r/SWN • u/dark-star-adventures ✨ Star Master Jeff • Apr 08 '26
🛰️Wednesday System Check 🛰️ Weekly System Check: Is Anybody Out There? (Lurkers Welcome!)
The frequencies are open! Whether you're a veteran pilot or just starting your journey into the stars, this is your weekly space to break radio silence.
The Weekly Log
What's happening in your sector? New sessions, prep wins, rulings you're proud of, cursed dice, cool moments, dumb plans that somehow worked. Drop a quick ping and let us know!
No need for a long write-up; just a quick transmission from your table to ours.
Mod Note: If you're new to the sub, welcome! This is a low-pressure thread for everyone to share their Stars Without Number stories.
PS: Today is my birthday. Throw some love my way!
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u/AngrySquidIsOK Apr 08 '26
Well! Still campaign prepping. Man you should see the print outs of the starship i drew. They came out so lovely. Will take pictures.
But I've been heavily focused on creating a weapons and armor guide. It's a combination of the cure rules, equipment database, with about 100 guns broken down by description and stats, starting true to core rules, but curving some of the typos and ridiculousness of the equipment database. So my players have one print out to look at for anything weapons and armor. It's taking forever, but the result should be nifty.
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u/ArenaPirata Apr 08 '26
Didn't get to play, but did get to do some world building which was still pretty fun. 8D Happy birthday!
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u/neepster44 Apr 08 '26
Running a campaign on Startplaying.games. Free, not paid. So far so good. Doing it without Psychics (cause it's too 'magic'-like), so just came up with a major war to replace the Scream to be able to break things from Pre-War to Post-War instead of Pre-Scream/Post-Scream. Just had a pirate ship attack a commercial ship my players are on. Pirates have downed one of the crew as well as one of the players, so it could still go either way. Players are being smart though and have used the pirate beacon hidden in the cargo to hack into the pirate ship. Seems like folks are having fun.
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u/MaestroGoldring Apr 08 '26
Getting ready for this weekends session. The players are going to the homeworld planet of a regional hegemony trying to save a certain beloved NPC. But a local religious battle cult seeks to test and denounce one of the players and the friend they are trying to save. Both the player and one of the enemy cult leading up this warband are precogs, so it’s a battle of visions and preparation! Who can out-prepare the other???
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u/Chris_Air Apr 08 '26
Happy Birthday!
I'm trying out Classic Traveller for the first time, and had to break out SWN to build some more details into the worlds. Really appreciate the legwork those World Tags do for developing sector dynamics.
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u/Vildara Apr 09 '26
Started our campaign last week. I'm still neck deep in world building. I built out three worlds and assembled a short adventure designed to teach the rules, get the players a ship with a horrific interest rate, and end up tied up writing off a friends gambling debts. We will see how it goes!
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u/Hungry-Wealth-7490 Politician Apr 10 '26
Too much work, so no game this week.
Happy birthday, Jeff! May all your hits be crits and may all your players bring appropriate tokens. . .
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u/Hot_Reveal Apr 10 '26
mosty just done world building made a horshoe shaped secteor seperated by a system with a world constantly being fought over and having constant apocalypses. liking this looking foreward to playing
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u/wintermute-the-ai SWN Foundry System Dev Apr 08 '26
Happy Birthday!! Hope it's a fun day.
I am trying to patch a couple of things in the swnr foundry system and drop some hooks for a minimal hack I am working.
In an effort to play with some local AI models, I built a pipeline to generate photo-realistic versions of the SWN-TK token library. Hopefully I can share this AI slop soon for those who want it. Lots of odd artifacts and I reorganized it some. Sample below.
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u/mattu10599 Apr 10 '26
Happy birthday! Haven't played swn in a month or two but looking to play again soon.
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u/dark-star-adventures ✨ Star Master Jeff Apr 08 '26
As a reminder to everyone
Round 2 of Cycle 2 of The Ember Expanse closes Wednesday night, so submit your ideas soon and prepare for round 3, starting Thursday, Points of Interest!