OK, fine, you talked me into it.
Hab-domes clustered around atmosphere processors. Pressure shelters built into underground caverns. Tin shacks under an alien sky. Every colony world is different. But every one of them is a community, full of people trying to make a new life in a new place.
Colonies is a story supplement for the Uncharted Worlds roleplaying game which provides additional material on running campaigns set on colony worlds. It is intended to be used as a source of ideas during campaign setup. Colonies includes:
* Advice on campaign setup
* Optional rules for colony campaigns
* “Frontier Hellhole”, a quick-start campaign.
Because people live in all sorts of places…
Grabbed, downloaded, and reading now. I’m digging everything I’m seeing in here so far, Larp Wellington. I appreciate your sidebars on the pitfalls of colonialism in contact narratives, I’m jamming on your advantage/disadvantage lists about Colony resources, your questions feel punchy and informative.
And here’s why I thought PDF would be a good idea:
Page 16 of the PDF, Example: Korad, should the text just say “the colony is effectively controlled by Dhatu Holdings…”? Because right now it says “controlled by the Dhatu Holdings…”
Also Page 16, do you want to say “effectively controlled by Dhatu Holdings… which controls [list of things]” or do you want to rephrase so you’re not saying controlled-control back to back?
Also Page 16, “Some have also fallen in love with the plant’s harsh landscape” should be planet I imagine.
Finished reading it, Larp Wellington, and I love it. It looks good, it feels good, it seems like a good crystallization of the Colony-game mindset.
Well shit now I may have to read it. I basically seem to like everything Alfred Rudzki likes so…
Adding to wish list for when budget permits!
Want to buy, but have to write conference paper and give conference paper first … augh …
Alfred Rudzki Thanks – something was bound to slip through. I’ll give it a few more days for more stuff to emerge (and because I have a larp convention to go to), then push out an updated version after the weekend.
OMG, I got called out on the title page so awesome
I’ve just done a minor update to fix the identified errors (and use consistent capitalisation for things like Debt). People who have already purchased it can simply download the new version.
Proofs for hardcopy have been ordered. And now to wait for them to get to NZ.
Budget permitted! Snagged. Well done, good sir. When next I have a game starting, a Colony may well be what we try!