Hi I’m thinking of running relatively short campaign to help me learn a new system while having a bit of fun! I’d be looking for at least 3 players and only running 1 game at a time. The book list needed for each game is quite small but absolutely mandatory, as I’ll have enough pressure on to learn on the fly without having to teach everyone else the rules too. The selection process will be easy enough, assuming your character/you seem reasonable.
I generally run quiet fast passed PbP games, in terms of posting. We’re looking at generally 1 post per day with a 2 day limit before I NPC your character. People who drop out for extended periods without notice may find their characters no-longer in the party, dead or taken over by another player. Both games should be quite action packed as well, but the scenario’s I have in mind for both are very different.
It may be a few weeks before I make an actual recruitment thread, as I still have a little work to do to set up either game, but it will be coming.
Wraith Recon:
What is It? –
An add-on for D&D 4e that minimises money counting and equipment purchase in favour of fast passed action and objective based scenarios
Book list –
D&D 4e Player’s Handbook 1 (I don’t have any of the other player handbooks so you can’t make characters from them)
Scenario –
Wraith recon characters are well equipped special ops team members who are sent to deal with covert behind enemy lines style missions. The scenario will be a series of, quick missions, forming an overarching story. Experience will be handed out between missions.
Weird Wars 2:
What is It?-
Weird Wars 2 is a series of military based games/scenarios using the Savage Worlds generic RP system and with the backdrop of a real historic war. Of course something weird happens... Think Castle Wolfenstein/Indiana Jones
Book List-
A Savage Worlds Core book (One of the cheapest core rulebooks you’ll ever pick up and worth every penny. The Explorer’s Edition goes for about 5 GBP - 7 USD on amazon, Deluxe Edition goes for under 20 GBP - 25 USD)
The Scenario-
The scenario will be horror/investigation. Characters will be patients in a military hospital during WW2. Something strange will be happening to the patents and no-one else seems to notice, or at least no-one is doing anything about it. There will be experience handed out at regular real world intervals (every two weeks for example).
It is hit or miss around here for games not Pathfinder related. I will keep an eye out for the WW2 game.
Me, me...please! I am actually running a Realms of Cthulhu Savage World PbP campaign right now on this site. I have the Weird War 2 sourcebook also and would love to run a character in that setting.
I'll take that as 1 vote for each.
It is hit or miss around here for games not Pathfinder related. I will keep an eye out for the WW2 game.
Yea I'm aware of the issues of advertising for a non-pathfinder game on the pathfinder publisher's site, but I thought it's worth a try.
Me, me...please! I am actually running a Realms of Cthulhu Savage World PbP campaign right now on this site. I have the Weird War 2 sourcebook also and would love to run a character in that setting.
I saw your ad but I have no understanding of the Cthulhu background. Is it a horror setting?
I'll take that as 1 vote for each.
It is hit or miss around here for games not Pathfinder related. I will keep an eye out for the WW2 game.Yea I'm aware of the issues of advertising for a non-pathfinder game on the pathfinder publisher's site, but I thought it's worth a try.
Me, me...please! I am actually running a Realms of Cthulhu Savage World PbP campaign right now on this site. I have the Weird War 2 sourcebook also and would love to run a character in that setting.I saw your ad but I have no understanding of the Cthulhu background. Is it a horror setting?
It is a horror setting using Savage World rules but I'm running an Achtung! Cthulu campaign which is set in World War 2. So it is kind of like Weird War 2 except Lovecraft specific focus.
At another glance that's actually 2 votes for savage worlds!
One of these days I want to run a Weird Wars game focused on a tank crew all Metal Slug like.
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Couldn't the metal slug tank jump? I don't want to be in a tank that jumps!
Well that's 3 for Weird Wars/Savage Worlds so I'll defo do that. I have most of the campaign concept down. It's based on a lot of historic fact. It'll be set around the battle of Aachen:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen
American soldiers recuperating in the hospital right? Use standard Weird War 2 character creation rules?
Yes american soldiers in a hospital.
I'm not sure about character creation yet, when I am I'll let you guys know.
I'd vote for a 4e game.
There's never enough of those going on here (I understand why...), and I love the name wraith recon :)
I'd be in for that one.
Well that's still 3-1... I might come back and run Wraith Recon again.
In the mean time there's someone looking for players for a Transformers game using the D&D 4e rules. I've put my name down for that one, but I'm the only one, why don't you join us there?
I'm in Aub's WWII campaign. I love Savage Worlds.
Is that a 4th vote for the WWII game?
So for the game WWII it will be standard character creation rules with a few minor tweaks. Every character will need a hindrance related to their injury (you can't take one leg or anything else that would cripple your movement speed). We will be using rules for sanity.
Characters will have to be from american forces that participated in the Battle of Aachen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen#Comparison_of_forces
I'll put up the recruitment thread at some stage next week.
Gotta run some errands now, but will look this all over today.
So for the game WWII it will be standard character creation rules with a few minor tweaks. Every character will need a hindrance related to their injury (you can't take one leg or anything else that would cripple your movement speed). We will be using rules for sanity.
Characters will have to be from american forces that participated in the Battle of Aachen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen#Comparison_of_forcesI'll put up the recruitment thread at some stage next week.
That's great news...love Savage Worlds
Would Shell-shocked count as a hindrance related to injury?
Yes Shell Shocked as a major will work fine as a reason to to in a field hospital. However, considering this will be a horror setting it would mean a lot of tests to avoid loosing sanity and for a shell shocked character to become incapacitated for a few rounds.
If you want it though you can have it.
Looking at missing an eye on a engineer that could be an easy bit, lol.
Don't rule out mental afflictions. I'll put a suggested list on the recruitment thread
Cool. I have an engineer ready to go, but what are the build stats? I need to bring him in line.
For a combat engineer the requirements are:
Attributes: Smarts D6
Skills: Knowledge(Demolitions), Knowledge(Engineering), repair
Useful Edges: Jury Rig, Mechanically Inclined
The recruitment thread is up
paizo.com/threads/rzs2q6t9?Weird-Wars-II-Savage-Worlds-Recruitment