Other Suns RPG, a new solo campaign, a fourth character, 'Scout' the Scatterships Pilot.

 After completing the January character creation challenge you would think that I would have had enough of creating characters for a good while, after all, if you can't get a game going after creating 31 characters there must be something wrong.

It is a fact, I have 31 characters and some great characters for some great games at that but I was looking at which characters got the most interest, the most page views.  I was not altogether shocked to find out  that the character I created for Stormbringer was the one that got the most interest, it is such a much loved  classic and my all time favourite game, what did take me by surprise was the interest the characters for Niall Shaperos 80's Sci-Fi game 'Other Suns' generated, way above some of the more modern games I created characters for and more than the character I created for 'Classic Traveller'. 

I have really fond memories of Other Suns, its the only game except Stormbringer that I have managed to keep from the 80's, but unlike Stormbringer which I have played to the point that the book is falling apart, Other Suns only ever got an outing for short time back in 84 to 85, the rules were just a little to heavy and the background just a little to light for me to do much with back then, I loved the idea of it but I just could not get my head around it all. 

38 odd years on, I think, given the interest the characters I created got and the fact I really want to play a Sci-Fi game, its time to run the game again.  I am not in a position yet to run the game with others, face to face, so this is going to be another Solo outing, this will give me a chance to see if I can get to grips with the rules now, see if I can make the game work. see if there is any interest.  It may well not work out but I want to give it a shot.

I am putting together a crew for a Scattership, I need 7 characters, I have already created three during the character creation challenge,

Zandra, female, human, the planetologist.

Yewlira, female, H'Reli, the soldier

Badratilat, male, Korli, the survival expert

so now I am going to roll up 'Scout' the pilot. I have now changed scout to be the 'Weapons Officer'

Name : Johnn 'Scout' O'Kieran Human, Male, Star Arm (Survey Branch) Line Officer non specialised.

Rank : ComRichtor (rank points 96) (equivalent to Ensign)

STR : 11 INT : 18 WIL : 15 CON : 15 END : 29 DEX : 12 CHA : 12

LEN : 158cm BLD : 11 SIZ : 20 (mass 80kg).

Telepathic Strike TSC : 1 Telepathic Resistance TPR : 4

HITS : 16 LUCK : 17

Abilities -

ACC : 23%

ATT : 23%

DAM : 0/0

DOD : 22%

KNO : 20%

MAN : 27%

OBS : 24%

PAR : 10%

PER : 14%

STE : -4%

As a non-specialised line officer Scout has the following skills

Administrator : 37%

Pilot : 37%

Astrogator/Navigator : 37%

Tactician : 37%

Command Skill : 37%

Command Suit Operation : 37%

Legal Semantics : 37%

Orator : 37%

Sensor and ECM Operator : 37%

Space Lawyer : 37%

Weapons System Operator : 73%

Johnn 'Scout' O'Kieran is the scatterships persons expert and executive office (XO), though as far as scout is concerned sometimes piloting the ship is as far as his duties go. Scout is epicurean by nature, that is he enjoys his food and drink, (though rarely if ever touching alcohol), also he is very calm under pressure, rather laid back and perhaps a little lazy but a good pilot non the less.

Scout is also telepathic, very rare for a human and although limited in his powers in comparison to some of the other naturally telepathic species, there is no limit to how much he can increase this characteristic with the right training and experience.

That about sums up Scout, the fourth member of the team. There is a section in the Other Suns rule book that sets out the usual crew of a Scattership, I now need to roll up its captain and two more crew members to fill the vacant slots, I will detail those in my next three posts, until then

Adventure On.