>>3033261

"You find a toolbag with some tools. Most of it is covered in oil."

A large luxury transport vents it's waste right in your path! A very important piece of the ship is damaged, and it cannot wait to be repaired! One crew member must brave a very literal shitstorm and repair it, or the everyone onboard will die.

Survivor horror mode: the party comes across a derelict drifter colony. They board to resupply/investigate, and then things get all Event Horizon on them.

>>3033290
Oh that's a good one.

>>3033284
Floating in space randomly? That works.

They are forced to make a blind jump after being chased by some rather hostile aliens/pirates, when they come out the otheDIVE DIVE DIVE HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!

Just use Doc Aquatic's and modify it as necessary.

Standard encounters for SPPPACCEE..

A distresses beacon from a..

Crippled, drifting ship.
Lifeboat from a larger ship.
A tiny outpost or colony.
Drifting person in a space suit.

Complications..

Everybody is dead! You can salvage what you like, but somebody might have some questions about where you got this stuff.

Pirate Trap! Raiders, pirates or freebooters wait for somebody to come investigate, then pounce, trying to take over your ship.

Hostile Alien! The ship, suit, lifeboat or colony is infested by an aggressive, hostile alien life form.

Battered survivors! People that need food, medical attention or just transport to somewhere safe are still alive. While they can't offer very much in return, it's a way to get safe, legal salvage rights and do a good deed.

A stuffed teddy bear bumps against the cockpit window, then floats away, never to be seen again.

>>3033290

One of the people on the ship eats an odd meal, and due to the waste management system recycling poop, the hallucinogenic chemicals in the poop are spread to the rest of the crew. Hilarity/diarrhea ensues.

You're traveling in space near a wormhole anomaly. Your cockpit is suddenly rained upon by hundreds of flapjacks. You crash into a space hulk. Your friends are eaten by genestealers.

Discuss.

>>3033420

Along the same line, the ships waste processor breaks down, and now the food starts tasting like shit. Literally.

A space station that is entirely void of life. Or appears to be. When they dock, everything is as it should be, except that when they look out the windows, it is not orbiting the stellar object it was when they docked. When they take off again, they're in an entirely different piece of the universe. Also their cargo hold is filled with dongs.

>custom system using custom d20 rules.
>custom d20 rules
>d20 rules
Quit while you are ahead.

They discover a ship almost identical to theirs, but inhabited by what seems to be the opposite gender version of themselves.

The food synthesizer begins synthesizing things other than food, and they're not always scaled to fit inside the ship.

Instead of a derelict spaceship filled with mindless malevolent aliens, why not a derelict spaceship filled with intelligent benign alien chefs who need help with their mildly hazardous engineering section. When/if you fix thier shit they hook you up with free food and supplies as recurring npc helper guys.

An invasion force of tiny aliens teleports itself to the bridge. They annoy the pilot with powerful anti-matter weapons.

Your PC's discover...nothing.

Just lightyears of empty space.

Everywhere.

Empty.

Lifeless.

Make them start taking SAN tests.

>>3033558
They discover a ship almost identical to theirs, but inhabited by what seems to be the evil goatee'd versions of themselves.

>>3033568
WHY IS THERE A SCORE OF DOLPHINS SUFFOCATING IN MY CABIN?

>>3033620
They discover a ship almost identical to theirs, but inhabited by what seems to be the monocle wearing dapper versions of themselves.

They pass through a debris field. Various markings on the scraps of hull floating around seem to be identical to their own ships markings and registration numbers.

>>3033606
Or a variation of that I used once: Traveling through an abnormally large pocket of empty space between stars. Disrupts the ships sensor systems over time eventually rendering them useless unless they're recalibrated. Only problem is, they're too far away from any point of refrence to calibrate them by.

I chose to send some stealthed ships at them at that point.

They discover a ship almost identical to theirs, but inhabited by what seems to be the Cutebold versions of themselves.

>>3033656
They also find monacles and goatees floating in the debris.

>>3033673
>>3033648
>>3033558
>>3033620
these happen at the same time

A ship identical to theirs discovers them. Opens fire shouting, "There can be only one!".

one of the (if your using sanity rules less stable) crew memers hears cthulhu's voice in his head telling him to open the airlock because its too stuffy in the ship.

