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I'm a LUGTrek referee, looking for players to start a new campaign, either by open RPG on a weekly night, or by some kind of turn based post via a forums setup.
Anyone who has something to offer, join in a discussion here, maybe we can get something going soon.
The great thing about this forum is that we are sitting on TONS of information and ideas just here on this board.
So lets start with the basics
1) Era
2) Setting
3) General Feel
On these I say DW to Post DW, Starship or Base, Peacekeeping to exploration.
Now as for my idea. I have been working on the Gambier Bay Class and besides some billetting tweeks I believe it is a good platform. Although it is combat oriented with the proper load of runabouts, rather then majority fighters . . . it can serve as a good platform to carry out regional exploration and defense.
This, IMHO, would be perfect to start a small group . . . it has opertunities for the PCs to work alone, without additional support . . . or aboard ship as part of the workings as a whole . . . or the occassional space battle.
The DW to Post DW era leaves alot to the imagination, and has alot of onscreen and text support. Besides the front there are areas that would be delegated to crews that may not have as much experience as would normally be required during peacetime. Or . . . following the conflict we can explore through gaming . . . how a reconstruction setting might look like.
I saw that you were looking to expand your skills as a GM, in that other thread.
And the details you have put into that ship writeup of the Gambier Bay Class are quite exrtensive, to put it mildly.
Would this be something you would want to run as GM?
How about Post-Dominion War Exploration, aboard that ship?
I'm not all up on DS9 all that much, (I might have seen 3 episodes, total, not that I didn't enjoy it, but I just was involved in other things when it was on) but I can read some of the episode guides I have. It might not have the feel you are looking for, though. I've never ran a carrier series.
Usually, I run stuff in the Original Series or TOS Movie Era, a light ot heavy cruiser, and most of my support (like LCARS Stuff, uniformed crew pics, etc) reflect that. I'd be much more confident with a movie era setup, myself, as GM. But if people were forgiving, I'd give it a shot, if people wanted something else.
As a player, I would enjoy anything.
I'm working on expanding the current, small geocities website that I have set up in the past, doing a sector and such, set in the movie era.
I am thinking once the ball gets rolling we can start changing GMs within the group every couple episodes or soQuote:
Originally Posted by LUGTrekGM
As stated before, it's a possibility . . . A carrier, by its nature is multi-purpose . . . just depends on how you load the 'air wing'. Or if you want to go a little more to the extreme . . . you can convert a % of the hanger space to science labs and equipment.Quote:
How about Post-Dominion War Exploration, aboard that ship?
So what are your thoughts? Bridge crew A and pilots Crew B?
I'm not opposed to something like a fighter wing series, just wondering how it will fit, especially with scheduling of episodes or storyline.
Thus a story might be going to planet X, events in space for crew A.
Then the pilots go out and probe, patrol or attack, with crew B, in a follow on.
The first thing that comes to me is since it's a carrier and fighters squardons, etc, seems like it's leading to a military solution / campaign, pretty much all the time, unless there is a "Use the fighters for scouting / wide range nevbula scanning / etc." type scenarios.
Seems to me like it will be hard to keep all of that together as a group with connected scenes, AS A GROUP. unless it is run as either two different, but closely connected games, or run via a forums only.
When I have run a regular "Bridge crew" ship in the past, it was a problem with the Medical section always being seperate, so that in a mediacal emergency or something similar on the ship or in thew scenario, the medical section ended up taking nearly equal time "On-Screen" so it became doc / bridge / doc / bridge, which left the 4 or 5 bridge crew splitting time equally with the doc's scenes, thus each character was getting 1/5 th on screen time, while the doc was getting half on-screen time. And in episodes where there was no medical "Something or other" going on, there was zero for the doctor to do, except go along as "First Aid" escort.
So, how would you plan to integrate the fighter wing stories? This is why I have never run a carrier-based series in the past. When I did it like this with a Star Wars game, it was ALL fighter squadron, narrow focus "Blow Stuff Up / patrol / small to medium fleet battle" scenarios. Given the nature of online or turn based gaming, that would be pretty taxing to write, I would think.
Modify the above with the idea that you have runabouts, rather than dedicated fighters. I missed that in the overall scheme.
So if it is less dedicated fighters, that might work out better, figuring a 80 / 20 split in episodes. Still seems to me that you will need different crews, though.
Here are my thoughts on the matter.
During the Dominion War . . . the Air Wing embarked upon the Carrier . . . will be mostly Fighters . . . as they serve a defensive/offense multiplier. However, as the Dominion War starts to fade away into history . . . and as direct hostilities become less off the focus . . . would it still make sense to continue to carry an all fighter Air Wing complement? That is the great things about Carriers . . . the nature of the adjustable Air Wing make up allows a Carrier to be everything from a Sector Patrol platform . . . to a long range exploration platform. They have a strong defensive suite, and powerful long range sensor systems.
As far as make up of the assignments of the PCs . . . I prefer to assign the PCs all to one area of the ship. That is . . . if they are are more flight/exploration oriented I would assign them to work in one of the Carrier Pods. Within said carrier pod is a Squadron, and respective support elements (medical, engineering, logistics, etc.). And if they are more interested in playing a crew based game . . . they can be assigned amoungst the rest of the crew . . . with the flight operations serving as a colorful background.
LUGTrekGM if you wish to run this campaign, by all means, run with the general idea. I would like to play under someone with your experience, if you want to help me GM, that's fine was well.
