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Hey guys!
Thanks so much! -Jack
I like the liberties your taking with the setting - I will probably be running a more 'traditional' Serenity game, but it's fun to consider the ways the setting can stretch. I had totally forgotten about Tales of the Golden Monkey - now I want to go watch it again. I really like the notion that Blue Sun is working for the greater good in some arcane way, but it might take a little tweaking to use that in my campaign since I don't plan on introducing aliens.
By all means pilfer away! I'll be interested to see what you do with the setting as well. My initial concept was for a gradually expanding scope for the game - For the first 2 sessions they'll be confined to Athens until they get their hands on a ship - which has a blown pulse drive limiting them to Athens and it's four moons until they can scrape together enough cash to get her repaired and off into the rest of the verse - Even then I am probably going to invent some licensing issue that restricts them to the Rim for a while until they can resolve it. Since there isn't a whole lot written up about the Verse, I thought this would be a good way for me to portion out detailing it as well as letting the players learn how it looks from 'eye level'. As promised, the PCs:
Johnny Farham Jr.: Johnny was raised in a pacifist Buddhist community on Hera, but when the Unification War started he found that the Independent's cause resonated deeply with him. He lied about his age and joined the Browncoats. He had always had a knack for piloting and this landed him advanced training in the army - he was soon running reinforcements, supplies, and medboats through some of the hottest battles on New Shanghai. He was on his home planet of Hera resupplying the Serenity Valley when Independent High Command called a surrender. His sensors showed that there was still pitched fighting ahead and he wanted to make one last run, but his copilot pulled a handgun on him in the cockpit and demanded that he comply with orders. The Independents were disbanded and Johnny was turned out into the Verse with nothing but disillusionment and a long brown duster to show for his trouble. He hired out as a pilot for a while eventually flying for a drug running outfit, but they were nabbed by the Alliance and he got a year in the lockdown. When he got out an old Independent buddy waved him and got him a job running ore to orbit and back from Athen's 2nd moon, Pyrrhic. A boring job to be sure, but it's been keeping him in credits and out of trouble until the next thing comes along. Helen Roth: Born on Beylix - the Alliance's unofficial trash planet - Helen's family made a living salvaging the junk that littered their homeworld. Her mother died when she was just a child and her father's health steadily deteriorated from a combination of contaminated water and soft radiation leakage that was very nearly unavoidable on the planet. Helen learned the basics of scrapping when she was just a child, and after she managed to find and repair a Cortex mainframe, she taught herself as much about mechanics and repair work as she could. She had a quick mind and nigh inexhaustible spare parts and she soon gained a reputation for getting things running again - maybe not as they were initially designed but running none the less. It was a grim hard life - caring for her ailing father and acting as the sole breadwinner but Helen persisted and made things as comfortable as possible. When her dad's health finally gave out, Helen resolved to get off this rock that had killed both her parents. She did an overhaul on a fairly wealthy private vessel that had made an emergency landing on Beylix, asking only a berth in trade - passage to wherever they were headed. She landed on Athens and made a respectable life for herself running a mechanic's shop before the Alliance bombed it to a smoking crater. Now Edensgate looks a bit too much like Beylix and Helen is contemplating her next move.
Here's how it is. This is going to be my campaign journal for the Serenity game I'm running. It's for my own memory as much as for others to read but I figured if I'm going to type it up I might as well put it somewhere others could see it if they cared. I am going to try to keep things in line with the series as much as possible but being that there's so little official content, I'll be making some up on the fly and I'm going to try to retcon as little as possible. That being said: Here's my little write up of Athens that I sent the players prior to the game. Athens: Before the Unification War, Athens was known as 'The Jewel of the Rim” It is a large planet that took well to terraforming, supporting a great host of life from Earth-that-was. Vast oceans, sweeping plains interrupted by wide slow rivers, and steep heavily forested mountains dominate the largely temperate planet, and other than rapidly shifting weather and unfortunately frequent tectonic activity, it is as receptive to human colonization as could be hoped for. Originally settled as a scientific outpost to study the flora and fauna in hopes to recreate this degree of success elsewhere, Athens is now home to several Buddhist temple communities in the mountains, a few trading posts serving the sprawling ranches and marble quarries, and a handful of growing cities patterned after the solar panel lined skyscrapers and shining tube lines of the capital metropolis, Edensgate.
My PCs are a kind of eclectic lot, (as PCs tend to be) but I think they'll do. I'll write them up next time.
