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[milo christiansen]

Hmm... From the little bit of fluff in the first post I got more "loosely organized teams being payed per-job/find by the government" and less "government organized teams of professionals on a salary". In other words, I'm guessing the PCs are a mercenary band operating in an area where the government is subsidizing work.

I could be totally wrong though...

If it is work directly for the government under government control, my character may have a slight issue being an escaped AI and all... Nothing a slight rewrite of my backstory can't fix. None of the fluff is set in stone until more setting details are revealed, for example if it is direct government teams I'll probably just be a FURRy assigned directly to the team that was given a few "interesting" off-book modifications by a bored tech or some such. Go legit basically

[Interus]

Oh yeah, I guess just having a system of paying and alerting teams of contractors would work, and fits with us being able to basically pick which jobs we go on. I think maybe you understood it better than I did.

[Mesa]

With how stories in West Marches-style games come out from players' organic interactions as opposed to a predefined plot, and with it being still so early (literally pre-session 0), it's definitely fine to not have all the details of your character's backstory or motivations figured out yet.

Hmm... From the little bit of fluff in the first post I got more "loosely organized teams being payed per-job/find by the government" and less "government organized teams of professionals on a salary". In other words, I'm guessing the PCs are a mercenary band operating in an area where the government is subsidizing work.

I could be totally wrong though...

If it is work directly for the government under government control, my character may have a slight issue being an escaped AI and all... Nothing a slight rewrite of my backstory can't fix. None of the fluff is set in stone until more setting details are revealed, for example if it is direct government teams I'll probably just be a FURRy assigned directly to the team that was given a few "interesting" off-book modifications by a bored tech or some such. Go legit basically

It is more of the former. The organization is (interstellar) government-funded, and there might be more 'regularly' paid workers in there among the NPCs, but you as the players are more of a mercenary/work-for-hire variety (regardless of background).


Indeed, you are not the only such team working in that manner - which means you might encounter other teams on your missions, and either ally or compete with them, for that much extra Fun(TM).



On an unrelated note, a friend of mine (and a few others possibly) is willing to partake in this, however I'm not sure how to resolve the issue of them not being on Bay12 (and not wanting to) and thus not being able to partake in the IC thread for downtime stuff.
Then again I'm still figuring out the specifics of how the downtime IC thread is going to work, and what you will be able to do there...

[milo christiansen]

Is there anyone interested who does not have Discord?

[Mesa]

Is there anyone interested who does not have Discord?

...Good question. Y'all?


I mostly threw that "no VC or Discord needed" as a weird precaution, however if it helps with some of the organization and whatnot I'm not against throwing something together for this.

[Rockeater]

I have discord

A question: I thought about a character that a robot or a soldier that work with the council and got to the crew to keep an eye on them, I didn't play any RPG before so if you don't want this kind of character or want someone who knows what he does with it just say so, I have some other ideas.

[Mesa]

I have discord

A question: I thought about a character that a robot or a soldier that work with the council and got to the crew to keep an eye on them, I didn't play any RPG before so if you don't want this kind of character or want someone who knows what he does with it just say so, I have some other ideas.

That should work, yeah. A little barren at the moment maybe, but it does sound like a fine concept, and I can definitely see it working if developed further.

[Jerick]

I mostly threw that "no VC or Discord needed" as a weird precaution, however if it helps with some of the organization and whatnot I'm not against throwing something together for this.

I have discord and I actually prefer VC as at times I can type glacially slowly which isn't the best for RPs.

[Interus]

I have discord. You could also create an IC thread on the game's Roll20 page. That might not get seen as much as here or discord though, since somebody could go straight from Recent Games to Launch Game, without really stopping at the front page.

I like the council soldier idea. There's another game I'm playing where I'm basically your standard Good Soldier, and I personally think it's fun.

[Rockeater]

My idea with this now is basically a modified body guard robot to go with mercenaries and make sure they won't cause more problems than they worth, but I don't know if I can play it in a way that fun to the group.

[scriver]

How many robits do we currently have? I kinda want to make a battlebot with the Battle Trance and Alternative Form feats, the idea being that it transforms into a turret-esque shape in combat and engages special battle programming.

I don't want there to be too many robot things around though. Maybe I'll just save the concept as a back up for when my squshy meatsack character inevitably dies or something.

[Mesa]

Well, we have Milo's Tau (a feline mech), Interus' SRS-1 combat drone companion, and my non-B12 friend is gonna play someone with a mech they can hop into during combat.


So by technicality only one pure robotic character, and one that does things differently enough where a sort of Overwatch Bastion-esque character still fills an untapped niche, if that's what you're after.

[scriver]

I don't play Overwatch so I had to google, but possibly, except maybe not so tanky. I'll keep the concept for later. I think I want to play a human or at least something living to begin with. I'm thinking I might be going for a commando type person. I haven't read through much more than character creation stuff yet so I'm not too sure about how combat works - is cover a thing in this system? I'm asking because I'm assuming we will be using mainly ranged weapons (or having mainly ranged weapons used against us), and manoeuvrability abilities looses a bit of use if you can shoot people just as well from the front as you can from the flanks or behind.

Speaking of your non-B12 friend, when I read the character example with a flying manticore companion/mount in the character creation guide I had the idea of a guy in flying thingy, something like that Vries guy from that Alien movie. It seemed like fun.

Edit: Fixed the second paragraph.

Also, a question: Do Combat Follow-through and Combat Momentum stack to let you both attack again and move as two free actions?

[Mesa]

I don't play Overwatch so I had to google, but possibly, except maybe not so tanky. I'll keep the concept for later. I think I want to play a human or at least something living to begin with. I'm thinking I might be going for a commando type person. I haven't read through much more than character creation stuff yet so I'm not too sure about how combat works - is cover a thing in this system? I'm asking because I'm assuming we will be using mainly ranged weapons (or having mainly ranged weapons used against us), and manoeuvrability abilities looses a bit of use if you can shoot people just as well from the front as you can from the flanks or behind.

Speaking of your non-B12 friend, when I read the character example with a flying manticore companion/mount in the character creation guide I had the idea of a guy in flying thingy, something like that Vries guy from that Alien movie. It seemed like fun.

Edit: Fixed the second paragraph.

Also, a question: Do Combat Follow-through and Combat Momentum stack to let you both attack again and move as two free actions?

AFAIK cover isn't strictly a mechanic per se, but it shouldn't be too difficult to just give disadvantage to attacks aimed at targets behind 'cover' (be it a wall, crate or another person), with higher levels of disavantage depending on how well hidden the target is.
Also I will try to keep a good mix of melee and ranged attacks, but with this being a sci-fi setting I will inevitably end up leaning towards ranged to at least some extent.


As for the Combat feats, I believe they do work together.

[Persus13]

This sounds intriguing, I'd potentially be interested.