A downloadable Custom Sector

This one-page starting sector is a customized start for the TTRPG game Ironsworn: Starforged designed by Shawn Tomkin. The Crimson Rift is a pocket sector within the Forge in the twilight of a Vault Rush on Morbus II. The prospects of a fresh precursor vault hadn't paid off as people speculated. The settlement of Tranquility now hosts thousands of Pilgrims and Prospectors alike are dependent on the supplies of food, water, and purified air, shipped from the harvester settlement Lyra. To divert tensions, the ruling family of Tranquility has set a series of 3 deadly races with a life of luxury given to the racer who wins all 3 in a row. As Ironsworn will you: uncover corruption in Tranquility, find the missing shipment of supplies, defend nova station from assassinations, remove the hostile monsters plaguing Lyra, or take the Triple Crown for yourself? 


This starting sector is based on Ironsworn: Starforged by Shawn Tomkin, available here:

https://www.ironswornrpg.com/product-ironsworn-starforged

https://shawn-tomkin.itch.io/ironsworn-starforged


StatusReleased
CategoryGame mod
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Authorjoshmeehanart
Tagsironsworn, Sci-fi, starforged, Tabletop role-playing game

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Ironsworn-Starforged-Sector-Starter-Jam2022-Meehan.pdf 4.6 MB

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Did a two-shot game with my IRL group and printed out playkit booklets for everyone, and put your starter on the back. Useful and good!
https://i.imgur.com/G2xqrvH.jpg

Oh WOW that is so cool! I'm glad it worked out! If you'd like, I'd love to hear how it went!

The fugitive pilot and weaponmaster scoundrel started on Nova Station, just having escaped their former mafia boss employers/owners.

They immediately parked in the wrong spot, as a power armoured pirate came up to intimidate/challenge/build his own rep. Power armour all opened up to show his oiled pecs, because I felt like giving it a certain spin. Lord Humungus plus Mandalorian. :P
They looked around for work, got a job smuggling harpoon guns to Lyra, for their monster problem. Not illegal per se, but smuggled to avoid fees and such.
Ran into a ship in trouble on the way, weird space anomaly. They figured out he was a pirate smuggling water from Lyra to Tranquility, and bopped him on the head and tied him up.
Immediately made friends with the corrupt politician recieving the harpoon guns, and I asked "weren't you trying to go legit?..." :D

They got back to Tranquility, and Cassidy showed up because the PCs employer wasn't paying up to her, and the PCs tried to talk her down.
A 6- led to the earlier power armour pirate coming back with buddies to demand respect, things happened, Cassidy was a little paranoid, a shootout happened, ship weapons were used in-station. The usual. :P

The pilot is interested in the Triple Crown of course, and they both want cash to start over legitimately.

I tried working the sector stuff into the other oracle results, hence why the pirate-in-trouble was smuggling water, and I kept bringing up how ships keep disappearing en route between the planets. Basically I used the sector as a starting situation, the players got entangled in the events, and off we went.

A lot of threads left to pull, but we used Starforged for a 2-shot while we were getting our previous game sorted out after a couple of players left, so if we keep going who knows.

Oh this is going to be funnn!

Thanks Margot!

This is soo good! Makes me want to restart my own play in this sector. The brief but punchy details for the worlds and settlements are exactly how I'd like to write my own worldbuilding.

Thank you, the space limitations forced me to make sure I didn't waste anything!