Mailanka's Musings

Well, that was quite an iteration, wasn't it?  While it was entirely focused on one thing, ("Powers", and giving characters ac...

Starlight sprang back into view with a strange, eye-watering blur as Jenna Skyrunner slowly pulled down the throttle on the hyperdrive of t...

Vesper Tane serves two purposes.  First, of course, he's going to be our big bad for our final playtest.  We don't need to sta...

At last, Dun benefits from the new Space Knight template.  In some ways, he looks more like his first iteratation template than the other tw...

The trick with Leylanda was that she was already pretty good .  The only things I really wanted from her were, perhaps, a greater connection...

Now that we have a more finished version of the Bounty Hunter, we can expand Kendra to a full 300 points.  Felinoid is already 35, so I chos...

The previous playtest was to make sure that our space knights have a certain sort of minimum competence. Now I want to see how far I can p...

So, I made a few minor errors with Rafari last time.  He needed Esoteric Medicine, representing his understanding of psionic powers and how ...

If we have all of these wonderful mooks at our disposal, we should use some!  How well can Vesper Tane (and most Space Knights) stand up aga...

The point of exploring Vesper Tane in such detail is multi-fold. First, by expanding him to 350 points and then 400, I get an idea of h...

Remnants I - Savage Marauder by Squiddy Treat The first playtest I want to do is two space knights duking it out.  A force sword battle ...

So far, M'elena has proved that the Assassin template works well enough .  The assassin has Stealth 18, and sufficient DX and skill to h...

I wanted to give Vesper Tane an assassin as a dragon, and I wanted her to be an alien. A space elf would be ideal, but existing elf temp...

Sequestered 20 points You have lived a life of isolation, one in which you were prepared to be something. You might have spent years as ...

I wanted to finally give Dun Beltain his princess, but I wanted her to be very important , without being fundamentally very physical. Le...

Vesper Tane, eventually, is going to be the Big Bad of the coming ultimate Iteration 4 playtest, but he also gives us a chance to see if ...

Rafari is my first attempt at a true Psi-Knight, the final successor to Dun's template.  I also wanted to tinker with humanoid aliens,...

The scavenger is a fairly straightforward template.  It's niche is "all things technological," though with a focus on acquisit...

Now that we have aliens worked out, we can look at the other sci-fi staple: Robots! This is a topic I’ve already touched on previously, so ...

Setting Psi-Wars in space gives us the opportunity to explore more than just Action elements; we can also explore the typical tropes of sc...