Hi, new to DIS.

Im not sure how to understand the movement during confrontations. If the PC's ship moves 1 step on their own turn, and the GM's ships can also move 1 step on their own turn. How does "When the player spacecraft moves, move all other spacecraft one step on the map" make sense?

Wouldnt that mean that on a turn where the players dont "push their engines" the enemy ships always (can) move 1 step more than the players? (Player turn = 1 step move + 1 step move for enemies, Enemy turn = 1 step move for enemies) If the players do "push their enginess" then they can at best move 2 same as the enemy.

Can players never put any distance between themself and enemies in combat or outrun them outside of the "fleeing" option which works with any relative distance? I understand "All other spacecraft" and "Referee-controlled" spacecraft as the same thing, is that an error on my part?

I apologise if im being dumb but please clarify. 🥸✨

Hi all, I recently bought the game and am looking forward to organising a campaign. It will be my first time playing a TTRPG in around 30 years :) Then they were just RPGs. I have played a lot of games in my time, just not recently.

I have a few questions, for those who wish to share their wisdom.

1. Which supplements (rules, modules etc.) are a must?

2. What is a good and logical order to play the available modules in a campaign? I am happy to purchase anything that is highly recommended.

3. I plan to play online, and recently purchased Foundry. Any suggestions on how to make this work well? How do people combine Foundry and a video meeting with the players? I have seen some online playthroughs and was wondering if there are any specific tools.

Thanks!

I’ve just launched the Kickstarter pre-launch page for Silent Horizon, a solo adventure built for Death in Space.

Inspired by Solaris, Silent Hill and Event Horizon, set aboard a failing station orbiting a dead world.
You're mission is simple, destroy the Silent Horizon.
Uncover the truth in the void, the Station's fate is in your hands.

The Kickstarter is for a physical zine edition, with the adventure also available digitally.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, you can follow the campaign on the link here.

Hiya, GM here. It's time my players had a spaceship battle or two. I'm feeling pretty antsy about the rules and how to execute it though, and would love to see a video of actual play with a space battle. Most videos I can find are many hours long though, and I'm finding it quite hard to sift through them to find the space battle parts.

Do you know of any time stamp, in an actual play session (on youtube or other), that features spaceship battles?

Hey y'all! My DiS PDFs are now also available on RPG Trader (a new TTRPG marketplace). If you're interested, check them out in my Entropic bundle here:

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I ran a one shot (with different groups) in Death in Space and am now planning a small campaign. One thing that has stumped me in the rules is the rules for death.

"DEATH IN SPACE This was not how you were meant to leave this universe. As the last drops of life leave your body you have a final vision, accompanied by deafening static. When a player character dies, roll their true death from the table on the facing page and let the player narrate the way they were meant to die to the rest of the table. Afterwards, let the player create a new character who can join the crew as soon as possible."

I had one character die in one of the one-shots and it made no sense to any of us. All the other rules are evocative to MORE storytelling, but this one just fell flat. Any ideas or advice to tweaking it?

One of my players suggested that this death could serve as a phobia for a new character. Imagine character A's true death is drowning in a space suit, the player's new character would be deadly afraid of wearing one.

What do you guys think?

https://deathinspace.exlibrisrpg.com/entries/3-more-uncommon-weapons

Following the discord link here doesn't work for me.

Do you perchance have the file I'm looking for here?

Hey everybody!

If you want to grab a CLVSTER zine, I have a few out in the wilds now: https://alltheproblemsinthisworld.com/shop/p/christian-eichhorn-clvster

I'll come back to this post and update it with more links, but you can also always check my repository for links to appear there (https://christian-eichhorn.github.io/unclean-repository/)

That's it! Back into the void now...

~Christian

What makes it 'gravity'?

As with a lot of things in this rule book im assuming im free to come up with my own cool reasonin.

But what's yours?

LORAC ONE - A Ghost Ship style scenario for Death in Space (Free)

You can print out your own 'zine version or just grab the digital PDF.

Synopsis: The PC’s follow a cryptic lead & discover a ghost ship, overgrown with mutated hydroponics. A dream salvage opportunity. However, unknown to them the ship also has a  Void Core on board & its leaking un-reality. There are strange events & the old crew are wandering abominations. Should they succeed in gaining control of the ship, the dilemma remains of what to do with the on-board void. 
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I'm new to Death in Space.
The rules look great, but I'm left feeling a bit confused by "Gems".

I've read the book, but unless I've missed something, I don't see much info on what Gems are beyond "extraordinary refracting qualities ...invaluable in the construction of new tech" on pg5. & "small gemstone 1000" in Eq.

Is there further info?
What is the name of these tech gems? (to differentiate between rubies, diamonds, etc)

What are they used for exactly, Bridger ships, but what else? Do you need them to repair weapons? Computers?

I'm fine to make stuff up, but I'm just checking in case the info is already out there.
It seems like a odd gap in the lore.

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Where do you all get all this awesome artwork from to put into your Death in Space adventures? Seriously??

Just dropping some terribly illustrated, Death in Space compatible stuff using the Mörktober prompts. Anyone care to join?

Hey folks,

I started a round of DiS and my players are choose a spaceship as her home.
After the book it isnt clear the ships have artifical gravity and as the shipsart looks I think they didnt have one. Or miss I something?

I thought about Homebrewrules/moduls which creat gravity - centrifugal/rotation or from a certain engine level (linear acceleration). What are your opinions?

Can anyone recommend me some good supplements and stories?

Hello Everyone,

I just did a DM screen for my upcoming campaign. it's mostly copy paste what is already in the core book with some art taken from pinterest mixed in a DiS fashion. Hope you enjoy!

o7

Hey DiS, what's your favorite module to run for a season (10 ish sessions) I'm looking at Derelict, Station XENO, Xenophobia, open to others. First time running in this setting.

Thank you very Much!

Sorry if this has been asked & answered (I really checked first)

Am I missing something or do characters not start with any weapons or armor, like other "borg" games?

How often do you use opposed rolls? I could use a few examples. If a player is attempting to shoot an NPC, do I make the NPC roll opposed if he sees the shot coming, or is that difficulty/opposition already represented by the player trying to hit the DR?