So had a first Kosmosaurs game and it was pretty wild.
I had read lots of the plot and faction GM stuff and wrote my own exploration tables but playing it was different. I fully read the rules and groked the system the night before and made 2 characters to test out to be NPCs.
I did a Doctor Styracosaur a boffin from HQ who gives missions to these new squads from Cosmosaur Academy. He will be a liability on the field but good for negotiations and data.
I then did Buck Raving, a 40 ton apatosaurus with rocket tubes on his back and a sensor coms guy to back up Dr Styracsaur.
Players arrived and we made these:
Dr Anklo a 6 ton medic who most used his innate dino bonuses by trampling enemies. He has a coms suite and medical stuff and is a proper Boffin.
Sam the Pteradactyl a 8kg spy with a laser gun and armour and hackers skills - a mutated fish ate his family before joining the Kosmosaurs and he cant write.
Gordon the Parasalophasus a 2.9 ton duck billed horned honker space gardener. His family were killed be evil space broccoli anti vegetarians so now he is a cop using his extendable mono-trowl to uproot injustice. He is terrible at stealth.
Boltz Mech a utah raptor techie with a criminal past adopted by Kosmosaurs. Is a sharp shooter who thinks he is the next Napoleon with his laser
Another Utah Raptor was a soldier with a rifle
We then made the party ship.
The Pacifier, with a baby pacifier as a logo. The AI is an overprotective Nanny who is a bit difficult but helpful. The special features are manoeuvrability and a lab with a greenhouse for the biosciences.
Then I rolled up an adventure seed with tables from book. I had been watching Fireball XL5 and Herculoids as prep.
So we got a power hungry noble in a dead space gods corpse. They were to contact a bureaucrat of the government who called the Kosmosaurs. Turns out the mob and some other factions involved also including the Slime Lord syndicate.
So the party got on their ship and zoomed away taking a bridge position. On the way Dr Anklo tried to make backup clones of everyone and sneezed on the betridish and was sorta satisfied. They arrived at Necros Prime a giant space astronaut many kilometres long in a space suit orbiting a brown dwarf with just comets and asteroid belts in the area. The corpse had a mine and was controlled by mean aristocrats who were originally guild masters. Various comedies like space god brain cells and nueral peptides were highly desired for AI.
So they met the bureaucrat and were put up in a nice hotel with a giant gold bath in a room connecting their suites. The made their plans. The dodgy ex crook raptor and the spy pteradactyl went lowlife and got a job offer as gang muscle. The others as posh nobles made some new contacts and got an offer to the nobles guild hall. The pteradactyl had given everyone long records of cruelty and worker abuses which helped them get close to the baddies.
Both teams met up and made plans. So the lowlife guys got a mission to collect several VIP for the mob. The other guys got to the guild hall and heard suspicious sedition but not quite damning. Dr Anklo overcame their anti recording tech and got some possible evidence. They saw the villainous Lord Uru and Lady Carpathia. When they all met up again they disguised their ship as a pirate corsair and set of for the VIP the slime lords were smuggling into the great corpse colony. They docked with a mysterious black spiky ship and took onboard a wizened old triceratops in robes with blackened pit eyes and two berserker combat robots long ago banned. Even the Nanny AI was instructed on being deceptive and laughed evily.
They took on the guests and as they planned Pteradactyl discovered the guests were hacking the ship so they stopped it and went down below to kill them. Doors opened suddenly and robots came out. Dr Anklo and Gordon ran in causing havoc and lasers were everywhere. The pterodactyl and the crime raptor made EMP bombs. The dark dino used strange powers to resist but the team did win. The dark dino lord disappeared into the dust which was a bit odd as normally Kronsaurs don't shoot to kill and never turn their weapons to disintegrate on a sentient being. They rebuilt the robots into walking simpletons and took the evil robes. After the evil dino faded away leaving dust and was in the Kosmosaur database as an evil clone of an early Kronosaur hero.
