Tyrnis wrote:

mthbrthr wrote:

I'd be down for a game. I GM a regular Sunday night group in meatspace and keep a tight schedule on an oWoD MU* (which seems to be dying out sadly). I'd love to play more EP.

Out of curiosity, which oWoD MU*? I play on GarouMUSH, so just curious if you're someone I know. While I'm not looking to GM at this point, I'd be willing to run the occasional story arc on down the line so that the primary GM would have the chance to play some, too, and am very much interested in getting the chance to play. I'd prefer text-based to Skype, though I'll do either, with my first choice being playing on the EP MUSH that was under construction (not sure if Blarney is still doing anything with it or not, and chargen hasn't been coded, but dice rolling is coded and it beats out IMs or IRC in my view.) As far as availability goes, I have RL games on Sunday and Monday evenings, but am pretty flexible outside of that.

Cajun Nights. I don't mind GM'ing if that's what it will take, but I'd be glad if someone would take back up from time to time. Text, voice, or video I don't mind any of them. Perhaps http://roll20.net/ ? And I didn't realize that there was an EP MU* going up. That could be great too.

Hey, I'm new to the forums. I would really like to play EP. I've been listening to Caleb's Know Evil campaign at the RPPR site and am completely in love with the system/universe. I've played a lot of Saga and CoC, even combined them and gave my players nightmares, so I'm all about the sci-fi horror/action. mahalo

Well it looks like we have quite a bit of interest. I am located in the EST. What are the other time zones we're dealing with? It will determine how we run the game. If we're fairly close then perhaps we can run over a virtual tabletop such as http://roll20.net If we're widely distributed we have to go a little more asynchronous and use a mailing list or forum. So let me know. Also, start thinking about the kinds of things you're interested in. I'm not much of a "babysitter DM," so don't expect a deep plot formulated to your character's 3-part novella background. Instead give me themes or ideas. Are you interested in horrors from beyond space and time? Clandestine corporate espionage? The nature of humanity and whether we actually matter in a universe that obviously doesnt care about our existence? It's okay to start thinking about the kind of personality your character is, but let's leave the specifics out until we've figured out some of the high level parameters of our story. No sense playing an outer-system grifter if we're goin to be heavily invested in playing out Jovian political intrigues... Cheers

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I am on the wet coast so I'm Pacific time. - edit - I don't know what happened there. IPad, and preview button dont work well together.

Check out roll20.net -- it does have a hybrid of voice and text. I would prefer voice/video myself for the higher-bandwidth communication. Especially if this is a game we can only fit in bi-weekly or something. Theme-wise it seems we're leaning towards a mystery/espionage type game. Any other suggestions?

I would be interested as well, Timezone: CST, days weekday evenings and potentially sunday. [b]Styles of play: [/b] I to play as the character, slightly a number-cruncher but mainly to fit character concepts. Dislike to much meta-gaming, try to avoid it, and will generally ask if my character would know something before assuming it does. Rules are tools for story telling, so toss the rules if they don't fit. [b]Preferences: [/b] Combat is fine, like physiological horror more than shock horror. Enjoy mysteries, investigations and social interactions. I like hard-science, but don't need details unless it is important. [b]Experiences: [/b] Only a few sessions, as an Asynch and still playing. Would like to not be out of the box crazy this time. [b]Concepts: [/b] Would like to play as a hacker/con artist, or a infiltrator themed character. Have some other ideas rolling around in my head however. [b]Hardware: [/b] Mic works, no webcam, text is fine as well.

Summary of who've we got bumming around for this -Tyrnis- Possibley run? Sunday & Munday can't play, flexible rest of the week While I'm not looking to GM at this point, I'd be willing to run the occasional story arc on down the line so that the primary GM would have the chance to play some, too, and am very much interested in getting the chance to play. I'd prefer text-based to Skype, though I'll do either, with my first choice being playing on the EP MUSH that was under construction (not sure if Blarney is still doing anything with it or not, and chargen hasn't been coded, but dice rolling is coded and it beats out IMs or IRC in my view.) As far as availability goes, I have RL games on Sunday and Monday evenings, but am pretty flexible outside of that. - Beej (me) - West Coast Can't do Tuesday, Can't do Sudany morning/afternoon new player to EP, is down for any story type, probably will use a pregen toon or a variation on one can do voice and text but not video -Zombieneighbours- new player but experienced gamer no preference on time or game type? -Corwinlinnel110- East Coast good for Monday, Friday and Sunday evenings (late on Sundays), prefer voice to text. Any sort of investigation or espionage sounds good to me. Any kind of horror is fine. No experience here, sadly; I haven't had a chance to introduce EP to my group. I'll play whatever the party needs, though I'd prefer a sneak to a thug. - Geonis - I would be interested as well, Timezone: CST, days weekday evenings and potentially sunday. Styles of play: I to play as the character, slightly a number-cruncher but mainly to fit character concepts. Dislike to much meta-gaming, try to avoid it, and will generally ask if my character would know something before assuming it does. Rules are tools for story telling, so toss the rules if they don't fit. Preferences: Combat is fine, like physiological horror more than shock horror. Enjoy mysteries, investigations and social interactions. I like hard-science, but don't need details unless it is important. Experiences: Only a few sessions, as an Asynch and still playing. Would like to not be out of the box crazy this time. Concepts: Would like to play as a hacker/con artist, or a infiltrator themed character. Have some other ideas rolling around in my head however. Hardware: Mic works, no webcam, text is fine as well. -mthbrthr- East Coast Wants to GM? Wants voice Cheers -Quigs- East coast. Good for mondays and wednesdays every week, or most weekdays on alternating weeks. so two possible gms? and 6 to eight players?

I can do tonight. Tuesdays are my table group night so I won5 be available those nights.

