Stranded astronaut in a fantasy setting character class concept thread #2

>micrometerorites do it all the time

Yes, but in general they are travelling at far higher velocities than a musket ball. Space debris in orbit some times have completely ridiculous speed, like a flake of paint travelling fast enough to make one of the space station solar panels look like someone took a shotgun to it.

Probably not. Space suits are made partly of Kevlar and are generally thicker than a vest. I doubt they'd stop a modern rifle round but a comparatively large and slow projectile like a musket ball ought to be caught.

Probably crack at least a couple ribs, though, those things had some serious mass by bullet standards.

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At least this time there's no natives to murder for their land...

And if we find some, this time we'll know what to do!
Wait that sounded better in my head...

Destroying a less advanced society through unforseen consequences of making contact is still possible I think though, even if no ill-will was meant.

i will invest in plague blankets then?

Wouldn't the massive difference in genetics - making us closer to Terran fish than aliens - render most fears of disease moot? At least for bacteria, anyway; viruses are all kinds of fucky.

Yeah but what this guy said probably holds... And at least this time if we realise it's all going pear-shaped, we might act to STOP it, rather than encourage it.

Yeah. That blankets trade? Possibly one of the dickest moves in human history, I'm not even exaggerating.

>Space Flumphs!
cracked.com/article_17455_15-retarded-dungeons-dragons-monsters.html

Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe

>The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner. The visor of this figure’s helmet was entirely of gold, without eye slits or ventilation; in its polished surface the deathly desert could be seen in reflection, and nothing more. This warrior of a dead world affected me deeply, though I could not say why or even just what emotion it was I felt. In some obscure way, I wanted to take down the picture and carry it-not into our necropolis but into one of those mountain forests of which our necropolis was (as I understood even then) an idealized but vitiated image. It should have stood among trees, the edge of its frame resting on young grass.

>FTL/teleportation via repeatable divine intervention.

>A new religion is founded. Minor at first, until it demonstrates a miracle which it can repeat on demand. Whenever people genuinely believing in the religion perform the specific ritual, they can ask their deity to relocate something in the universe and it actually works. Your spaceship engine consists of getting a cleric to pray a request that you get teleported to your desired destination.

>Ideally throw in a setting initially based off the real world for an interesting story of social upheaval and space exploration suddenly becoming comparatively easy.

>I'd just make every religion capable of this, so it wouldn't matter if you're asking Allah or Mercury as long as you really believe in it.

>"By the good graces of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, I beg of thee to guide our vessel with thine holiest of noodly appendages to our location so that we may partake of the righteous noodles of Dephanine V."

>Prayer-powered FTL works for pastafarians. Only for pastafarians. Heathens can be aboard the ship, but at least one Paladin is needed for hyperjump.

>Navigators using Meme Magic rather than Melange

>Clerics Of Kek serving as the engines for spelljammers built by SpaceX in a modern setting.

Shot... through a wormhole...
Strange alien creatures...

So, a key thing to figure out for this concept is the starting technology level for our misplaced Spaceman.

A modern day or near future (2030?) NASA astronaut would have a different level of technology available to him in his crashed spacecraft than say a Spaceman from something on a similar level as say Star Trek.

Defining it well would probably be difficult without a specified system, but they would probably be non-magical, and nothing sneaky at least. I don't see it as an artificer class, but still possessing of strong skills in things like engineering, mathematics and medical knowledge seeing as they come from a much more advanced world, while simultaneously having shitty world-specific knowledge and difficulty communicating and socializing because they're literally an alien.
Maybe things to represent their nature as an explorer would be nice, such as survival skills and strong willpower in the face of the unknown.

Learning how to fight probably shouldn't be too hard but I don't know if it fits the concept to be as proficient or useful as classes who have "warrior" as a massive part of their concept, and i'm not big a fan of classes that are reliant upon specific gear they have at the start of the game. I mean they should be able to have stuff that other classes don't at the start but, i'm not too big a fan of making their manipulation of futuristic tech a huge feature in gameplay. It would feel weird to me if a character whose concept is being lost and in a strange, different world if they can bring large chunks of their original world with them that they use in crunchy ways on a regular basis.

