After Earth OOC

Blackrat · 3rd August 2007, 10:23 PM

They burned the sky!

You were on the last transport from ISS to colonyship Unity. Looking through the window you saw the black ship appearing from nowhere, immediatily opening fire at Earth. It seemed to launch thousands of glowing missiles that exploded as they reached the athmosphere. Zeus and Juno tried desperatily to harm the ship but to no avail. Your last image of Earth was a burning planet in the background as Zeus rammed the black planetkiller, and then it was gone as your transport docked with Unity...

It's been over a decade since Earth was caught in the middle of Areq'dah civil war and destroyed but the vision haunts your dreams still. You grew on this barren rock, in colony-station Unity listening to freighterpilots telling stories of the wonders of the universe:

-About Earth. How it's covered by a red cloud which no sensor can penetrate.

-About Areq'dah killing themselves to almost extinction in their civil war.

-About Galactic Rebuplic of Free Stars, formed by the former slave-races of Areq'dah imperium, and how they overthrew their distracted masters.

Never run a PbP before but I think I might give it a try.

The idea is a homebrew scifi universe using the SW-saga edition rules minus the force-related stuff and using PL and eguipment rules from D20 modern/future.

Humankind has been exploring the stars for only a few decades when Earth is destroyed in a galactic civil war. A decade later the few hundred thousand survivors live in cramped colony-stations, living their lives as outcasts of the universe, warring with eachother, commercing with the less hostile aliens and hoping that someday, someone will find an uninhabitet planet with earthlike conditions.

PC:s will be young adults who were still children when Earth was lost. They have been given command of a small commercial freighter owned by Far-Star Trading Company and a status of privateers by Unity's Council. Now preparing to take the old rustbucket-of-a-ship out for the first time.

Right now just seeing if there is any interest in the idea.

Mithran · 4th August 2007, 01:24 AM

Sounds interesting to me. Too bad I don't SW saga-edition. I wish the idea luck, anyway.

Blackrat · 4th August 2007, 01:32 AM

Well if there will be more like you who don't own SW-saga but is interested in the idea I might change it to full D20 modern/future. We'll see.

Voda Vosa · 4th August 2007, 01:36 AM

Well sounds like the type of game I like! I know the SW d20 system, if that helps. Also have some notions about d20 modern, at least of the buying stuff system he he.
So count with me for this!
Now... About character creation, is there some restriction to character classes or something? I would like some more info. Thanks in advance!

Shayuri · 4th August 2007, 01:59 AM

I'm interested, but I have a lot of games too. Still, I'd love to hear more about the specifics.

Rhun · 4th August 2007, 03:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackrat

Well if there will be more like you who don't own SW-saga but is interested in the idea I might change it to full D20 modern/future. We'll see.

I'd be interested if it used D20 Modern/Future or d20 Star Wars. I too (unfortunately) don't have the Sage edition.

Blackrat · 4th August 2007, 05:51 PM

Hmm. Seem like not too many owns the saga edition so I'll change this to completely D20 future game. If need be you can find the SRD in here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/msrd
If someone knows a site where it's more easily accessed please post a link.

I'll also implement this variant: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/ad...oundPoints.htm

There will be my own homebrew rules for armor also which I'll post later.

Character creation details:
-All humans
-28 point buy
-You may take 3 years out of starting occupation's minimum age. This is due to conditions in which humans live now: People will be needed to start working much earlier.
-I'd like a crew of five. Some suggestions on character concepts: You'll need someone who can fly your new ship, someone who knows navigation, someone who can repair it WHEN it breaks up, someone who can shoot with spaceship weaponry and possibly someone with some skill in conventional weapons also. It's offcourse possible for one character to fill more than one of these roles.

EDIT: Oh, and you'll start as 2nd level characters: You've had some time to gather some experience before setting of.

Shayuri · 4th August 2007, 06:05 PM

I'd like in after all. Nothing beats a little space pirating.

I'd love to be the pilot...I have an idea for a sort of space-rural sort. Grew up as a belter, knows spaceships and how to fly 'em like the back of her hand, but in a sort of down-home, scads of experience but not much book-learnin' sort of way.

ethandrew · 4th August 2007, 08:14 PM

Despite having no d20 experience and a slight susceptability to intimidation on trying new systems, this sounds like it could be a great game; a great premise at the least.

