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Ran this with three friends, two of whom are not roleplaying types, in pure co-operative "What do we all think is coolest" format, and we had to stop after unexpectedly encountering tragedy at the end of the second captain's (the Charming Scoundrel) time with our Bucket. Amazing experience - it felt familiar from my time with Artefact, and simultaneously very different.

One question: There is only one type Ship (the mid-sized hauler), right? We were a bit confused at times about how some of the Captains - for instance, the Galactic Senator - might be involved with such a ship.

Jack Harrison3 years ago(+2)

Hello! Glad you had a good time with the game :)

Yeah there’s no ‘mid-sized luxury yacht’ for those sky-hopping senators, because I couldn’t make them different enough from the basic ‘ship’. I explored a couple of ideas with smaller single-seat fighters and much larger capital ships, but ultimately neither worked with the bulk of the rest of the prompts. So it’s more about the size of the ship (medium, 5-20 crew members, etc) than the purpose (that changes with each Captain to some extent!)

HSAR3 years ago

I'm not very experienced with zines, so I couldn't quite rule out the possibility that I had just unfolded it incorrectly and other ships were on a different page! I'm interested to your thought on the prompts, as our group kept finding (much more than in Artefact) that significant numbers of the prompts didn't fit, make sense or apply. This didn't cause us undue difficulty (plenty of prompts via the extra content pages, and/or the use of extra creativity), but I mention it because you said similarly.

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