03-16-2019, 08:05 PM | #1 |
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Oz
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Flat Black by Facetime, 10:30–13:30 UTC Fridays
Edited to add: This campaign is now fully subscribed. Thank you for your attention.
After a long hiatus from role-playing, I'm planning to kick off a new campaign soon, which I will run by way of Facetime video chat from 8:30 PM to about 11:30 PM or midnight on Fridays, Australian Eastern Time¹. Session Zero (for character generation etc.) will be on the 29th of March 2019, the adventures will begin on Friday the 5th of April, 2019. Setting The campaign will be set in my perennial SF setting FLAT BLACK.Genre Serial rationalised planetary romance.Premise The player character or player characters will be "effectives"² working for some sort of interstellar non-government organisation, perhaps as troubleshooters, perhaps as secret operators, perhaps sometimes as one and sometimes as the other. They will not have official authority nor official duties. They will be involved in unofficial investigations of thefts and missing-persons, hostage rescue, object recovery, a bit of espionage sometimes, leak investigations, and sometimes subversion of government and non-government, but seldom if ever tasked explicitly with assassination.Tone & Content I'm aiming for varied mixture of scenes and exploits including combat, action, suspense, adventure, drama, and some spectacle. The focus will not be on combat or tactics, but violence will [almost] always be an option both for PCs and their antagonists. I won't emphasis the brutal, but the violence may sometimes be graphic. There will likely be some bawdy content. Sexual incident will likely occur from time to time; it will be mentioned explicitly but fleetingly, not described graphically. There will be anthropological content, including character nudity and bizarre social conduct. Warning: colourful Australian figures of speech.Game system I will probably run this game using ForeSight, a 1980s-style SF RPG based on Victory Games James Bond 007, SPI's Universe, and SPI's Commando, though that is subject to discussion.Participants So far I have one fellow signed up to play, and I expect that this will end up a one-on-one campaign. But if you're interested despite the time-zone, let me know._____ ¹ AET is AEDT (UTC+11:00) until 2019-04-07 (i.e. for the next three Fridays) then daylight saving ends and it will be AEST (UTC+10:00) until October. Daylight Saving is not really terribly convenient for co-ordinating people who live in different jurisdictions. ² "Effective" covers a range of duties in the field variously covering the ideas of "troubleshooter", "field agent", "private detective", and "clandestine operator". Effectives may work permanently for NGOS or private firms, or be free-lances; the term excludes government officials. Effectives are contrasted with spies in that their duties emphasise effecting changes to a situation rather than gathering information. Effectives have to be usually less violent and more subtle than special operators because they lack a military mandate.
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03-24-2019, 09:21 PM | #2 |
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Oz
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Re: Flat Black by Facetime, 10:30–13:30 UTC Fridays
Okay. I have three players signed up now, which feels like about the right number. Two are habitués of these forums.
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