GMing STAR HERO at UK Student Nationals Tournament - yay!

[Bismark]

The University I play at (Sheffield) won the UK Student RPG Championship last year (that will make 3 years out of the last 5) so we are hosting the tournament this year.

As a result, I am dusting off my STAR HERO scenarios again, like I did the other years we hosted.

There is always a shortage of SF GMs at this tournament, particularly 'SF' (even 'hard rubber' SF like mine is [a cross between Babylon 5, Starship Troopers {the book, of course ;)} and cyberpunk]) rather than 'Space Fantasy' (Star Wars, WH40K, fading Suns etc.)

The characters were 'grandfathered in' from FUZION and are about 300 points each... (loadsa Skills, mainly). I will probably 'clean them up' a bit for this year's game (the humongous Skill lists can scare the players, many of whom have never played HERO before).

If I have problems coming up with ideas, I will submit the universe background and the characters to these here forums and solicit sage advice. I have just bought both Traveller HERO PDFs so that will keep me interested for a while.

Time to 'fly the STAR HERO flag' again :D:thumbup::king:

[tkdguy]

Sounds interesting! Please let us know how it goes.

[Doc]

Such a pitty I'm a mere Canadian, unable to get there...! :doi:

[Jomster]

The University I play at (Sheffield) won the UK Student RPG Championship last year (that will make 3 years out of the last 5) so we are hosting the tournament this year.


Definitely interested to hear more! :)

One thing though, is there a website for the championship? A quick google search didn't turn up anything... apart from the question "Did you mean to search for: UK Student RAP Championship" !

[Bismark]

Definitely interested to hear more! :)

One thing though, is there a website for the championship? A quick google search didn't turn up anything... apart from the question "Did you mean to search for: UK Student RAP Championship" !

I did visit the (now defunct) website for last year's championships; I should know more about all this stuff when meetings restart next Wednesday (23rd). There will be an active website soon.

I now have the task of streamlining the characters and doing the stats for the 'adversary' race for the upcoming game.

The 'bad guys' will be vaguely insectoid, looking like the Seltorians (check out Star Fleet Battles Module C3 for an idea of what they look like). I am planning to have several castes of these aliens, varying according to strength, fighting ability and intelligence; the High Warrior Caste are the most dangerous as they are fairly intelligent, big and scary and carry the best equipment.

They are actually an 'Uplifted' (see the novels by David Brin) slave race; different lineage groups (hives, basically) serve different groups of masters.

They are mainly used as 'grunts'; most of their starships are troop carriers and their 'masters' (whoever they happen to be) provide the other ship types in their fleets.

[Bismark]

Definitely interested to hear more! :)

One thing though, is there a website for the championship? A quick google search didn't turn up anything... apart from the question "Did you mean to search for: UK Student RAP Championship" !

There is indeed a website, although the main page is distinctly out of date at the moment (the forums, as usual, is 'where it's at'). This is the link I have so far:
(http://www.studentnationals.org.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=447&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0)

I will be checking with the organisers soon to see which categories are still 'go' and which ones will have to be shelved (believe it or not, last year, out of the first group of 6 players I got only ONE had chosen sci-fi as their preferred category :eek:; the second group was easier to run for as 5 out of 6 players had put that category first on their list).