The Quickstart Rules Are In Sight!

Happy Frontier Friday, Spacers 🚀 I am super excited to say that the first pass of the QSR is almost finished!

I'm knee-deep in the penultimate task, which is the quickstart adventure, The Halcyon Job.

Your Crew hears about a job on the Fringe World of Halcyon Prime. A former Alliance scientist is on the lamb and there's a bounty of upwards of ₡20,000 to bring them in...

Of course, nothing in the 'Verse comes easy, and there's plenty standing between you and that payday.

This is the formalized version of the Job I've run a couple times now for friends, refined for the most up to date version of the rules, and the goal is to give you something you can run to get a feel for the system.

My favourite thing about the Job, and something that I think I will carry through into all per-written Jobs in the future, is that it comes with personal goals for each Archetype. So every player at the table will experience the Job a little differently, and you could run through the job as a player multiple times and depending on your Crew composition get totally unique experiences.

I'm going to talk more about this adventure design philosophy in a future blog post because it's something I'm really excited by.

The Rest of the QSR

Once the quickstart Job is finished, there will just be a few finishing touches left and the QSR will be done.

I'm aiming for 64 pages when it's all finalized, and it covers the basic core rules, character creation, basic starship rules, some broad GM advice, the Halcyon Job, some enemy profiles, and the glossary.

The goal isn't a "full" ruleset, but just enough to get a feel for the system and start playtesting. Tons of stuff will change as playtesting happens, but I am really pleased with where things are at the moment.

I feel like the game knows what it is and its identity comes through at every stage of the text. It's a fast-paced, momentum driven, fiction first system. It's like playing out an episode of the best pulp sci fi TV shows.

Once the QSR is finished, I will look at opening some slots to run some playtest sessions of the Halcyon Job for patrons, YT members, and folks in the discord, so keep an eye out for an announcement regarding that.

Much love
Anto