[Interest] Ante Matters, for Night Tripper (beta)

Seventies style trad SF



Ante Matters

Bad enough that the job dried up after you landed on Denl, now some locals have mistaken you for an open bounty. You've three days before the needlecast comes through that'll keep you off the hook and you're laying low in the distal casino.

Concept Player-driven sci-fi sandbox

Aims Picaresque storytelling and capers: exploring the system for around a month's gaming

Tone Chaos over catastrophe: early Cowboy Bebop and midrun Outlaw Star

Subject All characters are adults and we'll be in a bar and casino; no sex, no cruelty

Chris P. Wolf's Night Tripper is a homage to classic Traveller in tone and process and currently in open beta ─ https://www.night-tripper.fun/ Rolls are mostly 2D6+mods vs 8. Characters are randomly generated ─ and could die in the process! Once everyone has characters, we'll all be part of the same crew ─ you don't have to love each other, but you trust each other enough to work on the same team.

No experience with the system or genre necessary. Expected pace is five posts across seven days, between one and three paragraphs each. We'll exclusively use this site.

How do I apply?
Roll up a character or two using the rules here and pop them in a Spoiler in this thread along with a brief comment on why you're interested to play. First come first served up to six, and then we'll waitlist. No terfs, no swerfs, no tories.

Recwal

Born in the month of the Desert Mouse, he continually strives against his scatterbrained tendencies.

Luck 10 9 8 7 Strength 2 Agility 0 ...
18: Spacer - Computer 1, Helm 1,
23: Spacer - Helm 2
28: Spacer - Weapon: Scattergun 1
33: Spacer - Computer 2
mustered out due to Illness: Spacer Computer 2 Helm 2 Scattergun 1 age 33 Luck 7 Strength 2 Agility 0
treasures a handmade ukulele
has 13 credits, a scattergun, a portable computer console

Ardena

Born on the month of Merchant

Personality: Shrewd

Age: 33

Luck: 5
St: 1
Ag: 1

Skills:
Business 1
Gambling 1
Gunnery 1
Computer 1

Stuff:
Portable computer console
Deck of playing cards and set of dice
5 credits
A hand made lyra

Ardena is perceptive and calculating but has a knack for gambling. Maybe losing control is somewhat addicting. She pursued a career in business, landing a job on a big hotel cruise ship and managerial duties. She developed some skills and got to see some worlds. Her downfall was all her side rackets and gambling. She landed a debt to her employer and had to pursue adventuring life.

Howdy! I've been eager to test Night Crawler for some time now, this seems like a great opportunity. I have no previous experience of play by post but I believe it should fit my scheduale well.

I'm a general scfi buff, gm and roleplayer, mostly interested in fkr stuff lately.

The sheer amount of games and settings I've been able to play because of pbp; it's genuinely one of my favourite ways to play!

We'll kick off when we hit three players and can weave in furthers when characters are generated.
Better get myself working on a charsheet actually

Love old school Traveller and Cowboy Bebop. Just recently spun up a Traveller game here on GamersPlane.

Sorry for the week's quiet, folks ─ finishing off a theater festival straight into a norovirus bout complicates matters! I'll be building the forum / charsheet this week and shall send yous an invite when that's done.

@tibbius @Roachtrout @Esidrix

Cool! Hopefully you are feeling better now.

BTW, thanks for bringing Night Tripper to my attention. I had no idea Wolf had done another Traveleresque game!

I am, thanks: still not back to full but much better than things were
I'm such a fan of Offworlders and it's great to see Wolf still playing in the genre

I'm such a fan of Offworlders and it's great to see Wolf still playing in the genre[/quote]

I didn't know he had another game! Got to look up that one.

Got room for one more?

NAME: Ash Tolari (she/her)

Birth Month: Sword (3)
Personality: Clever

Luck: 5
Strength: 3
Agility: 1

18: Soldier, Weapon: Carbine (1) Engineer (1)
23: Soldier, Weapon: Melee (1)
28: Soldier, Weapon: Carbine (2)
33: Soldier, Medic (1)
38: Soldier, Medic (2)
43: Mustered out, became a Merchant. Weapon: Pistol (1)

Downfall: Illness
Personal Item: Half-full bottle of hot sauce
Visual detail: Green mohawk

Credits: 11
Gear: Pistol, Carbine, Melee weapon (probably a sci-fi sword), Medical Kit

@seanfsmith -- this means you're going for a very short and sharp playtest of sorts, is that right?

@Harrigan yep, that's right! I imagine we'll run it episodic after that if it works as well as I hope, one story arc across each 2mo. bloc

@rossum Yep, defo! I'll send an invite in a bit. (any relation to the universal robots, btw?)

@seanfsmith Yup, that's the source of my handle. :) Thanks for the invite!

(I had to redo my first character, I misread and thought you hopped careers every time. That guy was a jack-of-all-trades.)

I once played the tramp in The Insect Play, but I've yet to watch R.U.R.!

I've just brewed up a PC I quite like, but have little time for new endeavors. Will the game with public? Would like to see it in action.