In a Time of Heroes
Elements
An alien princess asking for asylum
Smuggled goods of rare fortune, small enough to slip in a pocket
An ancient temple defiled by a swarm of insect-bots, sent by a disillusioned adherent
A galaxy on the cusp of open war
Characters
The alien princess (Chris)
A smuggler (David)
A customs officer (Katie)
The disillusioned adherent (Rob)
Player Characters
[Chris] Kid Quasar, the Pipsqueak Princess a diminutive alien princess from a species that is not normally so
- Covertly d8
- Directly d6
- For myself d6
- For others d10
- With love d12
- With violence d4
- Everyone Loves me, through tone of voice and physical appearance people want to aid me, bt it requires people to see and hear me
- PCs: With Love
- NPCs: Self-Protection
- Far-reaching
- Uses a d8
- Best Interests:
- It is in Kid Quasar's best interest to befriend an insect bot and have it become her trusted steed
- It is in Kid Quasar's best interest to have the Temple Master declare for her people in the galactic war
[David] Ken Cooper, a human smuggler with a non-hidden heart of gold
- Covertly d12
- Directly d4
- For myself d6
- For others d8
- With love d10
- With violence d6
- Technopathy, technology obeys me like a close friend thanks to my psionic gifts
- PCs: For Others
- NPCs: Action
- Unique
- Uses a d8
[Katie] Anka Tripper, a customs officer, a blobby frog-person, no-nonsense, naturally gifted at detecting lies, cranky, with a sticky tongue
- Covertly d8
- Directly d12
- For myself d10
- For others d6
- With love d4
- With violence d6
- I Can Eat Anything, if my tongue can reach it and it can fit in my mouth, I can eat it
- PCs: Directly
- NPCs: action
- Uses a d10 (Potent)
- Best Interests
- Get the promotion by solving/ catching a high profile case
[Rob] Isk, the Maimed and Rebuilt the disillusioned adherent, insectoid brought back from death with forbidden tech and filled with his children
- Covertly d6
- Directly d12
- For myself d10
- For others d6
- With love d4
- With violence d8
- Unleash Children, by entering into a harmonizing trance to connect with one's swarm of insect bots to assault and assail
- PCs: With Violence
- NPCs: Action
- Far-Reaching
- Uses a d8
- Best Interests:
- It's in my best interests to stop the princess from entering the temple of the Noble Mantis.
- It's in my best interests to harmonize with the Technopath
Non-Player Characters
Snivil Gabbuh, the Temple Master, influential within the religion, but neutral within this conflict
- Action d6, d4
- Maneuvering d10, d6
- Self-protection d12, d8
- Best Interests:
- To preserve the independence of the Temple of the Noble Mantis
Example PCs
Amek, the chieftain of the desert horsemen
- Covertly d8
- Directly d10
- For myself d4
- For others d6
- With love d6
- With violence d12
- Exorcism, the holy ceremonies that expel demons and protect people and places from them
- It requires you to call upon certain warrior gods and recite their holy names and deeds. It’s not dramatic; no flashy effects.
- It has to be used for others. For NPCs, it’s good for self-protection.
- Significance 1: it’s far-reaching. You can use it to do battle with demons and other unseen, obscure, spiritual enemies.
- Its die is a d8.
- Best Interests:
- to deliver Tajie safely to her marriage to the harvest god
- to seduce and take Mekha as a lover
Example NPCs
Shahu Seen, the wandering spirit, inflamer of passions
- Action d12, d8
- Maneuvering d10, d6
- Self-protection d6, d4
- The power to inflame passions, such as a wandering spirit might possess.
- Whisper in someone’s ear and fan their passions into flame.
- It has to be used covertly. For NPCs, it’s good in action.
- Significance 1: it’s consequential. It threatens for others; for NPCs it threatens self-protection.
- Its die is a d8.
- Best Interests:
- for the beautiful girl to be no virgin for her marriage to the harvest god
- to murder or arrange the murder of the exorcist
Owe List
- None
Oracles
Space Opera Oracle
- A galaxy on the cusp of open war
- An interplanetary cold war, threatening to turn hot in an instant
- A runaway experiment, with strange, inexplicable powers
- An ancient weapon of mass destruction, left behind by a forgotten race
- An eccentric inventor, on the run from a dangerous corporate empire
- A distress signal, with no apparent source
- A small community of Christians, humans and alien converts, on the aliens' home planet
- A blue skinned orphan fleeing an arranged marriage to her elderly tutor
- Smuggled goods of rare fortune, small enough to slip in a pocket
- An alien princess asking for asylum
- A young fertile planet with a newly awakened consciousness
- The rotting hulk of a spaceship, flagship of the old empire, found at the end of a beacon
- A gunship sold at the end of war into private hands
- A daring young explorer, fresh from her stint at the academy, eager to prove herself and taking on all comers
- A sassy spelunker looking for an alien god's heart in the depths of a planet made up entirely of millions of space ship derelicts that have accreted over time
- A crew of rogues, led by a former war hero
- A young doctor, throwing away a promising career over a deadly secret
- A smuggler of dubious repute, only interested in a quick payday
- An expert assassin, laying low after a botched job
- The universally famous monarch, hiding as a citizen of no consequence
- A brilliant scientist, racing against time to find a cure for her affliction
- The galactic savior-child stolen by pirates who want a planet as ransom
- A stranded alien, trying to get back to it's own people
- A military AI, trying to override it's destructive programming
- The first settlers on a newly terraformed frontier world
- A group of freedom-fighters, waging a desperate war against a tyrannical government
- A secret technology, unearthed by an archaeologist on the homeworld of a long-dead race
- A cryptic warning, left behind by an extinct alien race
- The last survivor of a brutal attack, by a previously unknown race
- A young woman, selected via lottery by an alien power
- A wayward traveler, hopping between the stars after his homeworld was destroyed
- An accidental immortal, bored with life, who has become obsessed with carrying out some mundane task
- A group of alien scientists, trying to recover their lost data, possibly by vivisection
- An ancient temple defiled by a swarm of insect-bots, sent by a disillusioned adherent
- The first interspecies child is born
- A colony of refugees in an asteroid belt