The Unknown Regions House Rules

Star Wars: The Unknown Regions
GM
Rotating
Player XP
80
Ships
Sunrise Maiden · Extended Notes
Crew
Aryi Tehl · Bredoc Laurence Clearwater · Dunrel Za Sarad Kryze · Senroz · Zim'rikk
Allies
Chiskisk
Contacts
Elan the Drug Dealer The Hardscrabble Collective Clara-247
Enemies
TBD
Gear
Group Gear
References
House Rules · Adventure Log The Unknown Regions - Setting Notes

Character Creation

These characters are brand new at being spacers and will start with no additional XP beyond character generation.

Combat

Wounds

• Characters (except minions) do not fall unconscious at 0 wounds, instead they may continue to act normally, but suffer a critical with any hit.

Cover

• Defence (Black Dice) granted by Cover adds to defense gained by other sources.

Initiating Combat

• If both parties are aware of each other, in combat range, and not hostile; the party initiating combat gains a blue die to initiative checks.
• If one party successfully performs an ambush (is aware of the incoming enemy, prepared and not detected prior to initiating combat) perform the following:
  • Roll an opposed Cool vs. Vigilance check.
    • Success grants a Blue to Initiative, with an additional blue per two additional successes
    • Two advantage may be spent to gain a free maneuver before combat. Unspent Advantages carry over to the Initiative check
    • Triumph may be spent for a top initiative slot, or for a free action (just action, not full round) before combat, or positively affect the battle.
    • Failure has no effect.
    • Three disadvantage may be spent to gain a black die to the initiative check
    • Despair may be spent to lose your free maneuver in the first round, or negatively affect the battle.
  • The ambushing party gains one blue die to initiative (regardless of roll outcome)

Integrated Grenades

• If a character with a readily accessible grenade is within grenade range of the target, they may spend to advantage to activate the grenades Blast quality at their target's location. This uses up the grenade.
• Grenades may still be use as per standard rules.

Starships and Travel

Pallets and Packaging

Note: Multiple packaging methods may be used on the same items, but they do not stack; only the best reduction is used.

• Boxing Up: Using Plasti-board boxes and foam available on any civilized world, items are stacked for shipping.
  • Encumbrance of a box is calculated by adding together the encumbrance of all contained items, dividing by ten, then rounding up to the nearest whole number.
  • Boxed items gain a blue die to resistance rolls against becoming damaged.
  • Boxing items costs 25 credits per point of encumbrance of the box.
  • An additional blue die for resistance by doubling the price of the box, or two for tripling.
  • All boxes have a cumbersome rating equal to their encumbrance.
• Pallets: Pallets are specifically designed for load lifters, and to be easy to secure in cargo holds.
  • Each pallet may contain between 50 and 100 encumbrance of items.
  • Items under 5 encumbrance must be boxed first. (See above)
  • Each pallet is 5 encumbrance and cumbersome 10. It cannot be lifted by less than 2 size 1 individuals.
  • Pallets may only be used in cargo vehicles.
  • Creating a pallet costs 50 credits.
• Small Shipping Containers: These containers are 6x2.5x2.5 meters and designed to be used with large machinery and stacked in massive bulk freighter holds.
  • A shipping container may hold up to 500 encumbrance of items.
  • Each shipping container is encumbrance 25. It cannot be lifted by less than 2 binary load lifters.
  • Extremely cumbersome, each vessel may only hold a fixed number of these containers, even if it has cargo room left.
  • Shipping containers are vehicle scale, and have an armor value of 1, and 3 hull points.
  • Shipping containers cost 1,000 credits each.

Personal, Vehicle, Massive Scales

• Personal Scale: Operates as written.
  • Breach: Breach(1) is now defined as Pierce(10).
• Massive Scale: Operates as current vehicle rules.
• Vehicle Scale: A new scale partway in between Personal and Massive. Most things (except some creatures) size 2, 3 or 4 use this scale.
  • Damage Scale: Vehicle scale weapons, hull and armor operate on a 5 to 1 ratio with personal scale, and on a 1 to 2 ratio with Massive scale.
  • Brawn: Droids and other creatures using standard attributes only use brawn for skill rolls; it is not applied to encumbrance, damage or soak.

Operational Costs

Source: Operational Costs Community Book

Fuel

• Heavy Freighter: 100+ Fuel Cells
• Usage:
  • 1/2 per Takeoff or landing and reaching Jump Distance
  • 1 per Hyperspace Jump
  • 1 per 6 hours in Hyperspace
  • 1 per 12 hours of Realspace Operation
  • 1 per 1 hour of Maneuvers
  • 1 per 1 hour of Atmospheric flight
  • 1 per 24 hours of Standby
  • 1 per each additional 2 Passengers beyond ship's maximum per day
  • 1 per maximum cargo load (Realspace and Atmospheric ops)

Power

• Heavy Freighters carry their own power generators and don't need to rely on engines idling to be powered while in port

Crew Consumables

• Life Support: For every 2 additional beings beyond the ship's limit, the System Strain Threshold is reduced by 1
• Droids count against crew consumables, but do not count to the above formula affecting Life Support

Maintenance

• Maintenance is separate from Hull Trauma
• For every five (5) points earned of Maintenance Events, 1 hour of ship maintenance is required
• When a ship reaches 10 hours of required Maintenance, things can start going wrong with the ship
• Maintenance Events
  • 1 point for Landing on a Planet
    • 2 points for Landing on a Planet carrying Heavy cargo (50%+ of Encumbrance)
    • 2 points for a heavy landing (3 points if carrying a Heavy cargo)
  • 1 point for taking off from a planet
    • 2 points for taking off from a planet if carrying a Heavy cargo
  • 1 point for a Combat Encounter
  • Any Collision that doesn't result in Hull Trauma
  • 1 point per day per every 2 beings the life support system is required to support beyond its limit
  • 1 per week of Flight or Continuous engine running
• Hyperdrive Maintenance is required every 20 jumps or plot relevant jumps
  • Costs around 1000 credits for full service at a port; money can be saved if players do it themselves, but cost of parts is still relevant

Characters

Extended Obligation Rules

• Both the Flaming Cantina and TLB can accrue Obligation, as separate entities (in our most recent adventure, the Obligation is on the ship, not so much on the company)
• These will get added to the Obligation listing as two separate entries
• If at the start of a session either one of these gets rolled, all PCs suffer a -2 Strain penalty for the session. This represents the fear and stress that our (collective) livelihood is being threatened and that we should address it.
• Unlike personal Obligation, both these new Obligation entries can be reduced to zero. (Personal Obligation can/should never go below 5 points.)

Downtime Activities

At the start of each story arc, players will determine what 'downtime' activities they were doing since the last story. This assumes there was time for a break (and there usually is). The GM will then determine what, if any, effects those activities had on that character.

These rules are still being developed over here.