Hey everybody! A relatively infrequent DM here starting to collect threads for a new campaign - the New WoD Werewolf set in the Wild West. I saw Arcane Joe's Wild West Post and have already mined it and I have the old WoD Werewolf Wild West book, but I thought I'd toss the notion to the boards and see what other Paizonians would do with this concept. Probably gonna set it in the Idaho, Montana, Wyoming neck of the woods revolving around a little burg with a railway running through it. Just big enough to support colorful western life (read: whorehouses) and serve as a place where farmers and grazers can butt heads. What would you do with that setting? Also, I haven't read any of the Werewolf: the Forsaken books except the core, do we get a treatment of werewolf history in any of the products? Thanks all!
Mrr. I tacked a post up a week or so ago about not being able post very often but it got eaten. I keep thinking that my schedule will free up and it keeps failing to. If you want to keep toting along an ominously silent barbarian in the background, I might actually catch up at some point, but if you wanted her to just fade into the sunset and recruit a new player, that's totally cool too. Sorry I've not kept up.
Also, do ballistic pistols still need atmosphere to fire in DS or not so much because of the binary propellant? If so, how does lower density atmosphere effect firearm performance? Most excellent. Thank you for the science lesson, Ross. The only science I was ever any good at was when it was math pretending to be science. I didn't want an intelligence 18 character to be pulling a piece that was completely useless under the circumstances.
Check. Managed to skim right over that somehow. Karista should be Alpha 2 compliant. Bluff tanked and Sense Motive is gone, but I picked up Knowledge nature in the deal, so you know. Meh. I actually feel better about this Power Attack. It is a good balance. Ross - still waiting for that ruling on the variant rage. If you want to go totally core for the purposes of playtest and simplicity, I'm cool with that. I prefer this one but it's all good either way.
Where did you get this Majuba? I just redownloaded the Prpg to make sure I didn't miss an update but it looks the same... Don't have enough consciousness left to update character sheet, but I will by sunday night or mon morn at the latest.
So Ross, what's your preference for dice rolling? Do you want us to do it in advance a la Taemin, or just let you handle it? I frankly prefer the latter. It seems like it would be more streamlined if we can just declare our intention and let you handle the DCs, modifiers, rolling etc., but that's certainly more work for you. Your call.
Has anybody worked up a kit to bump old 3.5 classes to the new pathfinder standard? I poked around a bit in the forums and couldn't find anything along these lines. I mean, it's pretty clear that there's been a power bump, I was wondering if there was any standardized way to keep classes like the warlock, duskblade, scout, ninja etc. on par. Maybe one feat level choice (with options for +1AC, +1CL, Spell-like ability, etc.) every few levels? I will probably try my hand at an update template in the next few days, but I thought I'd see if anyone else had already done the leg work. Even better, maybe there's already one in the works for the appendix of PRPG?
-Jack
Alright. I've caught up on my sleep. Expect a Harrow reading later today. I am assuming that you didn't randomly draw those cards, because damn. The odds of the 5 cards picked in the choosing all showing up in the spread are absurdly low. Good reading though, I liked it quite a bit. Do you have the physical cards or were you just working with the abbreviated rules in the AP?
Sorry for the delay. took a little work to get Steve and I in the same room to hammer out all the expository bits. Last speed bump I hope, let's see if we can get some momentum. If no one has any questions I'll probably post again late tomorrow night or thurs afternoon at the latest and get things rocking.
Hey Ross...I'm thinking I might redo Karista's stats a bit before we actually get to the dice rolling. The Harrow deck is kind of a big deal in this path from what I've skimmed and I like her as the bear so I'll probably put the stat bump into str instead of dex. Also, I think I'm going to shuffle her socials to Int 10 Wis 12 and Cha 8 both because I feel that's a little more the way she's ended up now that I'm playing her and it will also give me a bit more flexibility later on if I decide not to play her as a straight down the ticket barbarian. I'll go a ahead and retool her numbers but I'll save a back up so I can keep her as she was if you don't want me changing. Thanks.
So are we implementing the Pathfider RPG revisions as we go? because one of the 1.1 revisions reads
. If this is the case, I'll take the shoanti bola for my 'free' weapon choice and spend the exotic weapon feat on some thing else.
I believe Karista is compliant now as well. I am still not totally decided on Con for my stat bump, but it was the quickest to do, and I don't want Karista overshadowing any other character's schticks. If I didn't do Con I'd probably bump her Dex - I have a hard time stomaching that 18 str right out of the gate, I've had to deal with too many munchkins to breathe easy about it. Plus Con is more barbarian-y anyway. See anything I missed? |
