I wish my friends would play D&D :cry:
Which reminds me, if any of you are starting up or want to start up a campaign with one of the 40k rulesets count me in.
The more I DM to more I want to be a player again
I went and bought Eclipse Phase (I have a problem, help) and after reading some of the fluff more in-depth, I kinda want to run a game where the players are hypercorp-sponsored XP stars who release their XPs on the mesh for a subscription fee.
The main villain could be their biggest fan, who knows all their moves and how they think, so he knows their weaknesses and such.
[QUOTE=Jrose14;49595334]The more I DM to more I want to be a player again[/QUOTE]
That's the exact opposite way I feel.
I just don't like having the role of GM all the time and just want to kick back a little, but nobody else wants to run stuff from my group.
[QUOTE=Alsojames;49595466]I went and bought Eclipse Phase (I have a problem, help) and after reading some of the fluff more in-depth, I kinda want to run a game where the players are hypercorp-sponsored XP stars who release their XPs on the mesh for a subscription fee.
The main villain could be their biggest fan, who knows all their moves and how they think, so he knows their weaknesses and such.[/QUOTE]
That actually sounds like a really cool idea.
Would the XP released be of missions they run or would they offer 24/7 coverage? If it's the former you could drop hints that their lives outside of their missions is being manipulated and recorded as well for more viewers.
Honestly Eclipse Phase is one of the better systems for blurring the line between genuine reality and constructed reality. Of course if you go deep enough down the rabbit hole you'll come to realise that there isn't any meaningful difference between the two.
The idea is that the team would be recording in the style of a reality TV show (anything they're approaching something potentially interesting, hit record), and after a mission, they'd dump their recordings on to a video editing crew who would cut it together into episodes and ensure no sensitive information got leaked.
One job = one season. So their mission to tackle a Nine Lives cell, from planning to execution to aftermath, would be cut up into however many episodes the editors could get out of it and uploaded weekly to the mesh while they wait to get hired again. Their agent doubles as their mission coordinator.
They'd have regular access to low-end morphs provided by the company to ensure that people unsub because their favourite character ate a bullet in episode 2, but this would eat in to their personal profits, obviously.
At some points during the campaign, they'd be heckled by fans/anti-fans who love/hate their show. The ability to resleeve to go under cover or just live their normal lives between seasons will be made to the players. (Could also result in some trauma because the constant resleeving is getting to them).
There's also potential for crossover episodes. On tonight's episode, the gang escorts the beautiful mesh star *whoever*.
And yes, the idea that the corps are actually manipulating things behind the scenes would work perfectly into this game. I toyed with the idea that the super fan who tries to take them on was actually hired by the company to provide some sort of major rival, given all kinds of money and criminal contacts by a shadowy network working for the corporation themselves, to create a Sherlock-Moriarty type of relationship.
Whether the characters react positively to having their lives manipulated (more fame, more money, yay!), negatively, or if they just don't care is up to the players themselves, but I think it could be a really neat way to explore all the different major aspects of Eclipse Phase (this episode, the team goes through a Pandora Gate and explores worlds unknown! This episode, the gang meets a mysterious organization who thinks the TITANs are returning! This episode, the team returns to Earth...)
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Perhaps each season could have a budget, and anything the characters buy can be taken out of that budget or their own money, and whatever is left of the budget at the end of a job is split evenly between the players and their coordinator (who would be an actor/corp crony)
Meanwhile, the plot hook for my Shadowrun game is "This sleazy nightclub owner is offering you money to kill people."
[QUOTE=Rents;49597659]Meanwhile, the plot hook for my Shadowrun game is "This sleazy nightclub owner is offering you money to kill people."[/QUOTE]
About as urgent as usual
Having an idea of an arc for a game is the most important part, because multiple sessions of nothing really going forward besides experience points is very good
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;49596008]That actually sounds like a really cool idea.
Would the XP released be of missions they run or would they offer 24/7 coverage? If it's the former you could drop hints that their lives outside of their missions is being manipulated and recorded as well for more viewers.
Honestly Eclipse Phase is one of the better systems for blurring the line between genuine reality and constructed reality. Of course if you go deep enough down the rabbit hole you'll come to realise that there isn't any meaningful difference between the two.[/QUOTE]
The Truman XP
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;49597666]About as urgent as usual[/QUOTE]
All of the urgency in this game is going to be from Elowin's character trying to make enough money to keep his kneecaps intact.
