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+Episode: 2917
+Title: HPR2917: Stardrifter RPG Playtest Part 07
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2917/hpr2917.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-24 13:13:45
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+This is HPR Episode 2917 entitled, Tardrifter RPG Playtest Part 07, and in part of the series,
+Tabletop Gaming, it is hosted by Lost in Drunks, and in about 28 minutes long, and Carriman
+Explicit flag. The summer is Lost in Drunks, and friends playtest are new, original RPG
+system. Today's show is licensed under a CC hero license.
+This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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+Hello, this is Lost in Drunks, also known as David Collins Rivera. Welcome to Part 7 of the
+Star Drifter role-playing game playtest. Today, we have Taj, Brin, and X1101.
+Last time, the player characters found a way aboard the derelict ship, only to discover a
+couple of people in the act of disassembling the interior. The fact that these two individuals were
+wearing body armor and had rifles nearby was also noted, and the whole idea that these were
+peace-loving hippies or hobos rather went out the airlock. Also, last time, I did a really
+poor job of explaining the rules, and confused everybody, including myself. Let's see,
+in the lead-up to entering the derelict ship, the players were extremely careful and employed
+strategy and everything they did. And X1101, at least, proved that even in the future, duct tape
+can do anything. Let's get into this part. As you're there, you think you hear some
+machine noises coming from further deeper in the ship somewhere. It's not from the... You hear
+these guys, but you're some loud other machine noises elsewhere as well. It's not the engines.
+Well, to do anything, either we gotta get past these guys or we gotta get back in the boat,
+go somewhere else. Where you are, if you're looking... If you look straight out, all that deck is
+ripped up in front of the freeze tubes. Look towards aft down that way. That deck appears to be...
+That deck appears to be undamaged. This part, either they have gotten to it yet or
+just for the sake of getting around, they've left it apart. The lighting in here is normal. This is
+what you would expect on a working ship. Okay, so obviously the ship has power to some areas.
+Just not outside where they'd be noticed. So, would it be possible to sneak towards 19, you know,
+aft without the guy, the guy in closest to us seeing? If you have stealthiness, you can give that a
+roll if you do not, and still try. I do have it. I don't know if anybody else does. I don't. Yeah, no.
+Well, do we want to try to sneak me there and see if I can leave frogs somewhere?
+Yeah, at least she can kind of scout around. I hate to just have one person though. Does the NPC
+have any sneak? That's a good question. Hold on. In her giant armor. That's true too. Yeah, you know,
+she's got heavy armor. Yeah, she's she can't sneak even if she had just killed she can't sneak in
+this armor. Yeah, she's gonna be the heavy. All right. What's she armed with? A pistol. Okay,
+did mention that, sorry. And she does have it out because she saw you take your zone. So, it's up to you
+guys. How you want to do this? As you're standing there, the guy that's closest to you moves one
+further over away from you. Next, he's two because whatever it is, he just curses and
+says, ah, nothing here. It keeps going. Okay, and the guy in the second person's on the opposite side.
+Is on the opposite side. He's between, if you're looking on the left most freeze tube, he's not
+between the left most and the next one over. He's between the next one over and that one.
+Okay, so they're both working towards the center. Yeah, I say, let's try it and you guys just
+cover me because if they catch me, I'm gonna run the screen like a small child. Okay. Run away,
+run away. Okay, these roll, you're stilting us. I walk out of the airlock door, I trip and fall
+flight on my face. I told you the ground, the deck was all torn open. Well, that's what happens.
+I assume your world really badly, so there may have been a 20 involved.
+Oh, yeah, that's a fail. That's a fail. And I do not have critical fail tables yet, so you're
+locked out there. You might have hurt yourself, but no, you didn't hurt yourself, but you did fall
+down. You did fall down. This guy turns around and just looks at you. He goes, who the hell are you?
+He's just shocked that you're there. And I think it's time for initiative.
+I got a 14. I got a six. Six. Wait, how do you, a six? What?
+It's your deck's a deep 20, right? It's your deck's modifier like a potato.
+Oh, lower is better, right? It's still an initiative. Lower is better. Yeah, lower is better.
