Happy Gnome Publishing has launched Redshirts: Adventures in Absurdity on Kickstarter for the forthcoming Starfinder RPG. The first volume includes three missions taking the PCs from level 1 to level 3 – if they manage to survive their captain that is…
Redshirts: Adventures in Absurdity (Vol. 1) is a Starfinder compatible Adventure Path, guaranteed to have your PCs laughing hysterically from one end of the galaxy to the other.
Critics have called it "The Office meets Survivor...in space."
Unlike most RPGs which set up the PCs to achieve great heroic victories over threats to the very existence of the world, Redshirts is more a game of survival, as in can the PCs survive the ridiculous orders of the command crew. Redshirts is perfect for players wishing to emulate the tone of comedic Space-Opera settings such as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Futurama, or Spaceballs. It parodies and builds upon popular Sci-fi settings and tropes, while building its own niche.
The final product will be between 100-120 pages, and will include 5 pre-gen characters for those that just want to pick up and play. It is available in PDF, softback, and hardcover (all in full color).
Redshirts plays like a combination of a Role-playing game and an improv comedy routine (always say "yes"), as the PCs run the crew's most dangerous errands. Vol. 1 encompasses the first three "missions" and takes the PCs from level 1 to level 3.
· Mission 1: The Terrible Tacos: When Captain Ginny wakes up after a weekend bender with an intense craving for tacos, she decides to send her newly arrived recruits on their first mission. Unfortunately for the recruits, the local Taco Galaxy is under deadly new management.
· Mission 2: The Cheaper Cleaner: Stuck in a surveillance mission around a dying star, first officer Laisse Faire decides to save a few credits and send the PCs to pick up his dry cleaning instead of paying for delivery. He's sure the quarantine around the planet won't be a problem.
· Mission 3: The Pirate Bonanza: When several important pieces of the ship's engine go missing, the PCs are sent shopping at the local space pirate flea market with a budget of $0 and the Captain expecting change back. Can the PCs get the ship back in working order or will they end up swabbing the decks of a pirate ship for the rest of their days?
Redshirts: Adventure in Absurdity (Vol. 1) will include the following new things that can be used in any Starfinder game:
3 new specific settings (2 space stations and a planet) which will include statistics and maps.
6 new playable races including: Door-tu-Dorans, Plushians, Aggressians, Mongrels, Pointers, and Beardies.
15 new monsters/NPCs to challenge your PCs, each with full stat blocks and artwork.
Detailed backstory for the Confederation of United Nebuls, Terrestials, and Sidereals (The people who pay the PCs tiny salary). The name of this huge bureaucracy refers to the three types of creatures eligible for citizenship in the Confederation:
· Nebuls (creatures born on non-human worlds or races without significant amounts of human DNA)
· Terrestials (Creatures born on human worlds with a significant amount of human DNA)
· Sidereals (creatures naturally born in space or difficult to categorize)
Meet the Crew…
The Captain of the Uranus Hertz, Ginny Tonic signed up for deep space exploration for two reasons: to better understand the universe and to protect her pension by avoiding mandatory yearly performance reviews.
The Door-tu-Doran first officer hates three things in life: Paying full price for anything, taxes, and creatures with body hair. He can generally be found spending his time selling other people's belongings on Ebay's Galactic Marketplace.
Hailing from The planet Plushy Prime, Mitzy is the toughest, and only, security officer on the ship. He prefers hug therapy to using the brig, and his phaser is always set to fun.
One of the greatest engineers of the past century, Chief Engineer Aussie signed up for the deep space mission in order to get away from the talking hamster that only he can see. It did not work.
A teenage science prodigy, Eldara earned her medical degree, two Ph.D.s, and was top of her class at the Confederation Academy all before her sixteenth birthday. When she's not curing deadly diseases she enjoys the same things many teenagers do: being unpredictably moody, gossiping about boys, and designing weapons of mass destruction.
