Reizor

@uselrei1500

They/She, a disabled artist and game maker. Sometimes poet. Sometimes podcaster. Bi, Polyam, Genderfluid, Trans. 33. Living on Worimi and Awabakal Land in so called australia.

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Reizor@uselrei1500· May 16

Got some cool Assault Fleet Centauri news: @alexconnolly.bsky.social recently completed an art piece for the game. Painting is untitled at this stage, but I'm very impressed with Alex's work. This is the first bit of art I've commissioned for the project and I'm really happy with it.

Painting of a space warship flying away from a distant space station with the dark side of jupiter looming behind it.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Mar 11

Remade the EWAC Corvette for AFC this morning after having a chat with @alexconnolly.bsky.social

Screenshot of a Ship Sheet for Assault Fleet Centauri.

Ship Description: A dedicated electronic warfare ship. Retrofit from last gen Assault Corvettes, these old gunships have a whole new bag of tricks. Used to support other ships, or lay in wait for covert cyber attack.

Modest engines, nimble handling, first rate sensors, and no FTL.
The ship is lightly armoured and has a small crew for a ship of it's size.

It has no weapons persay, but does have a lot of powerful ship abilities.

For defence it has Decoy Flares for destroying incoming missile attacks. It's also able to create a Sensor Mirage which generates false targets on the enemy radar.

It has an EW/COM Suite for cyber warfare. This allows the ship to jam radios, and hack enemy systems. Also boosts it's defence against incoming hacks.

Its Forward Observer ability and it First Rate sensors give it bonuses to studying enemy ships.

Target Relay lets it give bonuses to allied attack rolls, and Missile Tracking gives allies bonuses to their missile defence rolls.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Feb 26

It's not just Section 5 stuff I've been making, I also stated up the Taxmen's dropship for Assault Fleet Centauri...although I'm not sure what kind of mission you use it for in that game? The dropship was inspired by Q-ships and the Skywarden, as well as the Peacekeeper Maurauder (hence the name.)

Screenshot of a ship sheet from Assault Fleet Centauri. It is densely packed with information, so what follows is a summery.

Ship Description: MARAUDER DROPSHIP: A long range shuttle used for covert unit insertion and black ops overwatch missions. Designed to look like a Courier on radar.

Navigation: Modest fusion engines, nimble handling, first rate sensors.
Damage control: 20 hull points and light armour.
Weapons: 4 rocket pods and ample ammo.

Ship Abilities.
DISGUISE: This ship looks like a common Courier. Enemies have Disadvantage to see through your disguise as long as your weapons are powered down.

DECOY FLARES: Once per engagement totally block a missile or rocket attack made against you.

HULL LANDING: Magnetically attach to another ships hull.

COVERT WEAPONS BAY: This ship is built for Light Attack ISR Operations. In addition to rockets and flares, this ship carriers: 4 Anti-Ship Missiles (Havocs & Busters), 2 Decoy Beacons, 2 Chaff Bomb, and 1 Orbital Kinetic Kill Device.

DROP-RACKS: This ship is built to deploy soldiers via Orbital HALO drops and EVAs. It carries Armoured Spacesuits, Jump-packs, Small Arms, etc.

DATA-CRYPT: A black ops server. If you capture this ship, you always gain intel.

screenshot of text for the section 5 version of the dropship.

MARAUDER COVERT DROPSHIP “ZERO SUM GAME” (20 HP, Armour 3)
BIO
A long range shuttle used for covert unit insertion and black ops overwatch missions. Designed to look like a common Courier ship on radar, they carry a surprisingly extensive range of military hardware. When on overwatch missions, will often carry a hacker for tactical support.

GEAR
-Guided Rockets: 2D6 damage
-Anti Ship ‘Buster’ Missile: 2D6 damage, ignore armour, can’t target anything smaller than a house.
-Anti Ship ‘Havoc’ Missile: 1D6 damage, disable electronics, can’t target anything smaller than a house.
-Orbital Kinetic Kill Device: turn a town sized target into a crater. Single Use.
-ISR Sensors: covertly monitor the battlefield from orbit.
-Stealth Comms: Covertly send messages to troops on the ground.

