In reply to Nicky Lee (msg # 24):

I just do it alll manually...

I have a small favor to ask everyone, please do not create any new PM threads. I am making private message threads for every character, separate from your RTJ thread. Use that one for all further communication with me. Me or assistant will also make a character background PM thread for you to discuss character creation with assistant or any rules questions.

In the end, you should have three PM threads. Your RTJ request, your PM thread to me (overseer), and then a chargen thread to Assistant.

If you message another character, continue to use that same PM thread for all further messages.

This will help me and assistant stay organized, keep important information together and help us reply and answer everyone's questions. I will eventually post this somewhere for easy reference. Thank you!

Yes, those PM threads can really blow up as GM. I appreciate what you're doing. Anything to make it more manageable! Do you want all the character background stuff moved over to the character generation thread, then?

Yes, if it's related to GURPS and your character sheet that is handled by Assistant in the Chargen PM thread. Some of you don't have a chargen thread yet, either wait for a GM to make you one or just use your original RTJ thread. If you just have questions about the setting and/or want to discuss your characters background in the game world address that to me in your character PM thread.

I hope that makes sense, I'm all over the place right now

Yes, it a bit of madhouse behind the curtain.

We are live!

I have not run a game in well over a year, so my creative writing skills need improvement. I hope to get better over time! I will take suggestions or tips, as I want this to be a good game. With that said, don't feel pressured to post yet. You have time. Half the cast is still working through character creation. Me and assistant still have an untold amount of work behind the scenes, but we have enough done for everyone to start roleplaying.

I am about to crash, and I know assistant is getting to that point as well. I may wake up and edit the fuck out of the Sanctuary thread tomorrow, we will see. I could improve it but its late.

I'm glad you all have joined me on this journey, I hope it's a memorable one!


EDIT:

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

For those of you who have never played the game, this video is the opening cinematic for Fallout 4. It's colorized, so looks a bit different than the videogame.
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:17, Mon 27 June 2022.

Heh.  There's me again.  Still using that @NAME export template.  Makes a "sheet" that looks a good bit like the published stat blocks for major characters -- but according to Assistant the formatting makes it hard to skim...  :(  That might just be me making containers for every template and lens so sheet verification can verify I'm on template...

I exported to png and posted the images.

that's so funny, I guess I'm just old school. pencil, paper, type it up in a neat word document to keep safe, open my character generator and start plugging away.

Nah, it's not you, it's because in the CharSHeet tab it formatted like this:

(Genericized to protect the innocent)

[Skill Pack 1] Lens - _ [##]

Skill Name 1 - 15 _ Att+# [#] B###

Skill Name 1 - 15 _ Att+# [#] B###

Skill Name 2 - 15 _ Att+# [#] B###

Skill Name 3 - 15 _ Att+# [#] B###

Skill Name 4 - 14 _ Att+# [#] B###

Everyman Lens - _ [##]

Skill Name 5 - 13 _ Att+# [#] B###

Skill Name 6 - 10 _ Att+# [#] B###

Skill Name 7 - 11 _ Att+# [#] B###

Skill Name 8 - 13 _ Att+# [#] B###


Haha, after genericizing it, that's kinda what the CharSheet looked like on the page to my brain, I couldn't parse the information being so uniformly spaced, the skills all kinda blend into one, the numbers don;t line up all orderly like.  Where when I'm number crunching I format like so:


[Skill Pack 1] Lens - _ [##]
Skill Name 1 - 15 _ Att+# [#] B###
Skill Name 1 - 15 _ Att+# [#] B###
Skill Name 2 - 15 _ Att+# [#] B###
Skill Name 3 - 15 _ Att+# [#] B###
Skill Name 4 - 14 _ Att+# [#] B###

Everyman Lens - _ [##]
Skill Name 5 - 13 _ Att+# [#] B###
Skill Name 6 - 10 _ Att+# [#] B###
Skill Name 7 - 11 _ Att+# [#] B###
Skill Name 8 - 13 _ Att+# [#] B###


And suddenly [Skill Pack 1] Lens becomes like "Detective Work Lens" and the Skill Name 1 becomes an actual skill name, and I can parse the numbers.  Brains are funny machines, often cross-wired.



Which worked just fine.  It did take me a few minutes to hunt down the Move buy down (and I kept losing Skinny at the top of the second page), one of the reasons I don't like the GCS, it doesn't organize things the way I do... but it works fine overall.




And to all of the players who did this (or something similar), my old brains thanks you.  Because that's literally how my brain likes to work.  Old Skool.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:56, Mon 27 June 2022.

Hey guys! Glad to be on board, hope to see you in play, soon.

Hey guys, I apologize for the confusion but I haven’t dropped the IC reason to go the vault yet. I just wanted you guys to post your daily routine and some basic role play in your homes or whatever. I wanted everyone to stay near a TV or radio so that I can drop the IC reason to go to Vault 111 later

The "or radio" is important, y'all can be outside, on your lawn, talking to the neighbor over the hedge, in the small community park, down by the shore, etc, just 'have a shortwave' on hand to listen to tunes or the news or whatever...  Heck you can be loading up the car for a drive to the beach, as long as there a is radio (or even one them new fangled "portable" Radiation King tv sets) handy to give the "Emergency Broadcast".

Thread is momentarily locked while edits are being committed....

Location: Sanctuary Hills (Pre-War) Thread is officially re-opened for business (not that I actually locked it, I'm a dummy sometimes).

