[Interest Check] SWN Revised

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[Interest Check] SWN Revised

#1 Post by sulldawga »

If I were to run a Stars Without Number game, who might be interested?

The game concept would be your party are high ranking operatives of something... a Corporation or a House, you guys can choose. There's an interstellar war going on and your home polity has authorized you to become a privateer with an old-fashioned Letter of Marque.

Your bosses see this war as a good thing. Chaos breeds opportunity. They've assigned you a Corvette at your command. The bad news is that A. you need to make money or your bosses will find someone else to do the job and B. the enemy has ships bigger than Corvettes.

So you guys can explore, adventure, loot wrecks, trade in exotic cargoes, and/or prey on enemy shipping and smaller warships.


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Character level etc.?

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Wyzard wrote:Character level etc.?
I'm usually a "start at 1st level and I'll accelerate the XP for PbP purposes" guy but I think you have to demonstrate a basic level of competency before your employer entrusts a Corvette to your care.

So I'm going to say 3rd level.

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thirdkingdom wrote:Sup.
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Hey, would you be allowing AIs? If not, psychics? Also, what kind of alignment should the party have? I’m guessing neutral, maybe evil since we’re basically legal pirates.

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Welcome Verenes Aoene!
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Verenes Aoene wrote:Hey, would you be allowing AIs? If not, psychics? Also, what kind of alignment should the party have? I’m guessing neutral, maybe evil since we’re basically legal pirates.
I don't know if I'll allow AI PCs at this point. It depends on the players I choose for the game.

Psychics will be allowed.

Alignment isn't a concept in SWN.

Also, the PCs are businessmen, more or less, not pirates. The primary objective is to earn credits, so your bosses don't take their ship back. It's not about being evil. If you're looking for that sort of game, you've come to the wrong place.

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sulldawga wrote:
Verenes Aoene wrote:Hey, would you be allowing AIs? If not, psychics? Also, what kind of alignment should the party have? I’m guessing neutral, maybe evil since we’re basically legal pirates.
I don't know if I'll allow AI PCs at this point. It depends on the players I choose for the game.

Psychics will be allowed.

Alignment isn't a concept in SWN.

Also, the PCs are businessmen, more or less, not pirates. The primary objective is to earn credits, so your bosses don't take their ship back. It's not about being evil. If you're looking for that sort of game, you've come to the wrong place.
I thought we had a Letter of Marque? Am I misunderstanding Letters or is that just not the focus?

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I'm not sure which way I'll go regarding a character. My general inclination is Psychic or AI, but mostly I want to have a party that fills the slots for Battle Stations.

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Verenes Aoene wrote:I thought we had a Letter of Marque? Am I misunderstanding Letters or is that just not the focus?
There's a difference between pirates and privateers.

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sulldawga wrote:
Verenes Aoene wrote:I thought we had a Letter of Marque? Am I misunderstanding Letters or is that just not the focus?
There's a difference between pirates and privateers.
What's the space-borne equivalent of maritime law? Do we need to have someone with that skill?

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Wyzard wrote:What's the space-borne equivalent of maritime law? Do we need to have someone with that skill?

:ugeek:
I'd allow questions of that nature to be answered (on a successful skill check) by anyone with the Administer skill. Maybe Trade at a -1.


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thirdkingdom wrote:I'm going to need a day or two to read over the new rules and figure out what I want to do, class-wise.
There's lots of time here. No rush.

Just to be transparent, this game is not a first-come, first-served situation when choosing players but I always leave slots for folks who have run games in which I've played, and both thirdkingdom and Wyzard fit that profile.

Of course, we only have interest from four players so beggars can't always be choosers! Like Wyz said, I'd like to get to five so we can have one player for each of the ship departments.

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So, shall I make my char now, or just wait until we have more players or have gotten it more solidified in general?

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Verenes Aoene wrote:So, shall I make my char now, or just wait until we have more players or have gotten it more solidified in general?
I haven't chosen any players for the game except Wyzard and thirdkingdom.

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sulldawga wrote:
Verenes Aoene wrote:So, shall I make my char now, or just wait until we have more players or have gotten it more solidified in general?
I haven't chosen any players for the game except Wyzard and thirdkingdom.
Oh right, sorry, I’ll cool my jets. I’d like to play a AI or a psychic if you pick me, if not that’s also fine.

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Verenes Aoene wrote:Oh right, sorry, I’ll cool my jets. I’d like to play a AI or a psychic if you pick me, if not that’s also fine.
Do you have any examples of PbP games you've been in? I know the other three guys in this thread but I'm unfamiliar with you.

And I want people who are excited about the game. I just want to make sure we're on the same page with the whole concept of "privateer vs evil pirates". You guys aren't space paladins or the like but we're not selling anyone into slavery here, if you know what I mean.

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