Life After the Bomb Fell has begun! You can find the IC thread
here.
What's New!?
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Fun and different style! I'm more heavily influenced by Fallout and Fallout 2. Still gritty, but slightly less realism, and a higher tolerance for stretching the boundaries of what's genre-appropriate.
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New and improved plot! What are the PHOENICS characters going to do? Why is their bunker named 'Charlie'? What's happening in the world? All new answers and explanations await!
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Sleek and streamlined combat system! The regular posting schedule will be 2 days for players to post after every GM post. But if combat happens, this will be shortened to 1 day per round, with no initiative order. Any player that doesn't post will have their character act at the GM's discretion, unless they've designated another player to do so instead. More on this later.
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Better XPs! The XPs. They're better.
What's the Same!?
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Same characters, same history! I'd like to do as little let's-just-pretend-this-revision-has-always-been-this-way as possible. The one current exception: forget what you've been told about current geography/radiation/power groups. Some of it's still true, some not, we'll cover it as it comes up.
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Just as deadly! Though the style's different, the wasteland is still a dangerous place. Any old fool can go and get killed, surviving is the real challenge. While we won't quite be making every paper clip count, managing your resources will still be important.
What's Next!?
The
new IC thread is up and the first GM post is up. You have until Tuesday to post, but the sooner you post the better. I need everyone who's made a new character or modified their character to get stats to me as soon as possible before Tuesday. Any questions, comments, or discussion are welcome in the meantime. I'll be in #bombfell (on irc.slashnet.org) whenever I can.
Below, I've listed some rules for gameplay and character creation.
Gameplay
-Life After is a play-by-post game run here on the Of Dice and Men boards. The basic way this works is that I post a GM Post(signified by a unique title, and, most often, length). Players will then have 2 days to make character posts, responding to the GM post, other player posts, or their own thoughts, with mini-GM posts interspersed as I have NPCs answering questions or reacting to PC actions.
-If a player misses the posting window, they'll be NPCed if necessary.
-Experience will be awarded for many things in addition to combat. Problem-solving, accurate roleplaying, frequent meaningful posting, and most importantly, interaction, with either NPCs or, even better, other players. Lesser amounts of experience(and other rewards) will also be awarded for out of character actions such as taking and sharing notes with the group, performing some other party function(mapping, character illustrations, etc), editing the new wiki I'll be setting up, or pointing me toward a piece of post-apocalyptic media/info I haven't already seen.
-Everyone involved in Life After is expected to abide by the basics of any roleplaying social contract. I'm here to provide you with a world to game in, clear options you can choose to take advantage of, or not, and assist in telling a story. Your part is to play well with your fellow players, be an active participant, and not take IC events personally. Discussion is always welcome, but if I issue a ruling, please accept it as final. Above all else, try and think of this as if we were all playing while physically together, and avoid saying anything online that you wouldn't say offline.
Character CreationStarting level: 6th.
Ability scores: Roll 5d6 for each score, dropping the lowest 2. Rearrange as you like. Remember to add your ability score point gain from 4th level.
Backgrounds: Any new PCs will need to be survivor characters, meaning they somehow survived the nuclear apocalypse or have been born since then.
Allowed books & sections: d20 Modern, d20 Apocalypse, Nuclear Nomad AvC from d20 Future, all non-mystical material from d20 Past.
Equipment: 75 TU worth.
Mutations: Up to 4 MP worth, with an additional 1 MP for 10 TU less of equipment, up to a total of 2 additional MP.
Other: All characters, in whole or in part, are subject to GM approval for the sake of game balance, party balance, or genre/style/theme preservation.
If you have any comments or questions, post away!
Current Roster:
Players & Player Characters
Talonrazor - Playing new character(Russian. That's all we know.)
Scooter - TBD
INNS - New character, female driver
Shamus - Hadrian, Ex-CIA Agent
PsychoLarry1 - New character, The Thing
GrimmyTOA - Slim, "bestial" melee fighter
Thanatos - Crash, Special Ops Wheelman
jdarksun - Jason Dakin, Delta Force Operator
Mr. Rose - Jessica, Sharpshooter
Grid System - Phil, Tracker
Infidel - Orokos, Gearhead Road Warrior
HylianBunny - New player, new character(surgeon?)
NPCs - PHOENICS Members
Dr. George Miller, biologist.
Dr. Rachel Vuic, professor of philosophy.
Harold Greep, historical enthusiast.
Matthias Decks, Naval Corpsman(medic)
Matthew McCane, Secret Service agent
Victor Brogue, Public Relations
Aryael Cass, ???
Jackson Northfield, Engineer
NPCs - Survivors
Charlie - Scavenger, Trader
Michael - Religious Gunslinger
Jafar - Mutant Warrior
Amy - Multifaceted Mutant
Timothy - Traveling Medic
Vesta - Mutant Gladiator
Frederick Shell the Storyteller - Master Talesman
Posts
My dude is also totally inspired by STALKER so yea.
Fallout
I also loved the idea of the original campaign, so I definitely want to continue.
