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Post by ffilz on Nov 18, 2016 17:01:38 GMT -5
I've long been considering running some form of online Traveller campaign, using Google Hangouts, Roll20, or something else.
My thought is this is not a good time to start, but in the new year could be a very auspicious time to start.
So I'm wondering what sort of interest there would be in a once a week (or maybe every other week) game most likely Tuesday 7:30 PM Pacific Time to 10:30 or thereabouts. Key is it has to be after the kids bed time.
Frank
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Post by Dartanian on Nov 21, 2016 13:49:48 GMT -5
Hope you find some takers, past my bedtime. Or you might start your own pbp.
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Post by ffilz on Nov 21, 2016 14:11:51 GMT -5
I'm also considering starting a Play by Post over on ODD74 (or I could start it here, but so far there's more interest in odd74.
If you are interested, but don't frequent odd74, let me know.
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Post by Dartanian on Nov 21, 2016 15:09:48 GMT -5
I will consider it, but from what I have been reading makofan is putting people on a waiting list. I am not sure people are seeing the post here. Maybe you should have the admin move this to where it may be seen by more people. Maybe plenty of people will come here to play. There is already a subsector created and I see a second one is started. Maybe that should be publicized more too. I don't have a blog or I would blog about both. Maybe some of the people here should mention both on a half dozen blogs and get word out?
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Post by ffilz on Nov 21, 2016 15:12:27 GMT -5
I wasn't sure where the best place to advertise here was... I didn't want to be rude to Makofan and post in his board...
As to setting, I've been cooking up my own ideas, so would use them rather than the subsectors being developed here.
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Post by Dartanian on Nov 21, 2016 15:48:55 GMT -5
I wasn't sure where the best place to advertise here was... I didn't want to be rude to Makofan and post in his board... As to setting, I've been cooking up my own ideas, so would use them rather than the subsectors being developed here. I would guess that the best place to put it would be in General Discussion. As to the other, we have Space: 1977, perhaps you should ask the admin to create a place for you, after all the more the merrier. I see that makofan is running two groups and who knows there may enough interest for at least one more, if not more. Several members have blogs, if it were moved to general discussion and blogged about then you could gauge interest, as for makofan's board, ask him. Its cool either way, right?
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Post by makofan on Nov 21, 2016 15:54:15 GMT -5
ffilz Please don't let me hold you back for anything. Consider my board to be your board, and even if people abandon me for you, that's cool. It's all about the players and the fun.
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Post by Admin Pete on Nov 21, 2016 17:40:11 GMT -5
I wasn't sure where the best place to advertise here was... I didn't want to be rude to Makofan and post in his board... As to setting, I've been cooking up my own ideas, so would use them rather than the subsectors being developed here. I would guess that the best place to put it would be in General Discussion. As to the other, we have Space: 1977, perhaps you should ask the admin to create a place for you, after all the more the merrier. I see that makofan is running two groups and who knows there may enough interest for at least one more, if not more. Several members have blogs, if it were moved to general discussion and blogged about then you could gauge interest, as for makofan 's board, ask him. Its cool either way, right? ffilz if you need anything mentioned here or anything else, just ask!
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Post by Ronin84 on Nov 21, 2016 19:07:13 GMT -5
I would be interested in the pbp here or there...I can't do the roll 20....just let me know.
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Post by Admin Pete on Nov 21, 2016 22:27:22 GMT -5
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Post by ffilz on Nov 22, 2016 15:01:27 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Darci on Nov 26, 2016 8:28:47 GMT -5
I hope that you can run it here.
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Post by ffilz on Nov 26, 2016 19:55:08 GMT -5
I hope that you can run it here. I've got critical mass over on odd74 so will be running there. If there is enough interest here and running an OD&D game plus Traveller isn't too much I might try here also.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Nov 28, 2016 15:09:55 GMT -5
Please let us know, when you decide to run a game here.
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Post by ffilz on Nov 29, 2016 1:26:20 GMT -5
Please let us know, when you decide to run a game here. Will do.
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Post by Bandersnatch on Dec 6, 2016 12:23:56 GMT -5
Please let us know, when you decide to run a game here. Good Show!