That is, unless the setting is one that supports stuff like alien precursors and monsters made from scientific dabbling in ancient days. I don't know quite the word for that "book of the new sun" kind of style, but if that were the setting tech use would totally fit.

I've played a character like this twice, it was really fun. I don't see the need to make another thread all official like this though, especially cause the first wasn't even popular.

Are you looking for advice? What system are you playing? I don't believe you've mentioned that.

Is OP just trying to force Major Tom again? I got really sick of seeing that faggots name around here all the time

This makes a surprising amount of sense.

>forgot picture

Did you really imply that not everyone on Veeky Forums knows what flumphs are?

I don't think it should be pinned down to a specific real-world time period. Leaving the details of his home a bit vague would help the other players view the character as a true outsider.

Plus it cuts down on autistic rules-lawyering about (real-world situation).

You probably didn't hear, but Veeky Forums users now have the option to ignore threads they don't like.

Original thread's OP here, glad to see this being continued. It would probably have be 5e as that's my group almost exclusively uses. I actually wasn't aware of the Major Tom character, I originally just wanted to explore the idea of "scifi character in a fantasy setting" and how that would play out originally the idea was for them to simply be from the future of that world and involved how they would approach scenarios knowing their actions could have drastic consequences. Would they know of the other PCs or NPCs through history books? Would they try to stop changing the future or approach it like multiverse theory? How would they use their technology? After realizing that this might be incredibly metagamey, I tweaked it into the idea of an Astronaut getting transported to an alternate world and how they would try to survive, find their crewmates and ship, and return home. The Martian would probably a good analogue for the survival aspect. The current backstory I had was the crew was originally from around the year 2030-2046 as part of a NASA mission to explore the TRAPPIST-1 system when the "Oh no, we're getting sucked into the wormhole" occurs and they find themselves separated from the ship and each other.

close this shit dumb thread
astronaut would insta die from viruses and shit

>Man wearing sealed suit who presumably just tanked a fall from orbit would die to normie viruses

>implying viruses exist in D&D land

>At least for bacteria, anyway; viruses are all kinds of fucky.
Pretty sure it'd be the exact opposite. Certain forms of bacteria might conceivably be able to survive inside an alien's body and cause problems just by being there and doing its thing, since they don't necessarily need to interact with anything specific in the alien's biochemistry to eat and reproduce, whereas if the alien's cells don't have the exact right receptors, viruses would just be completely inert and do nothing at all.

>backstory?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts

That's just the start of the story fool!

Astronaut crash-lands in a fantasy world. Sets up shelter, assesses his surroundings, and eventually falls ill. Clerics of a God of the cosmos are on a religious pilgrimage and find him half-conscious on the roadside. The heal him with FANTASY MAGIC and he speaks of home as they travel.

But SUDDENLY!

Attack by evil cultists! After a harrowing fight, our spaceman learns of an evil plot! And perhaps stopping it offers a way home...

Funnily enough my GM's custom setting basically has the remnants of an X-com style group on mars after the apocalypse (oh and they're stranded there after demons tried to use an Atlantean teleporter system to invade reality and they had to destroy it) and it's basically a giant homage to Burroughsian scifi.

Part of that is literally the backstory to He Man.

You could also do the reverse, and have a Knight/Paladin in a Sci-fi setting.

>tfw you want to name a game Major Tom to Pound Control but it sounds too much like a cheesy porno

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Original thread and current thread, you're not fooling us

>Something took pity on one of them and "rescued" them by transporting them somewhere else. Good news, they aren't going to die in a poorly built soviet deathtrap. Bad news, they're not getting home any time soon.

>Clerics of a God of the cosmos are on a religious pilgrimage and find him half-conscious on the roadside
This is totally going to lead to everything the man fallen from the sky says being misinterpreted into a cargo cult, isn't it?