Possibly including ooze. We shall see.
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Crash is back. I could never leave him.
Anyway, I'm in, still Jessica, though I might want to revise a thing or two.
Like not taking a gun with such expensive fucking bullets for a start...
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I want to stick with being a Sleeper, so we have a nice balance of in-game conflict.
Also: are we still using #bombfell as our IRC meeting space?
Bombfell is still the ODAM general IRC channel. :P
My guy is going to basically be a Stalker mixed with a bit of lawman. Survivalist type.
That is an excellent point. When will your finals be finished? Or finished enough for you to not be crazy busy with nothing but them? Likewise for all other students who are playing.
I'll PM people tomorrow(posting this just before sleep), we most likely won't start until after the weekend at the earliest.
Hylianbunny, it'd be great to have you join up. Essentially, you can choose to be a PHOENICS member of bunker Charlie 42, which had a malfunction causing it's members to come out of stasis 63 years too early, only 27 years after the bomb fell. Or you can be a wasteland survivor, someone who survived the bombing through means other than a PHOENICS vault, or someone born since then. Come up with a character concept, or a few of them, and either try to catch me on #bombfell or PM them to me.
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Is the wiki still active and will we be using it?
2) are the characters we aren't using any more going to be NPC'd or do they get wiped as part of the revision?
The wiki is not still active, we will not be using the old one if we do use a wiki, and I'm debating how useful a wiki would be for this campaign since unlike NovoAether where all the characters know about the universe they're in, in Life After there's a lot to be discovered that I don't necessarily want to give people previews of. If you guys would be interested in using a wiki as a group note-taking/journal tool, I'd be up for that.
Max at first, 75% every level there after, alternate between rounding up and rounding down if you need to.
They'll be NPCed unless there's a good reason to simply wipe them from our memories. A few will be permanent NPCs, a few will die heroically, a few will die much less heroically, some will be dumped off at the first or second opportunity to stop travelling, and a couple will simply wander off into the wastes.
If you want to switch around feats/skills or make other modifications to your character build(while retaining the same concept and personality), now is the time. If you want to change some aspects of your character's personality, no one has gotten to know each other enough for the difference to be really noticeable anyways. I strongly encourage you to make your characters party-friendly(a loner who hates everyone/prefers to work on his own/always disregards the effects of his actions on others makes for a good book character, not a good member of gaming group), and identify plausible motivations for them to want to assist the PHOENICS group. Patriotism(rebuilding America, yay!), need for companionship(a group, yay!), need for protection(a group with guns that doesn't want to use them on me, yay!), greed(a group that's likely to find stuff that's worth a lot, yay!), curiosity(bunkers? cryogenics? questing? Yay!), heroism(my chance to accomplish an epic endeavor, yay!), an urge to explore(travelling across the nation, yay!), or personal motivations(My name is Inigo Montoya. Fallout killed my father...) are all excellent motivations. Be able to tell me why your character is part of this group.
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So tomorrow night I'll post the opening IC post and update this OOC thread. And everyone will have until the next major GM post(Tuesday) to get stats and background info to me, though the sooner the better since I have to approve it before you can use it. Deal?
I'll be in #bombfell tomorrow(Sunday) after 1:00 PM EST.
This is going to be awesome guys.
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Are we going to use any other books (I for one would dearly love to be able to unearth the ruins of an advanced research lab in a major city and find some powered armour or something...)?
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hm. Let me hop in the room sometime soon and I'll see if I can catch some people there.
Any ideas on that equipment? He's going to be primarily melee based, and possibly pretty gimped.
He's got archaic proficiency & whatnot.
I really wanted to use the dirty gun with radioactive rock ammo, but it makes anyone nearby get radiation sickness unless you get a lead lined box. 3TU per dirty rock shot + 10 TU for the box + the C02 cartridges means a lot of points for a gun. I guess you can forgo the lead box if you're going to be exuding radiation anyway. edit: also, normal rock ammo is free.
Talking to Elf on #bombfell, we decided that 1 gallon of water = 1 TU if anyone is wondering.
Armor's definitely a good idea, I think.
Thanks jdark.
EDIT: And PL1.
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I think I've got some extra TUs to use up. Any ideas? Alternately, I could take an extra MP (maybe ditch Leaper for Gills or something). Thoughts?
Here's Slim so far, by the way.
And here are his stat rolls: A, B, C, D, E, and F.
I'm gonna pretty much stick with Jessica as is, though I will have to put more of her background up somewhere. For those interested, her motivations at this point would be the urge to explore, a little curiosity and more than a little anti-patriotism, though she keeps that one hidden around the phoenics people....
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You also have your food listed as ?TUs, remember every day of food is 1 TU.
Is there an online resource which has the TU costs for various bits of equipment? My online d20 modern MSRD doesn't seem to deal with TUs anywhere.
TUs are an Apocalypse d20 thingy. There's a list somewhere in the book with TU costs for most everything.
(Oddly, my MSRD deals pretty comprehensively with mutations. *shakes head and walks off muttering*)