>>3033708
needs more swords

>>3033673
They discover a ship almost identical to theirs, but inhabited by what seems to be a ship almost identical to theirs.

>>3033721
A simple enough case of claustrophobia could do that.

>>3033724

>>3033747
exactly, so many possible causes

>>3033731

Yo dawg, we heard you like ships so we put a ship in your ship so you can fly while you fly!

>>3033767
They discover a ship almost identical to theirs, but seems to be the filled with nothing but old holodisks of 'Pimp my Ride'.

>>3033780
OP, your entire campaign can only consist of "You discover a ship almost identical to yours, but..."

>>3033320
YES

Also a nebula that changes shape depending on who's looking it. Every time it changes it also looks a bit bigger. Or, looks a bit closer...

>>3033767

They discover a ship almost identical to theirs, but it seems to contain only old holo-disks of 'Pimp My Ride'.

Is there any sort of conflict going on between diffrient parties? If so, do some mercenary missions.

Or if that doesnt cut it, watch some episodes of Outlaw Star and blatently rip it off.

The PCs come across a derelict ship that is powered by hate.

>>3033816

ONSEN EPISODE

They discover a ship almost identical to theirs, but it turns out to look nothing like their ship in anyway, shape or form. They have no wish to communicate, trade or attack and just want to be left alone.

Just as they leave visible range, the ship goes back to looking exactly like theirs.

>>3033721
one of the PC's is an elf alienist.

Dyson Sphere.

A completely empty dyson sphere.

>magic is available
Thread Hidden: 008

>>3034113

Those are pretty fucking huge, usually heavily populated and perfectly self-sufficient constructs.

How the hell would one be empty?

The ship's heating and cooling systems break down simultaneously. They must now manage the entire ship's heat when the engine room, computer arrays, and crew quarters all need completely different temperatures to work, and the only way to manage heat is to vacuum dump some atmosphere and shunt what's left around.

a clunky beat up looking ship with "RED DWARF" painted on the side appears next to you. From the radio you hear the voices of a black scottsman, a whiny prick, an android, and an obnoxious black man

>>3034124

I guess that's what the PCs are going to try to find out right? Or otherwise just settle down and enjoy their own perfectly function artificial planet.

>>3034124

DAT'S DE PLOT HOOK.

>>3034143
>>3034147

Somebody gonna get eated.

The main characters are in their ship, minding their own business when they almost get run down by an asteroid. The asteroid is being accelerated toward an inhabited planet by an immense set of engines. One species is trying to use it to obliterate another species' homeworld. Armies from both sides are battling on the asteroid's surface. Both, however, are relatively low tech and thus the PCs could potentially have a surprising amount of effect on the battle.

As a twist, the species using the asteroid to wipe out the other was originally peaceful, but the other attacked them and nearly drove them to extinction. They are now attempting to exterminate the aggressors out of revenge.

>>3034138From the radio you hear the voices of a black scottsman

Oh dear god, please say you're not referring to Craig Charles. Fucking hell you must be an amerifag to not recognize a Geordie accent.

>>3034234

Except, he's a Scouser. Not a Geordie.

Still though I suppose, NOT scottish.

>>3034247

Give 'em a break. It can take a while for people to learn the difference between British accents.

Fucking southern fairies.

>>3034262

FUCKIN' NORTHERN MONKEYS!

>>3034291

Wow, I just had a great idea for a D&D campaign. Thanks!

>>3034291

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING 'ERE?

>>3034291

DAAN WURRY 'ARRY, I GOTIT UNDA CONTRAAL

Party encounters Cutebolds from an alternate universe where humanity is replaced by Cutebolds. They claim to represent the Imperial Guard.

asteroid field appear out of nowhere, raining down upon the ship and starts putting dents in it. crew must navigate out of the mess. throw in a missing moon and start talking about super weapons.

stopped by space pirates / aliens / legit authority / enemies of the state / spontaneous astrological disaster

>>3033261

Sensors indicate a metal rod of unknown composition, just hanging in space, and upon closer--

*CLANG*

What was that?!

Watch the original series of Star Trek. You encounter EVERYTHING.

