Beam Saber: A Game Of Pilots And Their Mechs
47 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsBeam Saber is a game about the pilots of powerful machines in a war that dominates every facet of life. They are trying to do their time and part, and get out physically and mentally intact. The organizations that perpetuate the War through all of known space are too incomprehensibly huge to take down. There is no “winning” the War, there is only surviving it.
These are their stories.
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CalazCon!: A Beam Saber Mega Game Actual Play Series
February 26, 2023 20:36 - 5 minutes - 4.79 MBCalazCon! is a pre-recorded actual play series released on Youtube and as a podcast! CalazCon! is going to innovate in the largely unexplored space of multi-group actual play. 30 players across 6 groups will go to war for an exhausted Democratic Federated Systems army as it crashes into the massive CalazCon! which occupies a local Jovangellian town. Will the DFS be able to free the Jovangellian citizens from both their oppressive empire AND the nomadic convention, or will they get sucke...
The Cenotaph - Ending Explanation
February 26, 2023 20:17 - 1 minute - 1.32 MBThis recording explains why this podcast feed ends the way it does, and where to find the rest of The Cenotaph. The Cenotaph recorded live stream on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcvOl-rN4hsyep-lyoapI76bnlyEA7f7O
Mission Report 19 - Pièce de Résistance
November 03, 2021 04:00This Mission Report is provided by M. Glatki, a member of the Beam Saber community and discord server! The mission is for the Izyan Conflict setting and is suitable for use as a one shot. BRIEFING: An underground mountain fortress from the early Izyan conflict was unearthed during a recent earthquake. It is said to contain the Pièce de Résistance (PdR), a technological marvel, which allowed the Izyan resistance against the large faction far longer than everyone expected. A reconnaissan...
Beam Saber Intro Story
August 30, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBFor the last few months Christine Blight (with some help from me) has been working on turning the introductory story that will appear in the final version of Beam Saber into an amazing audio file. The story is written by Austin Walker and tells the tale of a group of DFS soldiers sent on a special mission to assassinate the leaders of the Adamant Council of Nor through extraordinary means. If you don't want to wait for the text, the audio version is now available for anyone for free throug...
Mission Report 18 - Pest In Show
July 29, 2020 19:43This Mission Report is provided by Proxy Tango, a member of the Beam Saber community and discord server! Briefing: Trans-Horizons has received word of a horrible mishap with one of its offworld shipments! It appears a type of vermin native to Izya (specifically the Journey City sewers) had found its way into the vessel and gorged itself on the expensive rare Izyan produce inside all the way to its destination. However, when God closes a door he often forgets to lock it and the beast’s esca...
Mission Report 17 - Hot Landing
February 20, 2020 01:26This mission has been kicking around my head for a while because I've always wanted to start a mission with an air drop. So why not make that drop the ENTIRE MISSION? MISSION REPORT: HOT LANDING BRIEFING We’ve predicted that in a few days a gap is going to appear in the orbital debris field for a little under an hour. We’ve lined up some atmospheric cargo shuttles to make the run, but our intel suggests that the <45th Drop Troops/Sliver Of Civility Trading Company> [Choose the squad th...
Savvyhawks Final Mission
February 11, 2020 23:03It had been months of work in the doing but after utilizing the supplies from raiding the Jovangellian prison complex Savvyhawk manages to complete work on their newly mobile base of operations. By leveraging their favorable relationship with the Technocratic Society for a Better Earth Savvyhawk acquires the nuclear device necessary to fuel the reactor and giant anti-grav engines hum to life as the hidden underground framework of the ruined airway rises from the ground, becoming the sky fort...
OPERATION: REJECTING THE REGENT
January 29, 2020 00:21One of the play groups in the Beam Saber discord did a mission with extremely interesting results! Hadrian was one of the players, and with the group's permission, wrote up what happened during the mission to be shared in the discord and here. Enjoy. Savvyhawk Logistics is: Toccata Leicht-Strejan, the Engineer Park Tera Neta, the Ace Neoprene Lark, the Hacker Tuesday Special, Specialist Driver Elisha Shade, Specialist Combat Pilot Oberlain Aclove, Specialist Infiltrator ...
Operation DEICIDE
January 08, 2020 23:24One of the play groups in the Beam Saber discord did a mission against Lady Elreth. Hadrian was one of the players, and with the group's permission, wrote up what happened during the mission to be shared in the discord and here. Enjoy. Mission Specs Employer: Jovangellian Empire(The Landed Regent) Target: Lady Elreth Objective(s): Plant a Jovangellian flag on her corpse. Rules of Engagement: Leave no witnesses alive. Bonus to Engagement Roll if we plan to kill her in her mech. ...
