Please keep it civil. For discussion about anything.

* waves * :)

Greetings fellow explorers...

Confirming we are creating characters per the core book?

3d6 rolled six times in order?

Yes, let's stick to the book.

Edit: remember that there is the option to take the array rather than rolling. Or, if you roll, one score can be increased to 14.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:44, Fri 09 Oct 2020.

Level 1?  :)

Yes, level 1 to start.

Hi there guys.

Hello everyone!  Newly added to the game and happy to be here.  I'm new to SWN so I'm happy to accept advice and guidance on game rules and such.

Do we know what the current character concepts look like?  I don't have anything pre-generated, so I can probably fill some holes if we're heavy in one area and light in another.

I'm new to SWN as well and looking over the options I'm considering a Thug Warrior character. Maybe one that's better at melee fighting than ranged fighting. Not the brightest bulb, but not a complete dunce either. He may not win any thinking awards but he doesn't need to to get the job done. That's what I'm thinking of for my character.

Also new here

This concept started out as "Salvage Technician" and pretty much remained true to that over the course of his rolls.

He has a spread of technical skills and general competency as a spacecraft pilot.

Yu Tian You ("Yú" or "于" is the surname, "Tiān Yǒu" or "天牖" is the given name) is a Healer, Bard, and Missionary, who seeks to minister to the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual needs of a needy people in a dark universe.  Biopsionics, Telepathy, Connect, Know, Perform, Talk skills.  Personality similar to Shepherd Book (Firefly), Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars IV).  :)
This message was last edited by the player at 17:58, Sun 11 Oct 2020.

Okay, thanks all.  Probably a more combat oriented then, with maybe a little "sneaky" included.  Let me see what I can come up with.

I was skewing toward combat + sneaky too, but I'm considering a social component.

The thing about West Marches-style games is that you never know what combination of characters you're going to get, especially if you have a big roster of players to pull from. So one game might be all talkers and the next game might be all hackers. It's usually best to make a character that you like and that will be fun rather than trying to plug holes in the roster since the roster will change over time.

I've decided to let the dice tell me what I've got.  So far, completely average with no particularly redeeming features!  :)

Akando makes a good point. As it is now, we have one GM and six players so it looks like we'll be running one group. But in the future I'm hoping we get a few more players and one or two more GMs so we can rearrange groups as people want to try different adventures. So while a character may slot in well now, there's no guarantee that it will later.

Zenox rolled well!

I'll go sneaky/shooty to start.

I'll likely GM down the road, after Chapter 1. Wrapping up another game I'm GMing ocer the next couple months.

Callaghan is going to be a detective. Expert class, specialist in Notice. Two fisted type.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:09, Tue 13 Oct 2020.

The dice handed me a stabby melee guy, who has trouble controlling his mouth.  I mean, who speaks his mind.

Looking forward to the first adventure!

After much hand-wringing, I have a character ready. I made a sneaky/shooty survivalist, my first Vagabond.

A question for the group: When it comes to the faction turn, how much mystery do you want? I was planning on putting it all out for the players to see and then asking that you avoid metagaming. Or would you prefer that I keep it behind the scenes?

Also, I was going to make the faction turn take place at regular real-world time intervals. Thoughts on this?

I think behind the scenes is good, with the potential for individual characters to gain some "insight" based on their roles.

+1.  :)

+2!  I agree with Yu Tian and Jacob.

Personally I'm kind of fascinated by the behind-the-scenes mechanics. Perhaps a voluntary thread/group where things are done and posted?

As for the real world intervals, that's probably a good goal, especially if there are multiple games going on at multiple states of completion. After the first chapter or so, we'll all be on separate/artificial IC timelines anyway.

Sure, that works well. I'll make an "Opt-In" group for anyone who wants to see what happens outside the scope of their own characters.

So it begins...  I suspect that you mean "Tian You", unless you prefer the more formal "Mr. Yu"... ;)

Consider me corrected!  I wasn't sure how you had input your name and guessed wrong.

I guess I could always use, "Hey Yu!"

I almost included the above line in my previous message, before deleting it... and then you used it anyway!  That is too funny!  :D

Alright, so Akando's player is going to pick up GMing as well, so we'll have two groups of four players each. The two adventures I posted in the other thread will be our first two to start with, one group taking each.

Thumbs up!

Reloading the page 10 times an hour in anticipation.

Hello,

I've created a tough hacker who enjoys his freedom and travels the space lanes looking for work.  I hope to enjoy playing with you.

I had to take a few months off from role-playing due to health reasons but it will not be a problem going forward.  Assuming I become approved I'm ready to jump in anytime.

