This game is scheduled and paid for via startplaying.games . This will be an introductory game to the setting and the system, with no prep required on your side. Session zero is free, we are going to cover ▪️ introduction to the setting ▪️ core rules, ▪️ character and hub generation, ▪️ figuring out your starting location and situation. Game description “Free Company” is an episodic sandbox campaign for the Borg-like indie game DEATH IN SPACE. It all begins with a fresh crew of ambitious spacefarers steering the helm of their first spacecraft to embark on a series of contracts and missions across the broken Tenebris system. ▪️ Will you choose to navigate the perilous trade routes as space truckers, plunder indiscriminately as pirates, sell your services as off-world repair experts, scavenge the entrails of forgotten stations and decommissioned megaships, chart abandoned subsectors, conduct desperate rescues in deep space, or take on mercenary work for the highest bidder? ▪️ Of the faction and power groups fighting over the remains, will you side or make foes with the fragmented remnants of once-mighty authorities, whatever organisations the megacorps of the past have degenerated into, the warlord dynasties descended from the Gem Wars, the various cults and faith arising from the Void reaching out from beyond, even a straight and honest pirate alliance, or just outsmart everyone by keeping your nose out of their petty and dangerous games? Your path is entirely of your own choosing. Welcome to DEATH IN SPACE, a sci-fi/horror/recyclepunk role-playing game that puts you in the boots of blue-collar contractors, off-world survivors, and jury rig experts. Far far away in a future where Earth is not even a memory anymore, the edge of the known universe tightens its grip around a tiny cluster of systems, all that remains of the interstellar transhuman civilization. Mankind lives cramped in orbit on life support, the occasional semi-habitable planet, or is out there roaming the cosmos, salvaging and reusing whatever they can from derelict space hulks and decommissioned space stations littering deep space. But be it even so bleak and lost, there are always some who believe a better future can be salvaged from the junk, and choose to fight against the dying of light. It is up to your ragtag crew to race against time, competition, and the occasional cosmic horrors to carve out your path across Tenebris, and maybe beyond. Character creation No prep or research needed on your side. We’re rolling up characters in session zero, using the rules and tables in the core rules, and you’ll be assigned easy to use character sheets on Roll20. How to prepare for the game Make sure you can connect to Roll20 audio and video before the game (and please check if your Discord's audio/video is operational, in case we have to fall back to it). Please use earplugs or headphones, and avoid playing from your phone if possible.
