Deeps of Lyrae Robot Hireling: Gort, Engineering Bot (35 points) 30 Jul 201917 Jul 2019 This robot is useful as an NPC hireling to have on hand if no one wants to buy the engineering skills necessary to the story. Combined with Zak (another NPC…
Deeps of Lyrae Robot Ally/Pet: Eight Ball (150 points) 29 Jul 201929 Jul 2019 This is Archie's homemade robot companion. See Archie's write-up for more details about the back story of this character. Boilerplate preface (feel free to skip to character description!): This character…
Land of the True Game Template: Ruler (King/Queen/Prince/Princess — Beguilement) 19 Jul 201919 Jul 2019 Although I created this as a template to allow players to use this character type, in fact I suspect I will disallow Rulers as player-characters. How many gangs of adventurers…
Land of the True Game The Index (Setting Artifact) 18 Jun 201918 Jun 2019 The Index is a book, similar to a phone directory, dictionary, or encyclopedia, that specifies all of the types of gamesmen that exist in The Land of the True Game.…
Land of the True Game Alien: Stickies (Stats and Notes) 12 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 In this post I'll follow-up my high-level racial template and discussion of the stickies with the full stats and some notes about why I modeled them this way. Detailed Stats…
Land of the True Game Alien: Stickies — They’re Wet, Scary, and You 10 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 If you touch a sticky, you become the sticky and the sticky becomes you. If you are a sticky and someone touches you, tough luck. You're going to merge now,…
Deeps of Lyrae Robot: Zak from Reactor Maintenance (as NPC or Patron; 447 points) 6 Jun 201922 Jul 2019 Now let's try building Zak the robot as an NPC. As discussed earlier, this is an expensive proposition. I've already described Zak and provided a picture. In this post I'll…
Deeps of Lyrae Robot: Zak from Reactor Maintenance (NPC Description + Adventure Seed) 4 Jun 201917 Jun 2019 Zak solves the game problem of crewing up the adventurer's spaceship. I envision the Deeps of Lyrae campaign will include a lot of spacefaring. I'm going to get the players…
Deeps of Lyrae Robots, In General 3 Jun 20194 Jul 2019 In the next set of posts I'm going to share a build for a maintenance robot named Zak, but I am going to do so in multiple versions. In this…
Deeps of Lyrae Loadout: NPCs in the 261st Sector Fleet 13 May 201917 Jun 2019 Military personnel have equipment suited to their assignment. As discussed in the last post, military personnel in the Deeps of Lyrae setting don’t just walk around packing heat. If a…
Deeps of Lyrae NPCs: Space Marines 6 May 201917 Jun 2019 In the Deeps of Lyrae, marines of the 261st (the sector fleet) will appear in situations where the Navy expects trouble. That is, it needs combat infantry. Every large navy ship has some…
Deeps of Lyrae NPCs: Naval Officers 29 Apr 201917 Jun 2019 While scooting around the sector in your spaceship you might well encounter a patrol of the Imperial Navy. The officers of the 261st (the sector fleet) will be the ones in…
Deeps of Lyrae NPCs: Navy Spooks 22 Apr 201917 Jun 2019 Naval Intelligence personnel ("spooks") of the 261st will be assigned by Captain Sem for duties involving his “special project” (see the plot). These might include spy-like tasks such as shadowing…
Deeps of Lyrae NPCs: Navy Enlisted Crew 15 Apr 201917 Jun 2019 To continue fleshing out the 261st, I've come up with a few example NPCs and their loadouts. This post will start with the crew on the 261st's starships. That is,…
