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ESPION - the game of spies (CLOSED)
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Ranger Rick
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Bobitron said:
Than make it an inane but fun one. Knowledge of cigars or wine or single malt scotch. Maybe TV theme songs, radio jingles or Russian 19th century poets or you collect chess sets or even TSR game manuals.
Hey guys,
I know I said I'd get the game started yesterday... but I'm inching along at work, so I'm a bit behind. I have put everyone into a Rogue's Gallery though... so that is the first step. Take a look here:
ESPION Rogue's Gallery
...to see the four characters put up. If there is any information you want added in the top sections that you haven't decided on yet, let me know and I'll edit them. First game post will hopefully be tomorrow. Thanx guys!
I know I said I'd get the game started yesterday... but I'm inching along at work, so I'm a bit behind. I have put everyone into a Rogue's Gallery though... so that is the first step. Take a look here:
ESPION Rogue's Gallery
...to see the four characters put up. If there is any information you want added in the top sections that you haven't decided on yet, let me know and I'll edit them. First game post will hopefully be tomorrow. Thanx guys!
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shadowbloodmoon
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Looks good.. I would say Jason is mid 30's, has no hair and has blue eyes. Just under 6 feet and 184 lbs.
Bobitron
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Looks great, DEFCON! Glad to be starting. Can you add ESPION into the background on Elz? I had just put a placeholder in when I wrote the history. Also, is there plans to give us more info on the organization?
As for specialites, I'm really pretty happy with what I have. Adding another would feel 'tacked-on' to me at this point.
As for specialites, I'm really pretty happy with what I have. Adding another would feel 'tacked-on' to me at this point.
Festy_Dog
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Rogue's gallery post is pretty good for the most part, Carl's height is about 5'9" and he weighs approx. 160 lb.
Defcon, is it alright to have ambition as his hubris? Like you suggested I found it to fit better than loyalty. That and there's some more ideas for the character taking form in my head, and ambition would make more sense in their case than anything else.
Defcon, is it alright to have ambition as his hubris? Like you suggested I found it to fit better than loyalty. That and there's some more ideas for the character taking form in my head, and ambition would make more sense in their case than anything else.
Thanx for the input guys, I'll update the Gallery shortly.
Festy Dog... the only reason I changed the hubris was because as I was copying over that section to the Gallery, what you had written previous was more indicative of Loyal rather than Ambitious. Cause basically you said that Carl was an ambitious guy who always tried to get ahead EXCEPT when it came to his loyalty towards his fellow agents or even enemies. When push came to shove... Carl would help his fellow agents even to the detriment of the mission or his own personal safety. Since a person's Hubris should be the one part of them that'll get the person into more trouble than anything else... it seemed to me that helping his enemies out of jams out of some misguided sense of job loyalty would be the thing that'd eventually bite him on the ass.
However, I have no problem making it Ambitious if you'd prefer to rewrite or edit your descriptive Hubris section to put more emphasis on his ambition than his loyalty. In that case... his character should be such that he'll purposely NOT help his fellow agents if his actions without them will garner him more acclaim and career advancement. That's what an Ambitious hubris is... putting your own self-interest ahead of everyone else. If you do want to stick with the idea though that he'll help other agents regardless of what kind of trouble it might cause, then Loyal would be the correct description of his Hubris to use. Your choice. Write whatever you think makes for the most interesting character and roleplaying choice (since ou'll be the one to have to live with it). Thanx!
I will say though... from a roleplaying perspective with this group... I think Loyal might give you more interesting character opportunities. With Elz's Rash hubris making her running off in all different directions... and Marcus's Indecisiveness stopping him from acting at all... playing with Carl's divided Loyalty on who he should be helping at any point in time might be a lot of fun to play. The Ambitious hubris runs the risk of having Carl forsake the rest of the group if his success ends up being greater without them. And with Jason's Mistrust hubris already giving us one character at odds with the group... you might find playing Ambitious ends up seperating you from the group too much. I have no guarentees of this and I'm only speaking from personal experience... but I myself have played an Ambitious character in one of my other games... and I've been forced to occasionally throw my party members to the wolves because it was better for my character's career. Just a friendly warning.
