Haul Trawlers

"Haul Trawlers are what we call vehicles specially built or retrofitted for their role as salvage carriers. They’ve usually got drills, mechanical arms, vacuum-sealed cargo containers, all those kinds of things you’d need for transport on board. They’re the lifeblood of the industry down here and without them nothing’d get picked up and moved."

Haul Trawlers is a GMless game where players take on the role of a salvage crew aboard huge, mechanized, cargo shipping vehicles. The game requires only some paper, pencils or pens, two six-sided dice, and two or more players to play. Players each create their own crew member taking on one of four jobs aboard the Haul Trawler. Then the group works together to discover and plan out what their Haul Trawler looks like, how it moves, any unique features it might have, and ways that each crew member have made it their own.

In each adventure, or Haul Trawl as the salvage crews call them, the players create their salvage cargo to retrieve. Then the group alternates between Landscape and Event scenes. In Landscape scenes, the group roll to determine the look and theme of the location they find themselves in and then take time to describe that location before playing out as much as they want of the crew traveling and interacting with anything there. In Event scenes, the group come across some kind of problem they have to work together to solve set in the area they just described together.

Art by Ollie https://twitter.com/ordheist
Special Thanks To Bobby, Sheila, and Jake