SPACE JESUS: MASS EFFECT FAWTL

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Commander Shepard made the ultimate sacrifice to [red energy]DESTROY [/red energy] the Reapers. Eight years later, the survivors of the war seek to put the galaxy back together.


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Female Human Manager 5 / IT professional 3

This is the d6 version from Dropbox not the d20 version, right?

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

It is the Dropbox Fate version.

I assume we will use d6's in the dice roller to approximate. So 4d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 6, 3) = 13 would be (0, -1, +1, 0) for a total roll of 0. Is that what you were thinking, GM?

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

I'm thinking a salarian tech specialist, but I may change my concept depending on what other people bring to the table. He might have a penchant for explosives.


We usually use 8-4d3 in DF Fate. or 4d3-8. I have issues order with.


Male Silver Dragon

Have fun you all. Good luck surviving against Space Satan.

Dark Archive

Male Human Gamer 21 / Accountant 9

Space Satan sure is fond of the cold. I'm not decided on whether this is odd or not yet...

Also, hello all. :)


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Any bets on how long until this thread title gets changed by the mods?


Male Silver Dragon
Treppa wrote:
Any bets on how long until this thread title gets changed by the mods?

~looks at my watch~

Five...
Four...
Three...
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Celestial Healer wrote:

It is the Dropbox Fate version.

I assume we will use d6's in the dice roller to approximate. So 4d6 would be (0, -1, +1, 0) for a total roll of 0. Is that what you were thinking, GM?

Yes indeed!

1-2 is treated as a (-),
3-4 is treated as a ( ),
5-6 is treated as a (+).

So yes the end result would be 0. Here's hoping that roll wasn't an important one, or you have FATE to spare.


So far we potentially have one salarian tech specialist, one unemployed krogan, and one asari intelligence officer.

What is everyone else thinking of?


I was thinking of playing an Asari mercenary, but given that no one's picked it, I may go with a human space marine. Not sure yet.

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10
Treppa wrote:
We usually use 8-4d3 in DF Fate. or 4d3-8. I have issues order with.

Ooh. 4d3-8 actually works out exactly right. And no counting!

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

So what is the concept again?


As a side note, not everyone has to be military. People can be former military, private security, "private security" or anything not specifically allied to a government agency.


Celestial Healer wrote:
Treppa wrote:
We usually use 8-4d3 in DF Fate. or 4d3-8. I have issues order with.
Ooh. 4d3-8 actually works out exactly right. And no counting!

test: 4d3 - 8 ⇒ (3, 3, 1, 1) - 8 = 0

test: 4d3 - 8 ⇒ (3, 2, 1, 2) - 8 = 0
test: 4d3 - 8 ⇒ (2, 2, 3, 2) - 8 = 1
test: 4d3 - 8 ⇒ (2, 2, 1, 2) - 8 = -1

..is this some type of mathematical sorcery?

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

And we will also need to know the game's power level.


Celestial Healer wrote:
So what is the concept again?

I am working on that even as we speak. I am at the second job though, so it's going to be a while before I can post it. I'll have flavor up tonight with respect to the state of the world and what each race is looking at in terms of interesting times, and an actual mission up by 6:30 PM EST tomorrow.


Celestial Healer wrote:
And we will also need to know the game's power level.

Working on that too. Either Neophyte or Veteran.

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10
Who is that masked DM? wrote:
Celestial Healer wrote:
And we will also need to know the game's power level.
Working on that too. Either Neophyte or Veteran.

Hopefully high enough that Treppa can make her krogan.


Don't they have a picture with a tighty-whitey hood?


Celestial Healer wrote:
Who is that masked DM? wrote:
Celestial Healer wrote:
And we will also need to know the game's power level.
Working on that too. Either Neophyte or Veteran.
Hopefully high enough that Treppa can make her krogan.

I'd like to see the wimpy krogan! Full on nerd glasses and pocket protector for his shotgun and everything!


Male (In)human Game Master 3/Player 2/Philosopher 3/Game Designer 2
Who is that masked DM? wrote:
Celestial Healer wrote:

It is the Dropbox Fate version.

I assume we will use d6's in the dice roller to approximate. So 4d6 would be (0, -1, +1, 0) for a total roll of 0. Is that what you were thinking, GM?

Yes indeed!

1-2 is treated as a (-),
3-4 is treated as a ( ),
5-6 is treated as a (+).

So yes the end result would be 0. Here's hoping that roll wasn't an important one, or you have FATE to spare.

You're joking, right? 0 is a very decent result in FATE... I made a lot of FATE rolls last week (Dresden Files on Wednesday, Star Wars on Sunday) and aside of a series of 0,0,+,+ rolls late during SW game, most of my rolls were below 0.

Rolling 4d3-8 to generate a number between -4 and +4 should be adequate.


Male (In)human Game Master 3/Player 2/Philosopher 3/Game Designer 2

Don't mind me. I might just peek from time to time...

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

Finding nonhuman avatars will be a challenge.


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Celestial Healer wrote:
Finding nonhuman avatars will be a challenge.

We could always just do a no-avatars PbP.


Male (In)human Game Master 3/Player 2/Philosopher 3/Game Designer 2

Boggard for a krogan, some sort of elf, fey, or plant creature for an assari...

