Poor Amongst the Stars (PBtA)
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These corridors and decks are all you've known your entire life. It's all your parents knew¸ it's all your children will know. As the ship you're in glides through the cold black vacuum of space you have to deal with the reality of being Poor Amongst the Stars.
Poor Amongst the Stars is a setting for Malandros that takes the players below decks on a generational starship. Where other games focus on the heroic deeds of the senior officers¸ Poor Amongst the Stars is about the powerless and unimportant characters aboard ship. Their struggles to improve conditions¸ gain respect or find romance are the core stories of the game. Malandros' superb dramatic interaction system turns the conflicts within a community that lives in a confined space into a compelling narrative.
The book places the players in control of the stories and makes the creation of setting central to the game. Every ship and every game is different as the players decide what is important to their stories and what gives the character's lives meaning. Are they humanity's last hope or a bold first step into interstellar space? Is the spaceship a utopia of science and technology or an over-crowded slum where the bare necessities are an everyday struggle? Poor Amongst The Stars allows the players to explore the best and worst of humanity in a unique setting. The book adapts the classic People You Meet and Signature Moves of Malandros from the streets of Imperial Rio to the corridors of your personalised starship.
Trapped in the vast darkness of interstellar space¸ humanity must find a new way to live. What will you discover when you play Poor Amongst The Stars?
This title comes with a copy of the Malandros Free Edition PDF so that you have everything you need to play in one package.