hardened Personnel 4/4; Force; Special Forces; None; 1d4+1
Neogen Megacorp - Blackmail 4/4; Cunning; Tactic; CvC 1d4+1; None

Purple - TL: 3; This isolated backwater has a large population of gengineered slaves.
Planetary Government: Daybreak Sodality (29/29 HP; F3, C6, W5; Eugenics Cult)
Assets:
Daybreak Sodality - Boltholes 6/6; Cunning; Logistics Facility; None; 2d6
Daybreak Sodality - Demagogue 10/10; Cunning; Special Forces; CvC 2d8; 1d8
Daybreak Sodality - Laboratory 4/4; Wealth; Facility; None; None
Daybreak Sodality - Gengineered Slaves 6/6; Force; Special Forces; FvF 1d6; 1d4

Red - TL: 0; Xenoarcheologists occasionally visit this planet to study the ruins of a lost alien society.
Planetary Government: None

Green - TL: 4; Folks living on this warm, foggy planet have an acute fear of psionics.
Planetary Government: Democratic Banner (14/14 HP; F4, C1, W3; Warlike)
Assets:
Democratic Banner - Zealots 8/8; Force; Special Forces; FvF 2d4; 2d6
Democratic Banner - Harvesters 4/4; Wealth; Facility; None; 1d4

Part One: Activation

A dozen people stand in the sparsely decorated office. Behind the desk sits Nihilius, your manager and commanding officer, with all pretence of being a Throne-counting adept cast aside. He raises his dataslate and begins to read: “The ghostfire caravan also reports seeing black smoke rising from the site of Stern Hope. They were not able to ascertain the cause of the smoke as they did not wish to deviate from their course. This did not affect the delivery of the ghostfire tithe.” He deactivates the dataslate and looks up at his fellow inquisitorial agents, “As you know, four days ago Seer Aristarchus left for Stern Hope with a team of ten acolytes to attend the consecration of the cathedral. Last night he failed to check-in over the vox. There are many ways we could explain this that wouldn’t warrant intervention but it is not our job to assume. We must be certain.

“Eizen, Quellus, Larl, Grendal. You will stay here and monitor vox transmissions and incoming reports for any information that may be relevant to this situation. Ravion, Meta, Hack, Karna, Novus. You will travel to Stern Hope with another long-range vox unit and report what you find.”

He crosses his arms behind his back. “Are there any questions?”

Skull Cave Rescue
     GURPS Dungeon Crawl

"Bring lots of money to Skull Cave or we'll kill the blacksmith."

As you put the note back in your pack you observe your destination. It might be the angle but you just can't see the "skull" part of "Skull Cave". You were expecting an ancient skull carved into a cliff face or a collection of impaled skeletons pointing to the entrance, now that you're here you just see two shallow holes above a dark cave entrance.

You group hasn't brought any money with it. The townspeople made it very clear that they wanted the bandits to be chased off or killed. Apparently they've done this before and they just kidnapped the courier and demanded more money.

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Campaign details
Players: 3-5
Type: Open World
Technology: Late TL3 (Medieval fantasy)
Starting Character Points: 100
Starting money: $1000

Character sheet creator
Lite ruleset

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Players
Varee - Vorot
kj1225 - Isabelle Salters
Weirdsound - Kalen Shade

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Inexplicable Bar Fight
Bar fights are naturally occurring phenomenon that cannot be predicted or explained. In 1986, a secretive US government committee moved to ban the construction of bars in order to lower crime figures significantly but it was discovered that bar fights can be harnessed to cheaply power time-travel. This was of great interest to the committee as some of them were still trying to undo the damage of their botched assassination of the father of Italian socio-anarchism, Adolf Hitler.

The eventual result of this decision is apparently the establishment of a community of time-traveling, immortal bar patrons some time in the future. These patrons travel to a specific bars at specific points in time, increasing the chances of a bar fight through the increased levels of ethanoically-charged quantumn energy. In the language of the future, these events are called 'Ivrebesmrtanfecht', often shortened to IBF.



Match 1: The Saloon

You see them more and more these days, people who have latched onto something as if it’s the only thing keeping them alive. Calling them ‘obsessive’ seems like an understatement. Just today I was on the subway and I spotted this guy who was just sitting there staring at his lighter. This guy just had soot all over his hands and I think he’d singed his eyebrows off too. He probably burnt a building down for giggles. I just don’t understand how someone can become that engrossed in something that it just defines them. They chase it no matter what effect it has on the rest of their life whether it’s booze or drugs or, um, fire I guess. Why- no, quiet. My show is on.

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Something has happened to the fabric of reality. Something that has created a new kind of person who has slowly but surely detached themselves from reality and in doing so they have unwittingly gained supernatural powers. These are not well-balanced people. These people are Obsessives.

However, this weakening of reality has allowed other things to manifest, or perhaps they crossed over from elsewhere. Regardless, they may pose a serious threat, not only to mankind but to everything we accept as real.

Obsessions is the story of a group of Obsessives, brought together to fight these incursions and, if possible, stop them forever.
 
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System

You awake on the back of a wagon with the feeling that you have been on a journey. You can't remember how you got there, or where your journey ends. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where the wagon takes you?

Character Sheet


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