Cool, dude. I was more asking for the PCs particular backstory, not to bust your chops. It's all good.

Feng Shui isn't my game. It is a game system that allows players to make fantastical, movie-based archetypes for characters. A biker who is a Kung Fu Master, master being the optimal word, seemed fit for that setting. Personally, I have yet to play the game but it sounds like a blast.

Cheers.

If you examine the history of many martial arts you will find they were developed by people in archaic times of great conflict when weapons were scarce or even banned such as Okinawa, China and the Philippines. With a tradition of study in small schools or even directly from a mentor, it seems to me martial arts would be a knowledge kept alive in a world such as this one, though as it was traditionally teachers would again become far more selective as to whom they took as students, with family schools and small societies becoming the norm.

I would imagine other specialties like mechanics, medicine and smithing would be the same.

I'll make a note to ask my MA adviser about that in my next email.

I still think you are missing my intended point, but it might not be worth clarifying. Either way, nice to have you.

Yollie and Higgins, please check to see if you can edit your character sheets!

I can edit my "character description" under the "character details" button.

Is that what you were going for?

You should be able to go into Character Details and then Edit Character Sheet.

Everyone, the character concepts are coming together nicely.  We're going to have a good group with strong motivations and plenty of adventure hooks.  We are currently at 5 players with 2 more in the approval discussion.

When I go to Yollie, I see this: "The GM has not given you edit permission for this character sheet."

I am going to say that is a big negative, boss man.

Give it a try now, Yollie.

Beauty. That did it.

Hi everyone. I'm working on a young driver with ties to Bakersfield. She'll be a second gen road warrior, road warrioring under mom's old road name (which brought nostalgia contacts and a little inherited goodwill in the beginning, but is becoming pretty burdensome, overall). Any thoughts on how we might know each other?

By the way everyone, Atomic Highway RPG is free on Drivethrurpg.com right now.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/pr...?term=atomic+highway

Hey. welcome to the pack. You could always be one of the few Road Warriors who comes to East Highland Hills to actually trade what you have scavenged instead of starting shit. In that way, the people there have grown a tentative trust in your PC and Yollie may constantly bug you for info about the outside world. I could see her always bugging Higgins about it but him never giving her anything.

She is very curious about the world outside of East Highland Hills. She could trade you fresh fruit/veggies for information. Something like that. Through her you could know of Higgins... though you two may have a tentatively hostile relationship at first.

That would be really cool. I figure that Christmas (tentative driving name) loves both fresh fruit and flaunting her relative worldliness. I'm not going to be very good at living off the land. I may know Higgins' car from I-5, but it'd be kind of neat to know the guy who drives it via Yollie. What's the worst thing about East Highland?

Edit: I think in OOC threads I will post as Pearldrum and IC I will post under Yollie.


According to Yollie: How boring it is. Sure, she has seen her share of death, but she really has no experiential idea of how shitty things are outside of the walls (ie. outside of the town's furthest borders).

It is a township split in half by two factions that share a symbiotic relationship; the pumpers work the fuel rigs and are the offspring and remnants of the roughnecks who used to live and work in the region before the war and the tillers who work the land. Yollie is from the tillers side and is something of a wilderness "expert" thanks to her grandfather teaching her everything he could about the "old ways." Dude was an Apache.

Anyways, the pumpers and the tillers do all they can to complete the symbiosis and help one another out. It runs like a well oiled machine. The worst part by far would have to be the assholes from the outside who come and try to take what the people inside have worked so hard to maintain.
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Seems extra confusing.

Does anyone have a good text BRP character sheet?

I have every confidence that you will figure it out.

I had no doubt your response would be snarky.

Ok everyone, so far we have:

A stony-faced ex-cop prowling the Road, protecting those who can't protect themselves.

A young Native American huntress from a hard-bitten battle-hardened farming settlement and trading post a short distance west of Bakersfield and right on the vital junction between the Road and the only open route to Slowtown by the Sea.

A young road warrioress struggling to live up to her mother's name and at the same time free herself from its burden.

A young mechanic.

Max has a new concept, to be announced.

Character Name:
 Age:
 Sex:
 Height:        Weight:            Hair:             Eyes:
 Occupation:
 Gods / Religion :

 -----------------------------------------------

 Characteristics & Rolls
 STR     DEX      INT
 CON     APP      POW
 SIZ

 Idea
 Luck
 Effort
 Stamina
 Agility
 Charisma

 Damage Bonus:

 Hit Points
 Total:
 Current:

 Hit Location / Hit Point Value

 Location AP HP
 Head
 L Arm
 R Arm
 Chest
 Abd
 L Leg
 R Leg

 Power Points
 Total:
 Current:

 Fatigue
 Total:
 Current:

 Experience Bonus:

 Movement:

 ------------------------------------------------

 Skills
 [ ] Appraise (15%):
     Art (05%):
 [ ]
 [ ] Bargain (05%):
 [ ] Climb (40%):
 [ ] Command (05%):
     Craft (05%):
 [ ]
     Repair (15%):
 [ ]
 [ ] Dodge (DEX*2%):
 [ ] Etiquette (05%):
 [ ] Fast Talk (05%):
 [ ] Fine Manipulation (05%):
 [ ] First Aid (30%):
 [ ] Gaming (INT+POW):
 [ ] Hide (10%):
 [ ] Insight (05%):
 [ ] Jump (25%):
     Knowledge ( %):
 [ ] Own Region
     Other Language (0%)
 [ ]
     Own Language (INTx5%)
 [ ]
 [ ] Listen (25%):
 [ ] Literacy ( %)
 [ ] Martial Arts (01%):
 [ ] Medicine (05%):
 [ ] Navigate (10%):
     Perform (05%)
 [ ]
 [ ] Persuade (15%):
 [ ] Projection (DEXx02%):
     Repair (15%)
 [ ]
     Ride (05%):
 [ ]
 [ ] Sense (10%):
 [ ] Sleight of hand (05%):
 [ ] Spot (25%):
 [ ] Swim (25%):
     Status (15%):
 [ ]
 [ ] Stealth (10%):
 [ ] Throw (25%):
 [ ] Track (10%):

 Weapons
     melee           %     damage    hnd  rng     #att  hp
 [ ] Brawl (25%)     25%   1D3+db     1   close    1    n/a
 [ ] Grapple (25%)   25%   special    2   close    1    n/a
 [ ] ________       ____  ______    __  _____   ____  ____
 [ ] ________       ____  ______    __  _____   ____  ____
 [ ] ________       ____  ______    __  _____   ____  ____

 Armor

     type           AP        Skill Mod
 [ ] ________       ____       ______

 Magical Artifacts :

 Spells Known :

 Wealth :

 Equipment:

I am really excited to see Higgins do Higginsy things. I am picturing Mel Gibson as Riggs in Lethal Weapon.

And Mel Gibson as Max in Mad Max.

And Mel Gibson as William Wall - fuck it. Higgins is Mel Gibson.

I just saw Fury Road tonight.  Oh, the ideas...

I also saw it and thought it was great. I will not provide any spoilers. Grew up on Mad Max and thought it was right up there. Surprised it does not have more of a buzz.

I thought it was really good, and I liked how the characters changed.

Tomorrow I'll make sure everyone whose character has a name has an editable character sheet, getting some maps made, and detailing faction/location knowledge to the affected characters.