CONTEST: Living board game #2 – November edition – First Martians Adventure!
Hello! First Martians! We have a cool contest for you – create an Adventure for the Research Deck and win Extra ROI tiles promo!
The rules are simple – create your own Adventure for the Research Deck. Use science tropes or go crazy, make it fit the story behind First Martians and your event may even end up in the companion app! You have time until November 10 to post your ideas and we will judge them and choose the winner until the end of the month.
This is you unique opportunity, to co-create content for the First Martians board game!
Post your Adventures in the comment (Only one Adventure per comment!) section down below in the following format:
- Title
- Fluff
- Rule
- Future consequence
(we leave ourselves right to change events for balance issues).
Thank you for your submissions! We are in the review process and we will choose the winning event soon!
Title – Wastage
Fluff- “Didn’t we just replace that yesterday?”
Rule – Lax record keeping and maintenance accelerate the use of spares. Rule- Total all spare parts available, then draw a Research Card. The percentage on the card is the percentage of total spare parts rounded down random spare parts you lose. E.g. if you have 6 spare parts available and draw 30% you lose 2 random spares.
Title – Efficient Reuse/Recycling
Fluff- “Square filter in a round hole? I think I can come up with something that will work.”
Rule- Total all spare parts available, then draw a Research Card. The percentage on the card is the percentage of total spare parts rounded up additional random spare parts you gain. E.g. if you have 6 spare parts available and draw 30% you gain, 2 additional random spares.
Future Consequences – none
Title – Fascinating Sample
Fluff- “Have you seen the samples that just came off the rover?! This could change everything! ”
Rule – An extremely interesting sample with extraordinary implications has been recovered, draw a random research card, the number on the bottom is the number of pawns that must be assigned to the event to fulfill it.
Future Consequences- If the number of pawns assigned to the event equals the card draw: Exciting possibilities! A completed report is sent to MCEI, the results could be astounding! Morale goes up by 2, all participants gain 6 Morale Tokens.
If no pawns assigned: Missed Opportunities. The sample had deteriorated by the time it came around for analysis, morale goes down by 1 and discard 2 samples from available cargo bay.
Title- Misplaced Medication
Fluff – “Someone lost our medication, now we need to produce more”
Rule – Everyone astronauts must give up one morale for 2 SOL. [If you can not provide enough Morale, increase your damage token up one notch.]
Future Consequence – “A secure Med Bay was established.”
*Stress will decrease by 2, and every astronaut will regain 1 Morale.
Title: Launch with M.O.M. (Mars Orbiter Mission)
Fluff: Earth wants to send in a supply of everything necessary to launch an orbital probe in the hopes of finding useful minerals on the surface and to study the Martian atmosphere for future terraforming plans.
Rules: This is a three part mission. Firstly, is an Explore & Gather mission, collecting the supply drops from the surface.
Secondly, build the necessary upgrades, Research, Gather, and Power. As well as, building the launch facility (Temporary Base, aka Probe on the Loose). The supply drops will provide all the spare parts for this to happen.
Thirdly, Using the the Server Cluster and oxygen from supply drop, fast tracks the fuel for the rocket/satellite. 100% converted mixture into fuel using the research cards. After the fuel conversion is complete to launch the rocket into orbit roll your all three (3) of the malfunction dices if the total of the dice is 5 of greater the rocket/satellite successfully launches. Next, roll the same amount of malfunction dice, roll 4 or greater and the satellite is in Mars orbit and communicating with the HUB.
Select one research card from the shuffled deck of six (6), and refer to the table below.
1 – Discover unknown minerals on the surface
2 – Successfully analyze the atmosphere for future Terraforming missions
3 – Complete topographical photos of Mars for future colonization
4 – Partial completion of atmospheric analysis – more time required
5 – After a short orbit satellite stops sending data – FAILURE
6 – On board camera functioning at a lower resolution creating flawed data
Future consequence: With the new found data from M.O.M. the astronauts are able pinpoint a newly discovered deposits of minerals to research for future breakthroughs.
– Title
Ghosts of Mars
– Fluff
“I think i hear someone knocking on our front door.”
– Rule
All your astronauts are crazy. Probably eating martian potato grown on soil made from your own poop didn’t help your manias.
– Future consequence
Whenever someone should take a wound break random system instead.
– Title
Use the damn SI
– Fluff
“Someone used the USCS to save all the research data, now you had to convert it to SI.”
– Rule
Put a [Blocked Token] in one of your pawns, you can’t use this pawn next SOL, remove the [Blocked Token] in the Clean-Up Phase of next SOL.
– Future consequence
“You created a program to convert units from USCS to SI, now this research will be completed earlier than expected.”
You can use the Automated Research Assistant Pawn for the next 2 SOL.
Thank you for your submission!