J ust remember that your Star Power d6 are gained at the start of the week and not replaced until the next week.ĥ150 Urban Renewal is a great introduction to New Hope City, a large RPG Sci Fi city where you can adventure in. You can choose to have as many Voluntary Encounters per week as desired. Here's where things are a bit different from other THW rules. Once a month you will have an Involuntary Encounter thrust upon you. Once a month you could have an Involuntary Encounter. Time is tracked by the week, so if you declare to stay Home, you can move the Campaign one week, and choose not to have any Voluntary Encounters. Where is its Home? Although Back Alleys Bright Lights is set in Little Hisha, you can have your Home in any of the eleven areas of New Hope City.The actual is up to the player as it's the effect that we're dealing with. Of Weapon does it have? We've divided them into Pistols (1 shot) and Automatics (3 shots). The DV is added to the Rep of the figure so the range of DV is from a low of 4 to a maximum of 10. All start at 1 but that is modified by your Race and Profession. Its Defensive Value? Defensive Value (DV) is a number that reflects the ability of the character to utilize cover and its instincts to make it harder to be hit when shot at. Do good things and get Increasing Rep d6, do bad things and get Decreasing Rep d6. Its Reputation? Characters start with a Rep of from 3 to 5, there's no maximum Rep, and how well you do determines how well you Retire - a fter a ten year career maximum. After all, it is a bit of a seedy area of town. Its Profession? We have over 15 Professions from the other books, but as we're Area specific - Little Hisha - you won't Interact with all of them. The Trait it has will affect how it Interacts with others. Its Traits?Each Alien has a chance to be Aggressive, Cunning, or has no noticeable trait at all. Some you may be familiar with while some may be new.īasic, Buardeem, Fezglok, Geenx, Grath, Hishen, Lerksah, Lycaon, Munjar, Nonne, Orabel, Razor, Tip-Tip Glom, Vangore, Xeog and Zhuh-Zhuh. Its Race? You have 16 races to choose from. I'll explain how this works later under Encounters.
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Stars have Free Will (you can choose when to leave the Encounter) and 1d6 of Star Power per week. It a Star or a Grunt? You start as a Rep 5 Star and ALL other Non-Player Characters, friend or foe, are Grunts - run by the game mechanics. If you familiar with THW games you'll see that the character mechanics are pretty much the same. If you have a character from 5150 Urban Renewal, 5150 Fringe Space, or even 5150 Future Talesyou can bring it over into Back Alleys.
Character creation in Back Alleys Bright Lights is pretty simple and quick.