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THOMAS O’DELL

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Ronin Arts’ Future: Starship 10 –

Thomas O’Dell , the tenth in a series of PDFs for

use with futuristic D20 System campaigns. This

series makes some assumptions about your cam-

paign; the starship designs in this series will be

most useful in campaigns in which the following

statements are true:

• The campaign is not a “hard” science setting.

Campaigns that are more space opera/adventure

movie are the intended target for this series.

• Starships are not rare or unusual. All of the

starships in this series assume that space travel is a

standard and common occurrence – individuals

either fly their own ships or ride on passenger ships.

Starships and space travel are as common for char-

acters as a plane ride is for people of our reality.

• Space combat is not uncommon. It’s just

another exciting adventure when the player charac-

ters have to engage the enemy while fleeing from

some world or other.

• The campaign is packed with action. If things

aren’t exploding, how much fun can the game real-

ly be?

Most of the starships in this series are designed

to fill full pages. This is so that you can print the

pages – back-to-back if you wish – and drop them

into a binder. This introduction, and the page of new

starship equipment and assorted information, can

also be printed separately and added to your binder.

The schematic and silhouette page is designed to be

used as a player handout – it’s what flashes up on

their ship systems when they attempt to ID a ship –

and GMs need only give the players the page when

they encounter a ship from this series.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Hammes has been freelancing in the

role-playing industry since 2001. Starting small, he

has steadily built his repertoire, and reputation, by

working for such companies as Ronin Arts, Alderac

Entertainment Group, Dark Quest Games, and E.N.

Publishing. He is currently trying to balance his

writing schedule with his role as stay-at-home

father. To catch the latest from Michael’s

Imagination,

please

visit

www.michaelhammes.com.

E-FUTURE TILES

The Thomas O’Dell design is based on

SkeletonKey Games’ e-Future Tiles: Star

Freighter tile set. While this PDF can be easily

used on its own you will get a lot more use out of it

in your game sessions if you construct the ship – at

miniatures scale – using the printable tiles.

To learn more about SkeletonKey Games please

visit their website at www.skeletonkeygames.com .

BASIC INFORMATION

By the middle of the Gravity Age, humanity has

spread among the stars in thousands of colonies. Big

and small, near and far, primitive and advanced, pious

and hedonistic; every kind of colony imaginable

exists. While some colonies are wealthy and estab-

lished, most scrape out a precarious existence at the

very edge of humanity’s reach.

Out there, far from Earth and the Inner Systems,

the colonists live much like their 2nd Millennium fore-

fathers did. And like their forefathers, they rely on

ships for many of their needs. One such ship is the

Thomas O’Dell .

A former Fusion Age fast freighter, the Thomas

O’Dell is typical of the kinds of vessels that keep com-

merce, the lifeblood of the frontier, flowing. Bought as

a hulk from the Illuyrian shipyards and outfitted there

with whatever parts her crew could scrape together

and afford, she was made space-worthy again and

immediately set out for the frontier, far from the guild-

controlled shipping lanes of the Inner Systems.

Currently, the Thomas O’Dell makes its rounds

among the sixteen colonies and three planets of the

Vinkuel chain, transporting machinery, tools, vehicles,

and other finished and luxury goods from Port

Tooamah, the chain’s largest city and colony, to the

outlying colonies and returning with grain, processed

ores, and other raw materials.

While the ship has a skin of updated armor and a

new engine, the rest of her systems are woefully out of

date and it is the crew’s will and desire, and not a small

bit of luck, that keeps the Thomas O’Dell traveling

among the stars.

THOMAS O’DELL

GAME STATISTICS

THOMAS O’DELL (PL 7)

Type: Ultralight

Subtype: Fast Freighter

Defense: 7

Flat-footed Defense: 5

Autopilot Defense: 7

Hardness: 30

Hit Dice: 26d20 (520 hp)

Initiative Modifier: +2

Pilot’s Class Bonus: +3

Pilot’s Dex Modifier: +2

Gunner’s Attack Bonus: +2

Size: Colossal (–8 size)

Tactical Speed: 4,000 ft. (8 squares)

Length: 180 feet

Weight: 750 tons

Targeting System Bonus: +3

Crew: 4 (trained +4)