The Cenotaph Part 10 - Grinding Away The Foundation
November 26, 2019 03:15 - 3 hours - 166 MBAfter a fraught mission in Wander The Cenotaph return to Hulinton to mend their wounds and reconnect with each other. Unfortunately their ambitions get the better of them and things turn sour... This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream on our twitch channel. Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark Game by Austin Ramsay. If you'd like to support its development Austin has a Patreon. You can find the Beam Saber rules here! You can join the Beam Saber Discord her...
Mission Report 16 - Champagne Wishes, Caviar Nightmares
November 14, 2019 23:48This Mission Report is provided by Proxy Tango, a member of the Beam Saber community and discord server! Briefing: Exodus Republic Incorporated’s frenzy for all things authentically Earthling Animalia is continuing unabated and the great chain of subcontracts has produced a new job from on high: Sliver of Civility Trading Co. has lucked into ‘acquiring’ a shipment of eggs from some deep sea lifeform bound for a Norrish wildlife preserve at Vigor Port which they’re certain will make for gre...
The Cenotaph Part 09 - Radically Resisting Gentrification
November 06, 2019 02:25 - 2 hours - 163 MBWith problems all over Wander The Cenotaph have split up to deal with them. A collapsing cathedral, an aggressive mob, and a dying dragon have the pilots pushed to their limits. Can they get out of this strange town without anyone else dying? This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream on our twitch channel. Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark Game by Austin Ramsay. If you'd like to support its development Austin has a Patreon. You can find the Beam Saber r...
Mission Report 15 - My Little (Trojan) Pony
October 30, 2019 22:06This Mission Report is provided by Proxy Tango, a member of the Beam Saber community and discord server! Briefing: A new trend is spreading across the Exodus Republics Incorporated core worlds, an interest in authentic Earth wildlife! The demand for exotic fauna in leisure parks across ExInc space has lead Trans-Horizons Incorporated to contract Takuma Transportation Solutions with the collection of any old animal they can get their hands on. TTS have subcontracted you to lead a herd of ‘U...
The Cenotaph Part 08 - Lady Elreth & The Dragon
October 27, 2019 20:18 - 2 hours - 142 MBThe squad have received a distress call from the Wrights of the Ascent stationed in the small mountain town of Wander. Lady Elreth is fighting what the locals call a dragon, but as the squad do some preliminary investigation before heading out something about Wander seems off... This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream on our twitch channel. Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark Game by Austin Ramsay. If you'd like to support its development Austin has a Patreon...
Mission Report 14 - A Simple Milk Run
August 28, 2019 04:00This mission was designed specifically to be run as a one shot at conventions. It's expected that the players' squad will use the Mechanized Cavalry playbook, but if not, just remove corporal Tuesday as a character or put her in charge of the Raccoon jeeps. BRIEFING: The Hatchetmen [Tier 1] (Adamant Council of Nor) are transporting a secretive package over land routes. Capture it, don't let it fall into enemy hands. There's a light escort (2 light AWVs; machine gun, light armor, wheeled),...
Mission Report 13 - The Thin Blue Line (Of Code)
August 14, 2019 16:00This Mission Report is provided by Pteroid, a member of the Beam Saber community and discord server! Briefing: Everyone’s favorite fascists, the Hammers, have recently completed a recruitment drive in Might and are receiving supplies to properly train their aspiring goon squad. Chief among them are state of the art AR Modules loaded inside helmets that supply chemical injections to the brain at the instructors’ discretion. Wholesome. Sciolist and her virtual associates don’t quite cotton t...
Mission Report 12 - The Battle For The Sovereignty Engine
August 07, 2019 16:00BRIEFING: The Jovangellians have rapidly redeployed forces to occupy Journey City. With the intel that you've retrieved from the Twinler & Red HQ, we believe that somehow the Jovangellians know the primary control room is in The Tower at the center of Journey City. We've called in some favors and so you'll have support form the Paladins of St Nqabutho, the Dark Room, and Lady Elreth herself. EMPLOYER: Breath of The Faith TARGET: Shade Spear (Tier 3S) OBJECTIVE: Stop the Jovangellians fr...
