Rock the Stars: Cosmic Battle of the Bands (One-shot)
Visit glittering Stardust Station, home of the Stardust Sonic Gauntlet! Build a band of aliens and face off against a medley of musical foes.
$15.00
/ Session
Details
Once / Saturday - 9:00 PM UTC
Oct 25
Session Duration / 3.5–4 hours
3 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
3/5
About the adventure
Beneath the glittering lights of Stardust Station we find the Stardust Sonic Gauntlet. Musical groups from all corners of the galaxy come here to show their prowess and chase eternal glory. Build your ragtag group of alien dreamers and face off against the reigning champion, the Empress of Pop, Zaylor Lightspeed. Players will build a team of alien rockstars, come up with a genre and band name, and throw themselves into the waiting maw of the Gauntlet, in this Hitchhiker's Guide meets Scott Pilgrim one-shot romp. We will be running in FATE Core, with a couple elements from Accelerated. This game is a friendly introduction for first-time FATE players.
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Theater of the Mind
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(7)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Creativity, Teacher
About me
I'm a writer and mathematician who has been playing and running TTRPGs for twenty years, across a variety of systems. I love worldbuilding and coming up with compelling NPCs for players to interact with. I'm interested in telling stories with queer themes, ideas of identity, and playing with the nature of personhood.
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Creating your character
We will be creating the band collaboratively at the beginning of the session. You will make up an alien species and a role in the band (lead vocals, drummer, etc) and come up with a band name and genre before we start.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Have a Discord account and join the Discord server ahead of the game. We will be using a Discord bot for dice rolls.
What Tesseract brings to the table
This game will be fun and lighthearted, leaning heavily on Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny, and handling musical clashes like combat.
Homebrew rules
We will be using a modified version of the Approaches system from FATE Accelerated.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Microphone
Computer or Mobile Device
Headphones
Webcam
Platforms used
Safety
How Tesseract creates a safe table
This one-shot has a short integrated Session Zero, where we will go over Lines and Veils and player expectations, as well as giving a short primer on the FATE system.
Content warnings
Safety tools used