Sup Veeky Forums. Is there any right way to include a "pleasure planet" in a space opera setting...

sup Veeky Forums. Is there any right way to include a "pleasure planet" in a space opera setting? Without devolving into ERP, of course.

A player recently joined a hivemind for a few minutes and then got out, and among the visions he had of other hivemind units I put one where he saw a neon sign with "JOYLAND" written on it and some slaves being carried to their holding cells... If I give up on putting a pleasure planet deep in slavers territory, which I might do, what else could that vision be of, so my continuity doesn't get messed up?

Vacation resorts are a thing. Just lean towards Disneyland and away from Hedonism, as appropriate.

I was talking of the "pleasure planet" archetype as the hedonistic one. Sure, vacation resorts would be no problem, that's not the question though

Just turn it into more of an international waters sort of thing rather than a degenerate sex club.

Need to do some illegal business dealings, or plot conspiracies? Our magnificent boardrooms have everything you'll need.

Ever wanted to fight a Grellian Kiir against a Bopi Nushu? To the death? Our arenas seat 1000 and each have a specialized bookee.

We host illegal servers, serve illegal drinks, hell, most of our furniture is illegal!

There ain't no market like the Black Market (not to be confused with the Underground Market).

Stay at one of our fabulous hotels and receive a 2-for-1 coupon on any of the listed brothels!

I do not want to go to Sextillion. It looks horrible.

Ok, so give your players a job to do with a ticking clock and some pressure. They're here for business, not pleasure. The debauchery is background scenery.

I think I do, but only in order to nuke it from orbit with cyclonic torpedoes.

This; if they spend too much time dicking around the mission bites them in the ass; their contact gets killed, or they miss the drop, or more business oriented rivals gazump their deal from under their noses.

Just make it the planet of Hedonism you originally intended. If you're caught being prudish or rude, you get banned from the planet or enslaved or whatever.
Focus on the other aspects of sinful self-indulgence, like gluttony and watching slaves fight to the death. There's a bathhouse on every corner and restaurants galore between.

Just don't forget the players need a distraction from the hedonism or their characters would have no reason to leave and you'd wind up soft-locked until some horrible atrocity ruins the planet.
Beat me to it I guess.

Also don't forget to come up with some vague explanation for the economy in case a player asks. Maybe the planet was bountiful with rare natural resources, or maybe an decillionaire from some distant star system bought it as his super-penthouse.

There are other forms of pleasure beyond sexual pleasure.

Politics, lack of regulation. Las Vegas is a barren patch of desert. It grew because gambling was legal there.

A planet based on ancient greece. A bunch of dudes in togas wandering around debating the nature of the universe and reality, and then occasionally buggering each other or shouting 'Eureka!' and streaking across the landscape.

This guy seems to have a good idea for it. A former slave or bandit saw a large population of his competition had no place to spend their ill gotten gains, and so took advantage of his own free labor, maybe terraformed a moon, and set up a fancy pleasure city akin to Las Vegas. From there, they have invested in more attractions and building it up, half theme park, half action you would never see anywhere else, and they just ran with it.

Alternately, make it a honey pot trap. A nice, family friendly view of things coats the surface of the planet and acts as both money laundering ring and method of acquisition of new slaves for market. After all, how many people pass through the doors of a normal theme park? Or the businesses around it?

Make it Hostel: The Planet. Where rich assholes go to legally kill people. You can even do that as a bait and switch. Your players think they're going to a sexy brothel planet there, then when they get in the room with the girl, she's strapped to a rack and there's a table with weapons on it.

Oh, and the people who run the place don't let you out until you kill the victim.

The story writes itself whether your players kill her, or try to save her.

In my RT campaign I have the planet ass deep in the Warp and the "pleasure/treasure" to be found isn't a singular object per-say. Simply the object of your true desire.

Is your true desire to find a lost loved one? Here they are, smiling, waiting for you to hold them again. Acting just the way you always thought of them to. That sound too perfect? Well how about a piece of advanced tech that can bring them back from even just a single cell?
Really hate those Orks and want 'em all dead? Here is an endless supply of nukes for you to go nuts with. Or just a spawning supply for you to get your murder fix.