Passenger Capacity: 0

Cargo Capacity: 500 tons

Grapple Modifier: +16

Base Purchase DC: 52 (53 as equipped)

Restriction: Restricted (+2)

Attack: 2 fire-linked heavy lasers -3 ranged

(12d8) and 2 fire-linked heavy lasers -3 ranged

(12d8)

Attack of Opportunity: Point-defense system

+3 ranged (1d12+10)

PL 7 DESIGN SPECS:

Engines: Particle impulse engine, thrusters

Armor: Cerametal

Defense Systems: damage control system

(1d10), improved autopilot system, point-defense

system

Sensors: Class II sensor array, targeting system

Communications: Mass transceiver, radio

transceiver

Weapons: 3 turrets of 2 fire-linked heavy lasers

(range incr. 4,000 ft.)

Grappling Systems: Grapplers

STARSHIP KEY

1. Cockpit - The cockpit is a typical commer-

cial layout. The pilot has the center station while

the co-pilot can occupy either of the other two sta-

tions. The three stations in the cockpit are able to

access the following functions: sensors, navigation,

engineering, and gunnery for one set of 2 fire-

linked heavy lasers.

2. Sick Bay - Getting the proper medicines and

hospital equipment on the frontier is no sure thing

and, although the ship’s crew does its best, the sick

bay is far from fully stocked. While able to handle

most basic first aid, the antiquated medical pro-

gram is not much help when it comes to more

unusual problems (it provides only a +5 equipment

bonus to any Treat Injury skill).

3. Head - Arguably the most important space on

the Thomas O’Dell, the bathroom is fully equipped

with a sink, shower, and toilet.

4. Engineering and Gunnery (E & G) Bays -

Each of these bays (port and starboard) contains an

engineering (aft) and a gunnery (fore) station.

Each engineering station monitors the perform-

ance of its adjacent engine as well as the various

ancillary systems (artificial gravity, life-support,

water-reclamation, etc.). The bays also contain the

access panels to the engines and ancillary systems

as well as a full set of maintenance tools (electrical

and mechanical).

Each of the gunnery stations controls one set of

2 fire-linked heavy lasers contained in rotating

unmanned turrets mounted on the ship’s hull.

5. Dining Area - When not on a mission, the

crew enjoys hanging around the dining area. Unlike

standard vessels that stock irradiated or dehydrated

food, which due to a lack of processing plants are

scarce on the frontier, the Thomas O’Dell’s kitchen

is stocked with the freshest produce available.

While this makes for arguably better-tasting meals,

it does mean that the ship can only hold enough

perishable goods in the refrigerator and freezer to

last the crew for one week.

THOMAS O’DELL

U SING THE M EDICAL P ROGRAM

The medical program on the Thomas O’Dell is a standard medical suite that includes diagnosis

and analysis programs. In essence, an operator enters in symptoms and other information and the pro-

gram does its best to determine the cause of the problem and suggest remedies. A medical program

always has a surgical program that can direct an individual in how to perform most common types of

surgery.

Such programs are standard equipment on all starships, and while adequate, they are no substitute

for someone trained in the medical profession. The equipment bonus to Treat Injury provided by such

programs does not stack with an individual’s Treat Injury bonus; an individual can choose to use

either the medical program’s bonus or the bonus of an individual with the Treat Injury skill, hope-

fully whichever is higher.

Note that the program only makes diagnoses, suggests remedies, and gives instructions; it is not

able itself to dispense medications or perform surgery. Note that unless an individual performing sur-

gery has the Surgery feat, he or she still suffers the standard -4 penalty.

6. Crew Quarters - This cabin contains four

single bunks, one for each crewmember. In addition

to the wall lockers, each bunk has drawers under-

neath for added storage space.

7. Cargo Holds - The majority of the ship is

taken up by these large cargo holds. Able to hold 80

tons of cargo each, they are usually filled with all

manner of items in transit from one colony to the

other.

Common items that could be found here

include: livestock, packages, luggage, tools, farm

implements, machinery (usually farm), small vehi-

cles, spare parts for machines, grain, processed

ores, fuel, weapons, building materials, portable

generators, pre-fab houses; in short, just about any

kind of legal (and illegal?) cargo the GM can dream

up.

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