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Campaign Turn 0 - The dice rolling bit

 Turn 0 of a new campaign, so lets get rolling some dice \o/ Prepare for a LOT of text. I went for a full random spread of Crew Members to start out and got: (94) Strange Character (05) Human (63) Primary Alien (88) Bot (15) Human (74) Primary Alien. So Two humans, two aliens, a bot and a strange character. Follow up rolls gave me (74) on the Strange Character table for an "Emo Suppressed", and a (52) and (100) on the updated Primary Alien table from the 5Parsecs Compendium giving me a Precursor and a Swift. I'll also be using a random name table on donjon for the names as well as the tables in the Compendium.  For Human 1 (Ennin Marte) we get a background roll of (05), so they come from a "Giant, Overcrowded Dystopian City" for +1" to Speed. Their motivation is (88) Power, so get +2XP and a starting Rival, and their Class was (01), Working Class for +1 Savvy and +1 Luck For Human 2 (Cordell Cayne) we get a background  roll (51) War Torn Hellhole for +1 Re...

Returning to wargaming with 15mm Five Parsecs

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 Guess who is ostensibly back after what, three? Four? Years of not posting on here. A lot changed. I got super busy volunteering with a wargames store locally and even moved house. Said store is now closed while pending a hopeful move to a new location, and my new apartment has a good bit more floor space, which means hopefully more games. Specifically: Solo wargames!  I've already tried my hand at several solo journaling style RPGs, but next to try is my hand at Five Parsecs From Home. So, I've picked up a new table, sized it out to see what kind of space and terrain I'm working with (specifically in 15mm) and rolled up a crew. I'll be working in 15mm for two reasons. One; I'm still unemployed so 15mm is as ever a nice economic solution with still a lot of character (and I have a good few minis in that scale already). Two; while I could fit a 3 foot by 3 foot table in my space, it would be a LITTLE too big to keep set up comfortably, and a 2x2 board feels a lot le...