Redshirts: A Starfinder Adventure Path (Levels 1-3) is running on Kickstarter until Friday 1st September 2017.
Redshirts: Adventures in Absurdity (Vol. 1) is a Starfinder compatible Adventure Path, guaranteed to have your PCs laughing hysterically from one end of the galaxy to the other.
Critics have called it "The Office meets Survivor...in space."
Unlike most RPGs which set up the PCs to achieve great heroic victories over threats to the very existence of the world, Redshirts is more a game of survival, as in can the PCs survive the ridiculous orders of the command crew. Redshirts is perfect for players wishing to emulate the tone of comedic Space-Opera settings such as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Futurama, or Spaceballs. It parodies and builds upon popular Sci-fi settings and tropes, while building its own niche.
The final product will be between 100-120 pages, and will include 5 pre-gen characters for those that just want to pick up and play. It is available in PDF, softback, and hardcover (all in full color).
Redshirts plays like a combination of a Role-playing game and an improv comedy routine (always say "yes"), as the PCs run the crew's most dangerous errands. Vol. 1 encompasses the first three "missions" and takes the PCs from level 1 to level 3.
· Mission 1: The Terrible Tacos: When Captain Ginny wakes up after a weekend bender with an intense craving for tacos, she decides to send her newly arrived recruits on their first mission. Unfortunately for the recruits, the local Taco Galaxy is under deadly new management.
· Mission 2: The Cheaper Cleaner: Stuck in a surveillance mission around a dying star, first officer Laisse Faire decides to save a few credits and send the PCs to pick up his dry cleaning instead of paying for delivery. He's sure the quarantine around the planet won't be a problem.
· Mission 3: The Pirate Bonanza: When several important pieces of the ship's engine go missing, the PCs are sent shopping at the local space pirate flea market with a budget of $0 and the Captain expecting change back. Can the PCs get the ship back in working order or will they end up swabbing the decks of a pirate ship for the rest of their days?
Redshirts: Adventure in Absurdity (Vol. 1) will include the following new things that can be used in any Starfinder game:
3 new specific settings (2 space stations and a planet) which will include statistics and maps.
6 new playable races including: Door-tu-Dorans, Plushians, Aggressians, Mongrels, Pointers, and Beardies.
15 new monsters/NPCs to challenge your PCs, each with full stat blocks and artwork.
Detailed backstory for the Confederation of United Nebuls, Terrestials, and Sidereals (The people who pay the PCs tiny salary). The name of this huge bureaucracy refers to the three types of creatures eligible for citizenship in the Confederation:
· Nebuls (creatures born on non-human worlds or races without significant amounts of human DNA)
· Terrestials (Creatures born on human worlds with a significant amount of human DNA)
· Sidereals (creatures naturally born in space or difficult to categorize)
Meet the Crew…
The Captain of the Uranus Hertz, Ginny Tonic signed up for deep space exploration for two reasons: to better understand the universe and to protect her pension by avoiding mandatory yearly performance reviews.
The Door-tu-Doran first officer hates three things in life: Paying full price for anything, taxes, and creatures with body hair. He can generally be found spending his time selling other people's belongings on Ebay's Galactic Marketplace.
Hailing from The planet Plushy Prime, Mitzy is the toughest, and only, security officer on the ship. He prefers hug therapy to using the brig, and his phaser is always set to fun.
One of the greatest engineers of the past century, Chief Engineer Aussie signed up for the deep space mission in order to get away from the talking hamster that only he can see. It did not work.
A teenage science prodigy, Eldara earned her medical degree, two Ph.D.s, and was top of her class at the Confederation Academy all before her sixteenth birthday. When she's not curing deadly diseases she enjoys the same things many teenagers do: being unpredictably moody, gossiping about boys, and designing weapons of mass destruction.
Redshirts: A Starfinder Adventure Path (Levels 1-3) is running on Kickstarter until Friday 1st September 2017.