You even re-enact Spock's Brain.

bump

>>3036101

Why would they ask what the fuck it was, if they had it on sensors- and even knew it was a metal rod.

>>3036121

Excuse me,.... but what does God need with a spaceship?

>>3036101
So. Could you rotate the universe if you bolted a car engine into that rod?

>>3036101
>>*CLANG*

More like *hurtles through the void at several kilometers per second and fucks you up when it rips a hole through your hull and a couple of compartments*

Space trash is serious business.

Small alien colony begins terraforming the hull of the players' ship, gradually messing up their trajectory.

If they scrape it off, it's genocide.

The damaged form of a late-20th century DeLorean that has been heavily modified. There are a pair of corpses of human males inside.

The vehicle is currently inoperable, but the ship sensors detect a strange lingering tachyon field around it...

An uncharted asteroid cloud causes the ship to make an emergency course adjustment, leaving them with insufficient fuel for deceleration and docking at their current destination. A new destination has to be selected. The only viable option is a hostile planet whose government is rumoured to subsidize pirate operations.

"They come across a strange planet in the far reaches of space. It's not on any of the maps or star charts. They almost fly right into it. Their scans can just barely penetrate the atmosphere, all they detect is a massive amount of biological matter on or near the planet.
They may choose to ignore it or might explore this strange planet. Upon entering the atmosphere they're met with a nightmarish scene. Writhing black tentacles cover the entire surface like some sort of hideous forest. They then detect a massive energy signature. The energy is coming from a massive temple built upon the service, in the temple is a cult of humans complete with black robes, chanting, etc. Upon further investigation they discover the cult is actually worshiping the planet, the planet is just one huge organism. The cult believes that it is a god and wish to use it to 'devour' other planets."
An idea that popped up in an old story seed thread. I believe it applies.

>>3037845
Dammit, forgot the pic.

Suddenly, REAVERS!

>>3037845

Made me think of Ego.

The party discovers a decompressed freighter devoid of life. If they investigate, they will discover the bodies of a family of would-be-settlers. The ship appears to have been looted before, but a through search will reveal that there is a safe hidden in one of the floors. Getting it open will reveal the family's funds and a small toy box.

The toy box will appear to be just an ordinary toy box, but eventually it magically grows and a giant cyborg duck jumps out to fight the party.

It can shoot lasers from the eyes, throw fireballs from its hands and can turn invisible at will.

If they survive, build a quest from your standard military R&D company being after the remains of the box.

The players ship gets hijacked by a technologically superior race, who are able to hack their computer systems using an obsolete distress beacon. They assault the crew in mock-combat, sending in fast-grown bug-eyed aliens (who look nothing like the Superiors) whose only purpose is to keep the crew busy. They die easily enough in combat, their weapons don't seem to damage the ship and never inflict severe damage.

Meanwhile The Superiors seal the crew out of the engine room, and replace said engines with an experimental one that looks exactly and has read-outs exactly the same as the old one, but is in fact much more powerful and uses a totally different propulsion method.

They then let the crew go. All the bug-eyed aliens suddenly grasp their throats simoultaniously and wheeze 'Ack, bacteria!' in perfect <insert players' common language here> before dying. The Superiors then zip off a lightyear or so to watch what happens when the crew unwittingly test out the super-races' cutting-edge propulsion system, which is powered by rumors and bends space by using a Hyperloom, which create new hyperstrings and thus propels the ship by via dimensional pressure.

>>3038011

I'm not sure what you did there... but it sounds familiar.

>>3038011

Rogue Simulants from Red Dorf, having a running fight with Silicates from Space: Above And Beyond

A hospital ship. But all the nurses are fucking Chryssalids.

TPK

>>3038063

That is to say, they ARE Chryssalids. In nurse's outfits.

It's not like a hospital ship full of nurses en flagrante with Chryssalids would be feasible or anything.

Or would it?

>>3038069
Nurses having wild sex with Chryssalids?

That would result in exploding nurses.