+Okay, so, okay, so I got a six. So I did pretty well, I guess you did pretty well. Okay.
+Lost your lungs. Did you change that because I'm reading the
+hang on, hang on. I'm getting. I'm looking at the combat page here and it says
+a 1d20 plus decks. Plus your decks is what your, so you roll a 1d20. So he rolled a six. You rolled?
+Right. So I have a total of 22. 22. That's what we're after. And you rolled a 14 or was that
+with your decks? That was with my decks. Okay, so we got a 14 or 22.
+At 25, including my decks. Oh, okay, so that's 25. And ties you had what again?
+14. I had a 22 and Lyle, the five. Yeah, I rolled a 14. My decks is 11. So I believe that's 25.
+All right. So the way this is going to run down is
+while you go first, Rin, you will go second, then these guys get to do what they're going to do.
+And then Margot and then time. There we go, figured out initiative, which is slower than I'd like.
+All right. So, Lyle, what would you like to do? So I have a pair of pistols that I was intending
+to wield a Kimbo. So I want any chand. Okay. I'm assuming I'm not going to get my full damage from
+both of them. Why not? It's a pistol. If you hit, you hit. I mean, you may not get your full
+dexability to hit with both of them, but that makes more sense. Yeah. If you hit, you're going to
+get the same amount of damage. So then I don't really have rules for that, but we'll run it on the
+fly. It's no problem. So if I'm reading this right, so I don't have combat pistols, I have combat
+bladed. So I can I would make that with a minus two, correct? Correct. Correct. So my combat bladed
+is 13. Okay. And I rolled a 12. 12 will not do on the first one because there's a minus two.
+All right. And second one would have been an additional minus two. So it's a total minus four on
+that one. And that's also a 12. So, okay. Bipping. You make a lot of noise, but that guy is hiding behind
+the broken free stoop and bang bang. You miss him. A grin. Chip two. There's plenty of room in
+that door to do whatever you want to do. Well, first, I have to push the button so you can hear what
+I'm saying. So now that's done. I will take any deploy my shield. Okay. And the question was,
+does that take up a whole action to do those two things? No, it does not. Okay. So I will then
+I will fire them. Okay, go for it. This is your skill. Do you forget to push the button again?
+Oh, no. I was just rolling. Okay. I rolled a 16 and I have an 18 unless there's any minuses.
+There, in this case, there is not. You've hit that guy. And let's see what this is.
+Damage is 1d6 plus 2. Hold on. Let's roll it in the box there. 3. Oh boy. 3. All right. He took
+see, he's just put it as a PR3. You shoot him solidly in the chest, but it doesn't seem to have hurt him.
+It seems as though his chest plate has absorbed that damage. Need me one of them. Yeah, they come in handy.
+Let's see now. That's their attack. Okay. This guy, the closest one, he is squawking on the radio,
+just as you thought he might. You can hear him with your little fracked wavelength thing on your
+common. You can hear him very plainly, only a few meters away from you. We got intruders, intruders.
+They're coming in. Debt two way. They're coming in through the airlock. The other guy in back
+is trying to move forward, which is not actually wise because he's got to go on that torn up decking.
+Does he manage that? Actually, he does, but he's going very slowly. It looks like he's trying to get
+closer while also trying to use the freestubes as cover, but because the deck is all torn up,
+maybe he did it himself. You don't know, but because the deck is all torn up, moving is very slow.
+He's moving at quarter speed over that. He is able to make it to the next freestube
+on his turn, but that's all he can do. Normally, he'd be able to move and fire, but he can't,
+because it's taking up too much time. That's all that they do. The first guy was going for his
+weapon, which he actually had left at the previous spot. It took him a lot of time to get a hold of
+that and get back under cover. They haven't actually fired yet, but they did make an alert over the
+video. Next is Margot. Margot is going to shoot with her pistol. Why not?
+Margot rolls an eight, which is pretty darn good. Let's see if she can do any damage.
+She does four points. That's one point to this guy. That's the same guy who's speaking on the radio.
+And finally, we have, I believe it's Taj. It's your turn.
