One-Page Adventure Jam 2024!

Create a one page ready-to-play adventure about life, surviving, and living planet-side during the Free Navy conflict, or the rise of the Transport Union, all across the planets of the expanse…

You are encouraged to use suggestions from the core book, and should feel free to pick one or more of the existing rules supplements to inform your story. Whether Sol System, Trades of the Expanse, and/or Beyond the Ring. Pick wisely, your submission cannot be more than one single page.

What is special about the jam this year, is that the theme is tied to a specific era in the Expanse timeline, as well as setting the adventure in cities or colonies planet-side.

The adventure may be written as a colony or organisation management adventure, fighting other organisations or colonies, surviving in inhospitable environments due to planetary bombardments or hunger from lack of food and other resources from Earth. Or it may be written as an adventure set on the streets of a city on Earth, Mars, or some other planet, moon or asteroid. It can be about dodging the agents of the Free Navy (or the Transport Union), or doing work for (either of) them, or someone else. The prerequisite is that the adventure must be about planet-side events, hazards, encounters, set during a specific time-frame; starting with the Free Navy’s bombardment of Earth going through the rise of the Transport Union and into the first years of its reign, where the dangers and risks of life on the ground plays a significant part.

Green Ronin has generously provided me with a 15% discount code for Expanse RPG products in the Green Ronin Store:
BackTheExpanseTransportUnion
(valid for the duration of the jam).

Giveaway!
3 lucky participants in the jam will receive a copy of Trades of the Expanse: Trader/Smuggler, and 3 other lucky participants will receive a copy of Trades of the Expanse: Pirate.
To be drawn after the winner has been determined.

One-page Adventure Jam 2024 Information

Submit your one page adventure by uploading it to the files section on the Facebook GM group.

If you are not registered on Facebook, you can submit your one page adventure as a PDF to the e-mail below.

Importantly, all submissions will be shared on the Facebook GM group.

As a supplement to the one page adventure you may also submit one of the following: a colony record, planet record, system record, organisation or starship record sheet.

You can download fillable colony, system, and planetary record sheets here. There are also starship sheets there if you need a template.

When creating your adventure, consider the following:

  • What would be interesting for the characters to face?
  • What or who is the antagonist? Marco Inaros? Rival gangs? The UN or MCRN? The environment? Gravity itself?
  • What unintelligible mysteries could be found? Something from the Builders?

Keep in mind things that may affect the adventure’s atmosphere and mood, The Churn, or Stunt Point expenditure. Such as gravity, falling rocks, famine, earthquakes (or marsquakes, or other geological or atmospheric events), pollution, war, vandalism, surviving apocalyptic wastelands, raiders, landslides, collapsing cities and buildings, cracked domes …

One-page Adventure Jam Standard Rules

  1. Only one entry allowed per participant.
  2. Each submission must have a title and a named author.
  3. One page means the adventure’s text for plot, encounters, and story must fit on one side of one sheet of paper (A4), i.e., page 1 (as per page numbering).
  4. You can include maps, deck plans, NPC stat blocks, new gear and rules, and oddities, on the second side of the sheet, i.e., page 2 (as per page numbering).
  5. Submissions cannot violate copyright, intellectual property, or trademarks of others (if in doubt, refer to page numbers in published books instead).
  6. Submissions must be labelled “fan inspired content anyone can use” or something to that effect.
  7. The filename should start with “OPAJ24” and followed by the name of your adventure, e.g., “OPAJ24_SomethingOddInTheSky.PDF”.
  8. Submissions cannot have font size smaller than 9 pts.
  9. Submissions must be written in English.
  10. Submission must be submitted/uploaded no later than 30 September 2024 at 23:59 UTC.
  11. Submissions can be replaced/revised up until the submission deadline. Only the final revision will be considered.
  12. By entering the competition, i.e., submitting a one-page adventure, you agree to abide by the judges’ (the Facebook Expanse RPG community moderator team) decision to determine the winner.

One Page Adventure Jam Submission

Submission closed.