Micar Sin · 4th August 2007, 09:50 PM

I love the concept, so I'd like to give it a shot as well

Rhun · 5th August 2007, 03:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackrat

EDIT: Oh, and you'll start as 2nd level characters: You've had some time to gather some experience before setting of.

So what about equipment, weapons, etc? Are we using standard wealth rules, or is Far-Star Trading Company and the Unity Council going to take care of that?

What languages are available? Standard Earth languages? Any others we might need?

Voda Vosa · 5th August 2007, 09:45 AM

My character will be the most useless! I love that kind of roles XD hehe. No, seriously, I would love to be the tech specialist if that's ok with the rest.

Mithran · 5th August 2007, 03:53 PM

Woohoo! Now that it's Future I'm definitely interested. Probably build up a weapons specialist. What PL will the humans be at, out of curiosity?

Rhun · 5th August 2007, 05:35 PM

Character Build in Progress - Subject to Change

Damon Knight

Blackrat · 5th August 2007, 06:02 PM

Some background info:
Unity is a colony of about 60 thousand humans, situated in an asteroid-belt in the star system Idar. In the same system is the homeplanet of Korg, a race of philosophers who look a bit like mythological minotaurs. Unity is divided in three facilities sitting atop the three largest asteroids in the belt. Most of the asteroids in there are full of vanadium and so Unity has a rich mining industry. And because of this, Unity has very good trade-relations with many worlds.

The ruling body, Council of Unity consist of twenty elected councilors, but it is widely rumored that the true ruler of Unity would be Vincent Angel, the richest human in the universe, owner of Angel Industries, which in turn owns much of the mining corporations and trading companies on Unity and other colonies.

The Black Hole is the favourite tavern of the pilots in Unity. It's the place where many of the colony's kids spend most of their time, listening to the pilots telling stories of what they've seen on the other side of the universe. Black Hole's owner is actually a Korg named Shrew. He is big even for a Korg and can be quite a frightening sight when angried but he is peaceful and very friendly by nature. It is here where you (a group of friends who grew up listening to his stories) met and eventually befriended Stewie, an old freighter-pilot who decided to retire from flying and founded the Far-Star trading company. He has given you the command of his old ship and an adventurous job in the company. And the Council has given you the status of privateers: you may prey upon any ship that isn't part of Unity's fleet and you will always have a safe haven to return to, as long as you pay ten percent of your raiding profits to Unity.

Then to answer the questions:
Basic wealth system: You can buy any basic equipment from pl 5 and 6. Humanity had reached pl 6 before the attack so any pl 5 equipment will have a purchase DC 2 lover than usual, and pl 6 equpment will cost the normal. Weapons and armour have a lot more restrictions: Not many earth weapons were brought along to the colonies. You may have any common pistols from pl 5 but the ammunition will have a purchase DC 2 higher than norm. But since then humanity has began manufacturing laser and fletchette (from future tech) weapons wich may be bought at normal cost.
The only kind armor available at the moment is light scout armor which will be provided by Far-Star.

The homebrew armor rules which I mentioned before is that armor provides DR against certain kinds of damage instead of defence.
So this scout armor will provide DR 2 against slashing/piercing/ballistics, or DR 1 if unproficient. Otherwise it is similar to the scout armor in D20-future.

Languages: You'll get english and one other earth language free. Some of you should spend skill points to learn Dah, which is the commercial language of the Rebuplic of Free Stars.
Other languages which you may learn if you want are:
Thomaar and Syrran, languages of a couple of species that have a presence in Unity.
Korg, language of your closest neighbor.

Make the characters between 18 and 25 years old. It's been 12 years since earths destruction.

So far we have
Shayuri - Pilot
Voda Vosa - Techie
Mithar - Weapons spec.
Rhun - Jack of all trades?

Ethandrew and Micar Sin, Give me some character concepts and you're in. That means we'll have a good sized crew.

Rhun. You won't be needing drive skill as there are actually no ground wehicles in Unity. The background is a good start.

Rhun · 5th August 2007, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackrat

Make the characters between 18 and 25 years old. It's been 12 years since earths destruction.

So far we have
Shayuri - Pilot
Voda Vosa - Techie
Mithar - Weapons spec.
Rhun - Jack of all trades?

Rhun. You won't be needing drive skill as there are actually no ground wehicles in Unity. The background is a good start.

Good to know...I had meant to ask you about that. I almost took swim too, but realized it probably wouldn't be of much use.

