Daidoji Dave
SOC-11
Campaign premise. Twenty years before play starts, planet-side in a short but heated border war, a small group of first-term Marines capture an enemy shipment of art, gems and precious metals. In the chaos they're on their own for this, and someone gets a bright idea. Rather than turn it in for a fractional prize share they hide it, bury it, and swear an oath to meet and return together in twenty years to retrieve it.
Idea is everyone starts as a Marine and makes a five term character, no more, no less. Ruleset allows switching careers, which they may want to do, as being able to crew a starship will be a very good idea. Play starts at Capital (probably - main point is it needs to be distant), and the first arc of the campaign is simply travelling to the treasure cache to retrieve it. I expect to rely heavily on the Traveller Map for world codes and let players pick their route, with adventures on the way.
Of course the destination world will now be inside the border of whatever power the war was with. I lean towards the Zhodani, but I'm open to other suggestions.
So, what's a good destination world? It looks like I need to look at Spinward Marches again, which I actually have, but I'm curious if anything leaps out at anyone.
And, dating. For the Zhodani, 1103, twenty years after the Fourth Frontier War?
Idea is everyone starts as a Marine and makes a five term character, no more, no less. Ruleset allows switching careers, which they may want to do, as being able to crew a starship will be a very good idea. Play starts at Capital (probably - main point is it needs to be distant), and the first arc of the campaign is simply travelling to the treasure cache to retrieve it. I expect to rely heavily on the Traveller Map for world codes and let players pick their route, with adventures on the way.
Of course the destination world will now be inside the border of whatever power the war was with. I lean towards the Zhodani, but I'm open to other suggestions.
So, what's a good destination world? It looks like I need to look at Spinward Marches again, which I actually have, but I'm curious if anything leaps out at anyone.
And, dating. For the Zhodani, 1103, twenty years after the Fourth Frontier War?