The latest Tricube Tales one-page RPG is another collaborative effort, this time with Brandon Verhalen of Star Anvil Studios. Starbreaker: Tales From the Rim is a Tricube Tales adaptation of Starbreaker-SAINTs and Synners Core, a setting that Brandon originally wrote for Savage Worlds.
This was quite a tough one to adapt, due to the large amount of content in the setting book. Starbreaker offers a large number of playable species, and I couldn't fit them all into the smaller format, let alone give them full descriptions, so I went for a very concise approach and included just seven species (including human) with two or three descriptive words for each.
Much like Vermilium: Tales of the Wildwood, which focused on a specific region of the world, I decided to focus on a specific planet, so the entire scenario takes place on the mining world of Echo. Even then, there are a lot of regions described in the book that I couldn't cover, so I decided to use the example locations on the second page to flesh out six major places.
There are also many enemy factions in Starbreaker, and I tried to tie several of them into the adventure examples on the second page, using both the mission objectives and the complications to reference different organizations the players might deal with.
Overall, I'm happy with the way it turned out. Even though the reader would benefit greatly from owning the full setting, the one-pager provides enough information for someone to run a few quick games.
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