Since we have at least one player now, this seems in order. Talk about anything you want, as long as it doesn’t infringe on the general maturity rating!

Hi so right now I have one or two 'traits' for characters but no real setting ideas. I was thinkng maybe we could all go down the space exploration route borriwing ideas from, say, Red Dwarf, Hyperdrive or The Orville. The neat idea about this is if we syart with the universe being largely 'unexplored' we can make new stuff up as we go along.

As for character concepts how about a 'reverse telepath' Instead of reading minds, he/she/it broadcasts their thoughts constantly, regardless of how innapropriate / offensive these thoughts may be (obviously they don't get invited to many parties).

That sounds like fun. Feel free to post ideas for the game in the session 0 thread :)

yay, three players already! Feel free to say hi over here and start brainstorming a bit in the session 0 thread!

Hello everybody.  The Ricepudding waves friendly at everybody.

I would suggest you read my character description, it may help.

I cannot believe I got away with this.  This idea goes back to 1990.
If I get play this it be so much fun.

The ricepudding should encounter his other half in the uk on earth where income tx is so complicated it takes on a sentience all of its own.

I sort of getting the feeling for once I am not the only British person in this game.

And I like idea of us being Star Cops.
Send out solve odd and silly crimes in the universes.
It would give structure and purpose to the game.

Also remember anything could be crime on a different worlds so load to cover.

It’s a cool idea, but we’re not quite at characters yet, so we’ll cross that bridge when we get there, but it should be doable I think. This system isn’t as flexible for silly character ideas as say... fate or risus, but we’ll see where we get. Let’s first see what kind of game we want to run. Feel free to brainstorm in the session 0 thread about game ideas!

Also, welcome to Manticore!

Feel free to start with point one and two of character creation in the session zero thread. I think the book gives you the choice between taking an array and rolling in order and changing one to 14 after. So far everyone has rolled!

Or in my case I roll and got the array (well almost).

Hey players. I'm also running another game but currently have only one active player and one that's gone AWOL. Should you be interested in playing some lighthearted weird fantasy using Black Hack Second Edition, you could join us over here: link to another game

For those with more experience in the system than I have: what are your thoughts on the optional rules for Aliens and Virtual Intelligences? Are they needed for us to play our type of silly game or is just treating everyone as a "human" with a different flavor enough? So far this is mainly for The Ricepudding. But others might want to play non-humans as well.

It all seems rather straightforward, so if wanted, I'll allow it.

Well for ease of game I can fit into the human box.

However as we develop there maybe thing Ricepudding can do that other cannot.
Like slide under doors or expend his arms, nick or legs.
But we can talk about that and see what make sense.

It would have to be a skill like exert i think.

Just read the asking for more player for this game.

I was left laughing to myself.

Put the idea of you filling in your tax form and for form is telling you it's all wrong.

Welcome to The_senator13! 5 of the 6 possible spaces are now filled on the trading ship!

Hi all!
Thanks for having me.

Just remembered to give you access to your character sheet. You should be good to go.

Just remembered this. The entire album/anime they made is suitable, but this one gives a good party example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OTryGzS-G8

We'd have to silly it up a bit, but it's an example of what we might be going for. As for silly stuff from it: I'n another video from the album there's a spaceship shaped like an electric guitar!

the entire album/anime is watchable here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...lX50xxG&index=16
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:44, Mon 09 Dec 2019.

This also came to mind:-
It very cheesy but stick with it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_LPJllaogU

Hahahah, Aqua. Boy oh boy I really am 35 years old... sigh...

Ok time to confess up.

I err like, no I did not listen to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when radio play came out because like um.  My dad did not listen to radio 4.

But I did see the 1981 TV when was put on.
I not sure if was when first aired or re-runs that year or few years after (if they re-ran it).

This message was deleted by the player at 22:26, Mon 09 Dec 2019.

Just a quick reminder to everyone that while we're moving quite quickly through character creation now, once we actually start the story I'll probably only post weekly. I'm thinking about ways to keep things moving so that it won't be too slow, but just now that if it's too hectic now, things will calm down soon.

Can I make a fun suggestion.

Each player should have interesting / major flaw.
In return they get an extra / new roll on the Growth or Learning Table.

Like in fate rpg system.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:21, Thu 12 Dec 2019.

We can probably roll that into the experience system I'm thinking about. More to come later!

I am back, and severely jet-lagged, so I won't post today yet, but I have a treat!

New-Year has happened, and if that's not an excuse for a party, I don't know what is! Also, I got engaged!
So, for all the joy, merriment and party-atmosphere here, please all take an experience point!

