Lone Horizons

  Introduction I've been reading the Mythras rulebook because I wanted to try out another game with crunchy tactical combat after the alternating fun and tedium of running a fight in The Riddle of Steel . This time instead of just trying out one fight I thought why not do a whole tournament with sixteen people (because I'm mad, obviously). I'd been watching YouTube videos about D&D's old Dark Sun campaign setting and thought it would make a great backdrop for a brutal tournament of mortal combat, so I got some Dark Sun materials from Drivethru RPG and got reading. Athas is a post-apocalyptic fantasy world where abuse of magic has ruined the planet, turning it into a huge desert where civilisation is crowded into city states run by despots, powerful sorcerer kings who keep a tight grip on the exclusive use of magic. Metal is rare and expensive, with most armour and weapons made from cheaper materials. Slavery is rife, halflings are cannibals and the sun will kill you...

  Abandoned gas station, Arrix Province, Siento 1 Introduction I haven't had much time to play RPGs lately as real life has got in the way. I managed to make some time though. In the first session, former space marine Arman Doyle intervened in a hostage situation and helped a bounty hunter take down a criminal. The bounty hunter, Abe Clarke, gave him the details of a man called Frank Hancock. Some kind of fixer in a loose network of bounty hunters, Doyle will go and see this Hancock guy for a meeting. I just bought Mythic Game Master Emulator 2nd Edition  so we'll be using that for the first time here. The Chaos Factor mentioned below determines how likely it is that something unexpected will happen in the scene. We're starting it at 5 which is standard when using Mythic. If things go according to plan it'll get lower, and if Arman starts to lose control over the situation it'll creep higher, causing more random and unexpected events. The Adventure Scene 2 | Krinnai...

  Downtown Krinnai, Siento 1 Introduction In session zero I made our Cepheus Deluxe character, Captain Arman Doyle, formerly of the Imperial Space Marine Corps but now washed up and living in a small apartment in Krinnai, the capital city of Siento 1. The planet is in the grip of a fascist regime and not a very nice place to live. The Adventure Scene 1 | Krinnai, Siento 1 | 3023.05.02 | Account balance Cr44,650 Arman wakes up around 10am, hungover, and finds his fridge is empty. He showers, dresses in his dark grey jeans, a white shirt and leather jacket then heads down to the apartment block's underground garage and jumps in his car. It's a short drive to the local convenience store. On the way there he stops at a traffic light and the driver in the lane next to him is pulled out of his car and beaten by the police. They don't even ask him any questions. That kind of thing has been happening ever since he arrived on Siento 1. A few minutes after arriving at the store he...

The Tarantula Nebula (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University and University of Leiden) Introduction I recently bought the Cepheus Deluxe rulebook print on demand edition from Drivethru RPG. It's a pretty good quality book with a nice weight to the pages. The cover art looks pixellated though, like it was made at 72 DPI and low resolution, and the layout design leaves something to be desired, with a "futuristic" font for headings that really just makes it look dated. In my day job I'm a motion graphic designer so I'm a bit of snob when it comes to these things, but the book is structured well and the rules are easy to read. You also get a character sheet, ship sheet, blank sector and subsector maps, planet sheet, and character creation worksheet that you fill in during character generation. I've also got the Bounty Hunter Handbook by Moontoad Publishing so I wanted to try making a solo bounty hunter character. I just finished a few sessions of solo Cepheus Engine...