TRAITS
EYE IN THE SKY: Enemies can’t hide from you, unless they use a trait to hide.
COVERT OVERWATCH: You can loiter over a battlefield without detection, unless you fire a weapon.
HUMBLE DISGUISE: Your vehicle looks like a regular, normal, common place vehicle.
ORBITAL DROPSHIP: Your ship can covertly deploy drop troopers from orbit, and in a pinch, can descend to retrieve them.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Feb 26

I tried to make the NPC traits a little humorous and referential, while also telegraphing unit behaviour. You can really see this with the leader, Aileen "Firesale" Hancock. I'm trying to create enemies that setup to a certain kind of scene when used in a mission.

screenshot of text.

TRAITS
FULL METAL BITCH: The first time you’re attacked in a scene, ignore the damage, but take all other consequences.
PREDATOR: You can always tell where people are hiding in your vicinity, unless they used a Trait to hide.
BUCKET OF DRUGS: When in combat you don’t feel Fear or Pain.
FIRESTARTER: If your heart stops beating, you explode causing 2D6 damage to everyone close and setting everything on fire.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Feb 26

Here's a look at one of the basic soldiers for the team, a Tax Collector. NPCs don't roll to do things in Section 5, so there's no skill list or anything. If players don't wanna be hit, they need to take defensive actions.

Screenshot of text.

COLLECTOR 6 HP, Armour 2

BIO: The grunts of Aileen’s operation. Recipe for a basic Taxman Collector. Take 1 scion of the oligarchy, add a bucket of parental disappointment, mix in some criminal misbehaviour, bake until broken, then marinate in a blend of Achilles, Cheeta, and MDK. Squeeze it into a recycled drop trooper kit and you’ve got yourself a fearless and obedient killing machine.

GEAR
Covert Carbine: 1D6 Damage, Silent
Uparmoured Vacsuit: 2 Armour, Environmentally Sealed and Protected.
-Combat Knife: 1D6 Damage
Jump Pack: Leap over buildings, chasms, and gulfs.

TRAITS
BUCKET OF DRUGS: When in combat you don’t feel Fear or Pain.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Feb 26

I actually started this project as a way to reuse some of the writing I was doing for a hobby event. The DIY/punk focused mini games crew I'm part of is doing a decentralised campaign of Stargrave in our own setting, Sunbound. I rolled up a corpo merc squad, and knew what I had to do.

Image is a screenshot of 4 paragraphs. Text is below.

The Taxmen are a black ops mercenary unit run by AIMS (American Intelligent Mission Services) but sponsored by Homeworld Security. A loud and messy kill squad used by the Earth Commonwealth when subtly is no longer required. Due to their semi-independent nature, the Taxmen often sell their services to megacorps, political figures, and rogue states…assuming they have good credit. However, they are expected to drop everything when HomeSec comes calling (something you might be able to exploit.)

The Taxmen themselves are led by Captain Aileen Hancock. One of the spare heirs to the Hancock Mining Dynasty. One too many scandals in her delinquent youth got her cut out of the family (exploit her family relationship at your own peril, she is both extremely protective and deeply resentful.) After a few false starts in the criminal underworld, she was recruited to the Commonwealth Drop Troopers. At the end of her first tour she signed on with AIMS, started the Taxmen, and has been HomeSec’s go to sledge hammer ever since.

Aileen likes to recruit fellow fuckups, bastards, and wayward scions for her unit. Often rescuing these fallen heirs from the end of their rope. She looks for those with proven ruthlessness, strong survival instincts, and a taste for risky or thrill seeking behaviour. Those three qualities allow her to mold potential recruits into useful soldiers. Through Electro-Neural Programming, VR Training Simulations, and a steady drip of combat drugs; she transforms failsons into hardened mercenaries.

Operationally they are best used to smash the enemy or sow terror. They’re good for assaults and extractions in hazardous environments but don’t use them for finesse jobs. For them, stealth is a prelude to a violent gunfight. You send this team when collateral damage is the point.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Feb 4

Converting 90 USD into AUD today gets us $128. Let's round that up to $130.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Jan 31

All right, that's a wrap folks. Didn't quite make it to our $1,000 goal but still an impressive effort. 79 bundles sold, and I guess $90 US dollars raised for NPY.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Jan 5

Sadly I learnt yesterday that Steve Dee of Tin Star games had passed away. Steve encouraged many Aussie game devs in their early steps into the industry. Steve's game The World Well is in our 2025 AusRPG Round Up Bundle. I think it is telling that right up to the end he was celebrating creativity.

A cropped screenshot of the landing page for Steve Dee's RPG the world well.

In addition to showing an interior shot of the game, with art of arcane hands shaping some mystical object, it also includes this text:

"After 20 years working in the RPG industry, I set out to make a World building game that focuses on the things that RPGs need: factions pulling the world in different directions and points of drama that are about to explode."

