Hotshots

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Do you have what it takes to be a hotshot, to feel the g-forces crash against your body without passing out, to keep your cool as bolts of plasma tear through your engines, to face death with every flight and laugh in its face? There's only one way to find out!

Hotshots is a lightweight system for creating pilots in fragile starfighters going on daring space adventures. Be they racers or rebels, stuntmen or soldiers, hotshots live dangerous (and short) lives. They wouldn’t have it any other way.

Hotshots takes inspiration from cinematic dogfights and races in space, simulators that require you to keep an eye on multiple parts of your starfighter, and OSR D20 simplicity and deadliness. You fighter's AI, weapons, armor, engines, and repulsors can all help you past obstacles and out of danger, adding smaller dice to your d20 rolls. They all also have their own health. Losing some systems leaves you vulnerable. Losing others leaves you dead.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, so you can make and distribute whatever Hotshots content you want or include these rules in your own systems. If you use the rules or make ships, missions, expansions, settings, or anything else, let Mitchell Daily know because he'd love to see it and promote it.

The character sheets folder includes the standard character sheet, a fillable version, a fillable version with three characters per page (for funnels), and a sample character.

Find the very first adventure for Hotshots here!

https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6Xk3rdjhzSzihyokanpWHF

Soft Itchfunding

If I recognize interest in this project, and have the funds to put more investment into it, it will grow! I already will be creating adventures and content, but there will be special content directly tied to purchases of Hotshots content. All purchases of a Hotshots product made by Mitchell Daily will contribute to funding goals and unlock things like supplemental rule books, setting guides, and more art in Hotshots.

$25 - The ACT Guide: Advanced Combat Tactics FUNDED

$50 - Sabotage in the Circuit FUNDED!

$75 - The Ember Rebellion FUNDED!

I will write and put out the first setting guide for Hotshots presenting the plucky, doomed freedom fighters standing up against the Empire, as well as affiliated and favorite planets and people.