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Sci-Fi GeoPol Roleplaying Offering
Topic Started: Aug 20 2010, 01:43 AM (920 Views)
Al Araam
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I'm headed back to school this week and so will have a little less going on for the foreseeable future. I'm interested in trying to put together and run a play-by-post science fiction roleplaying. You all know the basics of this type of game, so I figured I'd pitch the idea here and see if there's enough interest to actually pursue development. Although the general idea will be similar to what we have here at NSWR, it won't be quite as rules lite. There will be a set timescale and a method of arbitrating conflicts between players and with NPCs (assuming there are any). Furthermore, budgeting and distributing the resources available will determine a nation's growth and capabilities. Each player will decide how heavily to tax their population and what portion of their budget they spend on military procurement and upkeep, economic stimulus, scientific research, etc. I've participated in several games that use these types of rules and enjoyed them. Usually good roleplaying during a budget period is rewarded by offering the players an increased rate of GDP growth the following budget period, although this is not the only way GDP growth can happen.

This is currently no more than an idea. I would still need to cobble together a ruleset and draw out whatever maps we need to start with. The benefit for anyone willing to devote a little time to this endeavor at this point would be that they could shape the direction this game develops in. I'd be fine with running a game spanning a single planet, a solar system, or a reasonably sizable number of stars, depending on what people are interested in. I think something like five to ten players would be eminently manageable. If things turn out well, new players could join after the game gets underway.

So, would anyone be interested?
Edited by Al Araam, Aug 20 2010, 01:44 AM.
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Rhadamanthus
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Maybe - not sure what I'd be up to.
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Nag Ehgoeg
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I would definitely play. I can't guarantee I'd play for more than half an hour a week.
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Tristan da Cunha
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I've been interested in hosting a ruleset-based RPG set in the 17th century. However, not seeking to compete with your SciFi GeoPol Roleplaying Offering, I plan to hold my Age of Colonization Offering as a blitzkrieg session over the course of 3 or 4 weeks and its foibles and follies may offer insight into the design of the ruleset in your SciFi RPG. With your blessing I will commence my RPG immediately.
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I'd be up for a game with a decent set of rules.
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Nag Ehgoeg
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Aug 20 2010, 04:25 PM
I'd be up for a game with a decent set of rules.
You wound me.

But a C17th would also be cool.
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Tristan da Cunha
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This is my ruleset for my RPG which is entitled "Paint it Orange":

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Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Aug 20 2010, 05:39 PM.
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Tristan da Cunha
Aug 20 2010, 05:30 PM
This is my ruleset for my RPG which is entitled "Paint it Orange":

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Holy shit, I'm down.
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Aelius
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Sounds fun. I'm game.
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Aug 20 2010, 05:46 PM
Tristan da Cunha
Aug 20 2010, 05:30 PM
This is my ruleset for my RPG which is entitled "Paint it Orange":

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Holy shit, I'm down.
Yes. I'll start working on my character immediately.
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New Harumf
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Dank you! I'm in all the way!
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Rhadamanthus
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Ok, I'm in for TC's game now, and if I can keep that up, Araam's game later.
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Quaon
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I am in. I would like to play a Jew at the Difficult level whose name is Daniel Weizman. I'll leave the backstory up to TC.
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Rhadamanthus
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If I play at Pansy, can I get a railgun?
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Al Araam
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Sounds like fun, TC. I may have to play myself while I try to figure out how to go about piecing together a ruleset.
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Quaon
Aug 21 2010, 02:57 PM
I am in. I would like to play a Jew at the Difficult level whose name is Daniel Weizman. I'll leave the backstory up to TC.
Damn you, you stole my character.
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New Harumf
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My character is Jesus Rodriguez, a Spaniard who has converted to Lutheranism. I wish to play at the difficult level. I will leave the remaining back-story to TC.
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I will play as Wilhelm Tell, a Mercenary from the Swiss Confederacy. He shall be Catholic. The rest I will leave to the DM. Difficult level.
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Al Araam
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Here's a basic overview of what I hope to include:
- Economic System
-- 4 economy types that confer benefits and drawbacks
-- 4 government types that confer benefits and drawbacks
-- Rudimentary trade system will allow for embargoes
- Warfare
-- Wage war on the ground and in space
-- Conduct operations ranging for raids to full invasions
- Espionage
-- Gather intelligence and conduct covert operations
-- Establish intelligence agencies that excel in particular types of operations
- Ship Customization
-- Designs based around 10+ hull types
-- Customization through the addition of 18+ modules
- Exploration
-- Find stellar objects that provide you with additional funds, tactical benefits, instantaneous transportation, etc
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Aelius
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For TC's game: I'll take Medium, as a carpenter-turned-merchant. Marcus Van De Mirn shall be his character name.
Edited by Aelius, Aug 21 2010, 10:41 PM.
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Aug 21 2010, 10:41 PM
For TC's game: I'll take Medium, as a carpenter-turned-merchant. Marcus Van De Mirn shall be his character name.
No! You should be a.......VIKING!
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Tristan da Cunha
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True story - today I accidentally dove head-first into a concrete barrier while playing basketball, giving me a concussion and sprained arms and legs - you can imagine one of those Looney Toons where Wil E Coyote slams into a wall and his body crumples up like an accordion. So the moral of the story is that I would appreciate if more people wrote descriptions for their own characters because these are surprisingly time-consuming to write. This is what I have so far, I'll add more later.

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New Harumf
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Sorry for your Wilie E. moment, but thanks for the profile!
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Menhad
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Yeah basketball can get violent. I've seen busted lips, broken noses and broken fingers/limbs all while playing a "pickup game"

But I am interested in your RPG TC, and yours as well Al. But as for TC I'll write my own description.

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Aug 22 2010, 12:58 PM
Yeah basketball can get violent. I've seen busted lips, broken noses and broken fingers/limbs all while playing a "pickup game"

But I am interested in your RPG TC, and yours as well Al. But as for TC I'll write my own description.

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Cheap ass imitator! Landscheckts........
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