5150 New Beginnings - warband skirmish/LiteRPG [KICKSTARTER]

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

As a supporting author on the project, I'm really excited about this Kickstarter! This is a new edition of the solo and co-op ready 5150 scifi tabletop game from Two Hour Wargames. 5150 is a warband-level liteRPG/skirmish game with a built-in campaign system with character and "Band" progression, and set in a large open sandbox universe that lets you generate missions and encounters on the fly. Thanks for looking!



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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atzguy/5150-new-beginnings-sci-fi-rpg?fbclid=IwAR2nCLaqEWdxA5_nG1EiRqC1d3MCWcWYMXxuU2MLx27wbwytDZe7XenPgPg

[Chief Lackey Rich]

So what's the difference between this and the earlier New Beginnings?  Mike's still got that pdf up for sale - is this a new edition, or a fancier reprint, or something else?

Feels like "Newer Beginnings" might be a better name at the moment. 

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

This is a massive expansion of the older rules and setting and adds more Star and Grunt options, and new rules for things like:

• Psionics
• More Cybernetic Enhancements options
• Robots & AIs
• Computer Hacking & Drones
• An economic system that tracks your relative wealth level and access to stuff
• Expanded weapons options - beams vs bullets, non-lethal, etc.
• Rules for quick-play "Battle Board" combat or using tabletop minis and terrain
• More Encounters

The add-ons all add more details about alien races (Usual Suspects), a police campaign (Working Grave) and the Known Space add-on charts out the 9 Rings of Known Space and provides:

• A map and travel system across the 9 Rings and associated Sectors
• A quick and easy system to generate new star systems using the Star System map and planet counters
• A new city generation and planet exploration system tied to Encounters
• New Encounters - Space Mining, Trade, Expeditions and the like
• More combat options - spaceship boarding actions, Zero-G, hostile atmo and vacuum

So the older rules will still be useable with the new supplements, all Chain Reaction-base systems are forward & backward compatible, and the rules will mesh also into Star Army and Star Marine.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Sounds good.  Market for scifi skirmish with RP elements is getting crowded, good time to update 5150 so people notice it's still out there.

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

Thanks! And there's a light tie-in with Zombiesmith, where many of the figures from their "Starport" line are statted out in the 5150 rules: https://zombiesmith.com/starport/

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

Woo-hoo! Funded and hit the first two stretch goals!!

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Thanks! And there's a light tie-in with Zombiesmith, where many of the figures from their "Starport" line are statted out in the 5150 rules: https://zombiesmith.com/starport/

Ought to see if Nick at Northstar would be interested in doing something similar for his Rogue Star and Stargrave figs.  The more the merrier, and neither game really sits in quite the same niche as 5150 does.

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

Here's a preview of the 5150 Known Space campaign book, getting close to being unlocked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjzlPIEQfs

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

Five days left, almost at the Known Space KS goal -- which I'm excited about since that's the book I wrote for the project! Anyways, Ed at THW has done some videos describing how the rules work and samples of game play - like how to generate an encounter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA5Z-YIpYyM

Here's YouTube channel for Two Hour Wargames:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCleEWLWHNN7RUlDGKn1o7Dg/videos

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

There's a lot of new concepts brought into 5150 NB that carry over into the Known Space book. 5150 NB introduces an abstract economic system based on Lifetime d6 rep. It basically tracks your level of relative wealth, and based on that what your Star is likely to have access to.

Then this system carries over in Known Space to let you trade and speculate on cargo, and with the star system generation rules every planet will be different and have a different core economy - Basic, Mining, Farming, etc., which effects your trade value. So now when you create a planet, either by dice roll or counter pull, it tells you - Ring/Sector/System/Planet Class/POP/Economy/LAW level.

So here's the listing for New Hope, the starting adventure planet for 5150:
Example: New Hope (3/4/2/2/2/T/2) is located in the 3rd Ring (*), 4th Sector, 2nd System, and is a Class 2 Planet with POP 2, Economy T (Trade) and LAW 2.
*Note that there is some dispute that New Hope is actually located in the 4th Ring, specifically in Xeog controlled space.



Oh, here's a snapshot of the wealth tracker:

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

Woo hoo! The project reached the $10K Known Space unlock goal!!

https://www.kicktraq.com/projects/atzguy/5150-new-beginnings-sci-fi-rpg/

[SBMiniaturesGuy]

Nice gamer review of 5150 New Beginnings, and what's different from other SciFi rules from Two Hour Wargames.

https://hws3.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/review-5150-new-beginnings-and-city-deck/#respond