Star Wreck Roleplaying Game

Mecha Dragon
A robotic lizard piloted by a young humanoid
with strange hair. Mecha Dragons are sometimes
found guarding spaceships, asteroids, or space
stations, and are a dangerous enemy to
spaceships. They are one of the few space
monsters who have a tendency to attack other
beings in close combat, instead of just shooting
beams of energy. If the Mecha Dragon is
destroyed, the pilot will eject in an escape pod,
that will automatically fly to their home base.
The escape pod is unarmored and easy to destroy.
Damage Points 100 from fire breath, 50 from
claws, 300 from special super trick attack
Fire Breath shots 5
Special Super Trick Attacks 1
Exoskeleton Points 300
Make Hit Roll Against: 5
Make Evasion Roll Against: 3
Travel Speed: Twist 7
Maximum Speed: Twist 9
Star Crystal
These beautiful crystalline entities roam the
galaxy radiating happiness, psychic awareness,
prosperity, and personal growth. Unfortunately,
the rays are extremely harmful to all humanoid
life. It is possible to communicate with the
Crystals, exposing oneself to their rays, but they
can’t be persuaded to leave anyone alone. Why,
the mere suggestion just means they must send
out more rays of love!
Damage Points 150 from radiation
Crystallization Points 400
Make Hit Roll Against: 4
Make Evasion Roll Against: 9
Travel Speed: Twist 7
Maximum Speed: Twist 9
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HOW TO RUN THIS GAME
The focus of this roleplaying game is to have fun
in the spirit of Star Wreck.
However, the Star Wreck kind of fun is very
different from the kind of fun many other
roleplaying games offer. It’s not the fun of
playing larger-than-life heroes who save the
world by making epic sacrifices in dramatic
circumstances. This is the fun of playing smallminded
losers who save the world by accident
while trying to save their own ass in tragi-comic
circumstances.
As long as you keep the above guideline in mind,
you should do okay. Create annoying NPCs the
Players and their characters will love to hate,
come up with silly situations the PCs will have to
survive in, and give them some real obstacles
where they have the chance to really make asses
of themselves.
Encouraging screw-ups
Make sure you and the players remember that
they are not there to be all they can be. It’s not
necessarily a sign of good roleplaying to play
their Characters to the maximum of their
abilities. If anything, you should encourage them
to make intentional mistakes, goofs, errors and
screw-ups.
In fact, it could be said that the better the
roleplayer, the more the Character fails. If the
Character does intentionally do something
incredibly stupid, remember that even when the
NPCs might scorn the Character, you, the GM,
should congratulate the Player – preferably with a
Pity Karma point!
Tactics are not for this game
Planning for the best tactics takes up a large
amount of time in many roleplaying games. Not
in this one. If your players start to draw up plans
and discuss methods, remind them they’re not in
P-Fleet Academy anymore. Whatever stupid idea
the captain comes up with is the one they should
go with.
While adjudicating the results of the characters’
actions, remember that it should not be the
brilliance of their tactical maneuvers that gets
them killed. They can fail gloriously or
miserably, but what kills them should be petty
disagreements with the other officers, or being
shot in the back by Plingon bastards.