Last August, Luke Crane (of Burning Wheel and Mouse Guard fame) and Jared Sorensen (creator of Action Castle and its siblings) launched Freemarket, a Science Fiction roleplaying game.
I had the privilege to play a 4 hour demo game with Luke (thanks to Gnome Stew‘s DNAPhil who invited me) and the game blew my mind away. I was dumbstruck by the originality of the game and its sheer scale as an engine for trans-human Sci-Fi stories… Even though the action is entirely confined within a lone space station.
I finally got a chance to play it with my friends about 3 weeks ago and I’ve been wracking my brain to find a way to convey my impressions of the game without falling all over the details of the game.
Prologue: Read Chatty’s write-up of user creation and see what’s going down on the Donut!
Part I: Chatty kicks the game into high gear with Episode I: The Steam Stallion
Part II: Chatty wraps things up with a little GhostN’Breakin’