Voidrunner Zones in starship combat

[Morrus]

A mockup of how zones work when you're piloting starfighters. Minis and battlemap are not expected, but you can use a handy diagram to indicated which zone your starfighter is in.

 

[Morrus]

Another example. Again, this is just me mocking stuff up, not necessarily images from the book.

 

[Anselm]

Curious where the inspiration for the zone combat came from. Was that something in a previous d&d edition? I know Sky Flourish had a page about it in the lazy dms companion as well.

 

[Morrus]

Curious where the inspiration for the zone combat came from. Was that something in a previous d&d edition? I know Sky Flourish had a page about it in the lazy dms companion as well.

Zones have been around for ages. I don’t know who first came up with them but they’re in a lot of TTRPGs. I used them in WOIN years ago, but they predate that by at least a decade, I’m sure. Fate and 13th Age also spring to mind.

 

[John R Davis]

Work very well in 3:16 and John Carter

 

[WarDriveWorley]

I know my boxed set of Buck Rogers made by TSR back in the 80's uses compartment/zones for their ship combat.

 

[RangerWickett]

I recall in 2005 a poster here at EN World worked with me to whip up a grid-free RPG combat system (named Dungeons or Dragons) which had Fields for mass combat, Theaters within them for distant ranged combat or high-speed units like dragons or cavalry, Arenas for medium ranged combat and average mobility units like infantry, Stages for little spotlight areas where melee combatants would fight, and finally Loci for ultra-specific spots that only one character could occupy.

IIRC we had a sort of PF2-esque action economy where you had two fungible actions, and it cost one action to move between Stages in the same Arena (or to leave melee reach but stay in the same Arena), or two actions to move between Arenas in the same field (or to get to long range but stay in the same Theater), and usually if you wanted to change Theater you had to use a 'running away' skill challenge.

I thought I was rather clever at the time for coming up with those. But yeah, they'd been around in non-D&D-derived games for a while.

 

[Parkeexant]

my day just become better because of you

 

[Steampunkette]

This was a mistake, and I apologize. I tried to save a post in my drafts and unintentionally posted it.