Festy Dog... the only reason I changed the hubris was because as I was copying over that section to the Gallery, what you had written previous was more indicative of Loyal rather than Ambitious. Cause basically you said that Carl was an ambitious guy who always tried to get ahead EXCEPT when it came to his loyalty towards his fellow agents or even enemies. When push came to shove... Carl would help his fellow agents even to the detriment of the mission or his own personal safety. Since a person's Hubris should be the one part of them that'll get the person into more trouble than anything else... it seemed to me that helping his enemies out of jams out of some misguided sense of job loyalty would be the thing that'd eventually bite him on the ass.
However, I have no problem making it Ambitious if you'd prefer to rewrite or edit your descriptive Hubris section to put more emphasis on his ambition than his loyalty. In that case... his character should be such that he'll purposely NOT help his fellow agents if his actions without them will garner him more acclaim and career advancement. That's what an Ambitious hubris is... putting your own self-interest ahead of everyone else. If you do want to stick with the idea though that he'll help other agents regardless of what kind of trouble it might cause, then Loyal would be the correct description of his Hubris to use. Your choice. Write whatever you think makes for the most interesting character and roleplaying choice (since ou'll be the one to have to live with it). Thanx!
I will say though... from a roleplaying perspective with this group... I think Loyal might give you more interesting character opportunities. With Elz's Rash hubris making her running off in all different directions... and Marcus's Indecisiveness stopping him from acting at all... playing with Carl's divided Loyalty on who he should be helping at any point in time might be a lot of fun to play. The Ambitious hubris runs the risk of having Carl forsake the rest of the group if his success ends up being greater without them. And with Jason's Mistrust hubris already giving us one character at odds with the group... you might find playing Ambitious ends up seperating you from the group too much. I have no guarentees of this and I'm only speaking from personal experience... but I myself have played an Ambitious character in one of my other games... and I've been forced to occasionally throw my party members to the wolves because it was better for my character's career. Just a friendly warning.
Okay guys... opening post is up, and the game has begun! You'll get a small sense of what's going on based on what I wrote... and please feel free to widen and broaden the world that we're creating here. This is a joint writing project... so whatever you guys create will become part of the lore of the ESPION world. Try to follow along with precedents that the others set, but add in whatever color you think would work to help enrich the setting and the game.
A couple things so far as posting conventions are concerned:
When writing dialogue, please use a single apostrophe, and choose a color for your dialogue to appear in. I will be using Sienna for Donovan St. Claire, and random other colors for NPCs. Please try and make your four colors as distinct from each other and the white regular printed as possible. An example of dialogue should look like this:
'My name is Donovan St. Claire. Please sit down, sir.'
Any internal thoughts of your character should appear in white italics.
All regular descriptive and narrative writing can remain in standard white text.
Feel free to use the quote boxes if you choose to. I will also occasionally use spoiler text, identified for each character.
If you have anything you want to say out-of-character, please try to do it at the end of your post, start it with "OOC:" and then write the info out. If you could also color all OOC information in DimGray, that would be excellent. Thus it would look like this:
OOC: This is how out-of-character info should appear in the game thread. However, feel free to also use the Talking The Talk boards for OOC info as well.
Thanx guys! Please let me know what color you are selecting for your dialogue, and ask any other questions you might have!
A couple things so far as posting conventions are concerned:
When writing dialogue, please use a single apostrophe, and choose a color for your dialogue to appear in. I will be using Sienna for Donovan St. Claire, and random other colors for NPCs. Please try and make your four colors as distinct from each other and the white regular printed as possible. An example of dialogue should look like this:
'My name is Donovan St. Claire. Please sit down, sir.'
Any internal thoughts of your character should appear in white italics.
All regular descriptive and narrative writing can remain in standard white text.
Feel free to use the quote boxes if you choose to. I will also occasionally use spoiler text, identified for each character.
If you have anything you want to say out-of-character, please try to do it at the end of your post, start it with "OOC:" and then write the info out. If you could also color all OOC information in DimGray, that would be excellent. Thus it would look like this:
OOC: This is how out-of-character info should appear in the game thread. However, feel free to also use the Talking The Talk boards for OOC info as well.
Thanx guys! Please let me know what color you are selecting for your dialogue, and ask any other questions you might have!
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