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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack of Shadows" data-source="post: 2391066" data-attributes="member: 3276">Well,I'll second what Justin said above, decide what sort of story you want to tell. Once you've done that come up with a starting point and tell your players to create character concepts around it. No stats yet, just concepts. For example here is what I did for my very successful homebrew:I decided I wanted to do a campaign with a supership akin to Blake's 7 and Sol Bianca. Next I set up the beginning and told the players that their characters were on a space liner escaping from a planet that had just undergone open rebellion. I then asked them to tell we who they were and why they were on the liner. Working with what I got back I had the following characters:- A hired assassin who had been brought to the world to kill a terrorist leader of the rebellion.- Aforementioned terrorist leader of the rebellion who was also the daughter of the planetary leader who hired said assassin.- The security chief of one of the other planetary leaders who had been killed by above terrorist.- The head of the planetary government's intelligence network.The story started out being about a bunch of folks with a supership but turned into something completely different because the characters each had their own agendas. The 'universe' unfolded itself from the character's backgrounds. The group the assassin belonged to had been the secret fomentors of the rebellion because they were interested in acquiring the worlds vast orbital shipyards. Other survivers were after the head of intelligence because of the nasty files he had on EVERYONE. The terrorist had to figure out what she had really been fighting for in the first place. And the security chief went along with everything while having both his ex-wife show up as a survivor and having to chase his daughter halfway around the galaxy in order to keep her safe.In essence the story came from the players and not from anything I created beforehand. If I decided I wanted to add a new element, I just added it. Space games are great that way 'cause space is HUGE. Players don't complain that they'd never heard of something before. They say, "Cool! I've never heard of that before!"Jack</blockquote>

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