Welcome to No Rest For the Wicked: Vaultpocalypse Soon! Here's where we can set down the guns and buzzaxes and chat without anything exploding.

Hi everyone.

While I'm still pretty new to PbtA, I've really appreciated its narrative and character focus in other games and I'm definitely looking forward to this. I've put in for Soldier, Assassin, Siren in that order of preference.

Hi, welcome! PbtA is one of my favourites, especially for PbP. The narrative focus lends itself really well to PbP formats :)

I believe I'll be playing The Hunter.

Greetings all, I'm Sparkplug, and I'll be your Mechromancer.

I haven't decided on the look and feel of my mech yet however, as that can be adapted on the team.
A walking pile of guns?
A helpful assistant?
A bodyguard?

Greetings all.  I shall be Regicide.  Your humble accountant turned Berserker.

Been a fan of Borderlands since it first came out.  Played 1, 2, the pre-sequal, and trying to finish up the DLC to get to 3.  Also read most of the comics that came out for Borderlands a few years ago.  So looking forwards to having fun and doing a number of unwholesome messed up things on the way to the vault.

Please note that I have not played any of the computer games.
But have been roleplaying for long enough, and can research anything that I need to be learned up on.


Oh, and also,   *hand goes up* local psycho-cowbow-witch

Hey there. Welcome aboard.

I'm in the strange boat of having played all the games but only actually finished #1 and #3, which means all the love for Handsome Jack has always gone completely over my head. I wouldn't call it my favourite series but it's always been absolutely bursting with character, and that makes it very well suited for something like this.

Welcome!! I really love the contrast of Regi's very fancy name & him being a berserker.

I've played 1 & 2 base games, haven't finished 3 yet. Liked Jack. The villain calling you up all the time to talk shit was good. I think I'm the only person in my friend group who didn't mind Claptrap.

I also played that one by Telltale, but that wasn't really a shooter. As in, it wasn't a shooter at all

Hellooooooooo travelers! Welcome to the Borderlands! It's great to see such a fine array of Vault Hunters here to kick ass and grab loot. We technically have room for two more Vault Hunters, and Assassin and a Gunzerker, but five is plenty to start with. If anyone drops in later, we can slot them right in.

Go ahead and put your Playbooks into your Character Description, or at least as much of it as you have so far if you aren't done yet. That'll let us all see what we're working with, and we can get crackin' on the cooperative character creation bit!

I plan on creating some more threads, including secret ones for me that you'll help shape and a Quest Log. I'll also add a character journal for everyone to record stray thoughts, claimed loot, and all that good stuff. If anyone has thoughts on any other threads we could do with, let me know and we can get organized!

I think I'm pretty much done (?)

Can I just check up on how cash/barter works? Not really sure how I'm supposed to fill in "Items worth 1-barter or 100 Cash" or if that that's just an abstract thing.

I have some issues with the barter and cash system, since they weren't intended to work together. In essence, it's best used as an abstract. Whatever you feel is worth about $100 of your personal trinkets fits there.

I am just keeping my 'Items worth 1-barter or 100 Cash' as abstract;  it can just be a narrative quantity of 'stuff'; is that fine?

Pretty much done also.  And I was going to keep it as an abstract also for the barter/cash item.

It's perfectly fine to keep your misc items unnamed until you feel like identifying them. You never know what personal stuff you might want to announce you have, right?

There is a bit of the characters that nobody can do on their own, which we now have the opportunity to do together: History!

Each of you has a History stat (Hx) with each of the other Vault Hunters. At the bottom of every Playbook, you'll be told what Hx to tell everyone they have with you. Then you'll get a few options on how to adjust those numbers through specific bonds, good or bad. That'll affect things like your relationships and also XP gain.

Your History stat represents how important someone is to you (for good or bad). The higher it is, the closer you are. Events can change it. If your Hx with another character reaches Hx+4 or Hx-4, you mark XP and set Hx with them to Hx=0. I'll help with your starting History values. Then you'll be able to kibitz about your adjustments.

Regicide: On your turn, tell everyone History+1. You ain’t got nothin’ to hide.

Lark: On your turn: You don’t like getting close to people. Tell everyone History-1.

Sparkplug: On your turn, tell everyone History+1. People call you ‘mouthy’ but you think that’s pretty inaccurate.

Delilah: On your turn, decide if you keep your identity as a Siren a secret. If you do, tell everyone History-1, as there is much to hide. If you do not, tell everyone History-1 anyway; what people believe you can do often obscures real relationships.

Bellona: On your turn, tell everyone Hx+1. You’re a frank, straightforward kind of person.

You each have  -1 History  with Delilah;  she'd keeping her identity a secret from all you bastards, and you don't know squat about this cowboy-bitch-witch.    ;-P


Currently, however, I suggest (but am open to discussion)

"You’ve been keeping tabs on Sparky. Your reasons are your own. Whatever they tell you, increase it by +1".
"You are suspicious of Regicide. Maybe they want to sell you out to the corporations because of what you are.
Whatever they tell you, write down History-2 instead".

So that means, for Delilah:
Regicide -2
Lark -1
Sparkplug +2
Bellona +1

 ... pfft, seems (randomly) that Delilah likes the girls, but not the boys.    There may be a character note in there for me!

Pretty sure Sparkplug is one of the boys. :P

Oh,  :-p


I wonder why I had that wrong impression?

Okay, so:

Obviously I'm totally fine with changing these up if anyone has objections:

Somebody left you hanging in a dire situation. Whatever they tell you, reduce it by -1.

"Hey Sparkplug, I’m still not over that time you nearly got me killed on Themis. Don’t care how much of a genius you think you are, if you ever try to con me into another mech graveyard so I can pick up your tab I’m just going to save us both the trouble and put a bullet in you. Sound fair?"

Somebody has proven to be reliable, time and time again. Whatever they tell you, increase it by 1.

"You’re a damn fine shot, Lark, and not many people know the wastes the way you do. If I need someone to watch my back it’s gonna be you – and that freaky dog of yours ain’t so bad either."

So that means prior to any outside modifiers my Histories are standing at:

• Delilah: -1
• Lark: +3
• Regicide: +1
• Sparkplug: 0

[Edited to include +3 with Lark decided in later discussion]
This message was last edited by the player at 06:20, Tue 08 June 2021.

Looks good to me Bellona

Someone has wandered the Borderlands with you for a long time. Whatever they tell you, write History +3 instead.

I'd actually like to tag Bellona in this one, if that's cool. Both she & Lark have similar backgrounds (trying to stay 1 step ahead of a group.) Could be a fun reason to cooperate. And they both like drinking. Lol. Maybe they met in a bar fight or something. We can hash out specifics here or PMs if that's cool.

You’ve seen someone do some shit you weren’t cool with. Whatever they tell you, write History-1 instead.

Tagging Regicide for this one haha. Lark's a sniper who likes doing things clean. One shot, one kill and all that fun stuff. Maybe there's one particular instance where the berserker fighting style was really at odds with how Lark wanted something to go. Let me know what you think.

If those 2 things are cool, mine's  sitting at:

Regicide: -1
Sparkplug: +1
Delilah: -1
Bellona: +3
This message was last edited by the player at 04:36, Tue 08 June 2021.