Mission Report 11: The Mystery Of The Sovereignty Engine
July 31, 2019 16:00This Mission Report comes from the Cenotaph stream campaign. BRIEFING: Find out what is in the Twinler & Red HQ that would make the Saints go through the trouble of occupying it, by taking a contract from the Saints to make the facility safe. EMPLOYER: The Breath of Faith (tier 3W; Church TARGET: The March of Saints (tier 5S; Theocracy) OBJECTIVE: Gather actionable intel on the Saints intentions by answering 3 questions: what does the Sovereignty Engine do? Where is the SE located? H...
Mission Report 10: Saving The Rubble Runts
July 24, 2019 16:00This Mission Report comes from the Cenotaph stream campaign. BRIEFING:Layla Quince wants your help reuniting the scattered Rubble Runts. She’s been in contact with one of her lieutenants who has hidden in Kingstown (a poor neighbourhood in Journey City). The lieutenant has gotten word out to the remaining Runts that Layla is coming to get them, and has gathered them all at the safe house. Problem is that he doesn't have secure comms and if he says where he is, the Burden will know as well...
How To Submit A Mission Report
July 21, 2019 16:59If you are interested in having a mission of your design featured on the Beam Saber Blog it must fit the following criteria. Include the name under which you want to be credited and one link you would like to have associated with your name. A BRIEFING: This is the basic information that the Pilots are given when they are planning the mission. It summarizes the situation in your notes so that you can tell what the mission is about at a glance. The Employer, Target, Objective, and maybe the...
Mission Report 09: Enforced Detour
July 21, 2019 15:20This Mission Report comes from the Cenotaph stream campaign. BRIEFING: Two large transport vehicles are heading from Journey City to Fort Jovanol. They need to be redirected to Hulinton. The Heard are providing security with a single AWV, a coyote artillery mech. EMPLOYER: The Breath of Faith (Tier 3S), represented by Casil Kim, doesn't know the contents of the transports, but have received intel that they are important. TARGET: The Heard (Tier 3w) OBJECTIVE: Retrieve both large tra...
Mission Report 08: Elreth's Angels
April 12, 2019 23:44This Mission Report is provided by Pteroid, a member of the Beam Saber community and discord server! Briefing: Infamous mercenary, Vittorio Indigo, has been sighted on Izya along with their custom AWV The Fafnir. Publicly disavowed by the governing bodies of all five factions, their current employers are rumored to be a dangerous fringe sect of the Cult of Earth Lost, for purposes almost assuredly to do with their ongoing feud with the Cult of Earth Found. All this is of little matter to L...
Beam Saber V0.4 is now avialable!
February 19, 2019 00:14The newest version of Beam Saber is here! From now on Beam Saber will be $10, but if you buy now you'll get all the game updates until I start adding art. I am doing this so that I can start hiring artists, editors, sensitivity readers, and layout designers, and because Beam Saber is 60k words, and a year in the making.
Art From The Front 07 - Buzz Martinez by Cory McDaniel
February 14, 2019 00:00Today we have art from Cory McDaniel! https://www.deviantart.com/corymcd/art/Buzz-Martinez-746940933 "Another NPC sketch for our Beam Saber playtest game."
Mission Report 07: The Funeral of Saint Gertrude
January 23, 2019 22:54This Mission Report comes from the Cenotaph stream campaign. BRIEFING: The state funeral for Saint Gertrude in Blessed Harbour. Two of your pilots are to be pallbearers. EMPLOYER: Bishop Finmal (tier 1W; Church of the Celestial Myriad) is attending and desires The Cenotaph as escorts. TARGET: The Wrights of the Ascent (tier 1W; Church of the Celestial Myriad) OBJECTIVE: to get the Wrights excommunicated. To protect the Bishop. ROE: No initiating violence, no explosive/chemical/biol...
Art From The Front 06 - A Good Scene by Sasha Reneau
January 09, 2019 23:21Today we have art from Sasha Reneau! This depicts a scene from The Cenotaph part 9! Tower is freaking out because they feel responsible for Dredge getting covered in acid. Dredge asks Pitchfork to get a doctor.
Mission Report 06: Lady Elreth & the Dragon
December 27, 2018 19:47This is the fouth mission from Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. BRIEFING: The Wrights of the Ascent have sent out a call for support because Lady Elreth is fighting a dragon in the town of Wander! Wander is located in the mountains to the West of the Journey City area. EMPLOYER: The Wrights of the Ascent (tier 1W; Church of the Celestial Myriad) TARGET: Tell the players that Lady Elreth is the target, but the real hidden target is The Burden (tier 2S; Independent). OBJECTIVE: Help out in Wa...
