"Damage Control to the Disco Lounge!"

A few months ago, I came across Super Galactic Dreadnought's description of "starship non-critical hits".  This immediately grabbed my attention and I decided to copy the idea.  Of course, I needed to add some of my own entries to the table, as well as removing one or two that I felt didn't work for me.

So, how is this table used?  I play Full Thrust at the local games group; we add an extra "system" to each ship.  This is just an empty box which takes threshold checks in exactly the same manner as any other system.  If it is damaged, I then roll on the table below to see what was the "effect" (it works better when I keep the table hidden from the players and just tell them the result).

Of course, this damage has no effect whatsoever on gameplay, unless it's to cause the players to fall about laughing and consequently fluff their next turn.  I am beginning to suspect that some of the kids for whom I referee are trying to work out how to maximise their chances of such a critical, even at the expense of the scenario objectives, just to see what happens.  The occasion when the Petty Officer's candy machine was destroyed is still talked about - there were gumballs all over the floor and as for the toffees, well!

I've even been bitten by this bug sufficiently to create further tables for cargo and passenger types, for when freighters are captured or damaged.  But that's for another day...

So, the table of non-critical hits, with many thanks to Super Galactic Dreadnought:

Roll	NON-CRITICAL STARSHIP DAMAGE TABLE
1	Rulebook destroyed: game ends
2	Make it up yourself
3	Roll again twice on this table
4	Forward dry cleaners
5	Starboard pizza oven
6	Arcturan pornography library
7	Holodeck
8	Shuffleboard deck
9	Paint locker (d10: 1-7 gray; 8-9 white; 10 plaid)
10	Chief engineer's still
11	Video arcade
12	Spare dress uniforms
13	Septic tank
14	Petting zoo
15	Swimming pool
16	Captain's disco lounge
17	Stormtrooper target range
18	Aft car rental kiosk
19	Recreational knitting supplies
20	Port sauna
21	EVA window cleaning equipment
22	Dune buggy garage (lose 1-6 dune buggies)
23	Satellite TV dish
24	Intellectual property officer
25	Political officer's quarters
26	Enlisted men's motivational posters
27	Frisbee golf course
28	Marriage chapel
29	Petty Officers' candy machine
30	Communicator sanitising supplies
31	Stuffed tribble collection
32	Last month's overtime records
33	Navigator's manga collection
34	Shipwide volume control (d6: 1-3 too quiet, 4-6 too loud)
35	Command deck vending machines
36	Canteen gravity control
37	Puppet theatre
38	Ship's stock of Gideon Bibles
39	Captain's chair height adjustment controls
40	Klystron Generator
41	Background music generator (stuck on "Easy Listening")
42	Brig security controls