Hello folks, I believe everybody who was active in the previous iteration of this game has been added, along with some folks who were waiting in the wings! If you are not interested in playing or lurking, shoot me a PM and I'll remove ye :)

Happy New Year!!

I am taking a page from my very first game on Rpol that managed to reach 40k posts for how we are handling this game. Rather than tossinig you all in to a mysterious and undefined dreamworld and hoping you find your feet before the handful of hyperactive players leave you in the Dust, the game will be more of a planned freeform roleplaying experience in that character creation will be handled as an ensemble effort where you will have the opportunity to take world lore and other player's creativity into account and modify your own character accordingly before play begins.

We will be using Hunter: The Reckoning 5th Edition as the underlying system, and I will put together an overview of how that system works and how it is being houseruled to fit the game tomorrow once I have a physical copy of the system in my hands tomorrow. I have been running it in person and it has been very fun and easy to pick up for new players, but I've been using a buddy's copy.

The general structure of meta is that there will be three types of threads: PVP, PVE, and Freeform.

PVP will be strictly fair, with actions arbitrated by dice and multiple players taking the equal roles as 'protagonists'. These threads will be updated Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday by myself or by a CoGm. These threads will tell the 'main story'.

PVE will be Guided Freeform, i.e. moderated by dice when facing elite NPC opponents or doing things your character has a less than 50% proability of succeeding at, otherwise you will succeed automatically unless you think failing would be more interesting. Everyone who wants a PVE thread will get one, and they will be updated daily or as fast as you are able to keep up with. Other players can join another player's PVE thread, by they will take on a Detuerotagonist role, where their character will be NPC'd by the GM to keep up with the Protagonist's update pace if need be. A joint PVE Co-Op thread can also be requested, in which case the thread will be updated as fast as all Protagonists can keep up with (as fast as daily)

Freeform is not moderated by a GM, and goes at whatever pace all contributing players agree on and maintain. You can use dice if you want to, but don't need to. Freeform play is "zero sum", in that your character gains and losses within the Freeform timeline will not affect your permanent character sheet.

This is to hopefully allow players to play at their preferred pace while maintaining momentum in the game overall. While you can only have one 'main character', you can play additional side characters in other player's PvE threads (with their permission) or in Freeform threads if you like. When playing as a sidecharacter, you will post as your Player # alias rather than as your Protagonist alias to avoid confusion.

Character Creation will start tomorrow and we will begin play on February 1st, 2023.

This is a chat thread, so please say hello once you have read this :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:47, Sun 01 Jan 2023.

Hallo o7

Howdy. Possibly interested. I'll set aside some brain power to ponder it going forward :)

Hello, numero 5 here! The concept def sounds cool.

Player 4 reporting in and looking forward to playing again.

What I've read of the setting also seems fun. Reminds me of Cyberpunk 2077 meets Kill 6 Billion Demons.

Nice to see everyone again !

I'm equally confused and interested (both pretty high). Hoping to tip the balance towards the interested side as things get clarified with character creation.

Hiya! Can'T wait to start as well. Player 1 here!

Hello y'all! Happy to get some same-day responses, haha. Its been a bit.



Pretty on the nose there. Now I need to binge read all of Six Billion Demons tonight, ugh.

The lore of the game is pretty 'open', in that I really hope everyone will add their own piece to it through describing the territory / district where their character makes their home. Most of my games have been tight fucking fisted with the lore which has made it hard for people to feel like they can know and occupy the space and work on building their own castle in the sandbox.

Initially there is going to be no main story at all, it's going to be 100% focused on building up who your characters are and what they are doing and fleshing out the world that way. I want the world in the background and the PCs in the foreground, if that makes sense.

Hey all. Excited to see the game restarting. I'm out of town for nye and will have to read this in detail when I get back. Probably Tuesday.

Is the introduction personalized for each of us? Or is everyone seeing the same one?

Hey all, and happy new year! I need to take a bit to "digest" the new rules and such but in the meantime I hope the GM and other players are doing well this holiday season!

So as I recall, we have a fair number of genderqueer folk here, and I just read the Ancillary Justice series by Ann Leckie, so I think that part of the dissonant dichotomy my character will be experiencing is that his godling form will have a very difficult time determining genders for other people. The cultural cues are just so varied, and cues from one cultural are rarely universal.

Speaking of Character Creation, are there any instructions for us to start? The original post said "tomorrow" so I'm not sure if that means we were working on them together or with GM one-on-one at some point, or does that just mean we can start brainstorming on our own while referencing WoD Hunter 5E then submit the final product?
This message was last edited by the player at 00:05, Tue 03 Jan 2023.

Howdy! Happy to be here! Sorry to show up so late, things've been busy

I just got the book delivered and am currently working on transcribing character creation instructions :)

As an aside, do y'all want a Discord to chat in?

I'd join the Discord, but you'd need to make sure everything important is announced here aswell if we do that.

would love a discord TBH, as much as I love RPol, Discord is just easier for me to chat in.

Not interested in discording for RPOL, but VERY much looking forward to your character creation rules.

I am also hoping you can clarify why in the rules it says we could have potentially fed on gods, but due to having mortal bodies we're more the hunted than the hunter. Can we not use our virtue to overwhelm gods and nom on them? ^_^

I remember when you tried the eleven doors game and the virtuous thing some years ago in an old game, the those Virtuous were extremely powerful. Some in my opinion as strong as gods or even a bit more (mind you in that old game the virtuous were chosen to be replacement "chosen favorites" by like a primordial or the tree or something as it had lost faith in gods so it is kind of a different theme). I'm curious how you're translating that concept into this iteration of your game. It seems they have a great power boost when they unveil their virtue but at the risk of exposing themselves to enemies. In a way, it feels kind of like being a starting-tier Solar Exalted.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:17, Tue 03 Jan 2023.