Deeps of Lyrae: Campaign Roadmap

Welcome to The Deeps of Lyrae Campaign: In the far future, humanity has invented a jump drive, conquered the stars, and forged them into an almost inconceivably large interstellar empire. Yet news only moves as fast as a starship. The vast distances between systems mean that each journey to a new planet might discover anything. This is a variant of GURPS: Traveller and I focus quite a bit on space travel and shipboard life.

The posts about the Deeps of Lyrae campaign have become unruly, so I thought I would make this list as a cheat sheet. Please let me know if you find any broken links!

Campaign and Overall Setting

• Adapting the Traveller Setting
• The Universe in One Page
• The Campaign’s Starting Plot
• The Completed Campaign Planning Form
• The Combat Rules in effect for this campaign

Player Characters (PCs)

• The Character Creation Prompt
• Character Creation Advice on Roles and Traits
• A List of 45 Relevant Character Templates to Choose From
• A List of 25 More Obscure Character Templates
• Example Characters (suitable for PCs)
  • Archie Sparks, Boy Genius Roboticist (150 points)
    • (see also: Eight Ball, Archie’s robot pet and ally)
  • Bertor Macmillan, Belter and Geologist (150 points)
  • Dr. David Bremerton, Ex-Military Medico (150 points)
  • Freddy Jupiter: Hotshot Pilot, Smuggler, Dirtbag (150 points)
  • Lady Triticale, Merchant Antiquarian (150 points)
  • Maheena Papeete, Hacker-Ninja (150 points)
  • “Boom-Boom” Anacusis: Ex-Soldier, Heavy Weapons (150 points)
  • Gainesville Bob, Minister and Grifter (150 points)
• Bionics/Powers
  • Build a Space Suit That Doesn’t Like Me Into My Skin (41 / 142 points)

Non-Player Character (NPC) Allies, Hirelings, or Contacts

• Marco Fan, Xeno-Hunter (75 points)
• Miranda Hernandez, Deck Officer (75 points)

Non-Player Character (NPC) Antagonists

• NPC Villain: Fleet Captain Sem
• Imperial Navy: Officers
• Imperial Navy: Space Marines
• Imperial Navy: Spooks
• Imperial Navy: Enlisted Crew
• Loadouts in the 261st Imperial Fleet

Robots

• Discussion of the Robot Design Options (in general)
• Zak From Reactor Maintenance (NPC description and adventure seed)
  • Statted as Equipment
  • Statted as NPC or Patron (442 points)
  • Statted as PC or Ally (125 points)
• Gort, Engineering Bot (35 points)
• Eight Ball: Robot Ally/Pet (150 points)

Organizations

• The 261st Imperial Fleet

Spaceships

• General Discussion of Spaceship Design
• Table of All Campaign Spaceships (so far)
• Spaceship Designs
  • The Party’s Ship: The Sun Dog Unique Freighter (SM+11)
  • Contessa Luxury Cruise Liner (SM+11)
  • Astro Safari Excursion Shuttle (SM+7)
  • Econo-Liberator Group Lifeboat (SM+6)
    • Loadout: Escape Pod Survival Kit
  • Eos Heavy Interstellar Merchantman (SM+11)
  • Lapwing Salvage Vessel (SM+11)
  • Soapberry Bug Deep-Space Transport (SM+10)
  • Cyclone Light Fast-Attack Fighter (SM+4)

Locations

• The Backwater Planet: Family Whee (starting planet)

Rules

• The GURPSicle: A One-Page Cheat Sheet For New Players
• How to Choose Your Maneuver in Basic Space Combat
• The Long Voyage Eccentricity Table
• Table of Hard Vacuum Effects on Equipment
• Spaceship Minor Loot Table
• Converting Spaceship “Tons” Between Traveller and GURPS
• A Negative Review of GURPS Space Planet Creation
• A Discussion of Combat Cards

Combat Tests

• Space Combat (these start out very basic)
  • Sun Dog vs. Xanadu
  • Sun Dog vs. Tiger Frigate
  • Sun Dog vs. Contessa
  • Sun Dog vs. Lapwing

Shortcut Links:

(These are other ways of organizing the items listed above, not new items.)

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• Characters and character creation
• Equipment
• Adventure seeds or adventures
• Allies
• NPCs
• the Setting

(Image Coda: The Orientale Basin on the surface of the moon from NASA JPL. Public domain image.)