+So I think I'm going to take a play from our pilot and I'm going to
+unfurl my ballistic shield and put that up. I'm going to try to take a shot. I don't have a
+combat still, but I do have a pistol. So I'm going to try to take a shot at Old Boy that's right
+in front of me. Okay, go for it. I rolled the 12. 12? Okay. I believe that skill, you don't have a
+combat skill of any kind. No, I didn't take one at all. Okay, that's fine. That's fine. We have
+contingencies for that. Let me look. I knew this better. I could do it off the top of my head.
+Strength or decks. Pick strength or decks, which one do you like to roll against?
+Let's go strength. Strength. Roll a 20-sided die at a minus two.
+Well, I rolled a 15 and I have an 11. So you failed. All right, you miss.
+Boom. You are able to get your shield deployed and you're able to fire and miss because the
+decking is so messed up, you can't actually get out of the way this round chose to do those other
+things instead. That is the end of the round. Wasn't that exciting? Yes. Good answer. Who invited
+Murphy? Yeah, right. Okay, I suppose we re-rolled. I am testing, but I already dislike the
+initiative system that I came up with. So let's re-roll for initiative. That's your decks plus a
+20-sided die rolls. That's what it was. Yeah. So for Margot, 14 plus her decks, which I already
+didn't have. This is too slow. Next time I'm printing all of this up. I apologize, guys.
+decks is 10. So it's a 24, guys. 26. 26. Nice. 21. 30. 30. Damn. My man.
+You're man. Yeah, you're man. Everyone's man. Okay. You guys beat them handily. So it will be
+wild first as just like last time. It will be in second, just like last time. This time it will be
+cargo and then the bad guy. All right, I'm going to take my nice twin pistols and still take
+try and take another shot, bear shots at him. Okay, go for it. Same guy, same target, because the other
+guy is within range and within sight. Yeah, first come first serve. Okay, go for it. So my combat
+bladed is a 13. So I would need an 11 to hit that. You would need an 11 to hit. I miss both.
+I miss both times. Both times. The guy is trying to get some cover that also gives him a bonus.
+On his armor as well. The other guy in the same deal. But those of you in the doorway who are not
+displayed out on the open deck, you guys have that same bonus on your side too. So
+all right, so brin. Jump to. I'm going to do what I should have done last time. I'm going to see
+if I can use my comlink to jam the radio signal. Go for it. Go for it. That will be a computer's
+role. Since you have isolated the signal, there will not be any minuses on this. You've done
+all that work already. You're trying to do it all in one go. That would be difficult, but this is
+not well, any more difficult. So shooters straight up role. Seven. I rolled a seven, but I was 17.
+You did it. No problem. You have effectively set up a scramble on this frequency. They would be
+able to switch to another frequency. But this one is dead now within range, and that will be
+certainly encompassed this entire ship. There is no communication on that frequency. Whether or
+not they have an alternate frequency, you don't know. But this frequency, you've set up a lot of
+white noise and scramble and crap like that. And they're not talking to each other. You
+set that up and you see the guy who is close enough. You see him go, ah, you see him grab it
+his ears as if it hurt his ears. And immediate response in other words. So you believe you did that.
+So no more talking. All right. Margot is next shooting. Oh, she rolls a three with her pistol.
+That's a hit. Five plus two is seven. Hey, minus the three from this guy's chest plate.
+He's not doing too good this guy, but he is still alive. Nice armor.
+All right. And now it is posh. I'm going to try to roll myself or like get up and struggle my
+way back in with my shield into the door and hide behind Malachi. Is there because he got the
+big guns. Is there a way to try to use my calm to like use our codes to lock the hatches coming
+in from like that hallway where 11 and 9 and 8 and 10 are to where nobody can get into this
+front section. You don't know if any way that you could do that remotely. I'm just going to chill
+here and be scared. If there was an active network on this computer or on this ship,
+like if the ship had an active network, that might be a very different conversation,
+but you don't know of any way to do anything like that remotely at this point. Nothing seems to be
+talking to each other. Except for that one calm unit that identified earlier, but that is clearly
+a calm unit, a calm device like you guys carry some of you guys carry. All right. So you can't do that.
