{"id":2553,"date":"2010-02-18T18:16:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:20:48","slug":"diaspora-session-1-short-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/diaspora-session-1-short-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaspora, Session 1: Short version"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over on my gaming blog, I give the\u00a0blow by blow from our first honest to dog game of Diaspora<\/a>, which is a kind of ‘hard sci-fi’ roleplaying game, using the DIY kung-fu of the FATE system.<\/p>\n

Someone called it “the softest hard sci-fi game out there”, and I agree.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that post is kinda long, so let me tell you about my character<\/s> give you the short version, because it makes me kinda happy.<\/p>\n

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Last night was the first real game session. I sketched out a pretty standard “free traders” scenario in which [CLIENT] needs [CARGO] carried to [DESTINATION], so we can learn the system and blow some stuff up.<\/p>\n

The players all (and I mean ALL) have prioritized skills related to space combat. They’re flying a former pirate ship that you need military training to pilot. If there is a method in which a ship can engage in offensive action, they by-god have such method spot-welded to the hull.<\/p>\n

I have clearly, CLEARLY been given the high-sign to start the game off with a space battle.<\/p>\n

I do prep work: stat out the ships and the crew for the bad guys, and read and re-read the space combat rules til I’ve got em DOWN.<\/p>\n

We start play and I foreshadow the shit out of the coming fight; I whisper the promise of attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, or something.<\/p>\n

We get to the point where the beam weapons shall, verily, hit the fan. Bad Guys! In ships! With guns! Prepare to be boarded!<\/p>\n

And my players basically force the situation into a Social Combat.<\/p>\n

Which I’m totally unprepared for. Totally.<\/p>\n

So… we do that. The opening volley of the exchange is fired via pi\u00f1a colada.<\/p>\n

And it’s awesome. One of the enemy pirate captains flew away from the confrontation, put his ship in dry dock, sold it (at a loss), and took up farming on a world with carnivorous plant life… and he considers himself better off.<\/p>\n

It was a good game, and a fine night.<\/p>\n

*satisfied sigh*<\/p>\n

Okay, I’m done.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll write about staying focused. As one does, right after a tangent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on my gaming blog, I give the\u00a0blow by blow from our first honest to dog game of Diaspora, which is a kind of ‘hard sci-fi’ roleplaying game, using the DIY kung-fu of the FATE system. Someone called it “the softest hard sci-fi game out there”, and I agree. Anyway, that post is kinda long, … <\/p>\n

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