I designed Damon to be the pilot, but if Shayuri wants that role, I will reassign a few skill points and pic another feat over Starship Operations. Then he can serve as a back up pilot if necessary...

ethandrew · 5th August 2007, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackrat

Ethandrew, Give me some character concepts and you're in. That means we'll have a good sized crew.

I'd love to play but I have no idea how the mechanics of d20 future works nor where to start with character builds. I suppose if someone held my hand throughout or even made it for me, and I just tell you what my modifiers were, it wouldn't be too much of a problem. And I'm sure I'd pick it up after a while too.

Raylis · 5th August 2007, 09:07 PM

if there's any room I'd like to toss my hat into the ring as a rough and tumble medic. "Yes, I'm a doctor; but that just means I know where to shoot you to make it really hurt."

Voda Vosa · 5th August 2007, 09:32 PM

Code:

 Name: Cnosos Pyropolis
Smart Heroe 2
Occupation: Technician

Str: 10 +0 (2p.)     Level: 2        XP: 0
Dex: 14 +2 (6p.)     BAB: +1         Hit points: 7+4= 11
Con: 12 +1 (4p.)     Grapple: +0     Wound points: 12
Int: 16 +3 (10p.)          
Wis: 10 +0 (2p.)     Init: +2     
Cha: 12 +1 (4p.)        

Defense:  13 = 10 base + 1 class + 2 dex
Ranged: +3
Melee: +1
                           Base   Mod  Misc  Total
Fort:                      0     +1          +1
Ref:                       0     +2          +2
Will:                       2     +0          +2

Languages: Greek , English
Dah , Thromaar , Syrran , Korg

Abilities: 


Feats: Heroic Surge, Personal Firearms Proficiency, Simple 

Weapons Proficiency (Class)

Skill Points: 48+12       Max Ranks: 8/4
Skills                                           Ranks  Mod  Misc   Total
Computer use                                     4    +3            +7
Craft (mechanical)                                6    +3    +1    +10
Craft (electronic)                                  6    +3    +1    +10
Demolitions                                         6    +3             +9
Knowledge (Physica science)                4    +3            +7
Knowledge (technology)                       4    +3    +1     +8
Listen*                                                2    +0             +2
Profession (mechanic)                           4    +0             +4
Repair                                               6    +3    +2    +11
Search                                              4    +3             +7
Disable Devise                                     4    +3              +7
Navigate                                             4    +3              +7
Speak Lenguage Dah            1
Speak Lenguage Thromaar    1 
Speak Lenguage Syrran        1
Speak Lenguage Korg           1


Talents:
Savant (Repair)

Equipment:               


Age: 25
Height: 1,7 m.
Weight: 70 kg.
Eyes: Black
Hair: Bold
Skin: withe

Appearance:
Cnosos is bold, with lock beard, of a deep black color. For a Greek, his skin is particularly withe, because of all the time he spends working with his machines. His eyes are black, and penetrating. He is usually introspective, and do not say much in a conversation. Cnosos thinks that is better to stay silent that say unnecessary things. He is not tall at all, and is not particularly tough build, but is quite agile for a guy that spends most of his time seated down in a workbench.

Background

When Cnosos whas about 13 years old, just a kid, his entire world perishes under the heavy mace of war. But for the first time in history, it wasn't a human war... For the first time, he and his specie wasn't to be blamed. Cnosos mother was a skilled technician, and Cnosos was more like her than like his father, who died in his home planet. In their new home, the Unity colony, the young man found in machines the perfect place to scape his current situation, spending hours and hours seated in front of his workbench, without sleeping. With his immune system depressed, Cnosos contracted an alien disease, mortal for them, but not so for humans: After month of treatment, he was lucky to lose just his head hair.
His skills in repairs and crafting components took renown, and soon enough he was claimed from here to there. He went over many companies, from manufacturing mining devices, disabling mining mines, and repairing the enormous mining droids (is there droids?) to repairing ships, empowering their engines and weaponry.
That way, shifting employments, he gets to know many people, even if he wants to or not. As time passed, he made some real friends, with who he shares booze and tales in the local tavern.

Just need to finish the equipment I think ^^ Anyway, could you check the sheet? I think its ok, but I usually make mistakes.

Mithran · 5th August 2007, 09:42 PM

Character so far. How should we roll for Wealth?

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