+What would you like to do? I could try to take a shot, but I'm afraid I'm going to shoot one of
+my friends at the back of the head, but why not? Let's do it. There's no particular reason why
+you would shoot them at the back of the head, but it is possible to miss, but I don't have
+fumble rules or any of that in place. I'm not going to worry about it today. You may take a shot
+at the same guy or the further guy. No, I'm going to go with the guy that's already pretty messed up.
+I rolled a 13 13 and your skill level is zero skill is zero, but you're you're rolling against
+what was it decks, I think you said? Strength, which is 11 11 and you rolled a 13 was it? Yes, miss.
+It's all it's just a miss. Guys got good cover. What can I say? That is the end of the round
+for Linda you guys. Now the bad guys, the close guy he's going to shoot. He rolls two.
+So everybody's in that doorway, so we're just going to pick somebody.
+Dorf, there's four of you, four sided dice sounds like a nice thing to roll.
+Two, that's Brynn. Brynn, how you doing? I hope you paid good money for that shield. Let's see.
+Me too. Okay. This guy is using a rifle, so that's 1d8 plus 2.
+So 8 plus 2 is 10 minus your armor. So I have a PR2 SR20. Okay, PR of 2, you take instead of 10,
+you take 8 points of damage. How? Yeah, that was a severe hit. I'm assuming you stuck your head out
+from behind your shield at the wrong time. That's what you got. Stick in your head out at the
+wrong time. That's not right. Don't look at me. Look at him. I'm not doing it. This guy is doing it.
+Remember, that comes off your stamina first, not your hit points. So that guy took his shot.
+The other guy is taking a shot. That's a seven. That will also hit somebody.
+Getting. Oh, Brynn. They love you. They love you. I'm popular. Yeah. You're popular.
+Seven plus two is nine. Okay. Minus your PR is a PR. Yeah, minus the PR too. So that is a seven total.
+And that will go off your stamina and then off your hit points. You've taken some serious hits.
+You still up? No, I'm okay. So when do we go unconscious? Okay, you go unconscious. Anytime you get
+at to zero or below anything below, ignore that. You're at zero. For hit points or stamina are both
+hit points only. So you run through all your stamina, then you start coming off of your hit points.
+When you're at zero hit points, then then you're unconscious. I'm hurting, but conscious.
+Burning, but conscious and just a suggestion, a tactical retreat might not be a bad thing. Okay. Yeah.
+Just saying, just saying, you're the first one that snapped open the shield. You seem like a great target
+in Europe. And this thing takes a lot of damage for you. But, you know, I mean, in that one round,
+that shield absorbed four points of damage. So that could have been even worse for you. And the rifles
+are pretty serious. So some damage there, but you are still up in Adam. And that is the end of that
+round. How about that guys? Okay. Initiative again. So that is your Dex plus 1d20.
+Argo rolls. Did I say her Dex was 10? She's got a total of 16. 22. 19. 13. I'm apparently the
+style is no longer hot. Okay. And the bad guys. All right. So the way this is going to fall down,
+bring your first and we have the bad guys. Then we have
+ash and margo then wild. And at the beginning of this round, you see two guys come around the corner
+way down on the other side on the port side in front of room 16. You see two guys come around
+there, but that hallway there is all torn up. They are like, you see them with their hands,
+you know, in the air trying to keep their balance as they're trying to move there moving slowly.
+They both have rifles, but they are confused. And frankly, they'd be easy targets out in the
+middle of a hallway like that. And they're screaming, what's up? What's up? What's up? These other
+guys. There's people. There's people. And this first guy is still screaming on the radio as if
+somebody can hear him. And that is where we're starting. Bren, you may do something if you wish.
+Tactical retreat. Tactical retreat. No problem. You make it back. No problem at all. You can move and
+do something else at the same time. There's a possibility if you wish. I think we are outgunned here.
+I concur. So I think we should head back into our ship. So Bren is moving back. Next up is a thug.
+That's the close guy. Misses with his rifle. Yeah, he missed with this rifle. The other guy fires.
