{"id":7353,"date":"2023-02-25T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2023-02-18T21:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T21:20:53","slug":"five-parsecs-from-home-the-pi-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2023\/02\/25\/five-parsecs-from-home-the-pi-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Parsecs From Home \u2013 The Pi Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marcus takes off into deep space with his crew of ne’er-do-wells in the start of a new solo campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the strapline, Five Parsecs from Home<\/em> is \u201cA solo adventure wargame of galactic trailblazing!\u201d. Originally published amongst a host of other products from Nordic Weasel Games, I bought the original some years ago but never got it to the table as I often don\u2019t with electronic products (but you can get it from Drive Thru RPG here<\/a>). When Modiphius produced a lovely, updated physical version in 2021 I had to give it a try.<\/p>\n

The game relies heavily on tables to generate characters and events each turn. It is hardly surprising that rolling up my characters was an activity redolent with memories of half-forgotten episodes of \u201880\u2019s role playing.<\/p>\n

Having had a couple of games which went well in terms of understanding, but very much not so in if judged by any standard of success, I regretfully decided to roll up a new crew and record the results for general edification.<\/p>\n

Firstly, the Captain: Veyon Ostrova (human). While Veyon grew up on a Research Outpost which gave her some technical background, her family were artists. She has as a result a bit of savy and a slice of luck. She is motivated by wealth.<\/p>\n

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Veyon and Pascal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pascal Xavier (human \u201cbio-up\u201d). Pascal is an unusual character. From a wealthy background he is bio-adjusted with cybernetics, (including the ability to avoid a stun on a D6 roll of 5+). Pascal has a political motivation (which I suspect gives him some revolutionary leanings) and a mysterious patron, a private organization with some as yet unspecified objectives. Nevertheless, he is also quite savvy. He is not short of a bit of cash and generated a story point, which can adjust matters in the player\u2019s favour; a lucky break or perhaps a dramatic twist in the story\u2026 <\/p>\n

San Holo (humanoid alien). San is particularly notable for his blueish skin tone and has innate engineering skills. Brought up on a space station, he is not as tough as the others, but he is fast. He is a bit of a scoundrel but is motivated by romance. Is he looking for a lost love? San also generated a story point.<\/p>\n

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Holo and Tigg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nira Tigg (human) grew up in with a ganger background. Whatever happened on that mining colony she grew up on, she is out for blood! She is motivated by revenge. As a result she is tough (+1), has two experience points and faster reactions (+1) than the norm, but also has a rival. Somebody is gunning for her too!<\/p>\n

Kel Wyre. Not unlike Nira, Kel has an unhappy background. Escaping from some war-torn hell-hole of a planet with two experience points and (+1) quick reactions, he values his freedom above anything else. And what way to assure that than a ready supply of cash? Kel is a scavenger who has his ear to the ground (+1 rumour) and has managed to acquire a sniper rifle.<\/p>\n

Finally, Wellington Duo (human) grew up in a wealthy merchant family and perhaps not surprisingly he is motivated by the acquisition of wealth himself. He has some experience in corporate espionage and a corporate patron who has provided the crew with their first job. He has a handy way with tech (he has a repair bot and knows how to use it with +1 to repairs)<\/p>\n

Their ship is a lowly rust-bucket of a freighter. Its registration ends with the digits \u202631.4. San remarked on this and Veyon replied \u201cThen it will be Pi in the Sky\u201d and the name stuck.<\/p>\n

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Wyre and Duo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next time we\u2019ll get stuck into some action\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcus takes off into deep space with his crew of ne’er-do-wells in the start of a new solo campaign. According to the strapline, Five Parsecs from Home is \u201cA solo adventure wargame of galactic trailblazing!\u201d. Originally published amongst a host of other products from Nordic Weasel Games, I bought the original some years ago but … Continue reading “Five Parsecs From Home \u2013 The Pi Campaign”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Action, adventure and really wild things in Marcus' new Five Parsecs From Home campaign","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[131,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-five-parsecs-from-home","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2973.jpg?fit=598%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-1UB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7359,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions\/7359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}