Session 0

You can come up with your own ideas for stunt also. Normally, players don't spend FP to to make use of a stunt (such as the one you chose). But, some of them are too powerful, thus they require a Fate point to be activated. Sticking with basics right now is good, though, as you'll have time to add stunts as th story progresses.

Welcome Q!

And okay, today's the day I get my PC in. Question on that. Thinking pilot, face-type as mentioned previously. What's a better dynamic with what everyone else is planning?

A. A dude who's been around the space lanes. An independent operator with a past. Maybe a tiny bit of a father figure. Maybe forms attachments a little too quickly.

B. A woman who has washed out of the military because of personal trauma in her life. Collected, cool, level-headed... but maybe a bit of a control freak and depressed about her lot in life.

C. The wild card -- an ace pilot, hot and confident and easy to like. A bit mouthy and not the world's best decision-maker.

Opinions?

I'm certainly prone to leaning toward most drama possible (C). B doesn't sound like much fun to play, but possibly cathartic.

I'll try to stay behind a bit as I feel like I've talked a lot but I, not as a GM but as a neutral observer would prefer A or C, whichever you want. Option B resembles Windywidge and Qralloq's PCs in my opinion.

I am with A, especially since my PC is already a control freak.

Inspiration has occurred. See if Hiro fits the bill. (He's been submitted, and I'll make him publicly viewable. Basically a former underworld enforcer out on the rim, lying low, avoiding his old gang and crazy girlfriend. Warm and affable and able to put you over his knee and break you in two.

Edit: Seeking a relationship aspect with someone...

So I've done something. Instead of a black box AI implanted to the ship without your permission, I've designed a few different type of ships that specialized on different areas. They are not characters per se, but they do have a list of skills (9 skills with one +4, one +3, one +2 and two +1s), a high concept (that I named with cheap jokes), stress boxes (only physical, ranging from 3 to 6 slots, corresponding to the ships' Armour modifier plus Toughness modifier) and a so-called stunt that doesn't work exactly like a conventional stunt. Firstly, ship does not have fate points, thus you can use these "stunts" any time you like as long as the stunt allows it (I put descriptions in each stunt, explaining how it can be used). Secondly, instead of a traditional stunt, these ship stunts have strict positive and negative sides. They grant bonuses and advantages in various cases but they also have drawbacks. It's up to you to use some of them with risks, the others by default give advantages but expect you to perform other actions as well.

Here are our ship options: Agile, Fighter, High Tech, Stealthy and Tank. You can review each ship and state your opinions on them. If none of them pleases you, I believe the skill system is highly customizable. You may come up with your own skill distribution, but if you choose to customize the skills as you like then I'll decide on the ship stunt :) As I said earlier, you won't be using your ship until the end of Session 1, so we don't need to decide on ships before we start the game, we have plenty of time.

Edit: Oh yes, I almost forgot. Before we start the campaign, you need decide your relationship aspect. This aspect describes the nature of the relationship with at least on other PC on the game. You can be as creative as you want here and you don't need to describe a relaionship with every other PC, just one is enough.

What is this, RPGrinder?

😂 Cass is empathetic and an academic so she and Leda being friends would make sense. She sometimes wants a friend to assuage her loneliness when she isn't knee-deep in a project, but is too shy to seek one so maybe you pick up on that. Both being somewhat nerdy gives them something in common.

Does that sound interesting enough?

Why yes!

Hiro has a dark past, lots of time spent leaning on people who owed his boss money or punching people who looked at his psycho girlfriend sideways. But he's better now! Connection-wise, he might have helped someone out of a tough spot unexpectedly... or someone might have helped him hop the freighter that put his past in the rear view mirror...

If you want, you can also go full BFF mode for your PCs. Something of a "nobody understands me more than cass/leda". That way you can introduce a kind of a jealousy situation where one of the PCs is afraid that she'll be alone if the other starts making other intimate connections. This is what core book for Condensed says for relationship aspects:
A loose "we are alike" aspect may not introduce much conflict. You don't have to be friendly of course, you may also be antagonistic to each other, like one of you can deem the other "not a real academic/scientist". You know, the typical conflicts between positive sciences and social sciences. These are the ideas at the top of my head.

I'll wait until everybody decides on their relationship aspect as well, that needs to be decided before we start. Btw I also see @FluxCapacitor not being very active in our thread for a while, hope we didn't lose anybody else :D

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I’m confused. Either you meant to post this on another thread but instead you wrote here or you hit my blind spot ‘cause I absolutely have no idea what you refer to :D

Full BFF works for me if it works for Qralloq and there can definitely be a conflict of a scientific nature or otherwise. In addition, maybe Leda gets jealous when Cass spends time with other friends. Something like she has this one friend and so she is petrified of losing her. It could be a new friendship which would make the jealousy factor more intense since they don't know each other well enough for there to be a history of trust between them.

I can't think of anything with Harrington's character though yet. I don't see them running in the same circles.

Sorry about that. Space gremlins hijacked the post and put it in the wrong game.
That's fine with me. It defines Leda's relationship to Cass, at least.

@ireneofunyes, if we each just have one defined relationship, should we try and spread that through the others?

Yes, normally player A defines a relationship with player B, B with C, C with D etc. That way the whole group is connected somehow.

I'm still here, just reading. I'll figure out TBD's relationship aspect by tonight.

Dig it. He might have even know who she was and been a little dazzled by her celebrity?