Red Moon: Cadre Backgrounds
An earlier inspo mockup by Emmy, using a screenshot from a DOS game adaptation of Traveller . Red Moon is a sci-fi setting that Emmy Verte of Spooky Action at a Distance and I have been floating for maybe like a year at this point. The basic premise is that you’re a spaceship crew from a moon that has just revolted against a big space republic. The details have shifted over time, but lately we’ve been talking about the goal being to seek aid from a socialist system before being annihilated by the republic (a possibility in the characters’ minds, but already underway unbeknownst to them). It’s giving Cuban missile crisis. Et cetera. To this end, I’ve written a d66 background table to try to suss out the vibes of how the world works. I was going to say “It’s inspired by this and that”, but maybe it’s more interesting to leave that unsaid? Backgrounds & Language Roll d6 for a background category, and then roll d6 for that category’s own table. The initial d6 also equals how many...