#1: Anyone have a server they play on with a minimally toxic atmosphere?
#2: Is there any interest in the MUSH community in playing one of these if someone purchased server space somewhere?
The reach had a Minecraft server for a moment and that was fun.
In terms of Star Wars SAGA I really wish someone who wasn't Vaapad would do an Old Republic game.
You can pretty much play any crazy thing you can dream up. No weird restrictions due to theme or a convoluted notion of theme.
Everyone has access to an endless source of conflict and no type of story could ruin the delicate balance of oppressive Empire and struggling Rebellion. The conflict is an actual faction rather than something like the Borg or the Taung or the Yuuzhan Vong.
High point buy. The option of a prestige starting level.
<wistful sigh>
I cut my teeth on both comic based and star wars games. The IDEA of FCs in the latter make me skeptical for all of the reasons already articulated but I'm the same guy who feels a good Star Wars game would utilize the Empire as an NPC or alt based black hat faction. A PC faction often becomes more concerned with winning than being a story mechanism. Some folks like to play Grand Moff Mary Sue and want to win or conduct space-fantasy world simulation instead of being a plot point so my way doesn't fit all.
The thing that struck me reading this is somone like Darth Vader whose primary character trait is to dominate every scene he's in. How cool might it be to have the chance to be the one who measures the judicious terror he's supposed to bring and inject that in small doses into story?
Pretty cool, I think, and hopefully interesting for everyone involved.
But, activity requirements? That's where it gets tricky. How do you make sure a character like that is not squatting but also not burning through his story potential by having to carry on forced conversations that violate what I would think is his appeal as a story device?
I'd probably restrict him too.
Good luck to you guys though FCs are fine in an environment that is more concerned with stories than a huge amount of connections.
I'd advocate for the position that most grizzled rebellious Corellians pretty much see Luke as a naive inexperienced hillbilly who got lucky. With the setting you've selected its really just our ooc bias that wants to put them on a pedestal.
Most of their super heroics have not occurred. Especially in a setting with more spacefantasy lasersword samurai than canon.
@GentlemanJack Probably. The space system was real-time for driving about but any vessel could pause local space and everybody would be frozen where they were in the space map. Which would allow the gm to incriment rounds for positioning with all the d6 space rules available through the actual ship objects. Really neat for setup possibilities.
Dunno if that was Dahan or not but I feel like it wasn't.
My recollection (now 15 years old) is that one guy coded it but another guy ran it was possessive about the code base to which the other guy, in sometimes typical coder fashion, didn't care because he just enjoyed the hobbiest coding bit.
So it may well have been lost but I was hoping that at some point maybe the owner may have preserved it/allowed someone else to have it and that it's still sitting in the corner of a HDD or CD somewhere.
Does anyone have a copy of this game they would be willing to distribute? I recall it having some very solid D6 coding and while it might need some policy modernization to emphasize cooperative story telling I imagine it might provide a good foundation for a D6 game. Not that I'm necessarily pitching anything, yet.
I want to play Shadowrun.
I want to play a version of Shadowrun that doesn't require you to calculate wind-direction in order to determine whether or not your shotgun geeks someone. Please make a shadowrun game that uses a system created after 1999.
THX.
@ZombieGenesis @Lithium I made a character on Empire Bay about four weeks ago and have yet to see anyone do much of anything. I'm not sure what the problem is (or was) but a lack of current activity seems to be part of it. It doesn't look like anyone has even BBPosted anything since mid-April. There were/are at least two staffers though.