Reizor@uselrei1500· Dec 27

We met our first milestone, we managed to make $100 so far. Not only is that money funding new work next year, it's also helping indigenous people in the central desert region. I'm donating my cut of the bundle to NPY Women's Council, who work to provide cultural, social, and health services.

A screenshot of the AusRPG Round Up Bundle landing page showing that it has earned $100 of its $1,000 goal.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Nov 18

Yesterday I had the pleasure of volunteering my time to help install a gallery exhibition. We're showcasing some work by Palestinian artists and also fundraising for the Palestinian social fund.

Photo of a small gallery room with various paintings scattered around, only some have been hung on the wall.

A poster for the art exhibition opening night.

The exhibition is titled visions: through The eyes of a Palestinian prisoner.

The opening is on Saturday the 22nd of November at 6:00 p.m. at the creator incubator in Hamilton, Australia.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Oct 6

PAXAus kicks off this Friday and I'll be there all weekend helping to showcase independent Australian made TTRPGs. Sessions open at 11:00 a.m. and the last session of the day begins at 9:00 p.m. (or 3 p.m. on Sunday.) Come try some locally grown games, look for the ARC banner at TT RPG HQ.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Sep 18

I have been insanely busy lately and have pretty much forgotten to post on Blue Sky. I did a Zine fair 2 weeks ago, had my birthday the week before that, performed at a poetry night as the feature poet... All while trying to get ready for PAXAus and SXSW Sydney. And this weekend I'm doing this:

Reizor@uselrei1500· Jul 29

In case you missed it, I have been micro journalling my progress these last 113 days, as I try to get the QuickStart version of Assault Fleet Centauri ready for release. AFC came out in Alpha back in 2023, and this new beta version is essentially a complete mechanical rework. It drops Friday.

The cover of assault Fleet Centauri. Featuring a mission patch that has a spaceship rocketing towards a trinary star system, plastered over with the anarchist A.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Jul 17

Someone liked this old post and I just wanna say, I did one better and got this all to fit on an A5 (half a sheet.)

Screenshot of a cluttered, but usable play sheet, full of all the details needed to run a squadron of space fighters in Assault Fleet Centauri.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Jul 17

Alright, second attempt at this opening is much better. Also this Paragraph fucks HARD!

Screenshot of some text from the Assault Fleet Centauri rulebook. It reads:

Space naval combat in the 23rd century is about small fleet engagements. Close in positioning, hiding your numbers and intentions, and trying to make the most of FTL fuel…if you even have any. Most battles have less than 5 ships involved, and are fought at ranges inside of 1000 kilometres. Gone are the days of fleets lining up like fusiliers and unleashing volleys of railgun shot that took minutes to reach its targets. The modern space war is a knife fight in pitch darkness, where every knife glows like a road flare.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Jul 1

I've been sick, I've been busy on other projects, but I'm still committed to this deadline. We have 30 days to go, and it's gonna be a hectic sprint!

screenshot of a count down timer displaying 30 days, 21 hours, 51 minutes, and 52 seconds until the deadline.

Reizor@uselrei1500· May 1

Assault Fleet Centauri is my space ship combat RPG about an anarcho-socialist federation fighting back against imperialist aggression. The setting is inspired by star trek, the expanse, and battlestar. The mechanics draw from Black Skies For Babylon, FIST, and Super Sentinels Neo.

A screen grab of the cover of Assault Fleet Centauri.

The shadow of a planet looms over a sea of stars with the mission patch of a military unit emblazoned over it all.

In the centre of the mission patch is two yellow stars and one red star clearly symbolising the Centauri star system. Beneath it is some kind of space rocket racing up towards the stars.
Around the edge of the patch is text: "GGCN, Assault Fleet Centauri."

Reizor@uselrei1500· May 1

Wait...why does the university have an Electronic Warfare Information System? #AssaultFleetCentauri

Photo of an access door inside the uni building, with a sign that reads "E.W.I.S."

Reizor@uselrei1500· May 1

The play test went well. The combat wasn't too busted. No major balance issues. We did find some additional rules that we'd like to add, namely If two officers are collaborating on a task, that should be a bonus dice. We also found some action economy stuff to fix. But mostly it's working.

A photo of all the player sheets laid out.

