Starport Scum: The Wrong Side of Hyperspace

Creating your character

## Character Creation 🎲🧑‍🚀 Character creation will be **by the book**: we roll the dice and discover who crawls out of the starport. 🚀✨ No perfect builds. No optimized super-soldiers. No carefully engineered destiny. You roll what you get, and then we make that character awesome. 😎 Maybe you were ex-military. Maybe you were a colonist, a gang member, a trader, a pilot, a drifter, or someone who almost had a respectable life before everything went sideways. Maybe you found true love, made good money, got your own ship, became famous, or discovered something deep in space. And then, because this is *Starport Scum*, it all fell apart. 💔💸🔥 The war destroyed everything. Pirates took what was yours. A rival brought you down. The government shut you out. You gambled and lost. You were betrayed. Or maybe you just suffered the galaxy’s most expensive midlife crisis. 🌌😬 From those rolls, we’ll build your character’s traits, gear, attitude, grudges, scars, debts, and bad decisions. Your character may start as a nobody, a bruiser, an ace, or someone with just enough talent to be dangerous. Whoever they are, they are now part of the crew. The dice give us the raw material. We turn it into trouble. 🔫🛠️💀 Come ready to embrace the chaos, laugh at the results, and make a memorable scoundrel out of whatever the galaxy throws at you. Around here, legends are not built from perfect plans. They are built from bad rolls, worse choices, and surviving long enough to get paid. 💰🚀🎲

Preparing for the session

## Player Preparation 🚀🎧🗺️ Before you ship out, make sure your comms are working and your gear is loaded. The galaxy is dangerous enough without technical difficulties. 😎 You will need: 🎧 **Discord** We use Discord for voice during the session. Please join the campaign Discord before game time so we can talk, plan, panic, celebrate lucky shots, and blame the dice together. 🗺️ **Roll20 Account** We use Roll20 for the tabletop: maps, tokens, characters, crews, firefights, objectives, scenery, and all the beautiful chaos that happens once the job goes sideways. 🔫💥 🎲 **No Rules Mastery Required** You do not need to know the system before joining. I will teach the rules as we play. *Starport Scum* is fast, dangerous, and wonderfully direct: get to cover, take the shot, grab the loot, drag your buddy out, and try not to become someone else’s salvage. ☠️ 🧑‍🚀 **Come Ready to Roll With It** Character creation is by the book, which means the dice will help us discover who you are, what you lost, what you still want, and why you are desperate enough to take dangerous work on the wrong side of hyperspace. 🎲🌌 🤝 **Bring the Crew Energy** This is a sandbox campaign built through play. Your choices matter. Your suggestions matter. Your bad ideas definitely matter. Factions, rivals, planets, patrons, grudges, and opportunities will grow from what happens at the table. 📡 **Before Session Time** Please have Discord and Roll20 ready, your microphone working, and enough time to log in a few minutes early. Once the job starts, the ship is lifting off whether the cargo bay door is closed or not. 🚀💰 Bring your nerve. Bring your imagination. Bring a willingness to get into trouble. The job board is blinking. Let’s go get paid. 🔫🛠️💸

