In Dire Straits

In Dire Straits is a Space Opera RPG campaign created and played by the In Dire Straits players using the Fate Core System ruleset.

Tatterpedia

The conglomeration of all known information in known space, available on the interstellar Tatternet.

Rules & Systems

The rules and systems we are using to play In Dire Straits.

Campaigns and Session Summaries

The stories of the player characters of the In Dire Straits setting, separated by campaign, and listed session by session.

Characters

A list of characters and their character sheets from the game.

Characters for Campaign 2

Cluster Maps

A standard tool used for discovering information about star systems in the local cluster, and to plan strait routes between them. All starships include the cluster map interface as part of their navigation controls, and all space station and most cities that have star ports have kiosks with the same interface.

Latest site news

UI updates to Characters and Now Playing pages

Published 2026-10-12

Added functions to the "Now Playing" page to make it more dynamic, allowing you to drag & drop character order, and to set up a default list of characters displayed there. (Browser storage).

Here's a link to the Now Playing page, with the Campaign 2 player characters, plus the Tugboat.

The regular characters page now integrates better with the Now Playing page, allowing the selected characters to be displayed in the filter widget, and to save them to the default list.

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