A Close-up of the assault corvettes movement card

A shot of two assault corvettes closing on a heavy frigate

Reizor@uselrei1500· Apr 30

It is playtest time. I'm actually running the game with one person who has never played the game and another who has only played older versions. Should be a good test... Let's find out if our core mechanic is broken. 92 days to go.

A photo of various character sheets for a role-playing game. There are sheets of cards with little ship diagrams on them. Sheets of rules reminder to text. Officer sheets with background abilities and various areas of expertise. And ship sheets ladened with weapons and special abilities... And a lot of surface area devoted to missiles.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Apr 22

I redid the name tables so that now they all function as examples instead of generators, because the name generator table for GGC Navy Ships was not working well. Also did up the venusian navy ship names table. 101 days to go.

Screen shot of the ship name tables for venus.

Venusian navy ships use the names of famous women from history.
Corvettes use the names of saints and priestesses, names like St Barbara, St Luthgard, Himiko, Tuccia, Amat-Mamu.

Venusian frigates use the names of ancient poets, names like Sappho, Rabia Balkhi, Gwerful Mechain, Emma Lazarus.

Venusian Cruisers and heavy carriers are named after generals and warrior women. Names like Boudica, Ani Pachen, Zheng Yi Sao, Mulan, Khutulun.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Apr 17

Managed to actually do the work I needed to focus on, then got to spend the afternoon on AFC. Didn't do Venus ships, instead I made ship naming tables for the 4 main factions. 106 days to go.

Screen shot of the first half of the GGC ship names table. This table is used to pick the first half of your ships name.

The options are: Unknown, Raging, Exotic, Anti, Massive, Shining, Merciful, Broken, Dark, Dangerous, Laughing, Dancing, Unburdened, Drunken, Haunting, Forgotten, Orphaned, Collapsing, Peaceful, Swift, Screaming, Sleeping, Bleeding, Dreadful, Spiraling, Weeping, Patient, Burning, Finite, Infinite, Watchful, Beloved, Regretful, Wicked, Waking

Screen shot of the second table, this is used to pick the second half of your ships name.

The options are: Star, Storm, Horn, Matter, Gravity, Horizon, Sun, Diadem, Waters, Mission, Void, Sailor, Passage, Khan, Melody, Soldier, Child, Warhead, Pugilist, End, Firehawk, Dragon, Anarchist, Memory, Persistence, Somnambulist, Unicorn, Charity, Hospitality, Ecology, God, Devil, Spirit, Pixie, Spriggan.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Apr 16

A film that takes place where you're from.

The dvd cover for the movie bootmen. Starring Adam Garcia, Sophie Lee, and Sam Worthington.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Apr 14

I managed to port the Fighter Squadron over to the new format. I decided to give it a bunch of single use tricks for trying not to die.

A screenshot of the ship sheet for the fighter squadron. It's dense with information. Various widgets for tracking weapons, pilot deaths, and destroyed planes.

Down one side is a list of abilities, including Evasive, Counter Measures, Barrel Roll, Hull Landing, Ejector Seat, and Interceptor.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Apr 13

I got myself a countdown widget to live on my desktop. 109 days to go until the Assault Fleet Centauri Quickstart rules drop on itch. This will be the debut of the games new revamped rules set, shifting it's play focus towards fictional positioning rather than game board system mastery.

A count down time that reads:
Three months, 18 days, 2 house, and 45 minutes left.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Apr 5

The zine market went well, lots of sales. We only had 5 zinesters tabling, but I have high hopes for future events.

A photo of Reizor standing behind her zine table.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Apr 1

Tdov was yesterday down here, so I guess these are April Fools selfies? Jokes on you, I'm actually really hot AND cool.

A photo of a White person wearing a black and white shemagh, and a punky denim vest.

Photo of a white person wearing a pink and white butterfly face mask, with pink eyeshadow, and a pink jumper.

Photo of a white person with orange eyeshadow, wearing a black and gold face mask, A leather collar, and a tight orange top with a black strappy harness over it.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Mar 23

The clock is running down on this mutual aid bundle but you lot are doing an amazing job keeping the donations coming in. We are rapidly approaching our $2,000 goal with just a couple of hours left. itch.io/b/2897/kanak...

Screenshot of a progress bar that shows we have raised $1,848 towards a $2,000 goal. It also shows that there are 10 hours and 50 minutes left to buy the bundle.

Reizor@uselrei1500· Mar 23

Where in the final 24 hours of this bundle. it would mean the world to me if you could all help me promote it. Reposts are good, But if you want to go the extra mile Make a fresh post promoting the bundle, seems to get more traction.