This is about the roleplaying world my friends and I play in.
It's a collaboration of ideas. We use the Starfinder ruleset as basis, but it ended up as a Dungeons & Dragons in space. We took out the gamified leveling of Starfinder.
The setup:
Human colonized space is an about 3000 light years in radius sphere. Ships can travel about 30 light years in a week. Faster scout and courier ships are faster and can sometimes go up to 60 to 90 light years in a week.
The ship leaves normal space by ripping a hole violently into the membrane between the Einstein-continuum and a parallel universe where the speed of light is massively different. A few moments, a few light months further the ship rematerializes in normal space through another membrane hole.
There are some reactors that pull energy from the same space. FTL communication is very expensive and energy intensive and can’t be provided in many places.
The campaign started in the city of Bhoover on the planet of the same name. About a third of the planetary population lives in the capital city. It's located at the equator for easier access to space.
The planet itself has a really thick atmosphere. Link to the solar system
The man who hired them, Charles Bouvier. He is an orc and one of the bosses of the company Neumann, Inoue & Bouvier Ltd. Co. The trio met Charles' in the Den's Den, the bar of a capyton businessman called Den, obviously and who apparently is friends with Charles. It's not clear what Charles' company includes. They do at least delivery and mission person cases.
The first job for him was to find the driver who he lost contact with in the horrible storm that happened on the first day. The over 40°C dry air storm at the equator made life difficult for a while in Bhoover city. They found the vehicle, one of Charles' men died. Poor Martin Baumgartner. The trio went ahead and delivered a seemingly very important device to a company.
In the bar they also met 'the Elf'
The guy, an elf of very undescribable age. He could be very well 25 or 50.
He is leather clad and seems comfortable. He sits there, one arm over the back of the bench he has seated himself and his drink in his left. His head shifts, looking directly towards Mia's table and finger guns at her with a wink. One of these really cheesy ones. Not a 'hey, I hit on you!' one, but calculated 'gotcha!'. But not unfriendly, as he smiles going back to his drink.
He gained a bit of notoriety of showing up while fingergunning in place the trio is investigating. Especially Mia really seems to get upset about him.
The second job is to find Margarete Steel in New Texas. They spent some time studying the files on the train to Summer Springs. Later on that trip they met 'The Elf' again and then once again as they disembarked at their destination. He handed one of them a playing card for some reason.
https://website.irkanien.de/images/pdf/bouviercasefile.pdf
https://website.irkanien.de/images/pdf/Incident001.pdf
https://website.irkanien.de/images/pdf/MPC001926.pdf
And then there is the second group, the JJ. Jucy and Jace jump into action when the fourth player isn't avaiable. The two were sent to a place by a moonwalking elf and a feline named Tila. To a bit of a surprise the scene looked oddly familiar, but there was no dead Martin anymore. Now they had a chance to figure out what really happened on that really hot day two days before.
A picture of Tila to the right.
There are a ton of races, made up and premade fantasy races in the universe. One of the ones we really like are the Capyton. Uplifted Capybaras.
Capybaras
So, the Greys found out that humans very much like capybara's but slightly misunderstood that humans can find everything cute from babies, to cats to rocks. So they uplifted a pair of Capybara, calling them Adam and Eve, ironically. Their plan was to open capy-brothels, and did so. It did not go over super well, the indentured slaves artificially uplifted to a state just above intelligence rebelled. Their really peaceful nature finally broke. They made a lush forrest world their home calling it Capy-ton.
Since the day of the rebellion every, literally every capyfolk is armed, usually to the teeth. They are still peaceful and good meaning, stoic in nature and center of the movement to abolish and free all slaves and indentured slaves around colonized space.
The names of capy-folk are a given name, a middle name representing the clan or order and a family name.
As example Nixie Aligator-Rider Seaside
Order
Aligator-Rider - The conquest division of the Capy-ton military. The self given tasks of this order are counter-colonization, stoic-stalwart-defence, area-denial, pest-erradication (i.e. nanite swarms, feeding hordes), show of force, alliance related work.
Jaguar-Befriender – The Intelligence service of Capy-ton. Tasks are intelligence, counter intelligence, general mayhem.