Just to be clear, Sundays and Mondays are the days I can NOT play. I have RL games on those days.

As an additional note, I can run a few games once I get the system down, if need be. I'm the usual GM for my local group. Right, Skype: corwinlinnel110

ill be on skype tonight as well beejcarson

twcrone wrote:

I'd be interested in finding an online group. I ran EP for about a year. We had fun with it but we ran out of material and interest. My players always want to fall back to typical fantasy stuff so we are on Pathfinder now. It is a shame. D&D is easy to run but boring for me after 30 years GMing. I'd like to play perhaps or listen in. Can't say I've played online for very long successfully. I typically like the face to face social interaction. I'd like to see more fully realized EP material. I don't understand the genre well enough to make up everything myself. Besides I am drawn to the uniqueness of this genre and want to see what some of Rob's fully realized material.

Would be nice to have another GM. I can run the game for the first handful of sessions. Mondays work great for me, though I'd like to keep the sessions to 3 hours if that's cool. I find 4 a bit of a stretch and I do have to get up for work in the mornings. Say 8 - 11? If anyone has links to pregen'd baddies ready for tweaking I'd greatly appreciate it btw. That's one area of the game our group has struggled with playing EP.

Looks like I'm out for Mondays as well. Give info on session and I'll listen in sometimes perhaps if possible. FYI...9pm is the earliest I can ever start and Mondays suck for me.

Alright, I've been a little quiet on the forum and I missed out on the Skype meetup last week, however I'd like to get the game underway. So this first inaugural post to the list (which I will cross-post to the forum for those who haven't subscribed to the list yet) is going to contain a short guideline on building your character background. I won't be using these backgrounds as the primary driver of the story (at least at first) but they will help shape the game I think if done well. I don't expect whole novels (and wouldn't have time to read them all) but the more depth the better. I prefer backgrounds that highlight the key defining motivations for a character. A summary of the most important events that led them up to the story that we're about to embark on. That being said I did mention that this post was a guideline to developing those stories. I've played a lot of story-heavy games and have let players take complete freedom in developing their backgrounds and have found that unless we're all thinking the same thing it would require a lot of suspension of belief to bring the characters together and motivate them to stay together. What I find works best is to meet the DM half-way and that's what I'm trying to do here. I'm going to plant a seed in this post that I hope will help you spawn a great back story that you will be totally in to, that is unique and completely your own, while still being tied to the game and the other characters in it. So... what is Firewall? It is a shadow organization with a clandestine agenda. It operates in cells with no apparent central authority. It has seemingly endless resources and spares no expense for its agents. The kinds of missions it undertakes would raise the brow of many die-hard sceptics. Talking about Firewall as if it actually existed to anyone but those in the know would make that person sound absolutely crazy. So how did you end up working for them? Firewall is closely monitored by several Jovian governmental agencies and many elite hyper-corps executives. Knowing about Firewall would take several levels of clearance and a "need-to-know," situation. In the eyes of some of these institutions, "Firewall," is a terrorist organization of paranoid fanatics. If such an organization is to survive it must rely on a network of highly trusted individuals and layers upon layers of proxy- and double-agents. It must recruit sparingly and ensure that it taps recruits that are in a unique position to accept and advance their agenda... ... and against all those odds they came to you. You haven't been an agent of Firewall for very long. You know very little about how they operate. But you've been in touch with a mesh ID belonging to someone named, "Ju-Long," for a few weeks or a couple of months now. He hasn't asked you to do anything extreme yet but whatever he has talked with you about makes sense some how. Maybe you've done a small job for him already -- recently he's been hinting at something big coming up. ------ So fill in the missing details. What was your character doing when Ju-Long contacted them? What did Ju-Long say or offer that convinced your character that Firewall was the real deal? What about this character kept them from walking away and believing Ju-Long was just some troll or paranoid tin-foil hat conspiracy nut? It would be a good idea to think of a motivation derived from this background so that following up with Firewall would help them to achieve some sort of personal agenda. Also, I trust everyone to keep track of their own character sheets. I will ask that you send me your aptitudes and (if you have one) your muse's aptitudes along with your Perception skill, your list of motivations, your rep scores, and your faction (if any). I'm looking for characters from the Asteroid belt at the farthest without a very convincing background (loner types who live at the extreme edges of the solar system are going to be extremely difficult if not impossible to play in this campaign). Otherwise you have free reign. Just keep your character believable. It may be the far future but it's unlikely everyone walks around the habitat with a full-loaded rail gun handy. Let me know if anyone has any questions. I foresee the first session involving some character-creation and perhaps kicking off a bit of the adventure if we're all on the same page. Cheers and look forward to gaming with all of you.

I was thinking tonight would be good. 8pm EST start. I'll post the roll20.net link tonight.

Sorry, I had already posted I could not typically play on Mondays at 8pm. This coming Monday, I was going to show up around 9pm and listen in if that is okay. I have a toddler that I put down at 8pm so I can't do much of anything until after that.

Quigs, mthbrthr, I'm so sorry. It totally slipped my mind.

Sorry about that, had to run out of state for a funeral, took over most of my week as just getting home today. Posted to the skype group as such, neglected to do the same on these forums, for that I am sorry. I do plan to play, but turned to be a rather poor timing for my end as the death was unexpected and my departure swift. EDIT: Made some progress on my character, and sent the background to mthbrthr. I would here make a suggestion of the characters having a shared back history between each other. The best example I can think of would originate from the FATE system. I suggest this because I feel it would help establish a bond between characters early on, and not a group of strangers meeting for the first time. Below is basically an extended concept/background (spell checked this time, sorry mthbrthr for skipping that earlier) of my character. Would love the idea of intermingling backgrounds some and having her actually knowing some of the other characters prior to the first session. I feel it would help group dynamics quite a bit.