The Cluster

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This is a one-shot of my recently published PbtA game 'The Cluster'.

It's a game in which players take the role of a rag-tag Crew who are just keeping their heads above water as the economic tides of the eponymous Cluster of seven systems, each many light-years from the others, but connected by Ring Gates, threaten to swamp them and the cramped and reconditioned ship they use to make a living. A touchstone might be 'The Expanse' for gritty 'real-physics' tech and found family Crew. Star Trek and Star Wars this is definatively not ...

As this is a one-shot we'll be playing in a pre-generated Cluster of systems, the details of which are here: (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wlRvk9o--PlSjYqMDq0XaCIWACv1rPFD/view?usp=drive_link).

Each player will choose one of the available Societies: Harsh, Spacer, Dedicated, Authoritarian, Poor, Sequestered, and that will define the system where they were brought up. They will then choose two Career Playbooks from among Daredevil, Engineer, Fixer, Grifter, Hustler, Investigator, Scientist, Scoundrel, Soldier & Tactician, to reflect what they did between leaving home and joining the Crew.

We'll agree which system you start play in and the job you are currently engaged in and then ... play to find out ...

We'll be using Lines, Veils, the X-Card and an Open Door, and play within the Community Code of Conduct.