Tonight I began running a SWN campaign. I have one player, Ryan who usually runs a campaign for two of us but with the holidays here the other player is busy and Ryan and I have extra time. So I decided to try my hand at running this game system and instead of starting in a star port or something normal, I went with a mystery horror theme and the shibboleth fit the bill. The book is deliberately vague about them so I've been filling in the blanks, for instance the book speaks of the aversion field only in relationship to humans so I decided the aversion field does not affect any species incapable of becoming psionic like hochog or eldreth or dogs. I say dogs but I introduced a genetically advanced strain of koth hounds with limited sentience and thumbs and able to learn about 4 skills during their 2 formative years. These carry great swords and grenades and wear light combat armor. I tried having him play 4 characters but in practice this was unnatural and we decided he would play 1 and the others could be NPCs. This was after I started them as captives in a temple of the "true way" awaiting sacrifice. They were rescued by 4 locals and the 4 hell hounds but due to overwhelming forces blocking the regular escape they were forced to flee through the secret door that led to the shibboleth lair they encountered 1 that was skinning a captive alive the locals had already undergone a procedure to allow them to see one of the hell hounds were hurt and they escaped with other captives through a small passage that led eventually to the surface where they met the hunter who trained the hell hounds and sent the locals they found some docile dinosaurs to ride and the saga continues to find a legendary leader of the old way to aid them in their quest.
