This is a story about how the group I run took a flaming sledgehammer to my game, and challenged me as a GM in ways I have never been challenged before. Now, before I start, let me say this is a mix of a horror story and a tale of how the group made me proud to be a part of the hobby, and gave me a much needed restoration of my faith in the people who take part in the game.
Roll game.
This happened roughly a year ago. I was running a Star Finder game for a group of friends. Two of them, Mike, who was playing a vesk warrior who referred to attacking as “I CAST AX!”, and Brian, who was playing a psychopath Android Rogue. The newcomers were Kyle, who was playing a vesk warrior focused on Sharp Shooting, his wife Yvette, who was playing a Yashunta envoy, and her friend Andrew who was playing an awakened bear mystic. Andrew joined later in the game.
The game was a legacy game, a world where all my games happen and the actions and effects of the groups carry through to the next games. Technically this is in the same world as the game world I’ve been running for over 10 years, but in space do the actions of previous parties. The game settings were just after the invention of FTL, also known as the drift drive, except in my world it’s more like warp travel from 40K.
The group was sent out to re-establish contact with a long lost colony ship that was sent out pre-flight,, and to acquire a sample of a mysterious classified substance known as Unidentified Substance Alpha (U.S.A). They found the lost colony ship still in space that was being used as a governing hub for a space-based civilization, due to the planet they were sent to colonize, having a drift storm around it that made landing virtually impossible.
On session zero, the party found out that their captain was a drug addict and tricked him into overdosing, used his bio print to unlock his files, and discovered the party was sent on this mission due to the first four choices being attacked by unidentified pirates before they could establish contact with the system. There were files on each party member and this included their dark secrets, and discovering a major corporation bribed galactic officials to make this mission priority and would have a legal claim on something called ‘Unidentified Substance Alpha’ (U.S.A.)
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