My RPG group just started a new Beam Saber campaign and we already committed war crimes on session 1!
Beam Saber is a game about giant robots and the people who pilot them. Our “heroes” are an asshole secret agent, a bioengineered super-ace, a living airplane, and a mechsploitation hound. We’re calling our campaign BISEXUAL DISASTER MACHINES!
First session, command said to go murderise an Exodus Republics Incorporated fireteam and leave no witnesses. Simple enough, except the Exodus fireteam were protecting a building full of Independent civilians from a Jovangellian Empire attack squad.
The team start blasting and lasering the Jovangellian and Exodus mechs, and everyone gradually realises that the building full of civilians are witnesses, so they need to go down. After a brief argument, Hound and Jack Danger start doing war crimes, while Gizmo and Grace use their giant robot laser sword and super missiles to utterly destroy the enemy AWVs (Armoured Walking Vehicles).
I had lots of fun! Can’t wait for next session!
Please keep posting about this. I’ve been trying to put together a Beam Saber group for years now and would love to read more about how yours goes!
Also, why would anyone not want to play a game that has giant robot laser swords??
Awww, thanks!
Gizmo comes from a long line of genetically engineered Norran hedgehog knights. He has the intelligence of a human and the reflexes of a hedgehog, making him the perfect mech pilot.
Jack Danger’s entire character concept is “egg James Bond”. He’s been repressing his gender dysphoria for decades and playing the role of amoral secret agent, assassinating whoever his government told him to with naught but manufactured glee.
Grace comes from a species of wild AI airplanes that attained sentience (but not sapience) and formed a community in the wilderness centuries ago. It was taken from the wild, forcibly uplifted, and given a neural link to a human pilot. The Democratic Federated Systems call it “equipment reclamation”.
Hound was a normal Jovangellian citizen, until she was kidnapped off the street and mind wiped. Now she’s a trained mutt of a trans woman, conditioned to destroy whatever she’s pointed at. After her handler died, she was abandoned in an escape pod, and eventually found and recruited by the DFS. She just wants to get her handler back and be a good hound.