Plot
When a portal from another world appears in Ginza, Tokyo, a legion of soldiers and monsters emerge to attack the city. Thanks to their far more advanced weaponry and tactics, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) easily repels the enemy, passes through the gate and establish a forward base of operations to force the Roman-styled empire of the other world to open peace negotiations. Yōji Itami is a JSDF officer sent to investigate the other world, where magic, dragons and elves are real, using his knowledge of fantasy stories to make his way in this new environment.
This story will be different in a few respects.
A) It will take place starting off in the US, not Japan.
B) How much things can be taken through the gate will be limited, thus causing things to be less one sided.
C) All characters will be human military to start with, specifically National Guard units.
All characters use the following rules:
* Tech Level 8
* Must be in the National Guard (Army or Air force) or be inducted from a Domestic Police Force (Must have at least 5 points in Rank)
* Nobody can have more than 20 points in Rank.
* No more than one person can have 20 points in Rank.
* Equipment is provided, however if you have wealth, you can arrange for better versions of basic equipment (IE: Customized Firearms, Customized Uniforms, etc). How much is dependent on wealth. In general, only equipment you can carry within a 50lb rucksack can be personal.
* Everyone must take the National Guard Template below (costs 3 points).
* 75 Pt Builds with up to 50 pts in disadvantages and 5 quirks. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO USE ALL 50 POINTS OF DISADVANTAGES.
* You cannot choose a disadvantage that would cause you to not meet requirements to be in the National Guard (IE: Lame for example).
* Template Disads do NOT count toward maximum Disadvantages.
Template :
Total Character Cost : 3
Gain the following skill :
Soldier/TL8 at 1 point
Choose 2 of the following skills :
SK:Brawling
SK:Guns (Pistol)
SK:Guns (Rifle)
SK:Guns (Shotgun)
SK:Guns (Grenade Launcher)
SK:Guns (Submachine Gun)
SK:Knife
Choose 10 points from the following lists of Traits
Catfall (10)
Common Sense (10)
Rank (5)
Rapid Healing (5)
Recovery (10)
Security Clearance (5) or (10)
Voice (10)
Choose -10 points from the following list
Bad Temper (-10)
Bully (-10)
Callous (-5)
Chummy (-5) or (-10)
Code of Honor (Soldier's) (-10)
Flashbacks (-5)
Hard of Hearing (-10)
Honesty (-10)
Incurious (-5)
Nightmares (-5)
Overconfidence (-5)
Post Combat Shakes (-5)
Sense of Duty (-5) or (-10)
Social Disease (-5)
Unluckiness (-10)
Workaholic (-5)
You must be able, at the end of the process, able to qualify with Guns (Rifles), either by having that skill at 10 or higher, or by having a default from another Guns(*) skill at 10 or higher. For example, Guns (Pistol) 15 gives a default to Guns (Rifle) at 13.
I already have 5 players, and have openings for 2 more. There are already 2 NPCs introduced that can be taken over, or you can make a PC yourself. Since the game is already underway, first two people to FULLY complete characters will get the shot. However, I want concepts first, before you build a character.
Currently they have :
1 Army/SWAT sniper
1 Army/Firefighter Heavy Weapons Specialist
1 Army/Survivalist Heavy Weapons Specialist
1 Army/Core of Engineers Demolition Specialist
1 Army/Glory Hound Grunt
1 Army/Surgeon & Medic
1 Army/Communications Specialist (NPC)
1 Army/Command and Heavy Weapons Specialist (NPC) (SQUAD LEADER)
Squad will consist of 8 people. Already have several people who don't know GURPS or are very rusty (including the GM) so looking for people who are up on 4th edition primarily.
Also looking for people who can post at least once per day during the week.
I'd love to, but I'm in that boat of 'don't know GURPS very well'. Sorry.
GATE is one of my favorite LN's. I would have loved to play the national guard otaku close quarters specialist, though. Kinda super pleased to be going through the gate, generally a nice guy, but can outright wreck stuff with martial arts or a combat knife.
Alright, if I don't get any interest today, I'll let you take over one of the NPCs if you like. The commo specialist is a semi-decent fit for that concept.
Sounds good to me.
Right there in the list. :)
1 Army/Communications Specialist (NPC)
1 Army/Command and Heavy Weapons Specialist (NPC) (SQUAD LEADER)
If you wanted to take over the Command NPC, or take over as commander with your own character, that would be great. I hate having the commander be an NPC.
Ok, recruitment closed. Daniel, need something ASAP.
Rungok, You can take over the Comm officer.
Please create an alias as Elizabeth Morton and check in. I'll give you your sheet then.
Yep, that works. John Robertson. Check in on the thread and I'll put in a link to the character sheet.
Okay. My internet's out tonight but i should be back on tomorrow and this will be my top priority
Ok, I'm re-opening this recruitment. Rungok never got back to me, and we lost another player due to RL issues and website issues.
I have two already created characters you can just take over if you're interested, or you can build a new one and I'll get you in ASAP.
The two characters are :
PFC Timm Tones (although we can change the name) - A firefighter and heavy weapons specialist.
PFC Elizabeth Morton - Communications specialist and linguist.