Art From The Front 05 - Chet Magnum by Cory McDaniel
December 20, 2018 22:56Today we have art from Cory McDaniel! https://www.deviantart.com/corymcd/art/Chet-Magnum-746939249 "CHET MAGNUM, current champion of R.U.D.E, the sector's most notorious mecha fighting entertainment league. A character from our playtest game of Austin Ramsay's Beam Saber."
Mission Report 05: A Favor In Writing
December 13, 2018 01:26This is the third mission from Beam Saber: The Cenotaph BRIEFING: The Society For Wider Understanding has collected intel on a number of skirmish sites and weapons caches. Jason Bassel of The Raccoons want you to steal the intel for them from the SWU's offices in either Journey City or Fort Jovanol. EMPLOYER: The Raccoons (tier 1S; Jovangellian Empire) TARGET: The Society For Wider Understanding (tier 2S; Jovangellian Empire) OBJECTIVES: Primary: Steal intel on recent battle si...
Art From The Front 04 - Omen Delacroix by Cory McDaniel
December 06, 2018 02:16Today we have art from Cory McDaniel! https://www.deviantart.com/corymcd/art/Omen-Delacroix-746940107 "An NPC from our playtest game of Austin Ramsay's Beam Saber."
Mission Report 04: A Simple Delivery
November 28, 2018 23:24This is the second mission from Bea, Saber: The Cenotaph. Demon and Dredge took on this mission, while Pitchfork and Tower were attacking The Burden's safe house in Kingstown. BRIEFING: LT Col Walsh Johnson of the Democratic Federated Systems (DFS) needs the squad to transport some bodies from Journey City to Fort Jovanol. The bodies are Jovangellian military personnel that have come to be in the care of the DFS. The squad will act as a neutral third party to deliver the dead back to their...
Art From The Front 03 - Dreama as King Sundown by Cory McDaniel
November 23, 2018 00:09Today we have art from Cory McDaniel! https://www.deviantart.com/corymcd/art/Dreama-as-King-Sundown-746940596 "The first sketch of my character in our Beam Saber playtest."
Mission Report 03: The Burden Safe House
November 14, 2018 23:52Here's the second mission from Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. Pitchfork and Tower tackled this mission while Demon and Dredge took on a simultaneous one elsewhere (and that will be posted in a week or two). BRIEFING: The Rubble Runts recently lost a fight with The Raccoons, and The Burden have been poking around their territory in Journey City. They need some help reinforcing their rep. They'll be making an attack on Burden turf and need you to destroy their Kingstown safe house in a 15 floor ap...
Art From The Front 02 - Beam Saber Faction Logos by Cory McDaniel
November 11, 2018 14:13Today we have art from Cory McDaniel! https://www.deviantart.com/corymcd/art/Beam-Saber-Faction-Logos-746936119 "Logos I made for the factions in our game of the tabletop RPG Beam Saber."
Mission Report 02: Seizing Power
November 07, 2018 23:49This Mission Report is provided by Mark, a member of the Beam Saber community and discord server! It's designed as a follow up to the starting situation mission for the Adamant Council of Nor, but could easily be adapted into any campaign. RECAP: The Adamant Council is satisfied with the intel you’ve gathered about the Fort Jovanol Incident. The files you’ve recovered have implicated the Furies Rapid Retribution for the bombing, and proving that the Wolf Pack knew this and used it as ...
Art From The Front 01 - Radical Dreamer by Cory McDaniel
November 04, 2018 19:47Today we have art from Cory McDaniel! https://www.deviantart.com/corymcd/art/Radical-Dreamer-746935102 "The Abney-Hastings XSV 01 Prototype, stolen by the mercenary King Sundown. Equipped with a Fine Plasma Cannon and Mobility Suite, it's the perfect mobile artillery/sniper. Played in the tabletop RPG Beam Saber."
Mission Report 01: The Death of Saint Gertrude
November 04, 2018 00:38Here's the first Mission Report for The Cenotaph. I hope you find it useful! MISSION 01: The Death of Saint Gertrude BRIEFING: Journey City’s Broken Bank is full of rampant apps and proxies. A fire team of March of Saints AWVs with infantry support led by St Gertrude (saint of curators) got wiped out there in a battle with Lady Elreth. It’s unclear why the fire team was in the area when they got unlucky and the Goddess of War and Death found them. Find out what they were doing there. Inte...