I had no idea there was any art of astronauts with swords.

I need more.

finally another red dwarf fan. how do ya do m8? watch s11 yet?

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Huh, I had a story idea once that's about this astronaut that fell into a black hole and somehow ended up in front of a backwater gate of hell, where there's a booth with a devil in it just excited to see a visitor after all these eons! After all, almost nobody had entered hell through this end, and so the devil gives the lost astronaut a tourist kind of tour of hell. Complete with brochures, one of those flags that tourist guides wave about, and complimentary drink & snack.

>Astronaut stranded in fantasy setting

HAS /T/OUHOU/G/AMES RETURNED ONCE MORE?

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There's no "misinterpreting" going on. The astronaut takes full advantage of the whole God-From-The-Sky thing. Especially if the native priestesses all look like that picture.

Flumphs aren't even on that list. Personally I'd recommend Gelun as preferred enemies. They inhabit some kind of venusian superheated hellhole planet, so being trapped in ice is something new.
>2030-2046 as part of a NASA mission to explore the TRAPPIST-1 system
Not happening. Not only would you need FTL to get to TRAPPIST that quickly, but funding. Those are approximately equally different to procure.

I figured with its recent discovery it would be cool to use. I can see it being extremely unlikely we would be exploring the system until far into the future and I may bump up the timeframe a bit. However, the issue of FTL could be solved by having the wormhole be the method of travelling there, with something going wrong, transporting them to D&D land.

remove 2hu
2hu is the worst

Could do him as a cheesy NPC who's well aware of all the tropes and uses them in everyday conversation because no one else gets the joke

>Wish granted

My degree in microbiology says you have the gist of it. The good news is most pathogenic bacteria are few in number and relativly benign bacteria get their shit pushed in so hard by a working immune system if they decide to get uppity or stumbled into the wrong neighborhood. The bad news is pathogenic bacteria are really goddamn good at their job after coevolving with us. Fantasy humans pose the most difficult question. Just how genetically similarly human is our spaceman spiff to fantasy humans? Can they make viable offspring? If not then I would like to say they are genetically dissimilar that even really nasty stuff that directly attacks host cells would just metaphorically scratch their heads and just kinda hang out until the immune system figured out a way to bring down the banhammer. Probably except tuberculosis based on their physiology, but I'm pretty sure you are not allowed into space if you have ever had Tb so that's a non-issue.
My biggest concern would be shit like septic shock, meningitis, and allergic reactions. Stuff that is not specific and sorta just chow down on free nutrients they can find in places you really don't want them to be or make your immune system go batshit khornate.

Keep this gay shit on /a/ please.

Yes yes look at all these (you)s very impressed with your weeb level.

Should the Astronaut still be a human or already be somewhat transhuman?

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Likely still human for simplicity's sake

Human

I'd imagine they'd mostly be negated, but couldn't withstand several volleys. The real resistances would be to heat and cold.
>The Astronaut walks through the dragon's flames and stabs it in the mouth

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Does magic count as radiation? Cause they might be able to resist that pretty well.

I'll say yes

>The following is a timeline (following the modern understanding of chronology) detailing the events that lead to the discovery of the alleged “Cosmomummy” of the Atacama & its subsequent disappearance.

>March 4, 1951 - Farmer Hugo Quiroga from the remote village of Huara, in Northern Chile (already home to the Atacama Giant) claims to find ancient ruins in a small cave on his property. Inside, he reportedly saw a mummy dressed in his words “almost as if it were some kind of Martian.” Ridiculed, the already superstitious Quiroga decides to just seal the cave back up the way he found it, never speaking of it again.

>October 1, 1962 - Pyotr Ilyushin is launched from Kasputin Yar as part of a secret offshoot of the Vostok program by the Soviet Space Ministry. Four & one half hours into the mission, Ilyushin reports a strange glow enveloping his space capsule. Brightness seems to intensify over the course of 7.2 minutes before communication is lost. Capsule immediately falls off radar. Lost, both the capsule & Ilyushin are never recovered. Soviet Union keeps mission under wraps, tells Ilyushin’s family he died during an accident during a training exercise.

