:bz I got a wild hair up my ass and I am looking at running a tabletop game again. I probably will not start it for at least another month, I will run it on Saturday evenings most likely (and not every week by any stretch), and plan on the campaign being a series of one shot episodes that are easy for characters to drop into and out of.
The rule system I want to use is Alternity, and the setting is going to be a modern day game, where for whatever reason, all of you who play will be members of a clandestine organization that sends field agents throughout the world to investigate strange and inexplicable paranormal situations, which have seen a steady (and increasing) rise over the past couple decades. The world is likely a handful of months away from an "Event Horizon" of some sort, and the powers that be are both suppressing this knowledge as much as they can while trying to harness the new power these events can offer for their own means.
The best two flavors to think of for world setting are these:
The team investigative and paranormal qualities of this:
With a dash of the CONSPIRACY! from this:
If interested, start thinking about some kind of modern-day character you would like to be. Everyone will start a few levels in, and with enough skill points to be a competent and useful member of the party, so don't think like you are making an entry level character. You could have, purely for fun examples:
1) Soldier who has done multiple tours of duty in the middle east and received commendations for your valiant war efforts. People know your name: you are that guy soldiers will insert a "fucking" between your first and last name when talking about you.
2) Professional Secret Agent from another clandestine agency who had to leave because he couldn't take his mother's bullshit anymore.
3) Shamed politician with a silver tongue who lost his job in a scandal. You can inspire people and negotiate anything... but your penis on the internet makes it hard to get work.
4) World Renowned Forensic investigator who has a hard time relating to living people. Might even be mildly crazy.
5) the greatest doctor who ever lived with terrible bedside manner and a horrible drug addiction.
The options are limitless; all that matters is that you are very good at what you do - we will make the rules reflect it. The personality and the "character" will be more important than the stats anyways, so having a good idea for something fun to play will go a long way.
Don't worry about building a character yet; I'm mostly gauging interest to see if a casual, episodic modern day paranormal conspiracy game is something people would like to have a character for.
I am a grizzled grizzly bear with a drinking and hooker problem. I have multiple very small groups of friends that each believes my birthday is a different day so that I am always having birthday parties year round. I have a terrible Australian accent.
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I would play a dimensional scientist whose first successful transwarp gate experiment destroyed his lab and stranded him in our universe. The major difference between his world and ours is the popularity of 90s prime time Fox shows. The X Files was cancelled after 10 episodes, but Brimstone went eight seasons and two movies. His doppleganger in our world is a homeless subway masturbator.
I would play a dimensional scientist whose first successful transwarp gate experiment destroyed his lab and stranded him in our universe. The major difference between his world and ours is the popularity of 90s prime time Fox shows. The X Files was cancelled after 10 episodes, but Brimstone went eight seasons and two movies. His doppleganger in our world is a homeless subway masturbator.
oh so I have to play TWO characters? gonna be so busy
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I would play a dimensional scientist whose first successful transwarp gate experiment destroyed his lab and stranded him in our universe. The major difference between his world and ours is the popularity of 90s prime time Fox shows. The X Files was cancelled after 10 episodes, but Brimstone went eight seasons and two movies. His doppleganger in our world is a homeless subway masturbator.
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It's a tortured existence really. His inspiration for a career as a dimensional scientist was spurred by his disappointment in the cancellation of Sliders, but as he watches the later seasons he always wanted to watch, he thinks that the universe is fucking with him.
Also, he yearns for a return to academia and the Nobel Prizes he could no doubt earn by publishing in his unheard of field, but being mistaken for a serial sex offender really hurts his street cred.
On second thought, "tortured existence" is pretty hyperbolic. It's more like #alternateworldproblems
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This may very well be the most ragtag group of investigators ever.
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Oh and college humor posted a video yesterday about nerd burlesque. It was timely.
This may very well be the most ragtag group of investigators ever.
I'm pretty much always out of the office attending birthday related events. This will work out well since I'll almost always be coming down with explosive diarrhea, shingles, and crotch lice IRL so I won't be able to attend more than 10% of the time.
I'm going to be a sapient Russian dancing bear with a talent for patter songs. But you can't understand his songs. Because he's still a bear.
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A little funny is good, so long as you are really good at something. The company is bringing you together because you are useful, other issues be damned.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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:bz THE GREAT JERSEY CITY/NYC MARVEL MARATHON
In which we watch every single Marvel Studios Movie in order, before going to See The Avengers on the Big Screen, in celebration of Kickass movies AND Tape's birthday
Place: Fort Kickass, aka synd and nexus's abode Date: HOPING for Saturday the 5th of May, but @tapeslinger needs to see if she can have that day off. Time: This will be literally Ten Hours long, AND a trip to the theater. So we are gonna have to start the films early, like 9:30am so that we can make it to the theater before 9pm to see the Avengers.
