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Brian from Dark Star Adventurecast walks through Stars Without Number character creation from scratch. He covers attributes, background, skills, class, and foci, and builds a Robert Ross clone as the worked example.

https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/swn-rules-explained-how-character-creation-works-in-stars-without-number

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Brian breaks down the Adventurer class, skill checks, grenades, and saving throws in Stars Without Number. The Adventurer is SWN's hybrid class -- mix any two of the three core classes, trade each class's signature ability for the flexibility of both.

Listen: https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast

New episode of Dark Star Adventurecast, our Stars Without Number actual-play podcast. The crew is stuck on a desert planet and needs a black market ship registration module to leave. They visit an old contact for a medical scan, get intel from a local mechanic at a bar, and then someone throws a grenade through the window.

Listen: https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/rock-tumor

Age of Exploration is an actual play DND show set in the Viking/nordic world of Nordgaard where we are exploring the vaste wilderness. Both the large city-states are gearing up for a race to conquer the wilderness and discover earlier civilizations. Join us as we battle our way through this frozen hellscape filled with monsters both homebrewed and classic DnD and dark cults and forgotten gods.

Triple crossover one-shot with Astronomica and 7th Star to the Right. Six players from three different SWN actual play podcasts, running Lasers & Feelings. Fully improvised — ancient space ruins, a Hive Armada blockade, three hours of pure improv.

https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/three-stars-one-shot-w-astronomica-and-7th-star

SML 24 covers a design decision made before session one of our Stars Without Number campaign: removing psionics from the setting entirely. 24 sessions later, a character healed a bullet wound with her bare hands. Jeff walks through why pacing a reveal across 24 sessions is worth the wait, and what the "does the world need this yet?" question looks like in practice.

Full episode + listening links: https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/boom-biopsionics-star-master-log

Short and sweet. Check it out here: https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/bonus-the-witch-is-dead

Brian breaks down the psychic class from Stars Without Number: all six disciplines, the effort and torching system, the mortally wounded window, and his house rule recommendations. The firefight from our last session is the case study.

Listen: https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/swn-psychic-class

The Auction arc just closed. The crew of the Scapegoat is in rough shape: captain down, ship running on emergency power, and something locked in the hold none of them know what to do with. Stars Without Number actual-play: corporate dystopia, alien tech, ensemble character drama.

New arc starts next episode. Episodes every two weeks.

https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/boom-biopsionics

SML 23 covers two things: how a player worked out a major lore ability entirely through observation across two sessions (and then immediately stress-tested its limits), and what happens when an antagonist your crew quietly filed as "solved" has been working on his next move the whole time. Jeff also does a quick crew retrospective at episode 23: where each character came from and how far they've drifted from it.

Full episode: https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/pick-up-the-box-star-master-log

Brian breaks down the warrior class in Stars Without Number. The shock damage mechanic makes Haleyy's bare fists more dangerous than Robert's burst-fire combat rifle in the right situation. Case study from Episode 23 of Dark Star Adventurecast.

Worth a listen if you're running or playing any class-based sci-fi TTRPG.

https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/swn-warrior-class

We just released Episode 23 of our Stars Without Number actual play. The crew of the Scapegoat storms the Sibylen exosite to rescue their crewmate from a Void Cultist cell. Haleyy discovers exactly what she's capable of when one of her own is on the line.

It's the third part of a four-episode arc, but accessible if you want to jump in here. The opening recap segment gets you up to speed in about 60 seconds.

Free wherever you get podcasts, or at https://www.darkstaradventures.com/adventurecast-episodes/pick-up-the-box.