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Kentari decided to make a BESM game also.
Go HERE for details.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Fall of Fairview Pleasant Pointe
Kentari decided to make a BESM game also.
Go HERE for details.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Tales from Fairview: taken things
(This shall be updated as PCs are made and changed)
Taken:
Appearance
Chimera
Cthulhu kindred
Demon
Fencing
Fire [by Spark]
Luck
Mind Control/Telepath
Ninja
Pet Monster
True Swordsmanship without cheating
(Current as of: Dec 20)
Taken:
Appearance
Chimera
Cthulhu kindred
Demon
Fencing
Fire [by Spark]
Luck
Mind Control/Telepath
Ninja
Pet Monster
True Swordsmanship without cheating
(Current as of: Dec 20)
Monday, December 07, 2009
BESM Game?
ETA: Game will be titled Tales From Fairview
Okay! Here we go: a new game idea, reasoning(s) behind it etc. and so forth.
System: BESM 3e, ~450 points (stats, attributes, skills). Dynamic Powers'll be a no-go unless whatever the player has in mind (like a werewolf) can only be done via that. Power Flux is viable, magic as well.
Time: Mon., Thurs. or Friday night, ~7pm PST (10pm EST).
Setting: Earth, modern day, nameless large North American city. PC ages are entirely up to the players* but we've done enough college, school, etc. games that I'd rather this wasn't one. It doesn't mean pcs can't be school students, just that said things won't be a focus of the game.
* I'd personally be happy if some people want to tackle the 'playing relatives' idea we've bandied about.
Characters: Pick something you want to make and make it. The idea is to go for anime-style fun so being able to hold oneself in combat (both social and phsyical) is probably a good idea. Everyone should take at least one defect [curses are encouraged] and think anime when figuring out powers and the character.
The world: It's this world, only most people ignore the weird shit. People can only handle so much reality, and even less unreality: gas main explosions, drugs, kids being kids and such will be concocted to explain things. Or people freak out and then manage to forget whatever they saw quickly. The government is aware of such things, and the men in black (to say nothing of the men in mauve) are present and tend to quietly make sure no one rocks the boat too far.
Why these abilities exist and how people come into them are unknown, at least to the pcs. There'll be many theories, of course, from aliens to gods and even everyone being game pieces created by gods known as 'players'. It is NOT a superhero game and anyone trying to be one is liable to find a depressing lack of supervillains.
Despite all the awesome, the mundane still exists: family, taxes, jobs and so forth.
Note: How the players connect together'll depend on what you all make. You could all work at the same place, all be Freemasons, have some wealthy friend/patron/sugardaddy in common: it'll depend on what is made.
Note 2: If someone decides something is their schtick (i.e. their thing) then no one else can get it, or at least not be as good as they are. (No one should be obligated to have to get a schtick; it's just for thems who wants one.) If someone wants to be the best-ever master of telepathy, it's theirs, meaning that they can go to 6-7 in the power and no one else can. Chat with other players before taking something as a Big Thing in case it conflicts with someone else's idea. Being 'the werewolf' and such could also count as this.
Note3: Everyone gets 2 levels of mind shield and resistance for free.
Under the hood: This idea was based on me thinking about what made other games fun and a game with a lot of lattitude. Chaos's bdsm game, early lolad and some aspects of kbesm fit into this. Ditto with that you can play character you've made before, if you want to try them in another setting and so forth. Depending on how things go, multiple characters for players might get allowed if people are willing.
Keep in mind that this is a modern earth game. Characters from other earths/times are not encouraged concepts. (Half demons and such, sure, but Victorian Adventurer dragged out of time or dwarf from Fantasy World not so much). Characters should be human or at least able to pass for human under the right light. As well, most characters will just be coming into their powers and/or just aware of most of them. As pcs don't start with handbooks, most characters should have to discover the various abilities they have rather than just knowing they can do X, Y, Z offhand.
The nature of the setting will depend a lot on what players make. Give your character a nature and theme (sci fi, supernatural, magical girl, or whatever) and the game will synthesize all of that together. Keep in mind general anime ideas, fun, and what other people make: if everyone else makes supernatural-themed, and you go for a cyborg some rethinking could be necessary.
Toss thoughts here, in #game1 etc.