Hi, all. Just saw the ad and worked learning the system over the weekend. Your friendly neighborhood pilot here.

We were completely Hopeless before you came!  Welcome aboard!  :)

I will have cataract surgery on my good eye on Nov 23rd.  I expect to be offline for a couple of days.

Ack!  I didn't welcome the rest of the newer folks.  Belated welcome to you all.  :)

I'll remember you in prayer, Screw...

Thanks for the welcomes.

Hope it goes well, Screw. It should. They've gotten really, really good at the techniques.

Welcome Hope and Screw.  Glad to have you with us!

Best of luck with the surgery, Screw.  I'd echo what Hope said, and wish you a speedy recovery.

Thank you for your well wishes.  I hope we all feel welcome and have fun.

Good Luck with the Surgery. My grandparents both had cateract operation, and they were both fine afterwards, so good luck.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.  I hope the New Year is much kinder to you than the old one.

The surgery went well.  They do the other eye in February.

That's fantastic.

Great news! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

I am much more of a roleplayer than a rollplayer.  What do I need to roll?  O_o

Oh Good.  The other group (R) is still around.  How is it going?

I am about to get an enthusiastic hug...  :o

Looks like the Last Will of Hyrum Wallace is coming to an end.

At least, we've found him, alive!

Hi, new player/GM here. Looking forward to playing and also running some games!

Awesome, I look forward to seeing you in game.

* waves * :)

Welcome to the game Barak, Jaxon, and Starsparrow.

I hope you feel welcome.  Our group 'N' just finished our first module and I'm not sure how along group 'R' is but hopefully they will be done soon.  Hopefully we'll see your character descriptions soon.

Screw came from a system that used to be a asteroid mining penal colony and is a descendant of the guard cast.  He's kind of developed into a fixer but has long term aspirations of being a free trader captain.

Nice to meet everyone!

The dice have dictated that my character is going to be an ex-soldier tossed on the streets after he lost both of his legs in the line of duty without hardly a penny to his name. He will have teleportation and combo of melee and ranged. Conceptually think if you smashed Lt. Dan from Forest Gump and Deadpool together.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:54, Fri 05 Feb 2021.

So, less of an arrow to the knee and more of a plasma grenade to the knee?

Land mine took them. Was able to port away with only his legs missing.

Just wait until you get Major Organ Restoration and can grow those puppies back.

So here is my character: William Reed, a Psychic (Telekinesis and Biopsionics) who is probably from a low-tech world. He's looking to join the wider galaxy and learn all about civilization (peasant background), find more Psychic training, and fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a medical doctor.

One of the fun things about SWN is that it offers totally random character generation. So of course I jumped on that. And the game has been around long enough that smart people have made things like https://www.swncharactercreator.com/ which is what I used because it was so easy.

Random generation gave me no combat skills, except I have Exert-1, which can apparently be used as a combat skill, but only for thrown weapons. Guess I'll be reading those rules next.

So how do I get into one of the adventuring groups?
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 23:27, Sat 06 Feb 2021.

Last time, there were two adventures offered, and I joined one of them.

I'll be putting out the next round of adventures in the next couple of days. There should be a couple choices for people to pick from.

So, what happened at Tau Ceti 5

We are all just about to die... :o

It's still happening?

Still finishing up. We should be almost done.

See?  I told you so... Xo

Hope everyone is ok and those caught up in the snow storm front this week in the states are ok.

This message was deleted by the player at 19:29, Fri 26 Feb 2021.

Are ya winning son?

If you mean "taking a lot of damage and not doing any in return" then we're winning!

I wouldn't mind terribly if group 'R' played two modules at once and advanced / restarted their characters after the first module was over.  Sort of like Schrodenger's characters as it were.  At least see what adventure they would want to play.

Hello, this is your third GM, "Storyteller". I've mainly been behind the scenes until now, managing die rolls, checking rules, and building out the sector.

But the above suggestion reminded me that I've been considering running a short session, and was thinking about making it a fairly dangerous dungeon crawl.

In thinking about how to do that without killing favored PCs, I had considered making offering some concessions-- like using pregen characters, and if they die, you can apply their XP to your "main" character.

So that is another option I thought I might bring up.

I’d be ok with my character doing a short dungeon crawl while we’re waiting.

Some pre-gens? That might be a good thing, I could enjoy that.

I'm really sorry for disappearing for a hot minute. Work caught up with me and I wasn't able to get on for a while. I'll try and move things forward this weekend and hopefully we can get the new groups started.

Storyteller, that sounds like a fantastic idea.

No worries.  Real Life Takes Precedence.  :)

No problem at all, if real life intervenes, then it's always more important.