Cantina - OOC/Small Talk

I think typically the captain hires the crew. Who wants to be captain of this outfit? :-)

I feel that (like in all cliched sci fi) the human should be the captain... who is being human? :)
I think Kalerick could be a good leader, however, I think he is too one minded and wanderlusted for the position (at the moment). Backup perhaps, maybe not the captain. As well, he is likely to not bother with people, especially when he is "at the wheel" so to speak.

So far I have 2 designs to suggest:
The Venture Class (lower left)

or the Jo Lynn

(there is also a gunboat version for this one)


or the Midnight Rose

They are all pretty small (about 100m long) compared to a lot of the other ships in that line:

You could always find plenty of other floorplans here

Or finally, I could always try to whip something up using the plan-making program at pyromancers.com...

That Venture feels right...

Yeah, it's a pretty sweet ship. I've seen other pictures, and the bridge module can separate and be it's own little shuttle-like ship. :D

So I almost demand Grendel make Peter Quill/Star Lord! ;)

Checking the Venture pdf files (the same as I sent you in PM), and the cargo modules on the side are configurable. Yeah, it looks like a pretty sweet ship. :D

I'll go ahead and upload information about the ship on this thread with pictures and floorplans with a legend. Any idea for a ship name instead of just going with the default "Venture"?

Some of my suggestions:
The Freedom
Fickle Fortune
The Marauder
The Centennial Pelican (:P)
Intruder
Interceptor
Star Falcon
Trespasser
Bounty Bebop
The Dog Pound
The Defiant
The Ronin

Tomorrow I'm getting my wisdom tooth pulled out, so I might not feel well enough to be making posts for a few days...

The ship is a bit more extravagant than envisioned but will do. I could really use a check in from Grendel.

Well, if you feel we have too much stuff in the ship, you could state that we have an earlier version of the ship (like having it "earlier in its career"), and state we don't have access to "this and that" yet, but we can always get it later once we have enough money to purchase it... Yeah, the Medical and Tech Lab, for examples, were two things I was fully expecting you to tone down somewhat...

Suggestion: The space for the med & tech lab could be there but with far more modest (or even just bare-bones) equipment.

Yeah, hope to hear from Capt. Grendel soon :-D

Here's an idea...

You have these tech, med etc labs. Image that they each have 3 "slots", right now each of them is empty, meaning you have these spaces on your ship, but they currently offer no bonuses to things attempted from within them - they simply provide a default setting. You can spend credits later to advance these areas of the ship. Each slot will cost XX (TBD) and will grant +2 (cumulative) to skill checks made there for that activity. I may allow some special abilities that take up one of the 3 slots - like a med lab vat tank that restores someone who is - HP but not dead to 1 HP without the loss of 1 BOD. Things like that. I don't want the ship to be the focus of the campaign.

Sounds good enough. I also read the description for the Jo Lynn. That ship looks a bit more spartan than the Venture. It is still not too late to switch ships if you want (or I could just modify the description of the Venture).

I sent a PM to Grendel...I will probably start the game tomorrow! We are going to handle questions about the rules like this - If I can get an answer quick from Germany - great, if not, we'll house rule it.

I've been ok with Venture, actually, but Ronin rocks! :-)

Two PMs to Grendel and no response. Hope he's just on vacation!

I vote for airlock A, but then again, I left it up the Tea's character so... :P

If Kalerik is looking at the schematics he would go to A. If, however, he is just winging it, then he would go to B. I'm just going to rule that he has, at least, seen the schematic... not that he is the best at remembering.