Start date: Early January. (Attempting to run games over xmas is fraught with peril :))
Attendance: Need not be Mandatory. If you don't think you can make certain sessions or times, build reasons into the character for it.
Summaries etc: Will be done on the forum rather than a webpage, unless someone else wishes to make one.
Okay! Here we go: a new game idea, reasoning(s) behind it etc. and so forth.
System: BESM 3e, ~450 points (stats, attributes, skills). Dynamic Powers'll be a no-go unless whatever the player has in mind (like a werewolf) can only be done via that. Power Flux is viable, magic as well.
Time: Mon., Thurs. or Friday night, ~7pm PST (10pm EST).
Setting: Earth, modern day, nameless large North American city. PC ages are entirely up to the players* but we've done enough college, school, etc. games that I'd rather this wasn't one. It doesn't mean pcs can't be school students, just that said things won't be a focus of the game.
* I'd personally be happy if some people want to tackle the 'playing relatives' idea we've bandied about.
Characters: Pick something you want to make and make it. The idea is to go for anime-style fun so being able to hold oneself in combat (both social and phsyical) is probably a good idea. Everyone should take at least one defect [curses are encouraged] and think anime when figuring out powers and the character.
The world: It's this world, only most people ignore the weird shit. People can only handle so much reality, and even less unreality: gas main explosions, drugs, kids being kids and such will be concocted to explain things. Or people freak out and then manage to forget whatever they saw quickly. The government is aware of such things, and the men in black (to say nothing of the men in mauve) are present and tend to quietly make sure no one rocks the boat too far.
Why these abilities exist and how people come into them are unknown, at least to the pcs. There'll be many theories, of course, from aliens to gods and even everyone being game pieces created by gods known as 'players'. It is NOT a superhero game and anyone trying to be one is liable to find a depressing lack of supervillains.
Despite all the awesome, the mundane still exists: family, taxes, jobs and so forth.
Note: How the players connect together'll depend on what you all make. You could all work at the same place, all be Freemasons, have some wealthy friend/patron/sugardaddy in common: it'll depend on what is made.
Note 2: If someone decides something is their schtick (i.e. their thing) then no one else can get it, or at least not be as good as they are. (No one should be obligated to have to get a schtick; it's just for thems who wants one.) If someone wants to be the best-ever master of telepathy, it's theirs, meaning that they can go to 6-7 in the power and no one else can. Chat with other players before taking something as a Big Thing in case it conflicts with someone else's idea. Being 'the werewolf' and such could also count as this.
Note3: Everyone gets 2 levels of mind shield and resistance for free.
Under the hood: This idea was based on me thinking about what made other games fun and a game with a lot of lattitude. Chaos's bdsm game, early lolad and some aspects of kbesm fit into this. Ditto with that you can play character you've made before, if you want to try them in another setting and so forth. Depending on how things go, multiple characters for players might get allowed if people are willing.
Keep in mind that this is a modern earth game. Characters from other earths/times are not encouraged concepts. (Half demons and such, sure, but Victorian Adventurer dragged out of time or dwarf from Fantasy World not so much). Characters should be human or at least able to pass for human under the right light. As well, most characters will just be coming into their powers and/or just aware of most of them. As pcs don't start with handbooks, most characters should have to discover the various abilities they have rather than just knowing they can do X, Y, Z offhand.
The nature of the setting will depend a lot on what players make. Give your character a nature and theme (sci fi, supernatural, magical girl, or whatever) and the game will synthesize all of that together. Keep in mind general anime ideas, fun, and what other people make: if everyone else makes supernatural-themed, and you go for a cyborg some rethinking could be necessary.
Toss thoughts here, in #game1 etc.
Start date: Early January. (Attempting to run games over xmas is fraught with peril :))
Attendance: Need not be Mandatory. If you don't think you can make certain sessions or times, build reasons into the character for it.
Summaries etc: Will be done on the forum rather than a webpage, unless someone else wishes to make one.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
And we're back(ish)!
November gives way to December. Games shall return. Exactly what, in terms of having more than 2 players, remains unknown at present.
Whatever runs'll depend on what people feel like, after general consensus.
About the only thing in my head at the moment is a very vague modern besm game, 450 points, make whatever you want, build game around what players make.
Whatever runs'll depend on what people feel like, after general consensus.
About the only thing in my head at the moment is a very vague modern besm game, 450 points, make whatever you want, build game around what players make.
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