>May 2, 2010 - Some years after Hugo Quiroga passes away, his son Jaime is going through some of his father’s old affects. Reminded of the ruins, he begins to search around the property. However, after two years without success, he ends his search.

>September 23, 2014 - Jaime Quiroga unintentionally uncovers the ruins for himself. Damaged slightly by the 2005 earthquake, Jaime reluctantly ventures into the cave. Eventually finds the “Martian” mummy his father spoke of. Suit under shroud has all the hallmarks of a spacesuit but appears to have been sealed for at least hundreds, possibly thousands of years. At the same time, having fallen in a slightly different position now, Jaime immediately notices hammer & sickle logos on the boots. Upon exiting the cave, he places several calls with the authorities & local universities.

>January 4, 2015 - A team of archaeologists reach the site & begin to excavate. Astonished by what they began to uncover, the team tries to keep their findings under wraps, sending only small bits of data in pieces to different sources independent review. Among their findings, the suit worn by the mummy is a Vostok era Soviet Cosmonaut space suit with the name “Ilyushin” on it.

>January 15, 2015 - First leaks go public, traced back to an independent researcher from Chicago. Only outlets running the story of mummy cosmonauts are fringe & paranormal blogs. Assumed this is around the time that the Russian government first received word of the findings.

>January 20, 2015 - Strange men in unmarked SUVs appear around the dig site. More pre Incan artifacts found.

>February 3, 2015 - Further excavation finds what’s believed to be the lost capsule from Ilyushin’s mission deeper within the same cave system. As preparations are made to bring the module to the surface,

>February 5, 2015 - With help from local authorities, members of the Russian government swoop in & restrict access to the site, confiscating most of the artifacts & data the researchers had collected

>February 9, 2015 - After a few days of being locked out from the dig site, the archaeologists end up going to the press with the details of their findings, calling for the world’s scientific community to condemn the Russian Government’s suppression of information. Story ran on most major media outlets. Findings dubbed the “Cosmomummy” by many members of media. Memes follow, lasting for four or five days.

>February 23, 2015 - Convoy seen leaving the excavation site, presumably carrying artifacts & remains. Heading towards a Chilean air force base several hundred kilometers away, when researchers are finally able to reenter the excavation site, they find it stripped down to the bare cave walls. Surmised that the artifacts were brought to air force base before being flown back to Russia.

>February 25, 2015 - Cosmomummy goes missing from the air force compound. Climate controlled casing, which had been unlocked, appeared to have been broken open from inside. Chilean military officials blame protesters at the site. Protesters blame Russian government.

>February 25, 2015 - Leaked surveillance footage shows blurry figure shambling out of facility. Media again begins wild speculation, but experts downplay events as hoax. Memes reemerge, lasting a full week this time.

>April 10, 2015 - Grainy cellphone camera posted to Instacam by user ChacoPa05 shows a truck approaching a shambling silhouette along the Pan-American Highway at night. Upon its approach, the truck slows & one is able to see a corpse like figure in a tattered space suit & pre Incan era burial garb slowly walking along the highway in the direction of Huara. As the passenger asks if the figure needs help, the figure snarls & swipes towards the truck. The passenger nearly drops his phone & the truck promptly speeds off with the two men shouting, & nervously laughing about what they saw before the video cuts out.

Source
deviantart.com/art/CAW15-13-The-Cosmomummy-of-the-Atacama-527221380

Stats for communist Star Liches as of yet unknown. Someone needs to write them up.

never happened.

one British general in the early 1700s attempted to infect natives with diseased blankets, but it didn't work. evidence points towards natives catching the disease from french fur traders on accident.

The deliberate infection of native Americans by U.S. militants has only been proposed by one historian, and has been discredited by numerous other historians since.

>blood libel

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>a stranded astronaut is the BBEG