An OOC Board

Hey everybody, your frozen scientist here looking for a cure!

Hello! I am not a sword-wielding nymph, lady of living latex, or magical cowgirl with a giant hammer! But I may have been these things in the past.

Just thought I would update with my thinking at the moment.

Character creation seems well underway which is really good. I've changed everyone's names for those who have provided character names (let me know if I've missed you though) but have left the indicator as to which game you're in - that's mostly for me planning things out and checking; I'll get rid of it eventually.

If you haven't given your two cents for the setting info please go ahead and do so which will let us lock in some of that. I would ideally like to have the general tone of the city (dark brooding Gotham or bright shiny Freedom City?) before we start IC posting.

My hope then will be to get IC boards up by the end of the week to capitalize on early game momentum. As long as people have the basics of characters fixed by then I don't mind starting and character sheets can be fine tuned in play. I don't mind a bit of tinkering with them during/after the first 'episode' to fine tune them.

Red abilities are hard to pick...

I have a question about character creation.

I picked the Relic Power Source and it says

I have D10, D8, D6: I picked Signature Weapon, Intangibility, and Postcognition

Next up is Archetype, and Relic gives me d10,d10,d6 for the roll:

I'm interested in Shadow.  It says:

Question: Do I remove one of the powers from the Relic selection to assign to the Quality for Shadow?

Basically, it says assign all of the dice in the first section, then in the second section it seems to undo that?

The process assumes you randomly roll dice and then choose from the options.  So in this case, you would assign one of the 2 d10s or the d6 from the end of the Relic stage to a Quality of Stealth.

You get the D10, D8 and D6 from your 'background' to spend on 'power source' powers and then one of the D10, D10 and D6 goes to the Stealth quality.

Then you spend the remaining dice out of the D10, D10 and D6 on the options of powers/qualities provided.

As sections progress you tend to get more cool stuff; rarely less :)

Damn, I can't read.  Thanks!

Hi all this is, spinbearing mutant spinning speedster with signature weapon ballbearings

Former villain now going straight

His character sheet has been posted please take a look and give me any feed back you might have

Honest opinion. I think Agility 8 and Speed 10 is a waste. 9/10 times you would maybe use Agility you could use Speed or Wall Crawling.

I would swap Agility for Lightning Calculator to pair with your Insight 10. It really sucks to get stuck with a d4 because you stacked your powers to heavily in one area. Looking at the build out I'm 90% that you have the option to do that legally no matter which source you got the power from.

Ballbearings is consistently not capitalized and it drives my OCD nuts, but then I'm never going to look at your sheet again so it's not my problem.

I put all my powers and qualities in all caps inside of my ability text so I could easily see what I needed to roll.

In reply to Beastrend (S) (msg # 11):

Thanks for the comments I'll have a look at your suggestion..... I think a lot of my actions do refer to ballbearings I will take on board your comment and make the power reference in each bold and capitalised I agree it will make it easier to notice.... Cheers

Looks like we're pretty much there with the basics of the setting; more can be added as and when we need it (or think of something cool).

I'll give it another day or so to iron out any last bits (not least as I have plans this evening) and then look to get some IC posts up tomorrow as well as fix in some of the basic parts of the setting in line with the discussions in the setting creation thread (either majority comments or what I like best).

I've added some research on coastal opportunities to my last Setting post.  If I was going to vote, I'd go with the California/Oregon option.

I don't see a particular need to pick a seismically active location.

I've put up the first IC boards, one for each group.

Neither immediately go into action as I thought it's a chance for people to set the scene a bit more and introduce themselves in character. We'll move pretty swiftly on into the action from there.

I think I have a character sheet from pretty much everyone at this point though I know a few are still being tinkered with. I have no objection to some adjustments being made as we play as you get a feel for the characters.

Would it be helpful to have threads for the individual groups to discuss the active scenes OOC, do you think? It seems like there might be some level of tactical chatter or story discussion that doesn't apply to both groups, and I'm not sure how much people would be bothered by extensive crosstalk happening.

In reply to Caress (S) (msg # 17):

I agree that dedicated OOC chats are a solid idea.

Apologies for not posting yesterday but Fridays are hospital day for treatment... And I'm knackered by tye end of the day

Understandably so. In my experience hospital days of any kind are tiring. I'm not terribly fond of hospitals, though.

In reply to Caress (S) (msg # 20):

Neither am I unfortunately I've spent the last 30 years designing them lol

No rush! We look to be having a bit of a slow start all around.

I have no particular opinion on hospitals other than to say Medicat is good enough that she doesn't need one (although it helps).

I'm a surgeon and don't much fancy them. I'm a glutton for punishment.

I've just spent too much time in emergency rooms. My health is, ah, such that I've had ER nurses and techs as well as EMTs end up knowing me by sight before. Unfortunately, I've also had some really appallingly bad experiences in hospital and medical settings over the course of my life. It's not a context that I have good associations with. The irony that I have myself worked in the medical field a bit is not lost on me.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:48, Sat 20 May 2023.

Oh wow! Yeah that's quite a state of affairs and I can safely say you have more reason to dislike hospitals than anyone else I know.