The debts are goals to clear. In fiction you and your community already have those debts and you are working them off by going on runs. So for example if at the end of a run you have 500 credits, you could get Stack Communal Co-op Fund and clear that debt.
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It's typical for the use cases for different actions to overlap a bit in Forged in the Dark games. The intent is to clarify the goal of a player and gets the conversation between player and GM going. Some examples:
- a character giving covering fire to their crew sounds more like shoot than battle or murder, since the intent is to shoot a lot
- a character wanting to beat someone to death sounds more like murder than battle, since the intent is to kill them not fight them
- a character wanting to snipe at a target in order to disable it sounds more like shoot than murder, since they aren't wanting to kill anything
- a character fighting their way through a crowd sounds more like battle than murder, since again they don't want to kill anything, they just want to clear a path, but if they want to kill as many people as possible, that would be murder instead
Being a big sci-fi universe with a bit of crunch to it, it made sense to have more actions than a typical Forged in the Dark game, to capture the breadth of what player character could do, and give them more decisions on how to spend their action points and specialize their characters. Someone with lots of points in murder is a very different vibe than someone with a lot of dots in battle or shoot.
Also in such a grimdark world, 'murder' felt like too good of a keyword to pass up.
Hope that helps!
A deft and subtle story telling game that let's everyone be a player and a GM. Truly collaborative where you let each person take the wheel and do your best to honor what they did. I've never played anything like it and now I want to play a dozen more like it.
This is one of those games you experience and then think about for the rest of your life. Get 2 other friends you love and play this. Play it over weeks and months. Play it over Discord, play it in person every once in a while, play it by writing letters. But play it.
Ah good question!
You can still do the rest of the actions, it's just that if any card would be moved beyond the front or back, it would stop instead. So like if an action on the card moved the alien forward 3, and the alien is 2 cards back from the front of your hand, it would move to the front of your hand then stop. Hope that makes sense!
A thrilling page turner that was difficult to put down. Aaron quite deftly captures the terror and seeming insurmountable obstacles of rebellion and resistance to empire and the status quo. The nebulous and philosophical problems of capital and the modern imperial core are made very real with literal monsters, and the internal struggles of deciding how to reckon with your part in a machine of death are treated frankly and with aplomb.
I was already a fan of Aaron's work. I cannot wait to see what he does next.
I add them as soon as people make a purchase! However if you'd like it sooner and get it cheap there's my patreon, or you can contact me and I can get you a complimentary copy.