The point isnt that you stay forever. But simply that you get corrupted and drunk on having your desire fulfilled and lose your grip on reality. Double points for leaving the planet and bringing back the cursed desire with you.

Star Ocean's Eleven.

Make it the planet the aliens come from in Space Jam.

I don't think of it as a space opera setting without the Neo-Bangkok Free Zone at the Kuiper Belt, the L2-Vegas Void Habitat or the Caravanserai Hypercube.

Any place with a handful of humans is going to have vices, and someone will supply it.

I need someplace to hunt eroempaths with my homemade amat shells, dammit.

Even if it is mainly sexual pleasure though OP just said "without devolving into ERP" the solution to which is pretty obvious. Just don't do any ERP. It's like how Star Trek managed to have Ryza without devolving into porn.

Make the place very high-class and romantic, so it can't easily devolve into fetish and anime crap.

PURGE THE UNCLEAN!

Saga is a great comic

>"pleasure planet"
You mean Treasure Planet, right?
Someone, post that screencap with a guy duct-taping a fork to his arm.

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Why did they remove most of the fun woman parts on sextillion?

Make it a guy like Donald Trump. He's a business man, pure and simple. He saw an opportunity to monopolize on a market no one else wanted, and took it. A tax free, "law" free haven for all sorts of illicit activities. No questions, just cash.

Make it beautiful. Make it glorious. Paris, Dubai, and new York all rolled into one.

It's relatively "crime" free. When you can have a safe place to plan that off-planet guest, you don't need to cover your ass or kill someone who overhears something. The streets are kept safe by a serious enforcement squad, but their job is mostly to make sure people aren't ganking people in the street, there's legitimate businesses you can do that in.

Damn, I'm running a sci-fi bounty hunter game, and I'm totally using all.of this.

Artist is presumably a leg man.

>Artist of Saga
>man

Swing-and-a-miss.

Basically, emphasize the exotic and elaborate, and slightly de-emphasize the mundane in-and-out. The universe is a big place, if you just wanna get laid there's probably millions of places for that on every single inhabited planet. If you want something that truly stands out, something that's worth dedicating a whole planet (or at least sufficiently huge place) to you'll have to offer something truly unique and specific.

So to that end, I could see something like a "design your own adventure" service. Want to pretend like you're an intrepid explorer who stumbles upon a tribe of forgotten amazons with an absolutely fascinating anthropological development (including lots of snu-snu)? Or be a legendary hero of forgotten ages slaughtering your way through a horde of space-monsters with just your broadsword? Or maybe just have zero-g sex in a room entirely made out of butts?
These guys will make it happen. They'll nail down your request to the very last detail and will spare no expense making it a reality. I'm talking stuff like terraforming strups of the planet to have exactly the right climate, pulling small towns out of the ground and populating them as a backdrop for your adventure, and gene-splicing their actors to have *exactly* the right look.

That should offer a fair number for fun scenarios for your party to stumble through. Hell, give them a secondary objective not to interrupt the immersion of any other clients and you should have some great potential for hilarity as the party awkwardly tries to play along with whatever weird shit Spacelord Snootzldung III has ordered for his birthday.

Literally build a crazy nightmare fusion of beach paradise, Vegas, Space Disney,and hedonist scum paradise.

But they could give a lot of head down there.

It's amazing that a comic can be that good that frequently (salvo, y'know, dicksucking dragon).

not all inhabitants are like this, just the ladies who go up to meet you when you arrive.

>eroempath
........ what

Scantly clad women/men, servants waiting on people hand and foot, ect
Now the question is, what's the "rating" so to speak on this campaign? Or rather how much do you want to show?
You can get pretty far just by implications and teasing, (in fact your players may assume a lot lewder than you ever would if left to their own imaginations), you can also go for disgust, showing them just how mistreated the slaves/"servants" are, turning any sort of sexiness to revulsion at what they see

Or what said

Money.
Vegas does not exist for sin, hedonism, debauchery or sex. It exists for money.
Make it evidently clear that all the pleasure your players are getting has a price and for extra kick in make all the magical realmy shit eat on their budget for shit they actually need like food and fuel.