Part 6 of the Ferrymen series, a long running home campaign adapting Diaspora to Fate Core.

A couple of years ago, I sat down with the players in my ongoing hard sci-fi Fate game Ferrymen, and agreed on a direction that we wanted to take the campaign going forwards. The players all agreed that after thirty-odd sessions of building contacts and making a name for themselves, it was time for their actions to start counting on a galactic political stage. I put together a ruleset for controlling galactic factions and waging political conflicts, which can still be reviewed here.

Since then, we’ve played enough games with those rules in play that I have a good understanding of their limitations. Continue reading →