Designer: James Hron
Artist: Mac Teg
Distress Calls for Space RPGs is a book full of 1-page distress call scenarios, hand-crafted for your Space RPG!
Distress Calls for Space RPGs is a book of 30 hand and human crafted distress call scenarios that are built for skill-based Space RPGs like Traveller, Mothership, Stars Without Number, and Alien RPG.
You’ll find yourself saving a distressed crew from an onboard stampede, navigating a high-stakes, tension-filled gambling game with a ship on the line, save a high end art collection from a burning ship and more!
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What’s In the Book
Each of the 30 distress call scenarios include:
- a unique encounter
- character and ship names
- character motivations
- skill suggestions on how to handle the distress call
- mechanics for what happens if a character succeeds or fails
- scenario resolution
Media, Awards and Reviews
Check out the Callout on SAFCOcast!
- Starts at 14:44 at: https://www.safcocast.com/safcocast-27-cepheus-deluxe-and-alien-androids/
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