Periodicals

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jedion357
January 10, 2009 - 11:07pm
I my campaign I create magazines with a nice full color image and common real world title tweaked for the setting (Play Robot, Popular Technology, or Frontier Ordinance) with some photocopies of new equipment form Star Frontiersman or Zebs (campaign started only with AD equipment available) and some times some fluff or even a game "clue". They're just props but I felt it would be fun to have the new toys kind of like James Bond getting his new toys at the start of an adventure. and by handing out an interesting mag the players usually look it over.

I'd share my files but at the time I just went out on the net and found pics that i thought I'd like. So while I've only used it in my gaming group its probably not legal to show here.

None the less there's been 2 instalments of Fronteir Ordance: The Magazine for Mercenaries and one of Popular Technology and i have a Play Robot which even has a centerfold all made up to be found at a pirate outpost.

I think when the campaign ends I'll do a yellow journalism sheet something like The Stellar Enquirer: Enquirering Species Want to Know and poke a little fun at the PCs biggest screw ups. maybe even using that article on the FRontier News Network about the Sathar being peacefull and blaming the PCs & eorna for the battle of Volturnus.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!
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jedion357
December 3, 2010 - 3:54pm
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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jedion357
December 3, 2010 - 5:50pm
Out Station: the quarterly newsletter of the Brotherhood of Spacers
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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w00t (not verified)
December 6, 2010 - 10:27am
How many diff groups of players have you done this for?
Do they use it?

I get about 50% useage, half ignore it and half read it from cover to cover.


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jedion357
December 6, 2010 - 12:22pm
2 groups; one group folded up after only 1 and the other group is stalled (maybe permenently) so thus fare 2 groups with only 1 mag each hard to tell if it was worth it.


Though at this rate it might be the kiss of death- Frown for a group
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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thespiritcoyote
April 4, 2011 - 11:05pm
If you arn't sure about posting the pics, What about a list of the Scream Sheet titles?

Dzi'G'Q'Kiew: Highfashion Magazine for Male Vrusk ???
Frontier Ordinance: The Magazine for Mercenaries
Out Station: ??? Inspiration for the closet spacer ??? Entertainment for the rest of us ???
Play Robot: ??? Video Games ??? Robotics Reconstructs ??? and Bachelorly-aids ???
Popular Technology: Conservative news in cutting edge technology ???
The Stellar Enquirer: Enquirering Species Want to Know
Oh humans!! Innocent We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".
~ anymoose, somewhere on the net...

so...
if you square a square it becomes a cube...
if you square a cube does it become an octoid?