Dark Star Adventurecast

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The Dark Star Adventurecast sets the stars aside for a season break bridge episode in Mausritter: tiny knights, big danger. Jeff trades the Star Master chair for a mouse named Sir Clover Saltwick (allergic to bravery), Doja plays knighted bodyguard Sir Sneaker Nibble, and Scott's one-eyed archer Sir Martin Bellflower has strong opinions about bees. Brian takes over as Game Master for a system that fits in a teacup: three knights, one abandoned human shack, and a sunflower field crawling with bees that glow an ominous shade of purple that definitely isn't normal. There's also a skunk. The skunk's name is Shig.
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Meet the Crew:
Jeff as Sir Clover Saltwick
Scott as Sir Martin Bellflower
Doja as Sir Sneaker Nibble
Brian as Game Master
Special thanks to Brad, Holly, and Jim, our Scapegoat Syndicate members!
They're keeping the lights on, and the airlocks sealed.

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Jeff closes out season one with the entire cast at once instead of the usual single guest. Brian, Scott, Doja, and Stephanie sit down together to cover two years of recording, from the rule each of them got wrong the longest to the bit that somehow turned into an entire genre of made-up space rock bands. They swap favorite NPCs, worst decisions, and ships nobody saw coming, then each pick one word to sum up the whole season before signing off into the break.
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This episode of SWN Rules Explained looks at how alien species work in Stars Without Number, from the alien design chapter starting on page 202 of the revised rulebook. Brian walks through the book's split between recognizable aliens and the stranger, harder-to-parse kind, then covers the lens tables on page 204 that shape a species' psychology and the social structure table on page 207. From there he gets into building a playable alien character, picking perks from page 209 to construct an origin focus from scratch. It's the final SWN Rules Explained of Season 1, timed with the crew's time-loop escape from Prometheon Station in Episode 33, "An Acceptable Loss."
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The gyroscope is eating Prometheon Station one ring at a time, and there's no next loop to fix what goes wrong this time. Thorne gets locked in an office with the one enemy he can't decide whether to trust. Felix runs a hack under a ten-second gas countdown with three lives riding on it. Haleyy finds out exactly how many members of an Unhallowed horde one very angry woman can throw. And somewhere in the wreckage, the crew has to decide what an acceptable loss actually looks like.
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Meet the Crew:
Jeff as Star Master
Brian as Captain Thorne
Stephanie as the warrior Haleyy
Doja as the wildcard pilot Robert
Scott as the transhuman hacker Felix
Special thanks to Brad and Holly, our Scapegoat Syndicate members!
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Brian joins Jeff to talk about episode 32, Twenty-One Loops, the one where the rest of the crew starts treating death as a formality and Thorne is the only one still keeping score. They get into why he's sitting on two separate secrets from Felix right now, and Brian makes his case for Thorne as the reluctant Malcolm Reynolds of the Scapegoat. Then Brian tries to sell Jeff on competitive Pokemon, and it does not go well.
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