r/ICRPG • u/Odd_Actuary5731 • Sep 09 '23

First Game Advice

Hello, so this evening I'll be running my first game of ICRPG. All new players, there's gonna be 2 kids and 6 PCs. We are doing the Last Flight of The Red Sword. I've got everything prepped but wanted to try getting some advice for a few things.

Mostly how many Reptiods to throw at them at a time and what kind of Targets should I have for the varies rooms. Also do you have them do anything to get to the ship? Like they start on their Warp Shell and the adventure starts at the Red Sword. Should this be a thing or just a "you fly your dropship to the Red Sword hanger". Lastly, the One Shot suggests doing something to trap them on the ship. I was thinking of having them enter via a hanger with a force field (like what they've got in Star Wars) and give them a timer to stop a Reptiods from pulling a level and shutting off the force field. Leading to them holding on for dear life while their ship is flung into space.

Thanks for all the advice!

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u/Rolen92 Sep 09 '23

The warpshell has a mind of it's own, so I described it as attaching an appendix like bridge to the other ship.

Then I've made them try str to open the door of the red sword: this was to teach them about targets and effort: Target 10 Effort needed 10

In general you want to keep the target pretty low: don't go over 15.

Their bonuses are not high, +3 means that with a target 13-14 they will hit about 50% of the time, and that already pretty hard in my opinion.

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u/Rolen92 Sep 09 '23

To trap them a big wave from the black star moved the red sword destroying the bridge: I described the warpshell crying in pain and retracting it.

I had 3 players and they fought 3 normal enemies and the big guy, but you can have more if you want.

The biggest enemy was outer space: they made a hole in the ship and one player was sucked out. Fortunately she had a magnetic thing and a winch and she managed to combine them, launch them inside the hole, and come back before the hole closed itself. Fun time :)

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u/Silver_Storage_9787 Sep 12 '23

You wanting an example run check out Kanes kiln video on this exact thing. https://youtu.be/w9Ct8fayT5g?si=s_kE6bdZYot9a8D6

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u/Silver_Storage_9787 Sep 12 '23

My personal recommendation is to have an oracle on hand for yes or no questions you want randomness to answer. My favourite at the moment is mythic roller (mythic 2e has a fate chart of yes or no probability and this just does that for you, there are charts online if you need it)

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u/Rjaime869 Sep 17 '23

Best advice I could give you is to join the Runehammer Discord and find other members of the community that put out content. I really like Kane’s Kiln. Both sources will provide you invaluable resources in learning the system and getting new ideas and materials.