As for me, I'm choosing coffee over champagne right now as I struggled with the seven timezone difference.

Happy New Year.

I had quite Christmas and New Year but that want I wanted.
I spend the last 2 years making my life stable after splitting with my wife.

(we did spend 3 days together just before Christmas and things where good.
I still care about her but living together would be bad idea).

I wish you well.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:05, Sun 05 Jan 2020.

You can immediately spend the XP to level. I think one XP is enough to go to second level. Though I’ll have to check later.

Also, have people made their characters? Has our crew survived the festivities or did we loose some people?

That sounds like quite the new year indeed! Happy new year everybody, hope 2020 finds you well!

So two people left huh? Well, that’s enough to start with!

Are your characters ready and complete? Are there any questions? I’m gonna warm up these engines and start checking gauges. Getting ready for lift-off!

Let us boldly go forward because nobody thought about reverse.

What does this R stand for then...?

(Very excited)

On most Party-Powered Vessels it usually stands for engaging RAVE-DRIVE!

I will post at the weekend.  Work is mad at the moment.

I’m having an incredibly busy few days ahead of me. Don’t expect a post from me until at least on monday (and even then, aiming for wednesday is probably safer)

Where’s the party at guys?

I’m gonna give this another week. If there is no reply I’m gonna shelf this for now.

Ah Sorry.  On it right now.

Sorry I been running around this week sorting load things out and I forgot I was going post here.  Anyway over to Captain Ron

No worries, I figured you were busy. Just wanted to know if I should look out for posts here or wether to end it. But don’t stress over it. A weekly post is enough, as stated before.

posted. Whoopsie daisy.

Just made a second post.  I would like to stress again.
If the GM is not happy with my post he can change it as I have taken a few liberties with the post.  (hope you like it however).
But as this is the background to the game I hope that ok.  It does set thing up nicely for my character and back up by good role.

Oh and I think that the Ricepudding would not be a member of the planned crew at moment.  As he just arrive on the plant  / in the universe.  So Ron you may want find a way of getting him on board. :)

:- having The Ricepudding like only been in existence for a day open up so much fun for the game which I happy for you two to have fun with (At The Ricepudding expense).
This message was last edited by the player at 20:33, Sat 25 Jan 2020.

The Ricepudding: I think this is quite okay. I'll probably post guidelines on liberties with NPC's and scenes when I have a good think about it, because a bit more freedom than usual will help with keeping the game/story moving without asking and waiting for permission and stuff. Play by post is slow as it is.

Captain Ron: What a smooth guy! I love it.

 I'll probably have a think about a reply and will try to write one before the weekend. The weekend is gonna be busy.

Also, having reviewed the rules a bit, there are some clarifications. The Ricepudding. 1XP, wasn't enough to level (it's 3XP to go to level 2.) so I'm afraid you couldn't have spent the XP to gain Teleportation. Also, you don't have to roll for using psychic abilities. You need to spend effort. I think you have the rules yourself. You should read up on Psionics, especially page 30 and 31. They deal with using skills and spending effort and calculating the amount of effort you have. Now, I think, looking at your character sheet, that you have mastery, which means that for your core skill you don't need to spend effort, so in this case no effort is being spent. The only thing you should have rolled normally, is the d6 for healing. But since this is basically a cutscene, that wasn't even needed.

I'll also try to set up a thread/topic/post thing with custom ways to gain XP. I'll try and have that up at the same time as the next post.

Just my luck.  Rolled well and did not need to.

Was not sure about Psionics needing rolls or not.
I rolled just in case I needed to.  Seemed odd that other skilled needed it but nothing said to for Psionics.

Everything else make sense and yes I did know about 1d6.
However I thought was bit pointless.
Also yes I do not use effort for my healing at moment.

All good here then :)

I played in another system what has xp goals, it is super hero based and works well.

May I suggest.

STANDARD GOAL: When you host or run a party at a new location, earn 1 XP (for the entire crew).
MAJOR GOAL: ??? earn 3 XP
PERSONAL GOAL: Write a goal for your character to complete during the game. You get one goal which will earn you XP.
MAJOR PERSONAL: ??? earn 3 XP

The major ones should be something big.
Like getting a plants to join the federation of party plants.
The Ricepudding meeting someone that has actually met his sister.
Captain Ron saving another spaceship from destruction.

Just an idea.

And yes I will take your suggestion as my personal goal as just fit so well.

In reply to The Ricepudding (msg # 44):

I was thinking about that as well, but seeing as we're a weekly posting forum game, major goals would take an insane amount of time playing to get to them, so I'm content for now to focus on just two goals. I might include/unlock different goals as we play and meet people. They would probably be quests and stuff.

