Using Serenity Roleplaying Game (Margaret Weis Productions, 2005).
Serenity was one of the first “new” RPGs I acquired when I got back into playing RPGs after a hiatus in the early 1990s that lasted into the mid-2000s (end of college, career, family, etc.). I picked this one up because I had acquired Battlestar Galactica (tomorrow’s #charactercreationchallenge entry) and was enjoying the Cortex System (now called Cortex Classic). I must admit, however, that character creation was still a bit of a mystery to me; how come there are so few tables? While not as structured as later Traveller or narrative as The Babylon Project I liked the “balance’ in Serenity.
Tai Smith
Greenhorn Journalist turned Spy out In the Black…
Not shown on the front of the character sheet (why?) are ‘Tiger’s’ Assets of Natural Linguist (Minor) and Sharp Sense (Minor). His Complications are Credo (Minor) and Forked Tongue (Minor).
Tiger grew up in the Core Worlds but never liked being called a ‘Hapa’—as in “Hapa dis and hapa dat”—because his parents were mixed Caucasian and Asian. The folks out in the Rim are far more welcoming; all the more so after Tiger threw his lot in against the Alliance…which didn’t turn out so well. Now Tiger travels as a “journalist” writing “human interest” stories out in the Rim—while working for a new Resistance. Tiger is a bit worried as he keeps hearing about an Alliance “Agent” that he doesn’t want to cross paths with… .
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