Psions and mysteries take over November Saturday Night Space Opera

Psst, hey kid! Here's your chance to preview a game we're hosting at the 2016 Con of the North. This is a super not-so-secret preview of an original adventure by gamemaster Jenifer Doll titled AMONG STARS AND WOULD-BE GODS! This one-shot mystery adventure uses the Monte Cook Games' new Cypher system (the same rules as Numenera and The Strange).

MISSION DETAIL:

You’ve never seen the world outside the walls of the Project Psion Research Center. Its mission--to improve humanity--has dominated your entire life. You’re used to the automated nature of your world, but you haven’t seen the researchers in weeks and something feels very wrong. It’s been long enough now that you and your fellow subjects have no choice but to try and escape the facility.

6:00 pm / Saturday, November 7

Source Comics + Games

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YO PLAYERS:

• BYO Dice (d6, 2d10, and d20)
• Character sheets will be provided
• No prior experience with Cypher System is necessary
• Check out this free preview of Cypher rules
  
  

  

  
  

Soaking up the Jedi powers

THINK ABOUT IT:

How is The Force like the One Ring?

Vulcans, age 35

With mindbending, psionic Force-powers, purging emotion, and not thinking about girls for 900 years you can expect to...

...lose all sense of grammar and live in a swamp... 

Without discipline though...

You dig?

KEEP FOCUS KIDS.

Exiled Jedi Vocational Readjustment (1d20)

I recently found some old notes I had on post-Jedi job opportunities--in other words, what do Jedi do when there's no proper temple or organization for the Order. If you've ever played the 2E version of West End Games' Star Wars RPG, they had a character template for a "failed Jedi". This was ostensibly any Jedi who survived The Purge and went on to choose a new line of work, be it paid or hobo.

So here's a list to get the ball rolling (literally, it's a random table of course!). Keep in mind, that any Jedi in hiding in plain view needs to remain so and if their powers come in to play they need to be able to explain their powers away as "tricks":

1. Psychic / Fortune Teller
2. Street Magician
3. Private Detective (a la Psych or The Mentalist, but with real powers)
4. Investigative Journalist
5. Gangsters / Smuggler / Street Informant
6. Physician / Veterinarian / Horticulturist (for those specializing in healing Force powers)
7. Archivist / Librarian
8. Alien Artifact Expert
9. Ghost Catcher / Exorcist
10. Homeless / Hermit
11. Beast Whisperer
12. Circus Freak
13. Psychiatrist / Svengali 
14. Gambler / Grifter / Stock Broker
15. Politician (after elective surgery to disguise oneself)
16. Sports Star (ditto)
17. University Professor
18. Combat Trainer
19. Ruler of a Primitive Society
20. Night Club Bouncer

Common sense dictates that many of these can be combined. And it should go without saying that they no longer need to stay completely on the light side of the Force. Once they're unemployed, their ethics are in a state of flux.

This also could just as easily work for any other RPG setting using psionicist, but I especially like the notion of a disbanded society of psionic ronin looking for purpose after The Fall.

Can you think of any others? I'll add them to the list.