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[Homebrew] Action! (Gauging Interest)
StygianSmileyFace
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Hey All,
I am gauging interest for a roleplay heavy PBP game based on the most lovely of summer reading activities, action fiction! I say homebrew because it is based on a method that a group of friends and I made up one summer to play a PBeM game based on summer action flicks. So, basically, if you are interested let me know and if enough people like the idea of it, I'll post the game mechanics and all.
Basic Overview
Characters can be anything, but most likely to be accepted if they would be found in your common Matthew Reilly, Preston/Child, etc novel (Spies, soldiers, archeologists, scholars, detectives etc).
Players will be expected to post daily to a few times a week, this isn't going to be a game you have to give your life up for. If I post on the weekends it will be because I am stuck at work, otherwise my home PC doesn't turn on.
All you need to play will be an account here, an imagination, an invisible castle account and a stomach for over the top action adventure.
Thanks!
JK
I am gauging interest for a roleplay heavy PBP game based on the most lovely of summer reading activities, action fiction! I say homebrew because it is based on a method that a group of friends and I made up one summer to play a PBeM game based on summer action flicks. So, basically, if you are interested let me know and if enough people like the idea of it, I'll post the game mechanics and all.
Basic Overview
Characters can be anything, but most likely to be accepted if they would be found in your common Matthew Reilly, Preston/Child, etc novel (Spies, soldiers, archeologists, scholars, detectives etc).
Players will be expected to post daily to a few times a week, this isn't going to be a game you have to give your life up for. If I post on the weekends it will be because I am stuck at work, otherwise my home PC doesn't turn on.
All you need to play will be an account here, an imagination, an invisible castle account and a stomach for over the top action adventure.
Thanks!
JK
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People don't really want to get in for something they're totally blind about I think
Thanks!
I really like the emphasis on narrative and description though. I hope you get to run a game, would be awesome to follow.
Azulan Saul Tigh
While the author names are different, the writing is just another variation on the Crichton/Clancy mold. (Less Red Terror, more faceless corporation. Less detailed descriptions of highly technical mechanisms, more "Magic").
If I can get anyone to sign up I would look at this as more of a beta run through than anything else. We can tweak and play with the rules as it happens.
Thanks again!
JK
EYES OF THE WORLD
Book Jacket Summary:
On the same day the Golenishchev papyrus is forcibly removed from the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts, leaving behind bodies of guards burnt to a crisp by flames.
A horrendous heat wave rages across the western coast of the United States, leading to brutal riots that cause hundreds of deaths. Freshman Senator Alex Wade attempts to disperse the crowds, but fails to contain their rage. When the police and national guard finally reach him, his battered and lifeless body is barely recognizable.
Yet three days later, he wanders from out the morgue asking for a ride to his campaign offices.
What do these events have in common? To the casual observer nothing, but to GEAR - the United State's Global thrEat Analysis Response team - nothing is random...
Player Background:
The link a few entries above connects you to the A!A rules I would be using for this game, and also explains character creation. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for the patience all.
Give me overnight to come up with a character in hopes this takes off. I'm thinking a field researcher of some sort, cataloging chemicals, plants, etc. Not sure how he'd get involved with GEAR yet; what kind of organization is it (how powerful, well known)?
I thought I would collect all the information in one place.
Game Title: "Eyes of the World"
System: Action! Anonymous (Homebrew system. Info here
Game Information:
On the same day the Golenishchev papyrus is forcibly removed from the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts, leaving behind bodies of guards burnt to a crisp by flames.
A horrendous heat wave rages across the western coast of the United States, leading to brutal riots that cause hundreds of deaths. Freshman Senator Alex Wade attempts to disperse the crowds, but fails to contain their rage. When the police and national guard finally reach him, his battered and lifeless body is barely recognizable.
Yet three days later, he wanders from out the morgue asking for a ride to his campaign offices.
What do these events have in common? To the casual observer nothing, but to GEAR - the United State's Global thrEat Analysis Response team - nothing is random...
The GEAR Group was founded by President Grover Cleveland as part of an inner circle of advisers that the President collected to keep him informed of events outside the usual politics that took up his day to day life. Headed by the man that Cleveland had hired to fight for him in the Civil War, George Benninsky, the group (Then known simply as Cleveland's Circle, or the "Circle) would meet nightly to discuss events around the world.
Knowing that there would need to be a constant basis within the Government to protect it against outside threats that it's military was not prepared for, the Circle would exist even after Cleveland left office. Notable actions include the creation and constant upgrading of the B.O.C computer system, ending the Jack the Ripper murders and several other extremely classified activities.
Currently the Circle, or GEAR as it came to be known in whispers and rumors, is funded through a thousand different Government agencies without their knowledge and makes its home underneath the Washington Monument. It acts without the general Government's notice, answering only to the President. Drawing its staff from only the finest minds of the military and academic world, as well as those that have found their paths crossed with them, GEAR is often the first and last line of defense against threats that no one else saw coming.
Here's a character concept:
Age: 28
Sex: Male
Profession: Field Scientist
Specialty: Biology
Skills/Traits: First Aid, Forensics (Still considering what the third skill would be)
Background: Joshua was a promising biologist who landed a position with a major pharmaceutical corporation's research division. It all came to a halt four months into an Amazon expedition, taking samples and classifying new frogs and the fungi they ate. A sudden and deadly infection forced Joshua's return to America, into the arms of GEAR
While still recovering in the hospital, GEAR approached the scientist with a request. Homeland Security had intercepted a batch of highly toxic spores. It might be the only shipment, it might not. Just in case, the recruiter wanted to know, could Joshua create a cure?
He was in, his contract with the corporation renegotiated to an "advisory" position, Joshua's new loyalties to GEAR. Three years later and he's still working for the organization as a first responder to the scene. He's picked up a few new skills in medicine and examining evidence; not enough to be a pro, but he can hold down the fort until they arrive.
I wanted to see your game get some love though because I always like homebrew stuff
The difficulty comes in that he is not a crackpot... his beliefs are based in reality, however rare. That might not be cool for your world.
Even if that is OK, I'd need to read more to be sure I'm in, but I figured I would ask up front.
I would work up a better character profile, not to worry.
One more and we'd have enough. Bug you friends!
Any more background info about GEAR/the current world we should know? I'm wondering what the B.O.C computer is.
B.O.C stands for
Big
Ol
Computer
Damned hippies and their computer making.