Tarsus
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I've had the same problem. It's such a juicy looking planet in a ripe location.
Can't find anything on line - some old links but that's it.
However, The Forgotten War, Golden Age EPIC Adventure #1, has a description in the manner of other EPICs; not detailed, but a good summary.
Can't find anything on line - some old links but that's it.
However, The Forgotten War, Golden Age EPIC Adventure #1, has a description in the manner of other EPICs; not detailed, but a good summary.
Mithras,
There's a lot of fun going on in D268.
There's Adventure 10 ("Safari Ship"), which takes place on 567-908, and Beltstrike, which takes place in the Bowman Belt.
Peripherally, you could also look at "Mission on Mithril", which takes place on the rimward edge of the Sword Worlds subsector. Also Adventure 4, "Leviathan", takes place in subsectors just rimward of Disctrict 268 and has a teeny bit of action there.
Come to think of it, I thought "Divine Intervention" also concerned a world in D268...
Rob
There's a lot of fun going on in D268.
There's Adventure 10 ("Safari Ship"), which takes place on 567-908, and Beltstrike, which takes place in the Bowman Belt.
Peripherally, you could also look at "Mission on Mithril", which takes place on the rimward edge of the Sword Worlds subsector. Also Adventure 4, "Leviathan", takes place in subsectors just rimward of Disctrict 268 and has a teeny bit of action there.
Come to think of it, I thought "Divine Intervention" also concerned a world in D268...
Rob
Tarsus is a small agricultural world - ranching rather than crop growing, extreme climate, the homeworld of a merc regiment, with a susag factory.
Seriously it is well worth picking up the boxset if you can find it. I have seen it recently at Ebay.
Also in District 268 is the bowman asteroid system covered in the Beltstrike box set.
Cheers
Richard
Seriously it is well worth picking up the boxset if you can find it. I have seen it recently at Ebay.
Also in District 268 is the bowman asteroid system covered in the Beltstrike box set.
Cheers
Richard
It does - Pavabid.
The Tarsus adventure is about returning home after the 5FW to save the family nobble ranch. Five situations are provided and it would be easy to add others like the trip to Pavabid.
My plan when I run the Tarsus adventure is to have the players, as known ex-military, contacted to do the job in Divine Intervention as a side adventure.
Phill
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I wish that QLI would come out with a single system for T20 as completely detailed as Tarsus. It was a great place to run adventures, and had lots of color maps and other handouts to make the place come alive for the players, and to make less work for the ref.
Dragon magazine also published a mini-adventure set on Tarsus in its old Ares section. It involved a nobble harvest, IIRC.
I own Beltstrike, but never got to use it in actual play. But Tarsus was an excellent game aid; we certainly got our money's worth of use out of it.
I realize boxed sets are not the norm for RPGs now, but Mongoose has done one, and is planning some more, for its Conan game. But I'd settle for just something like the system booklets SJG did for GT, plus some downloadable maps on the Website.
Dragon magazine also published a mini-adventure set on Tarsus in its old Ares section. It involved a nobble harvest, IIRC.
I own Beltstrike, but never got to use it in actual play. But Tarsus was an excellent game aid; we certainly got our money's worth of use out of it.
I realize boxed sets are not the norm for RPGs now, but Mongoose has done one, and is planning some more, for its Conan game. But I'd settle for just something like the system booklets SJG did for GT, plus some downloadable maps on the Website.
Tarsus for sale on Ebay
So far, not too expensive. Might be just what some new ref is looking for.
Crazy Igor also has one of the 10 numbered copies of the Nyotekundu sourcebook and the Colonial Atlas up. If you're a completist in the 2300 AD pipeline... well...
Me, I just bought Imperium. (Ouch, buy it now hurts us... precious....)
So far, not too expensive. Might be just what some new ref is looking for.
Crazy Igor also has one of the 10 numbered copies of the Nyotekundu sourcebook and the Colonial Atlas up. If you're a completist in the 2300 AD pipeline... well...
Me, I just bought Imperium. (Ouch, buy it now hurts us... precious....)
JustinThyme
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kaladorn, is that the beautifully reworked version from Avalanche Press, or is MWM still selling warehoused copies of the original release?
I, for one, loved the little, seemingly off-hand bits found in the Tarsus module. The planetary comm system and the voting system to be specific.
Tarsus has a personal sat-comm system of sorts but, thanks to hardware limitations, it only works between certain longitudes. Great Ghu, that just screams for use in an adventure!
Voting is even better. Everyone who was on world at a certain date centuries in the past was given the vote. Heirs recieved the vote when they original holder died and multiple heirs recieved fractional votes... Ooooh, just think of the shenanigans you can have with that bit!
Then there is the distinction possibility of a previously unsuspected Sword World refugee group coming into a whole batch of new votes! First, the planetary court ruled that free trader crews present on-world during that distant vote award day should be given votes too and now the surprising discover of a TL0 group of forest dwelling 'wildmen'; descended from Sword World refugees who arrived centuries ago, should have the vote too!
The mind boggles...
Sincerely,
Bill
Tarsus has a personal sat-comm system of sorts but, thanks to hardware limitations, it only works between certain longitudes. Great Ghu, that just screams for use in an adventure!
Voting is even better. Everyone who was on world at a certain date centuries in the past was given the vote. Heirs recieved the vote when they original holder died and multiple heirs recieved fractional votes... Ooooh, just think of the shenanigans you can have with that bit!
Then there is the distinction possibility of a previously unsuspected Sword World refugee group coming into a whole batch of new votes! First, the planetary court ruled that free trader crews present on-world during that distant vote award day should be given votes too and now the surprising discover of a TL0 group of forest dwelling 'wildmen'; descended from Sword World refugees who arrived centuries ago, should have the vote too!
The mind boggles...
Sincerely,
Bill
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