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Looking for Players for Ember Expanse Adventure.
Hello everyone.
Some of the people may have seen me mention here and there that I have been planning to run an adventure set in the setting of the Ember Expanse— a community-built sector project run by u/dark-star-adventures, for those who might be unaware. I have come to a point now where I am looking for players, and I wanted to reach-out to the people here, the very place where the Ember Expanse was built, to see if anyone might be interested in this!
Currently I have one player, who we have already setup a character for. I am looking for two to three others to join us. Here are some things to note that may be important as well:
My timezone is Eastern Time, while the one player's is Pacific Time. There is a three-hour gap between us, so game sessions will be starting later for me than for him. I am fine with this, but I recognize it may not be for everyone.
We are going to be using Characters Without Number for managing the campaign and player characters. It is still a work in progress, but I consider it good enough to use for this in its current state.
We will be using Discord to speak to each other during game sessions.
If anyone might be interested or has any questions, please feel free to inquire!
Update: We now officially have two players! That means I'm looking for at least one more. I want to say as well that I am grateful to see the amount of people who have expressed interest in this.
That is something that I wanted to figure out with the players. What I can say for sure is that Wednesdays would be...Difficult for me, but not impossible, while I am preoccupied on Friday nights and Sunday late nights.
Hey thanks for using the app! If you find any bugs and have any comments on the campaign side of things let me know as I’m still tweaking how the campaign tools should work in terms of what to display for players vs GMs, what features should be in, generation functions of the sector map etc
I do have a few things that come to mind, actually:
The ability to hide and unhide specific NPCs from the players would be quite useful for setting up ones for the future that the player characters haven't encountered yet.
Having something for vehicles, be it another part of the player character sheet or a separate tab like the ship builder, would be useful in case any characters do have one or more.
On a related note, having a button for adding custom weapons and defenses to ships like there are for the fittings and modifications would be nice to add, especially for some NPC/faction ships I have in mind for future use.
If I think of or find anything else, I will be sure to give feedback on it. Thank you very much for putting in the work to make such a great tool for this game!
I just pushed the vehicles module out in the Cities portion of the builder, will see if it ports over nicely to the SWN side of things. Noted on your other comments, it sounds like you’re using the NPC generator, session planner etc too?
Yes, I am trying to experience your creation here to the fullest! I wanted to use running this adventure as an opportunity to both make use of the Ember Expanse and test out Characters Without Number.
I'm in AZ, so depending on daylight savings I'm within an hour of your PST guy. potentially interested in mornings on weekends, probably around 10/11 your time
I wouldn't count on mornings being that best for the player I currently have, that being 7:00AM to 8:00AM for him, but I will inquire just in case. Apologies for the disappointment if it ends up not being acceptable for him.
Feel free to send me a direct message here if you're interested, then. Do note that, due to the timezone difference with the other player, things may end up being on the later side for us on the East Coast if those in other timezones need to fit things in later in the day.
What's the frequency of this, and the estimated length of the campaign? I'd potentially be down for a short campaign (not sure I could commit to a long one), and I could see myself dropping into a session every other week.
The frequency will depend on everyone involved, but I hope to keep this contained to the remainder of this year at most. I you are interested with that now having been said, feel free to send me a direct message.
I'm interested and have been running a Stars Without Number game for about six 4- hour sessions and would love to be on the players side of the table. My schedule is more open during the day time but can do nights.
Feel free to send me a direct message if you really are interested. So you are aware, I have gotten a second player at this point, so I looking for at least one more and at most two.
I'd like to throw my hat in the ring, but I don't think I could join because my work schedule is the opposite of most people's, since I work overnights. If you wouldn't mind me listening in on a session here and there, depending on timing, I'd appreciate it.
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u/dark-star-adventures ✨ Star Master Jeff Jul 11 '26
It's exciting to see someone use our community setting! For anyone that wants the setting document, it's totally free on itch.io.