[OOC] Keeping in the Black

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This is a space adventure game set in Joss Whedon's Firefly 'verse. The players will form a crew for their ship and take odd jobs to keep themselves going. Possibly very odd. The flavor will be gritty--normal people trying to survive without losing their dreams.

This campaign has a full crew. If you're interested in buying a passenger ticket or shipping some freight please post in the OOC thread.

Rules will be GURPS 4e supplemented by GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars for spaceship and gear stats when necessary. This is not a Traveller game. Ships move at the speed of plot, the story will be episodic, and profits are "big," "enough," or "taking a bath." Players won't need anything other than GURPS Lite to play unless they want to do something fancy. Characters are limited to 150 points with 60 points of disadvantages. Unspent points can be used in play as cinematic points. The setting is mostly TL9. Cinematic traits are generally off-limits (but if you can point to an example in the show you can ask).

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The starting adventure is forming a crew and buying the ship, not necessarily in that order. A PC can spend 60 character points to buy the ship outright. 35 points will provide a down payment (the ship and a 25 pt combination of Debt and Duty depending on how it's financed). Three or more PCs can pay 20 points each for a joint down payment (a share of the ship and 15 pt Debt/Duty). Being a hired hand is worth zero points.

If you want to play post in the IC thread and talk to the other prospective crew members. Decide if there'll be a partnership, a PC captain/owner, or if the PCs will all be working for an NPC captain. Character sheets don't have to be written up until the roles have been decided. I'll post a list of required skills and supply an NPC crewmember for any skill not covered by the PCs.

Crew so far:

Username	PC Name			role		color
Cyratos		Marcus Zadrowski	doctor		Green
Dorin Thorha	Mendiblis		captain		Navy
-		Cortex			narration	blue
jmurrell	Rayna Escamador		engineer	DarkRed
Skullcrusher	Kane			pilot/guard	seagreen
younglorax	Kevin Suzuki		supercargo	Indigo
MisterJuan	Mills			navigator	DarkSlateBlue
archypetro	Luthor Everard		pilot		Magenta