The place to chat about things that are Out of Character.

Welcome everyone to the game. We have three confirmed Players and a potential fourth or Lurker. I would like 4-6 before starting House Creation.

Access to the rulebook is not necessary as I can either help walk you through the process or we can use the secondary character creation option defined, which is to start with an archetype and then “build as you go.”

Greetings to the other two (potentially three) other players!


I'm definitely eyeing the rulebook as a PDF purchase right now myself; don't have it as yet. I have the hardcopy of the other Dune rulebook but wasn't even aware of a new system being printed anytime recently. Shows how close I monitor the new book market! Love the Dune Universe though since back in the Herbert days, so this should definitely be a fun genre.

Heya folks :-)

Greetings and salutations!

Hello everyone!

Hello everyone, new fan to the Dune series, currently going through the original series, currently on God-Emperor of Dune so I'm excited to try this game out with you.

Welcome! The Dune Universe I think is a great sci-fi setting. Even though its 'in the future', it really allows for a great mix of plot possibilities. Just like more classical times of noble houses vying for power in a single country, its just shifted so that each house has their own planet instead. I'm curious to see what sort of plots develop!

We had a flurry of interest and ended up with 9 players before I closed the game for new applications. I think that's about the limit of what we would want in one House, but if there is interest in overlapping roles, or a close tie between two leading concepts, it might be worth considering two Player Houses. I would welcome the thoughts of the Cast on this.

Hello, everyone. Funny that I ended up as Player 6, I was just rewatching The Prisoner earlier.

Hello everyone. Looking forward to poking at the rules with everyone.

With 9 players, its close to having right at the mid-point from the originally mentioned goal (4-6) for starting. So if there was enough mixed interest (or competing role requests), we could do two houses in a sort of split game. The only concern I'd have with that is loss rates over time. Invariably as time goes on I can see one or two players either being slow to reply or gradually dropping out for a variety of reasons (loss of interest, increased RL obligations, etc). Two houses of 4-5 each could quickly descend into two houses of 1-2 each. Merging the two at that point could be hard to do.

Even given that, however, I'm not entirely against the idea if it seems a good way to go. Given how quickly everyone expressed an interest in the game (less than 24 hours), seems the eagerness for this sort of game is definitely there!

The above points are sound and well stated. Moreover, I think a dual house game will be harder to run over time from a GM's perspective. Starting with one very large house with some overlapping areas of competence might lead us to having a good ability to weather attrition without overly impacting the game's ability for continuity.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:28, Sun 18 July 2021.

Well.... I guess that this means I was the last to join!
Hello, everybody!

Thanks for the feedback on the idea. I do agree with the points raised and it will be better to run one large Player House in the event of attrition.

We could also go the other direction. Each of us is a mid- to high-ranking member of our own house and we're fighting for control of a planet. The natural player attrition would be accounted for by Houses simply being eliminated. As per the Interest Check thread. But whatever the GM decides.

I'm going to vote for large House as well.

If only to spare our poor GM.

Nine players is a hand full.

I'm leaning the same way. While I'd be fine with two if it went that way, I still think over all the single House approach is going to work the best in the long run.


Now the big question becomes a matter of the House creation. Looking forward to seeing what ideas everyone came up with and what choices are on the voting block!

I concur, one large House seems the better choice. There will always be some players who drop out.

Not that we need another vote, but I'd vote 1 house for the same reasons :-)

Yea same here, I want to play a character, not an entire house. Although I still want to give this a shot, I usually dont play in this large of a group, but I'll still stay cause I want to try this system. It seems fun!

I agree. Chances are that attrition will reduce the number of players to the level initially planned. Moreover, let's keep it simple: I understood that this is an introductory game.

Just a quick update: after consolidating similar concepts, we have had 3 players propose 7 concepts for your consideration. I'm still looking for more, so please keep them coming!

I thought I would say hello and check in. I just submitted a house concept. I would love to see an running list of what has been submitted so far.

We have 6/9 votes cast and two of the concepts are neck-and-neck!

Close to the final tally... definitely curious to see which one will come out on top. And which two it was!

Also hope I'm not the only one just a little excited to finally see a release date for the new movie finally. Final trailer looks.. interesting too.  Good to get in the mood for the game at the very least!

In reply to Player 1 (msg # 27):

I liked the last movie released, but I'm really keen on the next (although I understood it will be only part one, isn't it?)

Yeah, Part one of two as far as I understood as well. Though details of it have been rather sparse on the whole.

Welcome to the Cast, Jonathan Maccabee, our Heir!

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing everyone else's character as they finish up the creation process. I also updated my description for some basic information about Jonathan that everyone would likely know regarding him.

Quick update on the cast, as always, there's good news and bad news...

Bad news: we had two players drop out who had taken on the roles of Spymaster and Warmaster.

Good news: we have a new Player who has taken on the role of the Spymaster!

There is always attrition but usually it waits for chargen to finish.

Welcome to the Cast Lady Salome Maccabee (our Dear Leader), Hyrcanus (our Marshal), and Judas Lucaenus (our Treasurer)!

Awesome!

Hello!

Looking like a neat system. A little surprised that we have already had some attrition, but I am sure we will be just fine.

Hoping to get a description and some general knowledge up shortly.

We have lost our Swordmaster as well, so the starting cast will be a healthy seven.

Greetings, all! Nice to see a good crop of characters developing here.

Just looking at the cast list (and activity/posts), looks like we're almost wrapped up on the creation front. Soon the fun begins!

I'm essentially done also.  Will get to putting down a description and short bio tomorrow.

I'm getting there too ;)

Sorry for my unplanned absence, was hospitalized for a bit. Back now, will catch up soon.

In reply to Salome Maccabee (msg # 42):

All the best!

Still here and ready to go.

Ditto!

Me too!

Seems we have lost our Game Master. They've been gone longer than I was.

Yep.

Yet another game, dead on arrival. Shame.

It is, especially given all the neat ideas for the House.

Sigh.

They said there had been a COVID-related death of an uncle, in their other game, and that their immediate family had been exposed. Reason enough for an absence these days, as the latest variants are extremely unpleasant.

Still holding out hope here. Fingers crossed at least.

Should our estimable Game Master not return, I would like to start a game using this House. I may not use the Game Master's existing setup, though I do have ideas to build on that. There would be three factions within the House, mirroring the three main sects of Judaism (Sadducee, Pharisee, and Essene) during Hasmonean rule over Judea (the historical inspiration for many established facts). The Sadducees embraced Greek cultural influences, the Pharisees rejected them, and the Essenes preferred not to sully themselves with such worldly matters. This ties in well with the Game Master's idea of the House vying for the Caladan succession, as House Atreides claims a connection to the legendary Greek king Agamemnon. The Sadducees were thus pro-Atreides and the Pharisees were anti-Atreides. Her two husbands were Sadducees and Atreides supporters, while Lady Salome is a Pharisee and has divorced the House from their former masters. Or something like that. Thoughts? Opinions?

In reply to Salome Maccabee (msg # 53):

If things will progress as you mention I'd be interested to continue playing there.

I'd certainly give it a try!

I'm sorry, I already joined another game when this one got stagnant.  I don't think I will have the time to consistently post on both.  Best of luck, hope you can get this campaign up and running.

I'd be keen for that, should we be unable to continue here. Eager to give this system a try.

I have decided to create a game inspired by efforts first made here. Visit this link to a message in another game to view my campaign proposal.

Cool! I was just thinking about this system last week and thinking it would be fun to mess around with at long last.

I've been over and left a reply to your IC.

Game is now live. Check out this link to another game for details.