Happy 2018 everyone! Just before the Christmas holidays, we completed our Uncharted Worlds campaign, and I wanted to share our adventures with everyone. We went for a “semi-hard scifi”, heavily inspired by The Expanse, Firefly, Battlestar Galatica and Adam Koebel’s Swang Song, with a dash of Game of Thrones. The crew were a bunch of possibly criminal misfits up to no good, and ultimately caught up in a political coup staged by the tyrannical Terran government. Many hijinks ensued. I’ve linked our campaign wiki below, which have some fantastic logs written by our players! I’ve also included some of the houserules we introduced to the game which some might find useful (including rules for negotiating jobs and spending downtime).
We had 5 players though one bowed out shortly before the end. We held 21 sessions (3 to 4 hours each), which does not include Session 0, but includes 2 sessions of The Sprawl and 2 one-shots using separate characters. The remaining 16 sessions seemed to have “maxed out” our PCs fairly well to the point they were really picking through the two books for the next skill to take. There wasn’t any interest in using the expanded uses of XP. We never had any starship battles, which was unfortunate since I wanted to try those rules out. We did have quite a few fights break out, and I tended to make the players Face Adversity several times before allowing a Launch Assault or Open Fire. That seemed to work okay until we had some power armor troopers, at which point I realized the effectiveness of the power armor was very much at GM fiat. I also wish we had rules support for “minibosses” — tougher than the average soldier, but not quite FBH Villain level.