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4 NPCs and Creatures After you have chosen the events that will lead your players to their goal, you must create the NPCs and creatures that will be encountered in the game and write down any information you will need to know about them to use them in the game. Determine the purpose of each NPC and creature in the adventure. Make sure they fit the purpose of the adventure and decide what they need to fill that purpose. For example, a guard needs a weapon and a technician needs a toolkit. You should try to make your creatures and NPCs fit the adventure and the setting. A gentleman would not live in a shack and wild creatures do not roam the city streets. 5 Special Rules If any of your events involve special situations that are not covered in the game rules, you should think about them before starting to play the adventure and decide how you will handle these situations when they arise. You may want to design special rules for new equipment, alien devices, general skills, weather, strange terrain or anything else called for by the event. Try to keep your special rules simple. Write down any special rules you make up, so if that situation ever comes up again, you can handle it the same way. 6 Write a Script When you have decided the order of the events, you should write all the information you need to play in a script that shows when things should happen. It is best to write down everything you need to know about each event so that you do not forget to give players important clues that will affect their decisions. Number each event, so that you will know its order. You can put the number of the event on a map so you can see where the event is to take place. Each written event should include the following information: 1. A description of what the characters can see. 2. A description of what happens when characters enter the setting, including NPC and creature reactions. 3. Ability scores for any NPCs or creatures that will be encountered in the area. 4. Any special rules for the event. 5. Random event probabilities. 6. Notes about what the characters can discover from the event. 7. Notes on what should happen if the characters succeed, if they fail, or take some other course of action. Read your script several times, putting yourself in the position of a player trying to move through the 110 adventure. Make different choices to see whether you accounted for the most likely possibilities. Make sure your challenges are not too easy or too difficult. Players should need to use reason and judgment to overcome the challenges. However, you can not think of everything, so try to be flexible. Make sure events challenge the players. 7 Create Maps Once you have finished creating the adventure you should make the maps you will need during the game. There are two types of maps that are very useful: a guide map to show the overall layout of the adventure and playing maps that are used during combat. • Guide Maps. Guide maps show the area where the adventure takes place in small scale. They do not show much detail, but can be used to mark areas where characters will have encounters, and show the types of terrain characters must travel through. A guide map typically has a scale of 1 to 20 km per hex or square. • Combat Maps. Combat maps are drawn on halfinch square grids and used with the counters during fights. The scale on these maps typically is 2 to 10 meters per square. They can show any amount of detail that the referee wants. Important features like doors, windows, security devices and natural dangers should be shown. • Indexing the Maps. Listing information about all of the important encounter areas directly on a map would be very confusing. Instead, encounter areas should be coded with a number or letter, and an explanation recorded or. a separate sheet of paper. This way, the referee can see at a glance where the important areas are on his map. The maps included with the adventure SFO, Crash on Volturnus, are good examples of how to set up both combat and guide maps. the sample adventure on the next page also includes two very simple maps, one a guide map with a scale of 1 kilometer per hex and the other a combat map with a scale of 2 meters per square. • Players' Maps. In many adventures, characters will want maps of their own. The referee should prepare these maps himself, and let the players keep them. Generally, these should be about the same as the referee's guide map, but without the notes and indications of where important information can be found. The players' map should include only the information that would be included on a regular map (unless the characters have found a hand-made treasure map or something similar).
Example Maps What follows is a collection of maps for you to use in your own adventures. They are taken from various published adventure modules, and can be reused by re-orienting them, starting the characters in different locations, and populating the areas with new creatures, events, and descriptions. 111
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STAR FRONTIERS, WIZARDS OF THE COAS
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General Data Name Age Walking m/t R
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The Sathar had learned that they co
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the players cooperate and reach the
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Example: Yinang, an assassin charac
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Highway -- An artificial or natural
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while waiting for a pressure door t
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as fog, rain, blowing dust or heat
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Range If the attacker and his targe
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Ammunition Players must keep track
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Special Actions Besides simply hitt
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Variable Power Settings Laser pisto
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GROUND VEHICLE MOVEMENT Speeds Vehi
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y adding the vehicle's speed in met
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Example: BliCluet the Dralasite is
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28 Human Brick House STR/STA 75/65
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Character Generation Your character
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Sample Character #1 Noah is going t
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Physical Structure Dralasites are s
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Physical Structure Typical adult Hu
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Physical Structure Vrusk look like
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Physical Structure Yazirians are ta
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Skills There are 13 different skill
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however, no matter what the charact
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chance for success is lower, it req
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REMOVING SECURITY LOCKS Success Rat
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DEACTIVATING ALARMS/DEFENSES Succes
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character's heartbeat and breathing
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EMPATHY Success rate: 10% + skill l
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Improving Characters Characters can
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Defense 58 Cost (Cr) Wgt (kg) Energ
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Page 124 and 125: ALPHA SECTION: INTRODUCTION Welcome
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8 Cinematic Martial Arts In a Front
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Cinematic Maneuvers • Blind fight
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9 Mentalist PSA Mentalist Many form
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LEVITATION Success Rate: 50% + skil
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10 Starting Gear All the players ar
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Beam Weapons The entry-level Beam W
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damage. These are divided evenly am
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Security Skeinsuit Whereas the mili
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Tactical Vest Sometimes it’s not
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Sentry Helm Bodyguards can’t alwa
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Jumpboots These appear to be a norm
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feature alone makes this device val
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