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Post by ffilz on Jun 12, 2017 11:31:31 GMT -5
Ok, who might be interested in a play by post here? My Google Hangouts game has imploded due to a variety of reasons and that leaves me with the energy to run one more play by post game.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 13, 2017 7:34:56 GMT -5
Ok, who might be interested in a play by post here? My Google Hangouts game has imploded due to a variety of reasons and that leaves me with the energy to run one more play by post game. I should be able to do one more game, count me in.
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Post by ffilz on Jun 14, 2017 8:51:44 GMT -5
Ok, who might be interested in a play by post here? My Google Hangouts game has imploded due to a variety of reasons and that leaves me with the energy to run one more play by post game. I should be able to do one more game, count me in. Are you willing to jump to another site for gaming? I've got another player interested over on Unseen Servant.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 14, 2017 13:05:07 GMT -5
I should be able to do one more game, count me in. Are you willing to jump to another site for gaming? I've got another player interested over on Unseen Servant. No offense ffilz, but I don't think I will do that at this time. I do appreciate the invite.
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Post by ffilz on Jun 14, 2017 13:17:34 GMT -5
Are you willing to jump to another site for gaming? I've got another player interested over on Unseen Servant. No offense ffilz , but I don't think I will do that at this time. I do appreciate the invite. No problem. If I get sufficient interest here and am not overwhelmed with games I might start one here yet...
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 14, 2017 21:52:49 GMT -5
We have several people that haven't been around for a while and just seem to have dropped out of sight.
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Post by ffilz on Jun 15, 2017 11:16:55 GMT -5
I'd love to run here, I just haven't gotten enough player interest here...
But I also don't seem to be getting much interest on Unseen Servant either...
Several folks have asked why I don't run one over on Citizens of the Imperium, but I find that forum very frustrating (it's one of these forums that decides after you've visited, that you read everything, even though you only had time to read a couple threads) and it seems like most of the PbP there don't get their own sub-forum, so you have to chase your threads among everyone's...
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Post by erisred on Jun 16, 2017 16:52:19 GMT -5
I'd love to run here, I just haven't gotten enough player interest here... But I also don't seem to be getting much interest on Unseen Servant either... Several folks have asked why I don't run one over on Citizens of the Imperium, but I find that forum very frustrating (it's one of these forums that decides after you've visited, that you read everything, even though you only had time to read a couple threads) and it seems like most of the PbP there don't get their own sub-forum, so you have to chase your threads among everyone's... I'm with you about the CotI forum! I do enjoy the Traveller related conversations, but I do not like the way the forum works. I tried to play in a game there and it was...what's worse than awful?...yeah, that bad. IMO, CotI for discussion, somewhere else for gaming.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 19, 2017 8:56:04 GMT -5
Summer seems to have set in and things have gotten very quiet around here. Do you run any other games besides Traveller?
