I think  I am going to stick with the basic style of Doris as a Belter tech focused character, mechanical and hacker.

That lends itself to a good income score, so if others want to not worry about that we can just use the group income function and have plenty of stuff fairly easily.

So Doris basically replaces Izzy Moon, right?

I'm good taking on any of the roles.

Also, if anyone wants to speak like a Belter, I saw these posted on praugpride's game:

https://www.memrise.com/course...r-creole-phrasebook/

https://lingojam.com/BelterTranslator

https://lingojam.com/EnglishtoBelter

I didn't bother much with the pregenerated characters, so I don't know how close they are to real ones.

I think GM just refers to Izzy being a Belter tech-savvy hacker.
The only difference between Doris and Izzy seems to be that Doris is a lot wealthier.

Right.

Now, what I would like to know is whether you intend to have us as a ship crew. Or whether Politics will play any major role.

Addison Grant as a tech is a versatile char that can find a niche in every type of game. Maybe some overlap with Doris, though?
Casey Khatri as a melee combattant with engineering skills is also versatile. Her engineering is obviously only supportive though, definitely takes a dedicated tech-savvy in addition to her for the group.
Chao Sokolov definitely is unique and as an academic/medic plus security may have a bit of overlap with Doris/Izzy but still perfect niche.
Nico Velez as a pilot takes a ship to be of much use. Then again she is an awesome shot so fills a role I guess.
Ade Akintola in contrast is a nice character but only really interesting to play if politics becomes a role. Otherwise a classic 'face'.
I rolled politician, if politics will not come into play I might drop to a lower class profession

First off, how many of you want to stick with the characters you have either generated personally or the pregens and do you want to tweak them based on the full rules being out now or are you good as they are.

If some of you want to start fresh that will change some of my initial approach.

Since I don't have one I'll take Nico Velez

Had no PreGen either.
I would be interested in playing Ade Akintola or Casey Khatri, both tweaked, though.
The former depends on whether politics will come into play sometimes. As already elaborated, I cannot really see a 'niche' for this character if not.

Did we lose the player base ?

It would seem so. I'm a bit further behind than I was hoping to be but I did say end of February at the earliest. Nonetheless, I should have specifics up late next week as I want to finish reading Abzu's Bounty before making a final decision.

If that doesn't bring them out when I post I will look at recruiting.

Also, I will help anyone wanting to create a character rather than use a pregen whether they have the book or not.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:55, Sat 29 Feb 2020.

Sorry for the delay, March went sideways on me and not just due to the shutdowns and social distancing requirements from COVID. Two of my best friends ended up in the hospital for non-pandemic but still life-threatening reasons right before life went into lock down for the virus.

I am going to use the rest of the month to get things settled out and finish the material for this game and get that info out to you all.

Hopefully your friends can recover before the plague houses, er hospitals, become a real problem.

It's all good.  Take your time

Well, the COVID-19 situation sure has the world in a strangle-hold.
Now that it has spread over to the US I expect infection - and yes, deaths, too - will increase a lot. Well, it already does, but you get the idea.
Italy, Spain are truly in trouble and it is interesting to see that China steps in and provides support with doctors. That's the kind of thing I suppose most in the Western World expected the US to do.
Anyway, I hope you are okay.
Keep healthy !

The US is in a bit of an isolationist phase at the moment, try again later for useful world interaction.

We're still healthy here at least regarding COVID. Other aspects of life are remaining chaotic. I plan to get stuff out here tomorrow.

One thing I have decided on is that characters will start at 2nd level. I am likely going to start things with Abzu's Bounty so please if you have it don't read it or at least read it again.

Once we are done that if there is still interest in continuing I have an outline of where to go though I will ask feedback from the current group at that time. However, I am leaning toward taking it into the realm of political intrigue pending feedback.

Stay safe all. Stay healthy.

I am not going to get the material out tonight. I had a brush fire to put out that took most of last night and today. I also pending a doctor's assessment may be out/offline for the next few days as I may require hospitalization for a bit. Non-Covid related.

That said, for the three you active I've kind of laid out my thoughts on some basics. I like a fair amount of RP but beyond that would you prefer to stay more independent and focus on action or are you interested in getting more into politics at the stellar level and playing among the power players?

Variety is the spice of life.  Both sound good to me

I suppose that with only three players delving into deeper politics might be a bit more problematic, so maybe going for Action is indeed a good idea, at least for now.
That being said, I'm fine either way.

Admittedly I did not finish the character yet.
We have Doris, Nico and myself, yes ?

Yes, all good here.  I pushed the character a bit more Hacker than Ship combat build based on how it played in the prototype but if someone else is dead set on being the hacker I can probably either go back or find another role.

I would simply pick up Casey Khatri instead, maybe check a bit to modify to ranged combat instead

Hmm, actually all good.

Say, what good is Accuracy (Gunnery) ? I don't see any effect during Space Combat as there are actually no attack rolls... ?
This message was last edited by the player at 08:10, Tue 07 Apr 2020.

There's a post in the Wanted - GM thread looking for an Expanse game.

Might be able to get a few more players

link to a message in another game

I have Nico updated to level 2 on my character sheet and Cast - Description

Hi all,

I managed to pinch both sciatic nerves in a fall I had last weekend so at the moment I have one functional arm and am on a fairly heavy drug regiment so typing is interesting.

I am resting a fair amount mostly due to the drugs knocking me out but since I am kind of functional at the moment I wanted to provide an update.

Other than rest and recovery time it doesn't appear that anything beyond the pinched nerves and blowing out my rotator cuff was seriously injured.

For the moment though the game launch is on hold. Once things have improved though we'll get this going.

Until then take care, stay safe, and healthy.

Turns out I was wrong and it was far more serious. I ended up in the hospital the Tuesday after I posted the last message and just got home today.

I am recovering and will actually be better and healthier than before the incident that caused the fall.

It'll be yet while I get my bearings and get life moving and sorted again after that time with it all on hold.

Not quite sure when RPoL will resume on a regular basis for me but it is the first priority after life and rehab get fully back into a routine.

Thank you all for your patience.

This is a period of patience, and life sorting for many games on RPOL, I suspect everyone has at least one other game with some kind of post rate complication going on right now.