They disguised Dr Anklo as an evil dino (beard I guess) and the raptors followed as his bodyguards. Gordon used his biogenetics and the lab to make an evil pheromone spray to help users seem more evil. They landed at a secret spacedock of criminals in the knee and a few characters went back to the head to report to the Kosmosaurs and the administrator's security. So the disguised Kosmosaurs were in this evil palace built for them in the foot and met with the villainous Lord Uru and Lady Carpathia. When it came for the evil plotters to laugh the kindly Dr Anklo just couldn't cackle convincingly with sadism but his raptor servants made up for it. The lords asked why not the triceratops they expected and he brushed it off with a "he is busy and must not be questioned".
Eventually, the ship landed on the foot and the other guys had to hack a door then started blasting through walls. The royal dino villains sent two to guard on jetpacks and two to defend the door. Once inside Dr Anklo and the raptors attacked. Meanwhile, the Pterodactyl slipped away while Gordon finished off purple pig-faced aliens. He got to the doors and turned his gun into a one-use bomb blowing up two guards and breaching the wall. He was injured inside but the party was reunited. A few more rounds and the guards were gone. Lord Uru had a laser sword and Lady Carpatia had motorized metal teeth with a chainsaw-like bite. The noble boss crisis was averted and heroes won!
The others humbly accepted medals and returned to ship while Bolts got on TV and took all the credit. His public speech did recruit 4 young dinos they took back to Kosmosaur Central.
The kosmosaurs submitted reports and several gambled as an option for more stats and failed. One made it. Others took the safer one area to be good at. Now a kosmosaur is bad at public speaking and another is bad at humility.
Great fun system and easy to get feel for and stage risks and threats. Players succeed lots but once they are damaged it is easy to put them under the pump by difficulty mods like a firefight, time limits or tools required. The near misses are fun. All agreed to play again so yay!
With the dark demon dino return from the void?
The SLime lords will be out for the Kosmosaurs with hired assassins
Will those botched clones ever be mentioned again?
Gorillas are meant to be robots
I had read lots of the plot and faction GM stuff and wrote my own exploration tables but playing it was different. I fully read the rules and groked the system the night before and made 2 characters to test out to be NPCs.
I did a Doctor Styracosaur a boffin from HQ who gives missions to these new squads from Cosmosaur Academy. He will be a liability on the field but good for negotiations and data.
I then did Buck Raving, a 40 ton apatosaurus with rocket tubes on his back and a sensor coms guy to back up Dr Styracsaur.
Players arrived and we made these:
Dr Anklo a 6 ton medic who most used his innate dino bonuses by trampling enemies. He has a coms suite and medical stuff and is a proper Boffin.
Sam the Pteradactyl a 8kg spy with a laser gun and armour and hackers skills - a mutated fish ate his family before joining the Kosmosaurs and he cant write.
Gordon the Parasalophasus a 2.9 ton duck billed horned honker space gardener. His family were killed be evil space broccoli anti vegetarians so now he is a cop using his extendable mono-trowl to uproot injustice. He is terrible at stealth.
Boltz Mech a utah raptor techie with a criminal past adopted by Kosmosaurs. Is a sharp shooter who thinks he is the next Napoleon with his laser
Another Utah Raptor was a soldier with a rifle
We then made the party ship.
The Pacifier, with a baby pacifier as a logo. The AI is an overprotective Nanny who is a bit difficult but helpful. The special features are manoeuvrability and a lab with a greenhouse for the biosciences.
Then I rolled up an adventure seed with tables from book. I had been watching Fireball XL5 and Herculoids as prep.
So we got a power hungry noble in a dead space gods corpse. They were to contact a bureaucrat of the government who called the Kosmosaurs. Turns out the mob and some other factions involved also including the Slime Lord syndicate.
