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Originally Posted by Apollonian
Glorantha, obviously. Or, let's be honest, they just play beer & pretzels D&D. Maybe they've got a long-running campaign that's incorporated a bunch of classic modules and seen many characters come and go... or they're old school WFRP players.
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Hmmm... those are nice suggestions.
Dr. Lapointe has been associated with Kessler and his retinue of sailors, scholars, servants and security specialists for decades, but Ms. Talbot is fairly new, having only moved to Houston around 2016-2017, when she transfered to Rice University.
I still haven't named or fleshed out the entire crew of the
Penemue, so I don't know who else might be a part of their gaming group and for how long they've been playing. I'm absolutely taking suggestions for names, descrptions and quick backgrounds of characters who could take on the roles left unfilled in my list in the first post. Including a suggestion about their relationship with Dr. Lapointe and possible status as a gamer would be awesome.
I find myself leaning toward the Chief Engineer being a gamer, maybe. Or the medical doctor aboard (Dr. Lapointe has a PhD in English Literature). In either case, they would play characters utterly different from their personalities and roles aboard and resent any attempt to have them play up a stereotype that fits their profession, e.g. the stocky, hard-drinking Chief Engineer refuses to play any kind of dwarf, gnome, smith, gadgeteer or magical craftsman, having a fondness for slender elven mage-thieves, assassins or fencers. Or the equivalent for any RPG system eventually selected.
The doctor will not play clerics and a running joke is someone calling out at him: "Damnit, [name], you're a doctor, not a [completely different character concept, e.g. arcane archer, beastmaster, Jedi, battlerager, etc.]!"
I note that a new RuneQuest edition was published a couple of months ago, making it very plausible that Dr. Lapointe has by now assimilated the new edition rules and is excited to start a new campaign in a setting he used to love back in the day. Maybe they usually play Pathfinder, D&D 5e, Munchkin, Kobolds Ate My Baby and Hackmaster (each player having particular favourites), but Dr. Lapointe pushing them for a more serious campaign this time, for nostalgic reasons.