Friday Night Game Report - Coriolis - The Third Horizon RPG, Session 0 Redux 1
I had a very nice gaming session with the Friday night players last night.
The Friday night gaming group re-started their campaign last night of the Coriolis - The Third Horizon RPG game. The players will be continuing their game from where they last left off with it (back in 2020, I think).
Once the (Friday) players showed up at my place around 7:00 pm or so last night, we chatted for around 10 minutes or so and caught up on the weekend. When enough time had passed, I told everyone that it was time, and we sat down and started in on the game. As I do with all my Session 0s, I started off the night by giving the players a very brief overview of the universe of the Third Horizon, and they were pretty much digging it once again, especially the "Arabian Nights in space" pitch (though they all know that it's not strictly about that). Eager to play, for sure. :) We talked about the basic rules and mechanics of the game once more, and then got into some of the sub-systems that they wanted to know about in more detail. Then we got to talking about the basics of character generation, I answered some of their questions, and then we started in on the process in earnest.
Or rather, went through the creation of their characters once more, to check that the game numbers were right. The player characters are Explorers who work part-time for the Foundation, the scientific institute of the Consortium, but at times take jobs for other interested parties. Here are the player characters that the Friday night group created. They're an interesting bunch, and to be honest, appear to offer a nice degree of variety and good sub-plot material.
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KathyB - Kathy is playing Naima Saab, the daughter of a Kuan peasant who aspired to more and joined the scout service.
Angela - Angela is playing Hafisa darRouash, a freighter pilot with a bit of a shady past, who's worked with Tafik a bit in the past and has not-so-fond memories of doing so.
Ellie - She is playing a stowaway, Zouma Abid-Arif, who has a knack for sensors and some technology-related stuff. The rest of the characters don't know much about their new engineer.
Mark - He decided to play Tafik Sharoun, a scientist (archaeologist) whose interest isn't purely academic, and who seems competent with firearms.
Peter - The relative newcomer to the group, he's playing Omar Mannash, a trader and shyster who knows some things that he shouldn't and who is honest to a fault.
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Friday night's session of character creation for the Coriolis - The Third Horizon RPG was a lot of fun, and lasted just over 4-1/2 hours. The players re-created their exploration vessel, the Ruby Flower, after character creation was complete, modifying the ship in a couple of minor ways and the process didn't take all that long. Everyone had a lot of fun creating the characters, including Ellie, who's generally not a fan of the mechanical process, and they found the character generation system painless once more.
Once that was done, I had the time to take the players and their characters through some samples of the game rules in practice, and then devoted the last 45 minutes or so to some sample combats and one quick example of spaceship combat.
The players are looking forward to getting their Coriolis - The Third Horizon campaign back under way next session, and I'm quite looking forward to this myself.
The Friday night gaming group re-started their campaign last night of the Coriolis - The Third Horizon RPG game. The players will be continuing their game from where they last left off with it (back in 2020, I think).
Once the (Friday) players showed up at my place around 7:00 pm or so last night, we chatted for around 10 minutes or so and caught up on the weekend. When enough time had passed, I told everyone that it was time, and we sat down and started in on the game. As I do with all my Session 0s, I started off the night by giving the players a very brief overview of the universe of the Third Horizon, and they were pretty much digging it once again, especially the "Arabian Nights in space" pitch (though they all know that it's not strictly about that). Eager to play, for sure. :) We talked about the basic rules and mechanics of the game once more, and then got into some of the sub-systems that they wanted to know about in more detail. Then we got to talking about the basics of character generation, I answered some of their questions, and then we started in on the process in earnest.
Or rather, went through the creation of their characters once more, to check that the game numbers were right. The player characters are Explorers who work part-time for the Foundation, the scientific institute of the Consortium, but at times take jobs for other interested parties. Here are the player characters that the Friday night group created. They're an interesting bunch, and to be honest, appear to offer a nice degree of variety and good sub-plot material.
*****
KathyB - Kathy is playing Naima Saab, the daughter of a Kuan peasant who aspired to more and joined the scout service.
Angela - Angela is playing Hafisa darRouash, a freighter pilot with a bit of a shady past, who's worked with Tafik a bit in the past and has not-so-fond memories of doing so.
Ellie - She is playing a stowaway, Zouma Abid-Arif, who has a knack for sensors and some technology-related stuff. The rest of the characters don't know much about their new engineer.
Mark - He decided to play Tafik Sharoun, a scientist (archaeologist) whose interest isn't purely academic, and who seems competent with firearms.
Peter - The relative newcomer to the group, he's playing Omar Mannash, a trader and shyster who knows some things that he shouldn't and who is honest to a fault.
*****
Friday night's session of character creation for the Coriolis - The Third Horizon RPG was a lot of fun, and lasted just over 4-1/2 hours. The players re-created their exploration vessel, the Ruby Flower, after character creation was complete, modifying the ship in a couple of minor ways and the process didn't take all that long. Everyone had a lot of fun creating the characters, including Ellie, who's generally not a fan of the mechanical process, and they found the character generation system painless once more.
Once that was done, I had the time to take the players and their characters through some samples of the game rules in practice, and then devoted the last 45 minutes or so to some sample combats and one quick example of spaceship combat.
The players are looking forward to getting their Coriolis - The Third Horizon campaign back under way next session, and I'm quite looking forward to this myself.