+The other guy hits of the three people that are still in the doorway. One, so that is going to be
+Tosh, you. Oh God, no. Yes, you, you. Okay, now then that will be
+total of five points minus any armor. I have my ballistic shield. Okay, which is the pier,
+twenty two. Yep. And a flat vest, which is a PR two. Okay, so you only actually take one point
+of damage. You're welcome. I drained his pack for you. They were disappointed when you left.
+It was like, I only got these guys. Okay, so that was the first thug. Second thug, he also hits.
+Okay. And we'll be first off. See who he's hitting. Sorry about that.
+Margot. Margot. Margot. Sorry. You were the juiciest target next. So that also was you.
+Oh, this is a serious one. Total of 10 minus whatever for your armor. On hot for the bad guys.
+So it was 10 total 10 total minus whatever your armor will do. And I believe that was a total
+four between the shield and your back fest. So you're actually only taking six points.
+Again, it comes off your stamina first. Then you go to hit points.
+Got it. Got it. Okay. Next up, as you may respond to their, their welcome that they offered you.
+Nice warm welcome. This is this is the part where we're way screaming.
+Like a small child. Run away. Run away. You saw the purple bunny and you're gone.
+I flail my arms for good measure. You are able to retreat. Okay. Essentially, you turn
+to move and they shot you when you were moving. We'll justify it that way. Okay. Margot is not
+leaving just yet. She's going to shoot what else is an NPC for 11. We'll hit.
+That's that first guy. She's using her pistol. And she hits this guy.
+But his armor takes it. It takes the whole shot.
+He's got one point left, but he won't go down while I am also going to beat a tactical retreat
+muttering under my breath. I knew I should have brought the grenades.
+Okay. That is the end of that round. Margot was still in the doorway, but we'll see what she's
+going to do next. And since you, the rest of you are effectively out of that combat for the moment.
+You can do whatever you want for the moment. You can do whatever you want to do in there.
+We'll handle that separately. It'll be happening simultaneously with whatever is happening
+with Margot. Okay. But you are effectively, in other words, I don't have to roll initiative for
+you only for her is what I'm basically trying to say. Is she sticking in the doorway or standing
+in the doorway. Yeah, standing in the doorway. Effectively, she's, she's, you know, I got the hard
+suit. I'm immune. I'm invulnerable. So that's kind of the attitude you're getting out of this
+one. And she's like, yeah, yeah, you want some bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. So how fast
+one of the doors close? Close the doors ago. She, if you shut the door on her, it will, these
+things are supposed to stop automatically if there's an obstruction. But the fast enough that if,
+you know, fast is it slow enough that she could get out of the way and come and get step in.
+Yes, she could. And if you're going to do that at the same time, then I would like an initiative
+because I'm going to do that and tell her to get in here. Okay. So I'm rolling initiative now.
+If I can roll it in my box here. 26. 26 just beats her. Just beats her and it will handily beat
+the bad guys. Sorry, 25, 25, 25 is her as well, 25. Let's roll this thing. Maybe basically she's
+going to get her shot in while you're doing this. And you know, we'll see what happens, right?
+Okay. So she's like bang, bang, bang, bang. So and she misses because you close the door on her,
+she misses with a natural 20. So that's no good. And the door closes in front of her before the
+other guys can do anything. You hear bang, bang, bang, bang on the outside, but it will not penetrate
+whatever weapons or should say whatever bullets are using, they're not going to penetrate this door.
+You have closed the door. You have not locked it. Do not think this door can lock.
+We can cycle it though. Yes, you can in which case then it will.
+I will do so. Do you wish to do this? Yes. Okay. You hear a couple thumps and then that trails
+off as the air goes away. And no one tears the door down, no anything. The airlock does cycle.
+We're able to open the exterior door, assuming you want to do that. Yes.
+Everything is as you left it, that little makeshift thing with duct tape is looking good.
+What's wrong with that? It was a great job. That was that was one of the best jobs you've ever seen.
+Still there. Man, damn fine work if I do say so myself.
+Damn fine work. Who doesn't love a good piece of duct tape?
+Better duct tape than shooting. So yeah.
+Next time the player characters take a day or two to kick back, relax and formulate new plans. See
+you then.
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