>>3038077

OH SHIT SON

>Rogue Simulants
>Rogue Stimulants

Suddenly, the players are incapable of sleep. They feel energetic and wired ALL THE TIME, akin to drinking 7 literes of Mountain Dew and black coffee mixed with Meth. They suffer from fatigue (muscles get tired) and headaches, but cannot actually rest. The reason? The air/food supply laced with plot-particles, caused by X. NPCs on board should be like mad dorfs, using whatever materials they can find to complete mad projects, like a house-of-cards that's an exact model of Grand City, a massive replica of a cell made entirely out of jello in a G-less room, ect.

You pass near an enormous construction site and decide to try and swipe some construction materials.

Your ship picks up a nonstandard beacon, leading you to a spacefaring race's first ever space probe. You intercept it, take the trinkets placed inside it and launch it back to its homeplanet.

Your ship gets flagged by a group of marooned alien soldiers asking for a ride home. Do you take them in?

Your ship detects what appears to be a colossal periodic table floating in space with pure samples of the elements. You get as much of any one element as you can carry.

You find a planet indiscernible from you own home planet at first sight, and decide to check it out. Commence doing whatever you'd do on a planet, with one small difference the players have to find and possibly exploit.

One of the PC's owes a significant amount of money to some guy. He tracks your ship down and shows up with slightly superior firepower.

A group of aliens who admires your race for some unknown reason clings to your ship and begs of you to come down to their planet and visit.

/thread

Pic related.

>>3038468

enjoy your dead PCs

After a peculiar teleportation accident, the players find themselves stranded on a jungle planet teeming with monsters. The players must now survive in the wilderness until help arrives, and find their feet.

They players encounter a large starship drifting in space, seemingly without any lifeforms on it. When the go into it, they start to hear religious chanting. The ship's inhabitants are in fact incorporeal energy beings whose music ensemble is on a galaxy tour. They invite the players to a fiesta, where food, alcohol and song are aplenty. However, the beings become a bit too fond of their new friends. Will the players manage to escape back to their ship, or will they join the choir invisible?

Major Xu'Thlong, a member of a species of mile-wide worm-like creatures known for their great appetite and fast metabolism, has just had a fine meal at the local McHarald's. While still in hyperspace, he orders his men to empty the garbage tanks. Unfortunately for the players, their ship is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because its hyperspace controls are jammed, it's unable to change course. A major shitstorm is on its way.

The players arrive at Danthia, an enourmous gas giant with a thick atmosphere. Many an adventurer has come to Danthia's floating mining complexes in search of riches and perished. Although Danthia is inhospitable to life and often ravaged by enormous thunderstorms, every cloud has a silver lining.

>>3038468
>>3038487
A high-fatility horror campaign sounds pretty awesome to me.

ABDUL GOLDBERG

>>3038491

Oh god, not the puns again...

Everytime I read one of those I hear the YEEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!! From CSI Miami in my head at the end.

>>3038969
THERE IS NO ESCAPE

The players have subdued a pirate ship and their landing party moves into it. However, the pirate captain has one last trick in his sleeve: he activates the reactor's self-destruct system, and only he knows the code to deactivate it. Under heavy fire by the pirates, the players are unable to retreat back to their ship, and the temperature rises fast. In the heat of the moment, the captain sees the players' distress, and his heart melts.

On this barren desert planet, the players find the ancient ruins of an unknown civilization. On a wall of a temple, strange carvings can be seen. It's the spitting image of the party's pet cobra.

The players arrive at Bucoothu, a planet with two natural satellites: small moons that are entirely covered in oceans. In the spaceport's bar, the players are told many stories of the hugely valuable crystal found beneath the moons' waves. "Only fools would go there", a one-legged humanoid shouts. He tells the players a gruesome story. Once in a blue moon, a sea monster attacked him out of the blue.

As a warrior for the high council, you are sent to investigate strange happenings in the Zeta quadrant sector. Upon arriving in your battle cruiser, you discover a group of large colony ships from the nearby planet "Flarg", a peaceful planets who's people have quietly traded with your people for hundreds of years. The Flargians are actually giant tentacle monsters with penis shaped appendages. A terrible race of Japanese school girls has destroyed there home world and forced the Flargians to flee.

Do you seek justice and help the Flargians? Or do you begin training a special Flargian special ops unit to land on the Japaneses school girls home planet and rape there queen?

Whoever wins, we...also win.

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Relevant to my interests, bump.