Crewed Rules

Look around at the tired faces, worn thin by years of space travel, lit by the glow of leaking radiators outside the hull, half shielded by the face plates of their space suits as they cling to the wreckage of this spacecraft orbiting an extraterrestrial world. You are crew: you live together and die together, over what seems like many life times and doing what feels like too much to fit into one. Water brings you together: the hunt for this precious liquid on desiccated asteroids and lifeless planets. It is rocket fuel. Coolant. Thirst quencher. The primary source of the oxygen you breathe.

And what a sixty years it has been. The solar system has evolved in unplanned and unpredictable ways. It has changed humanity. It has changed your mission control. It has changed you. You have drifted beyond all recognition between the orbits around our sun. And you'd do it again. The space race brought you great wealth and opportunity. Only to die here in the outer solar system without the delta-V to land.

Only has it? You have a 3D printer, and the nanotech to break down the remainder of the hull into inks. Those can be used to print stardust -- a highly efficient rocket fuel that'd give one person enough propellant to land on the cratered moon below you, without needing a rocket motor to do so. All you need is the coolant to allow the printer to operate - 60 litres should be enough.

The human body contains 40L of water.

You tighten your grip on the cutter you salvaged from the airlock. Maybe, this time, you'll have to die alone.

Crewed Rules is a 228 page supplement for the Sixty Years In Space TTRPG that provides rules for personal play in the High Frontier universe, where you take on the role of individual crew exploring the solar system in the near future. It provides exhaustive detail on crew creation, damage and complications, hull breaches and space snacks; and an innovative action resolution system that cleanly scales from 0.6 second turns and 0.5m/cm maps to year long turns at gas giant aerostats and the largest worlds.

IMPORTANT: If you have already backed 60 Years in Space at $20 USD or more you will already own a copy of Crewed Rules  and do not need to purchase it here again.