9:30am
Iron Man
11:45am
Incredible Hulk
1:45pm
Iron Man 2
4:00pm
Thor
6:00pm
Captain America
This wraps up around 8:00pm, giving us ample time to make it to our local theater, which absolutely will be airing a 9-10:00pm-ish showing of the film.
This will be an epic display of geekdom. We will order pizzas, have alcohol and other fun stuff on tap, and are going to make this a day of fun and nerdish revelry.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
:bz THE GREAT JERSEY CITY/NYC MARVEL MARATHON
In which we watch every single Marvel Studios Movie in order, before going to See The Avengers on the Big Screen, in celebration of Kickass movies AND Tape's birthday
Place: Fort Kickass, aka synd and nexus's abode Date: HOPING for Saturday the 5th of May, but @tapeslinger needs to see if she can have that day off. Time: This will be literally Ten Hours long, AND a trip to the theater. So we are gonna have to start the films early, like 9:30am so that we can make it to the theater before 9pm to see the Avengers.
9:30am
Iron Man
11:45am
Incredible Hulk
1:45pm
Iron Man 2
4:00pm
Thor
6:00pm
Captain America
This wraps up around 8:00pm, giving us ample time to make it to our local theater, which absolutely will be airing a 9-10:00pm-ish showing of the film.
This will be an epic display of geekdom. We will order pizzas, have alcohol and other fun stuff on tap, and are going to make this a day of fun and nerdish revelry.
i am unsure if i can make it for most of this..SHIT BALLS...i will need to run for like 5 hours that day, the amount i expect to drink probably means i won't be able to do it on sunday...FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Would have ask Nexus or Tape, as I haven't been to it yet. It's in the mall out here and it looks fairly nice from the outside.
We won't get an IMAX screen here, but we will get a 10 minute walk to the theater from the party place, so people can leave their stuff here when we go to see it if they want, or get right on the PATH from the theater as well (it's a five minute walk from the movie)
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Would have ask Nexus or Tape, as I haven't been to it yet. It's in the mall out here and it looks fairly nice from the outside.
We won't get an IMAX screen here, but we will get a 10 minute walk to the theater from the party place, so people can leave their stuff here when we go to see it if they want, or get right on the PATH from the theater as well (it's a five minute walk from the movie)
It is a completely adequate theater and holy cats the food court... It is like hell on earth. Tasty, tasty hell
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Also, he yearns for a return to academia and the Nobel Prizes he could no doubt earn by publishing in his unheard of field, but being mistaken for a serial sex offender really hurts his street cred.
On second thought, "tortured existence" is pretty hyperbolic. It's more like #alternateworldproblems
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
We ought to have BINGO cards of Potential BEAST! Maladies
in all seriousness though, still not sure what I would like to be in a game like that. Hmmmmm.
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also any of you assholes into The Magnetic Fields?
Also, the Magnetic Fields are cool, I heard they are doing a thingy in Brooklyn this week I think
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THE GREAT JERSEY CITY/NYC MARVEL MARATHON
In which we watch every single Marvel Studios Movie in order, before going to See The Avengers on the Big Screen, in celebration of Kickass movies AND Tape's birthday
Place: Fort Kickass, aka synd and nexus's abode
Date: HOPING for Saturday the 5th of May, but @tapeslinger needs to see if she can have that day off.
Time: This will be literally Ten Hours long, AND a trip to the theater. So we are gonna have to start the films early, like 9:30am so that we can make it to the theater before 9pm to see the Avengers.
9:30am
Iron Man
11:45am
Incredible Hulk
1:45pm
Iron Man 2
4:00pm
Thor
6:00pm
Captain America
This wraps up around 8:00pm, giving us ample time to make it to our local theater, which absolutely will be airing a 9-10:00pm-ish showing of the film.
This will be an epic display of geekdom. We will order pizzas, have alcohol and other fun stuff on tap, and are going to make this a day of fun and nerdish revelry.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
may 5th
Drinking beers and watching stuff blow up isn't Cinco De Mayo enough for you?
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
we'll watch all the movies with spanish dubbing
@nexuscrawler why you always gotta be so damn WRONG
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but dear goodness I'd love to show up, just to punch that jerk Chu in the face
I mean, probably will still be asleep for the first one or two, but eventually... Is your local theater decent?
I'll probably be around for some portion of this.
We won't get an IMAX screen here, but we will get a 10 minute walk to the theater from the party place, so people can leave their stuff here when we go to see it if they want, or get right on the PATH from the theater as well (it's a five minute walk from the movie)
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
*sobs with quiet dignity while scooping out lazy eye*
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