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Finally... => Forum Games and Roleplaying => Topic started by: Emperor_Jonathan on April 05, 2010, 07:01:50 pm
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So, I have about a page and a half of notes on the setting, but I'm going to post a description of the setting now so you guys can suggest things and stuff. Anyway.
The Victorian Era lasted from 1837 until 1901. It brought with it the Industrial Revolution, great advances in transportation, medicine and sanitation improvements. But with this it brought great poverty throughout England, abuse of child labor and rampant prostitution. You will be dropped into a slightly romanticised version of this, it will mostly be historical with a few fantasy elements thrown in - mostly the stuff of legends (i.e. Werewolves). Fighting will take a smaller role in the game, with extra rewards being given out for diplomatic actions. There will be mostly custom classes, not many, I'm thinking of 4 or 5. Instead of classical class names I'm aiming for slightly more poetic names. Right now the classes I have are Gentleman, Musician, Brute and Surgeon.
The Gentleman is a character of grace and nobility. Well, on the surface anyway. With this class you have many choices of what your character should be, a smooth talking assassin? A charismatic thief? Perhaps a true gentleman. A gentleman would use rapier-like swords, small daggers, small pistols and their own charisma. The female title for this class would be Lady.
The Musician is a character of refinement and class. Underneath however, your character could be any number of things, a sly womaniser or a true musician. Musicians would use small daggers, pistols and at times their own instruments. Musicians could use their music to empower allies, while attacking his enemies, either by stunning, confusing or scaring them. At higher levels he can injure his opponents.
The Brute is a character of raw power and brutality. They could be bar brawlers, mercenaries, hunters, bandits and thieves. A brute could use any number of weapons from longsword and spears to hammers, maces and their own fists.
The Surgeon would be the healer character. They can heal their allies using their skills and medicine, while they could use saws, hacksaws and knives to attack enemies. They can also - finding enough ingredients - make potions to sell, whether the potions heal, damage or are just drugs are dependent on what you find.
Anyway, still working on it. Feel free to suggest things.
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Will there be mad science?
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Quite possibly.
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Sounds awesome. I would love if you include an Engineer class, one who tinkers with steam engines and the like.
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Sounds interesting. However, the Gentleman and the Musician seem a little too similar. I think they should be differentiated - for example, the Gentleman could be a duelist with pistols and the Musician could cast buffs with his songs.
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I see the gentleman class as being more capable of creating opportunities, assessing situations outside of conflicts and influencing long term events relying on their understanding of the broader picture. The musician on the other hand controls people more directly through illusion and charisma relying on their personal abilities. So gentlemen would include Sherlock Holmes, Nikola Tesla and Giuseppe Garibaldi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi) having large, indirect impact. Musicians would be people like Laurence of Arabia or the Red Baron and innumerable spies who's names were never known (the good ones).
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I like this idea...
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If anyone wants to take a look at the system we'll be using you can find the abridged version here:
http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG31-0004
Completely free.
Sounds interesting. However, the Gentleman and the Musician seem a little too similar. I think they should be differentiated - for example, the Gentleman could be a duelist with pistols and the Musician could cast buffs with his songs.
This is exactly what they are, but the flavor text I added made it confusing. Those were just examples, I don't want to restrict how they want their characters to be by their class. A PC's personality is dependent on their player, not a class.
If anyone else has more ideas feel free to suggest them.
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I want to join this as the Fop class. <_<
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Hey, what about Inspectors, who are more of skilljockeys than anything? Or would that really fall under Gentleman?
Oh, I have an idea! What about Cutthroat? They are squashy, but they use daggers, pistols and blackjacks to kill, they pick pockets and generally sneak about.
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After looking over the rules, I do not need classes. The classes I posted before are examples of the type of characters I want; this game is for Roleplaying, not fighting. Feel free to start making characters now, in skills you cannot have anything related to computers or electricity. I will allow the first pistol and the first rifle in the weapons section only for now. Technology Level is 5. You have 70 points. The setting will be in England as stated before, English will be the main language, other languages may be useful.
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Arrite! making my guy now.
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Any help for people who don't have appropriate rulebooks? <_<
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Wait don't, I still need to do stuff. Stuff that will make it easier.
Pandar: The GURPS lite I linked is all you need for a player.
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Oh ok. I'll just be making characters in silence to ease myself into this new system.
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Ah, sorry. Missed that.
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I hope this pans out into something; I'd love to know that I'm not the only person on the Internet who apparently gives a damn about GURPS. Of course, you're undercutting the whole point of the system with "classes", but premade templates are never a bad idea, so long as you allow people to alter them in GURPS fashion.
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What kind of commitment do you want?
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Yes, and within what medium will this game be played?
Can I put points in Tacticus?
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I'd love to know that I'm not the only person on the Internet who apparently gives a damn about GURPS.
There's a small group of Bay12 GURPS players on IRC.
What kind of commitment do you want?
Yes, and within what medium will this game be played?
The majority of the game will be played on the forum, this will be through day-to-day kind of stuff. Every IRL week will be a month in-game on the forums. Either once a week or once every two weeks, depending on my schedule, there will be an actual adventure on IRC. If you cannot make an adventure - perfectly fine. You keep playing the game on the forum and make the next one you can; I won't kick anyone out.
The actions on the forum is general stuff, working, generally living. I'm going to let you guys have free reign of what you do within the setting here - but charisma is going to be very useful for this. Points will be handed out for various things. At times I may get you to come on IRC and go through a specific situation.
The adventures will be your classic adventures, looting, killing etc. Extra points handed out for diplomatic actions (talking your ways past some enemies etc.).
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Hmmm, sounds good. I think I'll join.
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I might join depending if there is a spot and if I can learn the rules.
If so, dibs on bardmusician!
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How do I get to read Gurps lite?
Do I add to cart or what?
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Add to cart yeah, then checkout as an unregistered user.
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So, yeah.
In.
And thanks.
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So, do you want me to make a character based around the name?
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I'll get a char in soon then.
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How do you want me to give you my char sheet?
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How do I do this, as I don't know the char points.
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How do you want me to give you my char sheet?
PM it to me for now.
How do I do this, as I don't know the char points.
So, do you want me to make a character based around the name?
Char points are 100. And make whatever character you want.
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Sweet.
Doing it tomorrow