Battle Stations

Battlestations is the game of heroic starship adventure where you get to be a character aboard a starship on amazing adventures.

Unlike all other roleplaying games, in Battlestations your starship functions on a hex map simultaneously with (and driven by) your character actions taken on the secondary, modular starship map. If you want your ship to turn or accelerate, you have to go to the helm, spend helm power and attempt a piloting check based on the size and speed of your ship. If you don’t have power, you have to get to an engine and make an engineering check to pump for more power. When you fire the ship’s cannons at a target the difficulty is determined by the distance to the target in hexes and their speed. If you hit, you randomly determine where the shot falls. Ship’s shields mitigate the damage but those in the line of fire suffer damage. Strong enough hits will break modules. It feels like you are on a starship. Every action you take has consequences. Do you teleport to the enemy ship or blast them from a distance? What if there is no enemy ship? Perhaps there is a space monster or diabolical trap to extricate yourself from.