Oof, how does the youth say it? "Big Mood"?

Yes sorry about that.

It came about after Ron post.  He seems to know all about The Ricepudding but The Ricepudding backstory was clear he only been around for a little while.

The only way this could make any sense was to do what I just did.
However it could be fun with The Ricepudding not at all sure what going on but other clearly think he does (so it party ron's fault).

It has echo's of Arthur dent.
Also did you work out why the data banks think he 21 years old?
This message was last edited by the player at 13:56, Thu 30 Jan 2020.

Didn't mean to imply Captain Ron knew the ricepudding well, only that he knew officer ricepudding had been assigned to his ship amd saw the gooping that happened at the party. There is conveniently a "goop free" zone already designated on the ship (I thought it might make for some fun shenanigans later) but afaik he doesnt have any direct experience with ricepudding unless u want him to

Well if everybodies happy to go with what I have done this could be fun.

So I suggest that in Captain Ron memory he worked along side The Ricepudding one or two times.  The Ricepudding being drafted in as medical worker.

This way you are open to write what you like (with in reason).
The Ricepudding has no memory of this and far as he can remember he only 37 days old.
What the true reality of this is, is well that like loads of things:- up for debate.

It also mean GM can introduce all sorts of thing to do with The Ricepudding past without any problem.  Old friends, old enemy and whole area of rp this game will  avoid as this game is PG and not M or A rated.

As far as I see this just added depth to the game and allows you two some extra fun.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:14, Thu 30 Jan 2020.

Oh, it’s no problem at all! Just the existential part hit me :P

And I know what 21 is half of ;)

It’s my birthday! Take a free XP! Also, I’ll probably be out this weekend.

Oh that make you an Aquarius.  That bad news if Captain Ron was hoping to stay sane.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 22:11, Fri 31 Jan 2020.

Thanks, happy birthday!

Err guys I just reading the rules and like we make big mistake.

The dice should be 2d6 not 1d20 (+skill level, +GM adjustment).

Skill Check Difficulties

---

6 A relatively simple task that is still more than
the PC would usually be expected to manage
in their regular background. Anything easier
than this isn’t worth a skill check.

---

8 A significant challenge to a competent professional
that they’d still succeed at more often
than not.

---

10 Something too difficult to be expected of
anyone but a skilled expert, and even they
might fail.

---

12 Only a true master could expect to carry this
off with any degree of reliability.

---

14+ Only a true master has any chance of achieving
this at all, and even they will probably fail.

---

I suggest we go with what we done but change to right dice.
(I am totally new to this system0.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:08, Sat 01 Feb 2020.

Haha uh oh. I'll make sure I roll right in the future

Seems we started off on the wrong universe.

ha ha.

Hah, yup. Oopsie. Well, the universe was in your favor at the start. But yeah, let’s keep what’s happened but go on following the right rules!

Aaand, now I have to start another busy day.

I survived the weekend! I will try to write up a post tomorrow, but it could be as late as Wednesday.

If you guys get bored in the meantime check out the topic about the ship. There’s a few questions for you guys there as well!

It seem my job is to get all the bad rolls so Captain Ron get the good ones.

Hah, so far that seems to be how it goes! Should we let you roll the d20 again? ;-)
This being more like a sci-fi sitcom than a survival game I’ll usually be pretty mild with the consequences of rolls, but still. Maybe we can see if this bad luck keeps up and introduce a house rule for doing stuff. Maybe something along the lines of “once per episode you can automatically succeed at (something character specific)”. At least your niche of psionics works with effort, which succeeds automatically most of the time.

I do think that as we are using 2d6 then rolling a natural 2 and 12 should result in critical success and failure of a random happenings.

Nothing major but something funny.

Remember we are talking about universe where a intelligent Ricepudding gloops around the place.

I should read up on the rules about what they say about critical successes and failures. I don’t remember what this system does, but it would be a great source of slapstick indeed.

Hey fellows, this week is proving to be pretty busy. I'm not dropping this game, but letting you know that I might be a bit silent and take a bit longer.

Who knew that getting married to a foreigner would be such a drain on time? /sarcasm

Time is no issue.
I still be here in a month time or a year.

Hope your all doing well.

How is everybody?

Trying to keep suicide away.

Well, this was definitely a bit longer than a year... I'm sorry for dropping the ball. Real life has been ... interesting.
I'll be deleting this game soon. I might, perhaps start another, as I now have summer vacation and thus a bit more time.