
First Officer Reporting
On Quisicosas since 13 June 2026
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13 June 2026 (on Substack)
What it is about
THE GAME Part writing exercise, part game, First Officer Reporting is a solo journaling RPG in which you oversee the day to day operations of a deep space exploration vessel. All you'll need is fifteen minutes, a single six sided die, and a place to log your adventures. For each session, you'll roll a prompt telling you the type of report you need to write up, detail the important stuff, then explain how that has effected the state of the captain, the crew, and the ship. In addition to day to day operations, you'll sometimes also be selected to take up missions in your sector of space. How well your ship and its crew perform on these missions is determined by bonuses you apply at ship creation and the state of the ship when you reach the mission location. First Officer Reporting is intended to be played once a day in a fifteen minute session. The reports you write up can serve as your own episodic adventures on some kind of trek through the stars, or as background documents for a larger campaign. THE SETTING First Officer Reporting is designed to be setting agnostic, although there's a specific setting that might draw someone to writing these kinds of stories. In the future I'll be publishing a setting book based on my own little scifi world. While I definitely imagine writing my reports there, you don't have to. PRINT AND PLAY While you can simply download the document and keep a copy in your files, First Officer Reporting has been laid out so it can be printed as a trifold pamphlet.