[QUOTE=Rents;49597958]All of the urgency in this game is going to be from Elowin's character trying to make enough money to keep his kneecaps intact.[/QUOTE]
I see he hasn't lost them in character creation this time
whats up with shadowrunners and their kneecaps getting blasted...
our sneaktheif got his blown out too
I like to imagine that kneecappings is the chief export of Northern Ireland in the grim dystopian future, a famed military technique passed through the wonders of a truly connected world.
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;49597996]whats up with shadowrunners and their kneecaps getting blasted...
our sneaktheif got his blown out too[/QUOTE]
Syndicates are fond of it, Yakuza usually go for cutting fingers off though.
My globally famous J-Pop Idol Catboy Wizard pissed off the Yakuza bosses by sleeping with all of their daughters, so I escaped to Seattle, but because I lost all my money I had to borrow a bunch from the Mafia. So now I'm running in the shadows to pay off my debts, along with an intelligent leopard that can turn into a catgirl, which I found picking through my trash one day.
[QUOTE=elowin;49598288]My globally famous J-Pop Idol Catboy Wizard pissed off the Yakuza bosses by sleeping with all of their daughters, so I escaped to Seattle, but because I lost all my money I had to borrow a bunch from the Mafia.[/QUOTE]
Next stop is the local triads, gotta pay your debts somehow.
Are there any games going on in the future? i feel like trying my hand at another game after that pathfinder campaign a while back, probably as a catholic priest/detective guy
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49598598]Are there any games going on in the future? i feel like trying my hand at another game after that pathfinder campaign a while back, probably as a catholic priest/detective guy[/QUOTE]
I'd invite you to play a priest in my SR game if it wasn't already overfull, because apparently my players need Jesus.
[QUOTE=Rents;49598666]I'd invite you to play a priest in my SR game if it wasn't already overfull, because apparently my players need Jesus.[/QUOTE]
The shadowrun world sounds so depressing it could make anyone turn to Jesus.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49598681]The shadowrun world sounds so depressing it could make anyone turn to Jesus.[/QUOTE]
Nah, most people go for drugs or VR
real life groups versus online groups for these games go
because I've got a real life group I play with and I really like that experience. it's a lot more personable and stuff
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49598681]The shadowrun world sounds so depressing it could make anyone turn to Jesus.[/QUOTE]
Magic fucking comes back, and the dude doesn't respawn, still. At least dragons make for good CEOs.
[QUOTE=ElusiveBadger;49598990]real life groups versus online groups for these games go
because I've got a real life group I play with and I really like that experience. it's a lot more personable and stuff[/QUOTE]
pros and cons to each
[QUOTE=Rents;49598949]Nah, most people go for drugs or VR[/QUOTE]
So whats the need for Jesus? Maybe Shadowrun Jesus can turn water into cocaine or something.
[QUOTE=ElusiveBadger;49598990]real life groups versus online groups for these games go
because I've got a real life group I play with and I really like that experience. it's a lot more personable and stuff[/QUOTE]
I prefer online groups because I don't have any friends [sp]that play these kinds of games.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49599162]So whats the need for Jesus? Maybe Shadowrun Jesus can turn water into cocaine or something.[/QUOTE]
Troll jesus turns water into hurlg.
[QUOTE=Vengeful Falcon;49598028]I like to imagine that kneecappings is the chief export of Northern Ireland in the grim dystopian future, a famed military technique passed through the wonders of a truly connected world.[/QUOTE]
Shadowrun campaign set in futuristic Ulster when
Advantage #1 of dating a villain in a superhero game
when you do get involved in a fight where the whole party is getting owned, and said villain is present but is a state of mental breakdown owing to all his men getting killed, turns out that me getting super-slammed into a wall and out of consciousness by the blood-demon monster of the moment is enough to make him snap out of it and use his super-move to fucking destroy it, to the point it goes all husk-Saren and loses all it's flesh and can only function as a short-lived evil skeleton before the sole remaining PC, our resident JUSTICE BOT, can blow it's head off with his laser
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