{"id":12068,"date":"2007-11-26T09:13:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/26\/galactic-3.html"},"modified":"2007-11-26T09:13:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T16:13:03","slug":"galactic_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/galactic_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Galactic!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Played our first “real” installment of Doyce’s Galactic <\/em>gamma-test<\/a> on Sunday.  Jay and Randy were out, so it was Chris and Tim and myself.<\/p>\n

Galactic has an interesting mechanic.  It’s a limited-session game — three “quests” then the finale — and your main character is a starship captain trying to gather information about the mysterious “Scourge” that destroyed the human empire thousands of years ago, and from which now your people are only beginning to recover.   I say “main” character because while each player runs a starship captain, they also get to run a crew member on each other player’s crew.<\/p>\n

Thus, while I play Allysande Daen<\/a>, the young overly-serious former naval officer now searching for my father captain, Chris played the slacker\/druggy engineer Smoke and Tim played my valet, Bosley.  When it was Tim’s turn to run things with his luxury liner \/ survivalist captain, Chris was playing a fighting-priest security officer and I was the callow purser\/intern.  While Chris was playing his techno-archaeologist captain, Tim had the Jayne-esque button man and I played the captain’s ex-wife and ship’s negotiator.<\/p>\n

It keeps things interesting, so that even while the “focus” is on other players, you always have something to do.  The game, mechanics, too, promote lots of involvement in collaborative story-telling and some good (non-sim) dice tactics.<\/p>\n

I’m really pleased with how the system is working at the moment, and am looking forward to the next game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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