Any Sanctuary Hills residents who make it to 9am in their own post, please go ahead and copy an individualized version of the following in Aqua when you receive it (the message hits your indicators at 9am, either your key fob, 'desktop', tv, or household security panel.

"Hello Mr {Character Last Name], this is a good morning from Vault-Tec, we hope you are settling into your new home well and apologize we couldn't welcome and invite you individually to the community picnic this afternoon, there will be some catering, but we also request each family bring a small potluck to represent themselves.  Later as the sun sets there will be fireworks and games, both for children in the kid's park, and slightly more adult, but family friendly, games on the green.  Unfortunately Mr. Rushidde has fallen ill, oh no, nothing serious, he simply ate something that has disagreed with him and can't make it to invite your household personally. I know he feels quite regretful.  We're hoping his stomach troubles have passed by this afternoon though.  Please do accept our apologies, I look forward to meeting with you at the community function.  Please indicate RSVP by double tapping the green indicator once this message has ended, and again thank you for choosing Vault-Tec as your future safety provider.  Good morning, and welcome home [Polite Personalized Pronoun]."

If you answer it from your keyfob or personal desktop logon, I'll be personalizing it a bit, otherwise, if you answer it from a family neutral station (tv, sec station, family logon for the family desktop) it will be Family Name and no Personal Pronoun at the end.

Any Non-Sanctuary Hills Characters, hold off a tick and PM me directly if you haven't already posted in thread.  I think we already hit everyone who isn't a resident, but it's been a hectic few days and I can't remember everyone's background off the top (and some are still limboing).

Repeated from NPC and Character Discussion for reach assurance:

Tracy Tani, Boris Ivanovich, Pepper Lewis, your first posts have been edited, please check them and then make any further corrections as needed.

Armand Villeneuve, Marco Gray, your first posts have been personalized - you don't have to do anything, but go ahead and reread it.

Michiko McManamy - Your first post was given a second personalizing touch - you don't have to do anything, but go ahead and reread it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:28, Mon 27 June 2022.

Hello everyone! I am looking forward to playing with y'all!

Welcome Minji.

I'm going to hold off on posting anything more for now, seems like our GM's have a system and order in mind.

Appreciate that Walter. You’re fine, me and assistant both knew the sanctuary thread was gonna be crowded and a bit of a mess.

By next week you guys will be able to start splitting into smaller groups

In reply to Overseer (msg # 42):

Edited first post as well. Also looking forward to playing with you all.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:17, Mon 27 June 2022.

Sigh.  When I was posting this morning, before running out the door to work, I saw a link to a YouTube video that was said to be good background for new Vaulties -- but I was running late by the time I'd finished typing my post (since heavily edited by Overseer and then me) and didn't have time to even click through the link.

And now I can't spot it.  I'm used to a slightly different format on the other RPoL game I'm in, and dozens of threads closed with nearly a thousand posts in each (that game has thirty or forty PCs at any given time, posting twice a day in many cases, and GM responses likewise -- tens of thousands of total posts over much more than the seven years I've been playing there) -- and I can't find anything on the threads here.  I'm sure it'll get better when the threads start to have enough pages they don't reformat when I click "first" or "last", but meantime, can anyone point to the thread and message number that had that link?  I wanted to watch the video (and since I go to bed early, I probably won't get to see it tonight, but I will click through and "watch later" it once I find it...

https://youtu.be/gYNajpnyZiM

There you go

Many thanks!  And I've still got time to watch it!

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Thanks Walter, yeah once some more PCs have gotten into thread we'll get your squad up the [SPOILER] to do the [SPOILER] and then [SPOILER].

It'll be [SPOILER].

I want to make sure no one feels like they are “slipping between the cracks” , so if you need my attention for anything please bump your PM thread to me.

Everyone is more or less okay to post, Minji you just got here so you’ll need to work with us GMs a little bit more but you should be okay to post by tomorrow. If you feel like something is holding you back from posting shoot me a message and we’ll talk.

[EDIT=Assistant]
It's after midnight, and I suspect the Bossman isn't a nightowl like me... small correction:

Minji, you're in thread, good to go.  I've got your sheet, hopefully I can crunch it tomorrow (so many people I keep saying that too!).

Nicky Lee, I PM'ed you.

We're only missing a few people so far, but they've been pinged.
[/EDIT]


I believe I’ve replied to everyone’s private messages. I’ll post an IC update tomorrow to move things forward, and I’ll be working with our map maker to see where we are at with the Vault 111 map. Wednesday we will begin the transfer to the Vault 111 location thread.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:34, Tue 28 June 2022.

My last post and then I turn into a pumpkin:

Humble Bundle is having an "essentials" GURPS pdfs sale.  https://bundleofholding.com/presents/GURPS4Essentials

I strongly disagree with their definition of "essential", buuuuuut, even if it's just the Basic Set, $19.95 is a damn good deal.  Not a single other book in the "Core" collection is worth it to a Player.  Now, the 'essentials' Bonus... hmmmm.  The three 'core' Tech books are damn good for a Player to have if their into gearing up (Low-Tech, High-Tech, Ultra-Tech), the others... well... the Weapon tables are useful but they aren't adding anything the Tech books don't have and Bio-Tech is of dubious utility to a non-GM.

But the Basic Sets for 20 clams?  Not bad if you don't have them and want them.