One of our GMs, Harold, is applying to run a game of The Expanse RPG (by Green Ronin) at the 2020 DunDraCon. This blog entry provides details on the game session, an overview of the game system, and details on the scenario. It will continue to be updated if/when the game is scheduled, characters are created, and finally with a recap after the session if it is played.
Schedule
The 44th DunDraCon gaming convention will be held in San Ramon, CA on President’s Day weekend, 14-17 February 2020. The web site for the convention is http://dundracon.com
About the game
Expanse RPG uses a SF variant of the AGE (Adventure Game Engine) system that was introduced in the Dragon Age RPG and also used in many other Green Ronin products like Titansgrave, Modern Age, and Blue Rose.
About the scenario
You and your crew have been exploring through the Rings for months, gambling on finding a valuable world, barely supporting yourselves by selling survey data to the Coalition. You finally found something on your twelfth trip, on the planet named Svadilfari: ancient alien artifacts. Every day you remained on the planet, your excitement grew: this time you really hit the jackpot, at last! The remains of alien civilizations will surely provide insight for scientists, engineers, and historians for decades to come. Many of them appear to be different kinds of spacecraft, possibly from completely different species! But then you stumbled across a less ancient artifact that was still functional. It activated, and simultaneously something blew up your ship, taking most of the crew with it. Was it a terrible accident, or the intentional hostile action of something alien? With your ship gone, you have to survive long enough to find and activate one of the alien ships to escape the planet.