Dragonstar -- Any good?

Right, well, where do i begin....

The PC's are currently collecting 3 glaves (a fire, thundering and shocking) to form into an artifact for the Wizard, (they started taking out contracts placed on the info net). THe 3 glaves a located in the following places: 1 is in a white dragons layer, 1 is in the hands of a highly regarded nobleman, and the other is known to be in a cave system on a mining planet.

Thats all teh info the PC's know. They decide, un-surprisingly, that as the Wizard was paying for the Glaves individually, that they would go for the one in the cave system first (reason:"sounds very easy, well at least compared to a white dragon"). having made it to this wind swept, barren planet they step outside to find a handful of air elementals waiting for them (which they quickly dispatch with their energy weapons).

Spotting a cave mouth in the mountain they make there way to the cave, sneaking uo they see a small earth mephit happily playing in the dirt. A trigger happy PC kills it ("it had bat wings!") it turns out that its only a small cave with a strange metallic symbol in the back. After castrising the trigger happy PC, a PC finally checks to see what the mephit was writting. It was the words "I am Happy!" he says it outloud and a portal opens up at the back of the cave...

Stepping through they find themselfs in a small dark room with a single door, with a strange word on the front... The halforc recognises it as 'welcome' in orcish, but dosnt say anything. The Drow Cleric at the door listening, heres something on the other side. Opening the and casting Cause major wounds on the orc listening on the other side, killing it.

I describe how the Orc dosn't have a weapon, has his trouseres round his ankles, and is holding a high-orcish literature book, and is exceptionally well groomed. Looking up they see that he just came out of a door on the right, which is a small toilet. Looking kind of guilty as teh half-orc chasties them they head off into the dungeon, stopping at the sound of humming comming from the the other side of the door.

"I'll fire I few shots into the door" says the trigger happy PC, "You do realise its a very thin wooden door..>" I say. He roles 2 20's, and does ridiculous damage as the shots go through the door and straight into the back of an elderly orc in the room who was working on a radio in the room.

By now the soulmech wizard, whos very against violence and killing, is getting a bit frantic after the party has now killed 3 innocents in teh space of about 10 in character minutes. The trigger happy PC snaps and starts opening the doors of the corridor randomly, without the others trying to find an orc to appolagise to. He walks in on a room with a sofa and tv playing a popular orcish soap operra. Walking into the next room, he sees a double bed. ("I sit down to think about what I've done") and notices that there is a small foot sticking out from under the bed. He tries to cox the small Orc girl out from under the bed, but to no effect. He is then disturbed by a loud bang from the other room, rushing back, he sees the other 6 PCs and an unconscious Orc middle aged women.

The other PC's basiclly got into a big argument about the Orc women and anougther PC chucked a stun grenade into the room. (Didn't knock any PC's out, just the Orc Women). As the trigger happy PC steps into the room, the Soulmech Wizzard suddenly shoots at him screaming "You Murdering Pig Dog!" He misses and gets turned on by about half the party. with 1 hit point left he says "I wont let you kill me... Wont give you the satisfaction" and blows his own head off.

A most amusing session.
 

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Dragonstar is great... but be warned that it is deadly... thus far I've been running a campaign once a week for about the last 6 weeks and have had an average PC death rate of 1 per session...

Also there is a good amount of having to eyeball how difficult an encounter is b/c the normal CRs for creature go out the window when you can kill them with a couple bursts from and assault blaster...

If you are an unexperienced DM it is probably best to take something on with less teeth... ;-)

-Jaldaen
 

Horacio said:


And kobolds with rifles with damage 4d6 can be a lot more than your typical 1st level party can manage... BTW, a first level party with laser rifles is both very deadly and very easy to kill in the Dragonstar universe, so beware :)

This is why in Dragonstar CR's need to take into effect the amount of money monsters have to buy equipment. A Kobold with a laser rifle may not be a CR 1/6
 


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