What Ukulele Mike brings to the table

## What I Provide 🚀🗺️🔫 I’ll bring everything needed to launch the job, light up the map, and keep the trouble moving. 😎 You’ll get a fast, friendly, fully prepared online tabletop experience built for dangerous jobs, desperate crews, and glorious sci-fi chaos on the wrong side of hyperspace. 🌌 Here’s what I provide: 🗺️ **Roll20 Maps & Battlefields** Each job will be played out on a prepared Roll20 map: starports, docking bays, derelict ships, frontier colonies, corporate facilities, alien ruins, backwater settlements, cargo yards, dirty alleys, and whatever other dangerous places the crew decides to visit. Expect cover, objectives, hazards, useful scenery, and places where everything can go sideways. 💥 🧑‍🚀 **Tokens for Characters, Crews, Enemies & Weirdos** I’ll provide tokens for player characters, crew members, rivals, bounty hunters, security goons, pirates, droids, aliens, civilians, monsters, and whatever else crawls out of the vents. 👽🤖☠️ 📋 **Character & Crew Support** We’ll use Roll20 to track characters, traits, gear, crews, injuries, loot, and all the little details that turn a random scoundrel into someone the table remembers. Character creation is by the book, but I’ll guide everyone through it. 🎲 🎧 **Discord Voice Server** We’ll use Discord for voice, table chatter, planning, dramatic warnings, terrible ideas, lucky shots, and post-job disbelief. Please bring a working mic and a willingness to yell “I drag him behind the crates!” when things get bad. 🎧🔫 📚 **Rules Guidance & Teaching** You do not need to know *Starport Scum* before joining. I own the core rules, supplements, and related material we’ll be using, and I’ll teach the game as we play. The goal is to keep things moving, make rulings clearly, and get you into the action fast. ⚙️ 🧭 **Sandbox Campaign Prep** This campaign will grow through play. I’ll prepare jobs, locations, NPCs, rumors, factions, and complications based on the crew’s choices. Each session will create new consequences, opportunities, enemies, and possible scores. The galaxy will get bigger because you messed with it. 🌍🛰️💰 🎭 **NPCs, Patrons, Rivals & Trouble** I’ll bring shady employers, desperate locals, corporate fixers, rival crews, bounty hunters, pirates, law officers, smugglers, weird aliens, dangerous contacts, and people who are definitely not telling you the whole truth. 🕶️ 💸 **Jobs, Loot, Fallout & Consequences** Every score matters. I’ll handle job setup, mission objectives, rewards, loot, heat, injuries, recruitment, and the fallout from whatever happened on the map. If you make enemies, they may come back. If you make friends, they may need help. If you steal something valuable, someone probably wants it back. 😬

How Ukulele Mike creates a safe table

🛡️🚀✨ *Starport Scum* is about dangerous jobs, desperate choices, blaster fights, shady employers, weird aliens, bad debts, and glorious trouble on the wrong side of hyperspace. 🔫🌌💰 But the **players at the table matter more than the trouble on the map**. This campaign is meant to be fun, welcoming, adventurous, and comfortable for everyone. The characters may be dodging bounty hunters, crawling through derelict ships, making terrible deals, and getting shot at behind cargo crates, but the players should always feel respected and safe. 🤝🧑‍🚀 To help with that, we’ll use the following safety tools: 🧭 **Lines & Veils** Before play, we’ll talk about content boundaries. **Lines** are things that will not appear in the game. **Veils** are things that may exist in the world but will stay off-screen, faded out, or handled briefly. This helps keep the campaign exciting without wandering into material that makes the table less fun. ✅ ⏸️ **Breaks** We’ll have time for a short break during the session, and players are always welcome to step away briefly if needed. No interrogation, no problem. Sometimes even scoundrels need to breathe, refill water, check on pets, or recover from the latest bad plan. 🐈☕🚀 🚪 **Open Door** You are free to leave the session at any time, for any reason. Real life comes first. Comfort comes first. You do not need to justify taking care of yourself. 🛟 ❌ **X-Card** If something comes up in play that needs to be changed, skipped, softened, or removed, you can use the X-Card by voice, chat, or private message. No explanation is required. We’ll pause, adjust, and keep the game moving in a better direction. 🛑✨ ⭐ **Stars & Wishes** At the end of sessions, we’ll use Stars & Wishes to celebrate what worked and help shape what comes next. **Stars** are things you enjoyed: great moments, cool choices, funny lines, dramatic scenes, lucky shots, memorable NPCs, or wild map chaos. **Wishes** are things you’d like to see more of in future sessions: more salvage, more roleplay, more weird aliens, more rival crews, more ship trouble, more dangerous jobs, or anything else that would make the campaign better. ⭐🌠 The goal is simple: Keep the crew reckless. Keep the players safe. Keep the adventure moving. 🚀🔫💫 We can absolutely have danger, tension, betrayal, firefights, monsters, and bad decisions without making the table unsafe. The galaxy may be rough, but this table is friendly. 🤝🌌