New Markers, New Drawings - The House

I was trying to draw a Roman villa and it came out more like a Frank Llyod Wright. Buffalo is loaded with Frank Llyod Wright homes. They are beautiful and I drive past many every day. 

Strictly (Duke) Springer - Day 012

We are ready to fly. Let’s talk about movement. Each “unit” has a movement rate and each area has a movement distance between two places. I want to get to the Spaceport, which has a dotted line with a 10 connecting it to the Ruins. There are dotted lines to Industrial area marked 4 and the Colony marked 3.

If we walked, it would take one hour times the number labeled on the dotted line. It would take 10 hours to walk to the Spaceport, 3 to the colony or 4 to the Industrial area. Thankfully, ships, boats and skimmers are faster. A skimmer will move from one area to another in 1 hour. A boat or a ship takes 1/10 of an hour.

There is an economy to movement. A boat burns 1 FU per hour of operation. A skimmer burns one FU a day. A ship doesn’t use any fuel, why really isn’t clear in the rules. Additionally skimmers, are not sealed, so you could be burning Life Support Units, too. The boat is sealed but also burns LU in space. 

Yesterday, I made another accounting mistake. It turns out that loading a boat into the ship requires no energy or effort, so I marked off a Fuel Unit for nothing. I'm not going to fix it now. 

We spend an hour moving to the Spaceport and I have no problem entering the area as we are detected but nothing comes of it. I want to hire more crew and sell off the found boat.

When buying and selling things, you have to roll the appropriate event. In the Spaceport, each roll or transaction takes an hour. In this case, I want a 5 to sell these boats. I didn’t get that today.

I do hire two ships gunners. Each one has a salary of 15 and a sign on bonus of 10. This move makes me nervous, because I need to pay 300 on the ship by the end of the week.

Our assets are:

1 Antelope starship,

2 Hopper with 14 units of fuel between them

1 Stasis pod 2 CU,

20 Repair units.

1 U-bot.

and the ship is fully fueled with 6 hypercharges.

I have 220 secs. in my pocket.

In the cache in the Ruins of Regari are:

3 Skimmers,

4 Repair Units,

100 secs.

New Markers, New Drawings - Long Barn

My friend Sarah got me some new pens and I have been trying them out. They work great. The text on the side was quickly scratched out as the ideas came. The text of this post is somewhat better.

The Long Barn is a storage barn for fodder. Its low to the ground and only has one level.

The long low barn is used for storage of hay and feed.

In spring, it is often used for weddings. The bride's guests sit on benches or bales of hay and alfalfa. The new husband and his groomsmen eat outside. The south end of the barn has doors which open for dancing in the yard.

In this way, the newly joined families get to know one another.

Product Updates for 2020 - Kobold's Folly and The Compass Rose Mini Setting

I have updated the files for The Compass Rose Inn and The Kobold's Folly products. These items are still pay what you want, however, in each case I have increased the suggested price to $3.99 each.

In the case of the Compass Rose Inn, the map has been reworked to be 1 inch = five feet. This now brings the page count to 63 pages. Additionally, this file has map tiles that enable you to print out additional green space for more terrain. To fill some of this space, there is now a barn map with two levels, a stable or work shed with two levels, a well and bake house map. 

In Kobold's Folly, I detail what is different between the Tribe of Minwan and other kobolds and provide images of King Minwan and his sister using the two magic items found at in the folly.

If you have already downloaded these files, my thanks. You should receive an email shortly with the new files. If you can't wait, simply check your Library tab at DriveThruRPG.

Click the images below for full resolution images from the Compass Rose Inn.