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Apr. 9th, 2022 08:15 amSo, the other day I was very bored at work and an easy way not to be bored at work is to think about rpgs, so I have made a new Starforged setting with a new character. This one is much more science fantasy sword-and-planet in terms of genre, with some steampunk/Age-of-Sail aesthetics, because I watched DS9's Explorers at an impressionable age and have never gotten over the desire for spaceships that have sails.
Things that are great about this game so far:
- I have been reading All the White Spaces, which is polar exploration horror. I love polar exploration horror and the other found myself thinking "Why is there not a book that is like this but also in space?" An rpg is not a book, but my character is about to set off on an expedition into an unexplored region of an ice planet and there almost certainly going to be monsters and/or ghosts. Are there sled dogs in space? I haven't decided yet.
- So, one of the things you do at character creation in Ironsworn/Starforged is select asset cards. These give your characters certain abilities or gear that gives them bonuses to certain roles. In Starforged, one of these is a glowcat - an empathic cat that glows different colors depending on the mood and intentions of the people around them. That is amazing, I am taking a neon Lisa Frank rainbow cat on this ice planet expedition, I'm sure that will go great.
- Solo games mean that I can be not at all bothered by the contrast between "I'm going to think very seriously about the implications and dangers of exploring a haunted ice planet" and "nothing bad is ever going to happen to my rainbow cat". There are rules-as-written ways that your cat can die but, as I do with PC death rules in general, I am choosing to believe that those don't apply to me.
Things that are great about this game so far:
- I have been reading All the White Spaces, which is polar exploration horror. I love polar exploration horror and the other found myself thinking "Why is there not a book that is like this but also in space?" An rpg is not a book, but my character is about to set off on an expedition into an unexplored region of an ice planet and there almost certainly going to be monsters and/or ghosts. Are there sled dogs in space? I haven't decided yet.
- So, one of the things you do at character creation in Ironsworn/Starforged is select asset cards. These give your characters certain abilities or gear that gives them bonuses to certain roles. In Starforged, one of these is a glowcat - an empathic cat that glows different colors depending on the mood and intentions of the people around them. That is amazing, I am taking a neon Lisa Frank rainbow cat on this ice planet expedition, I'm sure that will go great.
- Solo games mean that I can be not at all bothered by the contrast between "I'm going to think very seriously about the implications and dangers of exploring a haunted ice planet" and "nothing bad is ever going to happen to my rainbow cat". There are rules-as-written ways that your cat can die but, as I do with PC death rules in general, I am choosing to believe that those don't apply to me.