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Post by ffilz on Jun 19, 2017 10:54:20 GMT -5
I will be using Classic Traveller 1977 Books 1-3 (with some text taken from 1981), though I am seriously considering the range band space combat from Starter Traveller. I have been taking a lot of Christopher Kubasik's ideas to mind (and the other folks who have also been posting in the same vein), so reading his blog will be useful for getting a feel for where I cam coming from. I have in progress, reasonably happy with, modified skill tables for Supplement 4 which I am open to discussion with players about. Setting will be my own, currently working on a 2 subsector area somewhat inspired by the Seven Sisters and District-268 subsectors of the Spinward Marches that is at the frontier and beyond of "the imperium" (whatever that is...). The encounter tables and procedures in the books (and more tables I pull from other places or just flat out make up) provide a lot of implicit setting. I've posted a map here in this board. My concept within the setting is that the PCs are mostly ex-military (with Merchants and Other thrown in of course, plus possibly the odd Supplement 4 career or two) all having mustered out on the same world, or having made their way there. I will leave it up to the players to add more definition as to why they know each other, but I think that should be a given (or if someone is unknown the the group, the players have primed things so we don't play the "we all meet in the bar and get into a fight). I'm assuming someone will muster out with a ship and the group has an interest in exploring the sandbox and figuring out what they can make of it (trade, trying to find a world to exploit, just wandering, whatever). But it's a sandbox, and it's your game as much as mine, so ultimately we will work together and I hope something exciting will emerge from play. My campaign has a web page with links to my house rules, setting information, various inspections of Traveller material (including a section by section comparison of the various versions of Classic Traveller) and links to all of Christopher Kubasik's blog posts on Traveller: www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Gaming/winedark.htmlThanks for your interst, Frank
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Post by ffilz on Jun 19, 2017 10:57:20 GMT -5
Summer seems to have set in and things have gotten very quiet around here. Do you run any other games besides Traveller? I could also be arm twisted to run a second OD&D game set in either the Wilderlands of High Fantasy or Blackmoor. If folks really arm twisted, I could also run RuneQuest in Glorantha, but I'm not sure how well it's combat system lends itself to play by post. And if you want to get non-OSR, but still in some ways old school, there's also Burning Wheel. And I guess if you really pleaded, there are a number of other games I own that I could run (I guess if several folks came pounding on my door, I'd dust of Bunnies and Burrows...). Frank
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 19, 2017 11:37:13 GMT -5
I will be using Classic Traveller 1977 Books 1-3 (with some text taken from 1981), though I am seriously considering the range band space combat from Starter Traveller. I have been taking a lot of Christopher Kubasik's ideas to mind (and the other folks who have also been posting in the same vein), so reading his blog will be useful for getting a feel for where I cam coming from. I have in progress, reasonably happy with, modified skill tables for Supplement 4 which I am open to discussion with players about. Setting will be my own, currently working on a 2 subsector area somewhat inspired by the Seven Sisters and District-268 subsectors of the Spinward Marches that is at the frontier and beyond of "the imperium" (whatever that is...). The encounter tables and procedures in the books (and more tables I pull from other places or just flat out make up) provide a lot of implicit setting. I've posted a map here in this board. My concept within the setting is that the PCs are mostly ex-military (with Merchants and Other thrown in of course, plus possibly the odd Supplement 4 career or two) all having mustered out on the same world, or having made their way there. I will leave it up to the players to add more definition as to why they know each other, but I think that should be a given (or if someone is unknown the the group, the players have primed things so we don't play the "we all meet in the bar and get into a fight). I'm assuming someone will muster out with a ship and the group has an interest in exploring the sandbox and figuring out what they can make of it (trade, trying to find a world to exploit, just wandering, whatever). But it's a sandbox, and it's your game as much as mine, so ultimately we will work together and I hope something exciting will emerge from play. My campaign has a web page with links to my house rules, setting information, various inspections of Traveller material (including a section by section comparison of the various versions of Classic Traveller) and links to all of Christopher Kubasik's blog posts on Traveller: www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Gaming/winedark.htmlThanks for your interst, Frank Thanks for the info! I followed up on Christopher Kubasik and that lead me to this post TRAVELLER: Out of the Box–The Peculiar Lack of Science-Fiction in Original Traveller. That is awesome! Your Traveller sited is loaded!!
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jun 19, 2017 11:38:35 GMT -5
Summer seems to have set in and things have gotten very quiet around here. Do you run any other games besides Traveller? I could also be arm twisted to run a second OD&D game set in either the Wilderlands of High Fantasy or Blackmoor. If folks really arm twisted, I could also run RuneQuest in Glorantha, but I'm not sure how well it's combat system lends itself to play by post. And if you want to get non-OSR, but still in some ways old school, there's also Burning Wheel. And I guess if you really pleaded, there are a number of other games I own that I could run (I guess if several folks came pounding on my door, I'd dust of Bunnies and Burrows...). Frank I would be up for an OD&D game set in either of those settings.
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Post by magremore on Jun 19, 2017 19:51:23 GMT -5
I could also be arm twisted to run a second OD&D game set in either the Wilderlands of High Fantasy or Blackmoor. I would be up for an OD&D game set in either of those settings. Same here. Especially Blackmoor.
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