An Announcement and Mission Prep Rules
November 02, 2018 21:25In my efforts to grow the Beam Saber community I'm going to be posting my mission prep notes for Beam Saber: The Cenotaph here. To help formalize the notes today I'm sharing the as of yet unreleased Preparing A Mission section! Furthermore I'm opening up this blog to fan work! Contact me via email if you've: GMed Beam Saber and want your mission available to others. drawn art of your Beam Saber pilot or their vehicle. written up actual play reports of Beam Saber. written prose, po...
The Cenotaph Part 07 - Bless The Rains Down In Jovanol
October 07, 2018 19:17 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBYou Don't Meet In An Inn presents Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. After a rough mission for The Raccoons, the squad takes it easy as they try to de-stress, repair their AWVs, and work towards a brighter future. It's much easier now that The Raccoons aren't gunning for them anymore. Quiet moments like these lead to reflection, and some of our pilots have things they'd rather forget... This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream that is every Tuesday 6pm EST on our twit...
The Cenotaph Part 06 - SO Many Jobs
August 26, 2018 04:37 - 2 hours - 130 MBYou Don't Meet In An Inn presents Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. Unfortunately there was an issue with Sasha's audio near the end of the episode causing it to be MIA, so we've cut out the XP questions for Spade but they did happen and we didn't forget about cor. The squad continue to work towards their objective, but now that they're in the belly of the beast they've discovered a rescue operation they can't walk away from. This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream...
There's A Patreon Now!
July 28, 2018 23:43I've decided to take the plunge and make myself a Patreon. If you want to support Beam Saber monetarily, and can afford to do so, please pass some money my way. The details for the structure of the patreon are on the other side of the link, but for those concerned the rules will remain free until I decide to publish, and the podcast will always be free.
The Cenotaph Part 05 - Favours For Foes
July 17, 2018 01:10 - 2 hours - 149 MBYou Don't Meet In An Inn presents Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. The Raccoons vendetta against The Cenotaph has been taking its toll. Our heroes decide that it's time for a ceasefire with the scavengers, but things don't go as smoothly as they would hope. This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream that is every Tuesday 6pm EST on our twitch channel. Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark Game by Austin Ramsay. If you'd like to support its development Austin has a P...
The Cenotaph Part 04 - Guilt And Chicken Nuggets
July 08, 2018 01:41 - 2 hours - 151 MBYou Don't Meet In An Inn presents Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. With the mission over The Cenotaph must deal with the fallout from it. There are vehicles to be repaired, relationships to be assessed, and projects to be completed. Also chicken nuggets to be shared. This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream that is every Tuesday 6pm EST on our twitch channel. Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark Game by Austin Ramsay. If you'd like to support its development Austin ...
The Cenotaph Part 03 - Cracking Open A Cold One With The Boys
June 24, 2018 03:56 - 2 hours - 140 MBYou Don't Meet In An Inn presents Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. Demon's AWV is out of commission, Spade's on the run in cor's, Pitchfork is pinned down by gunfire, and Tower is trying to figure out how to safely blow up a building from inside it. Things are about to get wild. This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream that is every Tuesday 6pm EST on our twitch channel. Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark Game by Austin Ramsay. If you'd like to support its deve...
The Cenotaph Part 02 - Cash or Friends
June 14, 2018 23:17 - 1 hour - 103 MBYou Don't Meet In An Inn presents Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. In this episode The Cenotaph are presented with two missions: one for pay transporting the dead, and one for a friend fighting that friend's rivals. The solution? Split the squad. This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream that is every Tuesday 6pm EST on our twitch channel. Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark Game by Austin Ramsay. If you'd like to support its development Austin has a Patreon. You c...
The Cenotaph 01: Scavengers In The Broken Bank
June 09, 2018 00:48 - 2 hours - 128 MBYou Don't Meet In An Inn presents Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. Unfortunately we had some desyncing issues (especially for Austin) with getting the audio from the live stream. It's not too bad until the very end, and we apologize for it. Austin wasn't actually interrupting and talking over everyone. We've changed how we get the audio and this problem should be resolved going forward. In this episode The Cenotaph take on their first mission! They've been tasked with recovering some data fr...
The Cenotaph 00: A Graveyard Surrounded By Digital Ghosts
June 01, 2018 21:45 - 2 hours - 156 MBYou Don't Meet In An Inn presents Beam Saber: The Cenotaph. In this episode the players gather for their session zero where they build the setting, their squad, and their characters. This is an audio recording of the Beam Saber: The Cenotaph livestream that is every Tuesday 6pm EST on our twitch channel. Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark Game by Austin Ramsay. If you'd like to support its development Austin has a Patreon. You can find the Beam Saber rules here! You can join the Be...