Campaign(Concept)aDay – Space Smallholders

August. Let’s not talke about RPGaDay. Let us rather embark on a journey into K-Space and through a selection of the endless possibilities for campaigns.

Space Smallholders

This one is surprisingly(?) concrete and close to realisation, yet there is really not that much more to write than with a lot of the far rougher sketches already presented this month.

“Schollenspiel” is a older concept for a game, and work on it has barely advanced since 2017.

But around two months ago, there actually was a bit of movement, because I had a sudden inspiration regarding a variation on the theme, a shift in underlying genre: Smallholding – in space. Taking the basic layout of Schollenspiel, the idea of the local, hearthbound, seasonal, event- and ressource-driven game, and applying it not to a farmstead but to a space mining operation (either asteroid mining or cloud mining in a gas giant).

The core mechanics are a direct carry-over. As with the farmstead version, the work is in putting together the event packages. Work that still needs doing.

Image by S K from Pixabay