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43 Space Opera Adventure Seeds - Space Opera Support #6
Publisher: Polgarus Games
by Jeffrey Z. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/11/2021 17:33:37

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2020 issue of Freelance Traveller.

One of the strengths of Traveller is that it allows the players and referees to adopt their own style of SF campaign, from grittily realistic to high space opera, even verging on technofantasy. It can also be a weakness, as that flexibility doesn’t have any “inherent” support for generating ideas, and sometimes, even the most creative referee may find xirself at a loss for an idea.

One can make up for this lack by purchasing and running pre-generated adventures or pre-generated campaigns; there have been many offerings in this class, and they fill a need, otherwise they wouldn’t sell. But sometimes those are ‘overkill’. They’re more than what the referee needs (or wants), or the core idea just doesn’t appeal. Enter the Adventure Seed: A quick outline of a situation, just a paragraph or two, enough to (hopefully) catch a referee’s fancy and trigger xir creative energies without overspecifying the situation or response to it. Those sell, too, because they also fill a need.

This booklet is the latter: a small collection of ideas that aren’t overspecified, suitable for a Space Opera style of campaign. Most can be easily adjusted to support other types of campaigns, as well, although there are a few that really only fit high space opera or technofantasy. These are just the basic scenarios, posing the ‘problem’; you don’t get any suggested denouements as in the ‘standard’ Traveller-format adventure seed. Most are generic enough that it’s sometimes even possible to combine two or more of these seeds into a more complex adventure idea. You don’t get any development of any of the ideas; they can be played as single-locale episodes in a longer campaign (perhaps filling in those two days on Carsten a little more momentously), or as enigmas or potential threats that can lead to multi-world mini-campaigns. Many scenarios also allow for development with the characters on either side of the law, so you can play to your party’s predilictions—or manipulate them into the opposite!

The layout of the PDF is acceptable, but page filling is irregular; several pages have sufficient white space that might have allowed for additional seeds without increasing the final page count. There is no apparent effort to classify and group the seeds, and a little rearrangement might well have also allowed additional seeds in the same number of pages. There are artwork credits on the first page, but no artwork for the credits to apply to.

As with any list of adventure seeds, this is a publication aimed squarely at the referee – players who don’t referee need not apply. For the price, it’s not a bad value, but as with any similar publication, whether to purchase it depends on how likely you are to need it – or want it.



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43 Space Opera Adventure Seeds - Space Opera Support #6
Publisher: Polgarus Games
by Christopher H. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 06/28/2012 19:06:32

As the product name states, author Jason Anderson gives us here 43 adventure seeds for “space opera” games. Almost all of them could easily be adapted for Star Wars, Traveller, Star Trek, even Serenity or Farscape. If you run any game where travel to various planets is common, you’ll find something useful here. Editor Sarah Badcock let a noticeable number of grammatical errors (mostly having to do with punctuation, such the apostrophe that went missing from “planets starports” on p. 1) make it into the finished product—enough of them got through to annoy a careful reader, but not enough to impede the product’s usefulness.



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43 Space Opera Adventure Seeds - Space Opera Support #6
Publisher: Polgarus Games
by Thijs K. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 03/07/2008 16:31:27

Very disappointing, most seeds (43 spread over 8.5 pages) were like they were copied from a fantasy or modern seed book and were completely inappropriate for space opera (only 6 seeds involved something like spaceships). I counted at most 14 seeds that were remotely usable.



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43 Space Opera Adventure Seeds - Space Opera Support #6
Publisher: Polgarus Games
by Matthew F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 03/30/2007 00:00:00

Great to get the mind ticking over with possiblities of what things I can torture my.... of what adventures to give my players.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: SImple, short, sharp, shiny adventure seeds.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: THe cheese factor of some of them were a little too cheddary<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



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