Recent content by shammond42

I wrote up a blog post about the Zilan Wine prop; including a pdf of he label and the recipe for the cocktail. https://lostpapyr.us/2026/03/01/zilan-wine-a-traveller-prop-and-themed-cocktail/

The Travellers are meeting with the Grand Princess tonight, as part of the Deepnight Revelation launch ceremony. So, I made a Zilan Wine prop. The drink is basically a Blue Moon (gin, creme de violet, lemon juice) with some simple syrup added to suit my group's taste. 1082 was an excellent year...

Another augment question... One of my players wants a TL 14 Neural Jack, which is described as "matching the capabilities of a neural link and wafer jack of its Tech Level." A TL 14 neural link has a computer/1, and the wafer jack has a computer/2. How do these fit together? I can see three...

Agreed, the internal task chain is a good idea.

One of my players wants to get a single Combat Arm from the CSC 2023, p. 55. I'm uncertain how the STR effect is supposed to work. Does the enhanced strength only apply to that arm? If so, does it have any impact on general strength checks? My gut is to average the characters strength which the...

One other question. You mentioned that you didn't use the rules around ship degradation. I'm wondering if that didn't play into some of your issues getting the players to engage. I see two possible effects. 1. As the ship degrades, that forces the players to find resources for repairs. either...

Thanks for this, there is a lot of great stuff in that blog post. For the very ending did you use the default ? If so, how was it received? If not, what did you do instead?

Upon rereading the adventure doesn't actually specify what the wreckage is in orbit around; it just says "in orbit". I assumed they meant the planet, but maybe not. It isn't on a main route, but it does have an active astronomical observatory. In any case a distant orbit around the star, is more...

One minor issue with the intro adventure Deepnight Legacy is that it is sort of hard to believe that a clump of Ancients wreckage was orbiting the planet for so long without being detected. The fix is easy, put it in a long, elliptical orbit around the star -- like a comet that only comes around...

I was thinking that two moving sidewalks, one in each direction, makes more sense than horizontal elevators. With the elevators, you are limited to one or two carloads of people at a time, have to deal with stops, and so forth. The sidewalks are continuous and people can hop on/hop off where...

Got it. Thanks for the clarification. I like a lot of what you've done here. Setting aside the cost/weight of materials, this post has me thinking about requiring 100% the cost in materials from a balance perspective. The fabricator doesn't let you get things cheaper than you can buy them (per...

I'm not following this point. Are you saying that for something complicated or expensive, 100% of the mass would have to exceed 50% of the value?

I am pretty sure my group, myself included, will be ready to move on to something different by the time this campaign ends. So playing the return journey won't be in the cards. Nor will continuing the journey onward after that ending. If the campaign is successful, then I think the players buy...

I like Terminus Point and don't plan to change much when my group get's there. I think you need to read the room for that very last bit. Is that going to be a satisfying ending for your players? I can see that some groups would not think so. It would suck to not stick the landing on a long great...

I'm looking to expand the usage of the morale rules in Deepnight Revelation. As written morale really only affects morale. I also don't want to complicate things too much or interfere with the various efficiency indices. My current thought is to say that a positive moral modifier, in addition to...