OWP Project
Background: When I was in high school, I loved my American History class because we played a tabletop RPG version of Oregon Trail. Essentially, we were put into groups and given skill challenges every week to see how far our group could advance along the trail.
I would like to do a similar thing for an English class, but put it together as a sci-fi game. The rules should be basic enough to pass along to any genre though.
Premise: The class is divided into teams of four. Much like Oregon Trail, players will complete skill challenges to achieve the maximum amount of distance each game. This would be either a semester or a year project and played only every once in awhile. To encourage attendance for my classroom, each team member will be given a job for their particular team. When every team member is there, then their ship will have a greater chance at moving closer to their destination.
Team Member types: I think it would be interesting to have students create very simple characters that would have various skills that could come in handy. Either this or have pre-gen character types that have a variety of skills.
Pre-gen types: Pilot, Medic, Gunner, and Mechanic. Any more types would be very helpful because I think it would be interesting for students to have to pick different jobs that they would think would be best for their crew.
What I need from you, faithful RPPR folks: I need help figuring out the mechanics of skill types, and also scenarios that would be difficult for students to deal with. If you could incorporate writing in some way, that would be really great (since it IS an English class after all). As long as the scenarios are morally difficult, that would be helpful.
Essentially, the map would be divided into different spaces and players would be able to move a maximum amount of spaces (like, 5) and they would have to complete skill challenges to allow them to move all five of those spaces every time we play. I want to have a jump gate that will allow ships to move farther on the board, but only if they are able to fix them or they can take a chance that they won’t be transported somewhere else on the board. Also, flying through an asteroid field will shorten their flight time, but could result in death. Any other ideas for hazards are welcome.
Any other additional help with this project will be much appreciated. I came up with all of this after I left Ross’s tonight, so nothing is finalized, and this post is a little scattered, but I would love any additional help I could get for this. Thanks ahead of time!
By the way, I knew LOTS of ideas before May 1st (next Saturday) so please help me as soon as possible!