So the party got on their ship and zoomed away taking a bridge position. On the way Dr Anklo tried to make backup clones of everyone and sneezed on the betridish and was sorta satisfied. They arrived at Necros Prime a giant space astronaut many kilometres long in a space suit orbiting a brown dwarf with just comets and asteroid belts in the area. The corpse had a mine and was controlled by mean aristocrats who were originally guild masters. Various comedies like space god brain cells and nueral peptides were highly desired for AI.
So they met the bureaucrat and were put up in a nice hotel with a giant gold bath in a room connecting their suites. The made their plans. The dodgy ex crook raptor and the spy pteradactyl went lowlife and got a job offer as gang muscle. The others as posh nobles made some new contacts and got an offer to the nobles guild hall. The pteradactyl had given everyone long records of cruelty and worker abuses which helped them get close to the baddies.
Both teams met up and made plans. So the lowlife guys got a mission to collect several VIP for the mob. The other guys got to the guild hall and heard suspicious sedition but not quite damning. Dr Anklo overcame their anti recording tech and got some possible evidence. They saw the villainous Lord Uru and Lady Carpathia. When they all met up again they disguised their ship as a pirate corsair and set of for the VIP the slime lords were smuggling into the great corpse colony. They docked with a mysterious black spiky ship and took onboard a wizened old triceratops in robes with blackened pit eyes and two berserker combat robots long ago banned. Even the Nanny AI was instructed on being deceptive and laughed evily.
They took on the guests and as they planned Pteradactyl discovered the guests were hacking the ship so they stopped it and went down below to kill them. Doors opened suddenly and robots came out. Dr Anklo and Gordon ran in causing havoc and lasers were everywhere. The pterodactyl and the crime raptor made EMP bombs. The dark dino used strange powers to resist but the team did win. The dark dino lord disappeared into the dust which was a bit odd as normally Kronsaurs don't shoot to kill and never turn their weapons to disintegrate on a sentient being. They rebuilt the robots into walking simpletons and took the evil robes. After the evil dino faded away leaving dust and was in the Kosmosaur database as an evil clone of an early Kronosaur hero.
They disguised Dr Anklo as an evil dino (beard I guess) and the raptors followed as his bodyguards. Gordon used his biogenetics and the lab to make an evil pheromone spray to help users seem more evil. They landed at a secret spacedock of criminals in the knee and a few characters went back to the head to report to the Kosmosaurs and the administrator's security. So the disguised Kosmosaurs were in this evil palace built for them in the foot and met with the villainous Lord Uru and Lady Carpathia. When it came for the evil plotters to laugh the kindly Dr Anklo just couldn't cackle convincingly with sadism but his raptor servants made up for it. The lords asked why not the triceratops they expected and he brushed it off with a "he is busy and must not be questioned".
Eventually, the ship landed on the foot and the other guys had to hack a door then started blasting through walls. The royal dino villains sent two to guard on jetpacks and two to defend the door. Once inside Dr Anklo and the raptors attacked. Meanwhile, the Pterodactyl slipped away while Gordon finished off purple pig-faced aliens. He got to the doors and turned his gun into a one-use bomb blowing up two guards and breaching the wall. He was injured inside but the party was reunited. A few more rounds and the guards were gone. Lord Uru had a laser sword and Lady Carpatia had motorized metal teeth with a chainsaw-like bite. The noble boss crisis was averted and heroes won!
The others humbly accepted medals and returned to ship while Bolts got on TV and took all the credit. His public speech did recruit 4 young dinos they took back to Kosmosaur Central.
The kosmosaurs submitted reports and several gambled as an option for more stats and failed. One made it. Others took the safer one area to be good at. Now a kosmosaur is bad at public speaking and another is bad at humility.
Great fun system and easy to get feel for and stage risks and threats. Players succeed lots but once they are damaged it is easy to put them under the pump by difficulty mods like a firefight, time limits or tools required. The near misses are fun. All agreed to play again so yay!
With the dark demon dino return from the void?
The SLime lords will be out for the Kosmosaurs with hired assassins
Will those botched clones ever be mentioned again?
Gorillas are meant to be robots
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