Hey, I'm joining the forum. Its good to see an established group here.

Welcome jonasthered!

Oh, hey trooper6. I think I know you from sjgames. I'm ericthered there. That handle was taken on this site.

In reply to jonasthered (msg # 803):

Oh yes! We do know each other from the sjgames site. Welcome! Nice to see another familiar face!

Hey I would love some constructive criticism. Any suggestions for the game I'm going to start would be great.

Needs alot of formatting.
link to another game

I can't tell what the setting is or who the players are supposed to be, or what they're going to be doing.

In reply to hobbit_breath (msg # 805):

You need to describe the basic setting. Is it in Europe or a fantasy land or what?

In reply to Witchycat (msg # 807):
It's the gamma world setting I mentioned upthread.
So post apocalypse strangeness.

Yeah, you need to make that clear in the game, because people won't necessarily have read this thread.

So make a setting thread maybe?

Planing to have that in the game ad.

Make a thread for it too, for the people who get there by searching.

Yep. Ideally your advertisement should contain information found in the game itself. I know if I hadn't seen you asking for advice here, before stumbling on your game, without the information from your hypothetical future ad, I probably straight up wouldn't play.

I want to run a Western, but I don't want to run it straight, and I don't want to go full-blown kitchen-sink Deadlands. I'd like to mix in some tropes from other genres.

Maybe horror/hidden occult magic. Native rituals, the golden dawn, terrors from before mankind, restless civil war dead, ghost riders in the sky, chupacabra. Maybe science fiction with an alien invasion, or something. Maybe both. Could be superheroes.

Mix that up with standard western tropes. Six gun justice. Wandering gunslingers out to prove themselves. Settlers vs ranchers. Anglos vs Injuns. Civilization's corrupting influence vs the lawlessness of the West. Industry vs individualism.

Also I'd like the PCs to be a somewhat coherent group rather than "just whoever." Gamblers in a riverboat tournament. Civil War deserters. Escaped prisoners. Bank robbers or desperadoes. A Marshal and deputies. Traveling musicians. Snake oil salesman and entourage.

Thoughts? Input? Ideas? Let's workshop this.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:16, Tue 03 May 2016.

In reply to Tortuga (msg # 813):

Well the first thing that jumps to mind is this one shot that rppr ran.

http://actualplay.roleplayingp...hu-general-order-11/

In reply to hobbit_breath (msg # 810):

I would be interested in a Gamma world like setting. Maybe I can find the 76 editions of AD&D.

Yay, payday! I feel like doing something irresponsible...

Has anyone here had a chance to look at the new "GURPS: After the End" supplements? I'm looking at the whole set (AtE 1 & 2, Disasters: Meltdown & Fallout, Pyramid 3/88 & 3/90... maybe Zombies, too) and wondering if it's worth the ~$60.

Any reviews or opinions on the GURPS apocalypse? Can anyone give a sneak-peek at the kind of goodies I might find?

I like 'em. Smooth rules for invention/upgrading equipment applicable to more than junktech in 2, and wilderness survival/scavenging/scrounging rules applicable to multiple genres.

In reply to Tortuga (msg # 817):

If anyone else is considering them, I second Tortuga's opinion: worth every penny.

I'm thinking of starting a "Dark Souls" type of game, The Group (or single player) is a summoned undead who must rekindle the flame with the ashes of the Lord of Cinder.

In reply to Zoncxs (msg # 819):

I am interested in learning more about this.

Hey folks,

I have never used this game advertisement thread but figured it might be worth giving it a shot.

I am in the process of building a game that is set in modern day and aims to be a cinematic style action game. The players  will play the role of employees of an organisation that essentially contract their services out to both governments and corporations as "Problem Solvers".

The style of game is heavily based upon plots and movies that are common and well-loved in the action/spy genre and are influenced by such movies as:

- Bourne Series
- Bond
- Expendables
- Die Hard
- etc.

While the game is cinematic I do want to try and keep a vague handle on reality. The premise is that the employees are part of a new start up which has big ambition and aims at expanding itself into something that is influential in the world.

What this means in game terms is that the players will be some of the first employees of the organisation and will have invested interest in choosing job and performing well on the mission to ensure the success of the organisation. This 'administrative' side of things is probably the closest to base building I can get without making the game just kind of dull. As an example, if the organisation paid for a brand new truck to transport some guy across the city and the driver crashed it off a bridge - well, losses like that would eventually cause the organisation to fail.

Similarly, if a character was to walk down the street and start firing shotgun shells across a busy road at a bad guy, there could be the possibility of being arrested and taken out of action that way.

While most characters will start at a reasonable number of points (150+X pts) I'd like to really explore development of characters, relationships and their influence going from small-fry to global scale players. Progression will be pretty quick in terms of points and rewards will be generous for moving things to develop these aspects of the game.

In reply to archypetro (msg # 821):

Count me in, I would love to try it.

Sounds pretty interesting.

great news. I can probably manage around a maximum of six players. I'll add the new game threads and get it set up today.


link is here:

link to another game
This message was last edited by the player at 08:02, Sat 28 May 2016.

thanks for the interest, please make a RTJ - I've written up a bunch of material to get everything started and will be posting as soon as my account gets unlocked (accidentally locked myself out of 'adult approved' games - duh)