Binary Deep

The River of Heaven manuscript is completed and was delivered at the end of August to Newt and his team for proof-reading and editing.

The public playtest is complete.

Meanwhile, the Sunday Sessions crew – one of the gaming groups I attend – continues to play Binary Deep, the campaign that has helped shape the setting and road-test much of the sci-fi elements of the game mechanics.

Binary Deep is set in 28th century Alpha Centauri. The Player Characters (PCs) are all employees of House Harper-Yung, one of the eight Great Houses controlling the Kentauran Hegemony. When I planned the campaign I divided it into 5 adventure-sized chunks. The first ‘House Keeping‘ served as an introduction for the players into the River of Heaven universe, getting them familiar with the game mechanics and the setting. The adventure was set in its entirety on the planet Jericho, and was a relatively linear investigation into the missing wayward son of a House nobleman. Discoveries at the end of the adventure soon revealed that more was going on than at first thought.

Part 2, Entourage, took the players from Jericho out into the Alpha Centauri star system, while Part 3, The Hades Vector has taken them even further afield, but more of that anon. I can’t post too much about the campaign arcs and intended conclusions to various plot-threads here, for fear some of the players may be reading.

Binary Deep has enabled me to flesh out the Kentauran Hegemony, with asides and throw-away comments from the players helping to add flavour to the setting.

Another campaign with another gaming group is in the offing. This one, as yet unnamed, also uses the default campaign setting of the Kentauran Hegemony. This time however, the action is set far from Alpha Centauri, onboard an interstellar Stepship…