2300: Project Bayern

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The Bayern mission will take its crew to explore the Pleiades, over 400 light years from Earth.

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We’re using the Mongoose republication of 2300 AD and its revised version of the Bayern campaign. (I got it in a recent Bundle of Holding.)

I’m planning to run this for some of you (you know who you are) so maybe you shouldn’t listen to the actual adventure.

Session 0: Earth’s Semi-Finest: Character generation begins.

(this is a double character generation session compiled into a single episode)

Session 1: Full of Fewer Worms: The mission begins, and promptly comes across a derelict craft. Or is it?

Session 2: A Radish in the Sphincter: More exploration of the alien ship. What’s wrong with it?

Session 3: From Worm To Virus: Fixing the alien ship, but finding problems closer to home.

Session 4: You Hug One Pig: Exploring the possibility that first contact protocol has to offer.

Session 5: Three Metre Space Pole: What happened here, anyway?

Session 6: What Happens In Deep Space…: What happened here, anyway?

Session 7: I’m a Doctor, Not a Doctor: Ethical argument, and across the great rift…

Session 8: Set Up a Control Universe and Get Back To Me: How to deal with a saboteur?

Session 9: Space Floozies with Metal Bikinis: Are we the First Contact team now?

Session 10: You Made It Sound Creepy Now: Negotiating with a von Neumann probe. Horns and tail optional.

Session 11: Borg the Radish: Everything will be fine. On to the next spacewreck!

Session 12: Presumably Is Not a Word I Like To Use Around Lasers: Investigating the alien ship. Are these crew, soldiers or the larder?

Session 13: Saliva-Equivalent: Maybe it was just attracted to his natural charisma.

Session 14: The Purely Hypothetical Grue: If in doubt, send in the drone army.

Session 15: Let’s Call It a Glory Hole: But where is the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal?

Session 16: You’ve Done More Than Enough: Progress! Of a sort.

Session 17: That Does Not Sound Like a Healthy Stutterwarp: With Space Gaffer Tape.

Session 18: They Do Have Plumbing, And Often It Works: Down to the ice planet.

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Ooh, cool. I do like listening to your character generation.

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Ooh looking forward to this. I picked up that bundle and I always find it interesting to listen to books that I’ve got. I enjoyed the Pirates of Drinax and I picked that up after listening to it.

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Possibly of interest, my notes on character generation:

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Drinax is a really great adventure. I’m sad that I failed to get it to work.

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Session 1: Full of Fewer Worms: The mission begins, and promptly comes across a derelict craft. Or is it?

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Listening to the session zero. As someone who played and GM’d this in the 90s, it’s interesting to hear 2300AD using the Traveller rules.

Although the site is massively out of date, and it’s unlikely to be of direct use in the Bayern campaign, might I point people in the direction of the Etranger website, for those interested in the mil-scifi aspect of the 2300AD universe?

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dheb/2300/Admin/Index1.htm

P.S. oh, and the book-hopping appears to be a thing with Traveller-alikes. Paul Elliott’s/ Zozer Games Hostile Setting does a similar thing with the Traveller SRD.

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Session 2: A Radish in the Sphincter: More exploration of the alien ship. What’s wrong with it?

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Just listening to character generation, and Roger is still stiffing the players on skills. The second paragraph under Advancement starts off with “If you make a successful advancement roll, move to
the next higher rank and gain an extra roll on any of the skill tables available for your career.” (Emphasis mine.) So they should have gotten almost twice as many skill rolls.

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Ooh! I’ve played a bunch of Mongoose Traveller and not found that! Thanks, I’ll sort that out with the players.

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Session 3: From Worm To Virus: Fixing the alien ship, but finding problems closer to home.

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Session 4: You Hug One Pig: Exploring the possibility that first contact protocol has to offer.

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Session 5: Three Metre Space Pole: What happened here, anyway?

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Session 6: What Happens In Deep Space…: What happened here, anyway?

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The same question, every week.

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“Sir, it looks like… player characters.”
“My… God.”

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Session 7: I’m a Doctor, Not a Doctor: Ethical argument, and across the great rift…

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Session 8: Set Up a Control Universe and Get Back To Me: How to deal with a saboteur?

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Session 9: Space Floozies with Metal Bikinis: Are we the First Contact team now?

(Caution, episode may not actually contain any space floozies.)

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Imagine our disappointment.

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