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

Butterfrog's avatar for the salarian?


Female Human Manager 5 / IT professional 3

Anyone have a link to the Fate version?
My link is to the d6 version.

Who knew there were three versions of the rules?


I believe there is a Sekrit Drop Box of Fate that we have to know the Sekrit Handshake to access.


Treppa wrote:
I believe there is a Sekrit Drop Box of Fate that we have to know the Sekrit Handshake to access.

goes up to dropbox

knocks twice
whispers "Wizards Rule"
opens dropbox


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Something to entertain us all while we wait

Dark Archive

Male Human Gamer 21 / Accountant 9

I'm thinking Quarian something or another. If we're post Sheperd, what version are we going?


Description of the state of the galaxy is up! I would like at least one adventure that goes into aspect creation to explain what you were up to during the reaper war (likely the first adventure you ever had), and another to have something to do with these new wrinkles that have developed in the galactic stage, but they do not have to be unique to your race. For example, a krogan, perhaps moved by the plight of another species looking to repopulate could be involved with the Vessels of Athame, or a salarian could be an attache to the CDF, overseeing reconstruction of the Citadel alongside a drelll construction team. Or you could just be a quarian taking the long way home or a human that was a bit too young to actually participate in the war to liberate earth(maybe you have extensive background in hiding from reapers) that decided to become a marine and is fresh out of boot. It's up to you!

Dark Archive

Male Human Gamer 21 / Accountant 9

Cool stuff. :)

How do people want to handle the adventure aspects? The guide in the book assumes three or less players, and we've got... five?


Ah, I forgot to put this in above- this is a Veteran level game.

The FATE system seems to be one part roleplaying game, two parts interactive fiction. Given this and the fact that we are almost all quite familiar with the game itself, I think we will be capable of finding ways to make the backstories work together with minimal fuss.

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10
LordSynos wrote:

Cool stuff. :)

How do people want to handle the adventure aspects? The guide in the book assumes three or less players, and we've got... five?

I don't think it assumes you only have three. We can do the adventures as instructed, but they won't go all the way around the "table". You just stop when a third person has added to it.

What we need is an order for the five players, and you can PM your adventure to the next person on the list.

Maybe order joined? (David > CH > Aranna > Treppa > Synos > [back to David])

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

It may help to make sure we aren't overlapping too much. Anybody else going the tech route? We could make sure we have different areas of focus.


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Also, for all interested, we are up to Blasto X: The Council, where Blasto becomes the hanar representative to the Council, with Bubin taking his place as a Spectre. A taut political thriller, there is some concern that this change is not congruent to a hands-on character like Blasto, although the ending scene, where Blasto tells the volus businessman who had behind the scene manipulating things so that Blasto and Bubin end up opposing each other on major issues making the hotheaded Blasto seem incompetent in the process to "Get off this one's Citadel" before kicking him out an airlock, saves the film for most.


Celestial Healer wrote:
LordSynos wrote:

Cool stuff. :)

How do people want to handle the adventure aspects? The guide in the book assumes three or less players, and we've got... five?

I don't think it assumes you only have three. We can do the adventures as instructed, but they won't go all the way around the "table". You just stop when a third person has added to it.

What we need is an order for the five players, and you can PM your adventure to the next person on the list.

Maybe order joined? (David > CH > Aranna > Treppa > Synos > [back to David])

Great idea. Please keep me in the loop with respect to passing the notes around, I'll make changes to adventure and backstory where necessary.

Dark Archive

Male Human Gamer 21 / Accountant 9
Celestial Healer wrote:
LordSynos wrote:

Cool stuff. :)

How do people want to handle the adventure aspects? The guide in the book assumes three or less players, and we've got... five?

I don't think it assumes you only have three. We can do the adventures as instructed, but they won't go all the way around the "table". You just stop when a third person has added to it.

What we need is an order for the five players, and you can PM your adventure to the next person on the list.

Maybe order joined? (David > CH > Aranna > Treppa > Synos > [back to David])

Makes sense to me. I thought it was limited to three because then everyone is involved with each other's adventure, but your reading makes perfect sense. I'm also good with that order too.

Celestial Healer wrote:
It may help to make sure we aren't overlapping too much. Anybody else going the tech route? We could make sure we have different areas of focus.

I was thinking Quarian Techie, but focusing on the Infiltrator side of things.

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

Sounds good. I was going with a more engineer-ish angle so we shouldn't overlap too much.


Blasto?

Dark Archive

Male Human Gamer 21 / Accountant 9

The galaxy's first Hanar Spectre. :)


Female Human Manager 5 / IT professional 3

Ahh Blasto you amazing ...squid?

I still don't have the rules...

Dark Archive

Male Human Gamer 21 / Accountant 9

PM sent.


Currently writing backstory. Actually, currently sidetracked reading about the United States Marine Corps, which I looked up while researching backstory.


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Anybody playing a turian? I might prefer that to krogan.

No, I do not have a thing for Garrus!

That's an unfounded rumor.


David M Mallon wrote:
Currently writing backstory. Actually, currently sidetracked reading about the United States Marine Corps, which I looked up while researching backstory.

Damned overachiever.


Anybuilding a biowizardotic?

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