Maya Glass
Manager, MarsCo “Bluesky” Program
Science Fiction Archetypes, Tropes, and Character Ideas
Call this one a work-in-progress, a “comprehensive” list of character seeds, tropes, and concepts for sci-fi role-playing games, with some loose thematic order. Broadly these are within standard player character power levels, but…no promises. Some...
Connecting the Stars
Note: One of my earliest HSD articles, and perhaps a lot more stat-crunchy than was called for! – Corbeau (Net Neutrality map CC license, The Opte Project) In the beginning was the network. Ask a random Vector where the seeds of their culture came from. Most...
Mechanics and Statistics (1.0)
Getting ready for our chat about the stat grid tonight, the main focus of Episode 4. It’s tricky getting clear numbers in a dice system with three variables (dice size [8,10,12], proficiency/training [+0 to +4], stat dice pool [theoretically from 1 to 5, but can...A Year on…Mars
Editor’s Note: Vectors and humans extensively terraformed Mars to make the environment hospitable. Later, Venus was radically transformed by Vectors, who replaced its atmosphere and even changed its rotation. overall, it’s quite similar to Terra, though...Tidings of Great Buy: Religion in Hc Svnt Dracones
An incoherant little essay on the place of religion in Sol… “There are still religions, both new and old. The concept of God has had a few alterations made to it as the map has expanded, but if anything the bold new frontier has only bolstered the spiritual need...A Game of Shares – Adventures in Investment Brokering in HSD
A Game of Shares Thoughts on how stock trading and ledgers influence the world of HSD note – this was written before Sound and Silence was released, and that book has a lot of info on the economics of Sol. Maybe I’ll expand this eventually… Whether...Exotic Options: Minicorps, Zombies, and more
The Megacorps have the weight of society behind them: Big Seven builds corptowns, shape planets, and define the terms of vector life. Even so, they aren’t the only options. They may be the only viable options—nothing short of a planet-spanning corporate empire...Mode!
At this point, Pulse is a sprawling media empire 600+ years old. MarsCo is literally as old as creation. Not to say anything bad about Big M, if you need a pair of really comfortable shoes and a kemeta that says “looks like ₢10 but it’s really free with my...
Base Drives: House rules for Motivations and Compulsions
Placeholder for a work-in-progress article, this should grow over the course of the week…In the meantime, please excuse the gibberish None of this is to say the Motivation mechanic is broken. It’s a clean mechanic for establishing and rewarding a baseline...
Parallax: A Pulse subsidiary for Hc Svnt Dracones
To Infinity and Beyond, with Parallax, Pulse, and a “charming” older gentleman from Ganymede that won’t shut up.
The Tharsis Rise (Stub)
The basalt heart of old Mars
Radio Free Deimos E46 – Unwrapping Party
#46 – 2.0 unwrapping party!
Radio Free Deimos E45 – ASR Town
#45 – Life in an ASR town
Radio Free Deimos E44 – ASR says Hello World (I Want a Cookie)
#44 – welcome to ASR!
Radio Free Deimos E43: 2.0 pre-review, families
#43: Looking back at a 2.0 playtest, forward at the 2.0 Kickstarter, and at families in HSD.
Radio Free Deimos E42: Big M is Watching You
#42: Marsco conspiracy theories and out-there free-form “Big M” interpretations.
Radio Free Deimos E41: Life in a Marsco Town
#41: The people you’ll meet and the places’s you’ll go in MarsCo
Radio Free Deimos E40: Big Default in the Sky
#40: Beginning our focus on the megacorps with Marsco!
Radio Free Deimos E39: Too Many Options?
#39 – After a long break the hosts talk about social skills