Publisher's blurb:
It's late, you're tired, and the orbital station's diner is closed in recognition of some local planetary holiday. You'd just eat your ship's nutra-maker's mush but you can't... the stupid thing broke down last week. You're starving and the quickest option are the assorted vending machines that line the walls of the station's lobbies. Not really a meal, per say, but it'll keep hunger away for awhile.
You walk up to the nearest snack machine and study the contents. Bags of candy, packs of preserved meat, some weird lab made protein concoction that you don't even want to think about. You spot a mushy breakfast cake sealed in plastic foil and foolishly press the buttons for it. Sure enough the stupid cake gets stuck on the way down, preventing you from retrieving your purchase... you've been ripped off by physics! Cursing, you add more credits to the machine and make another purchase. This time its a pack of meat flavored tuber chips. The chips drop and you grab a canned beverage from another machine before wolfing the meager snack down. Still hungry, you pay for another bag. It is only after you finished the second pack of those salty, greasy, slightly strange tasting chips do you notice that the snack expired over two galactic months ago. This is not going to be good... you can already feel cold sweat on your forehead as your stomach starts to tighten into knots.
Welcome to the real hazard of space travel... the risk of consuming crap out of a neglected spaceport vending machine.
Welcome to Galactic Vending Machine, the sci-fi role playing product that puts focus on the seedy, lowbrow gastro adventures of spaceport vending machine dining! Here you will find twenty different vending machine item selections that you are likely to come across as you wander about that unsavory orbital station or spaceport city. From beverages to snacks to even over the counter medications, this product has it!
Though set in a typical star faring/space opera setting, the details presented in Galactic Vending Machine are carefully written in a manner to make the supplement compatible with most appropriate role playing game systems/editions.
Galactic Vending Machine is not your typical star faring RPG product. Like that lonely bag of chips hung up in the back of the vending unit, this is the supplement guide that you probably thought you never wanted or needed. If you are a fool for crazy little details, however, the Galactic Vending Machine is just the product for you! This supplement painstakingly details a wealth of elements dealing with the vending machine selection entries, from cost to varieties to the chances of spoilage. There's even notes about the chance that the chosen item will get hung up in the machine on its way down! You will also find a fully fleshed out universal rules system for handling bouts of indigestion. Customers into 3D printing will also find 4 models (28mm scale) of the basic galactic vending machine with download purchase of this pdf supplement.