Well, to be honest, right now, I am still rebuilding / updating the website I will be using to run an OpenRPG Films Era Campaign set in 2291.
http://www.geocities.com/renegadegamer/index.html
The plan is to launch it on or about 4 May, Thursday nights, using OpenRPG, LUG Trek Rules.
I have posted the game to RPG Registry, seeking 5 players.
I have posted the game to my regular LUGTrek site on Yahoo! Groups, so perhaps some players from past years' games might join. I have not talked to any of them in over a year, though:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/LUGTrek/
Here's the Ship Pic I am using:
USS Majestic NCC-21900
http://www.landofetarnon.net/Majestic-Colorsmall.jpg
Here's the Master System Display I will be using:
http://www.landofetarnon.net/Majestic-msd.jpg
Obviously, this is a non-canon fan-ship.
Both are kitbashes to look half Movie Era, sort of Transwarp style in development, and sort of Pre-Next Generation, cobbled together from a few ships on the net, plus also screencaps from StarTrek Starship Creator (from Simon & Scuster Interactive) and modified some for my purposes, using Paint Shop Pro 5.
The Character Slots look like this, so far:
CO: PC Capt. V'lor [Position Closed]
XO: GM
Sci: PC [Open]
Eng: PC [Open]
Doc: GM
Comm: GM
Sec: PC Optional [Open]
Helm: PC [Open]
Nav: PC [Open]
This week, I am writing the backstory, and making sector maps and such for it, along with updating and cleaning up the astrogation database from games I have run since 2003.
If you need players for yours, name what position(s) you need, I'll generate a character for your game.
I have Admiral Reliant's old ST: TNG LUG Trek chargen program, that I updated with some of the FASA races that I submitted here long ago, that were not accepted, along with some of the skills.
Really, I want to rewrite what he did, using QuickBasic, as there are some bugs in it. I tried to contact him last year, but his email bounces. Once that is done, I will post it on trek-rpg.net, or on my own webspace, for all to use. That should take a week, or two.
I'd also like to do some kind of conversion/adaptation of the Decipher ship's rules, converted to LUG, but I am still elarning the Decipher system.
[Edited 18 APR 7:32 EST]
Sounds interesting, Captain Position.
I do have a Q though, maybe I missed it but where is the Christopher Pike Medal?
Maybe I am blind, but it is one of the few official medals we all know about.
http://www.geocities.com/renegadegamer/SFAwards.html
Back when Next Gen by LUG was printed, It had listed the Christopher Pike Medal of Honor, and another medal called the Medal of Honor, as two seperate awards.
There was also some business where some awards, like Prentares Ribbons, could only be awarded to officers.
Both of these didn't make sense to me.
Since I was on active duty, I am of the mind that the government of the Federation (more or less a direct extension of the US), would not supercede the Medal of Honor, and name it for some individual, since no other medals are that way, at least in my spin on Star Trek, since the precursors to the Federation were set up before Pike was born.
Thus the "Pike" is the Medal of Honor, such that it is called the "Pike" unofficially, in the same way that the "Medal of Honor" is often (inaccurately) referred to as the "Congressional Medal of Honor" in films, and such.
Having went that route, I looked up a list of the actual decorations used by the US Navy, took some ideas from it, and thus those ribbons came out of that list.
Thank you for answering that. I was curious what happened to the Medal and in your game it is just the Medal of Honor. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by LUGTrekGM
Just as a mild caution to your thought process, GM, remember that the Federation is a true meritocracy, and, thus, shouldn't exactly mimic how our republic government operates.
Personally, I prefer to have canon awards (i.e., stuff named in the series) supercede a non-canon equivalent. But, since they're just good RP stuff, it doesn't really matter one way or another.
So noted, shipmate.
Yeah, for me, that is a change in my specific campaign because it's an issue with me that I feel there was not enough respect given to those who have been awarded the "Medal of Honor" such that game designers are now naming it for a fictional character, from a science fiction setting.
No character in my games has earned it as a decoration, in game, nor likely will they, unless something drastic in the level of self-sacrifice, and heroism changes in a scenario.
Sure, the "Pike" is within the setting itself, and their business as setting and game designers, but it sort of implies, well, to me at least, that they felt that Christopher Pike was somehow better than real people that have died or been crippled in combat.
Though, that's just the way they did it with Paramount and later LUG. Other games call it something else entirely, or have their own awards and medals systems.
But personally, I am against this whole "Christopher Pike Medal of Honor" business, mostly from the point of view of a military veteran.
I myself was awarded the Humanitarian Service Medal, and if in the Star Trek RPG (Any version) they called it the McCoy Humanitarian Service Medal or something, hey, I'd be okay with it.
But to me the Medal of Honor is, and should be, something, oh near Holy, I guess.
For certain, many who have recieved it, did so from the grave. I am not in that caliber of heroism, by any means. I did my job, and tried to be a 4.0 sailor, every day, as a Torpedoman.
Since each GM is empowered to spin their own game their way, that's something I wanted to do, and thus made it happen.
It's not canon, certainly.
Neither is my game, in a few areas. My ships of the fleet, for example, derive from FASA, and certainly my sectors are based on old FASA maps. Now that Mandel's Star Charts is out, wow, all of my stuff is way off.
My own Star Base 10, I had it that it took 7 months to get there. Mandel has it 2 sectors away from Sol.
But, I started with Fasa, when it was the only source of maps, pretty much, except for Strategic Designs Inc., and back in those days, nobody matched anybody for any kind of cartography.
But the point you make is certainly correct, and I thank you for making it.
Just finished the Tango Sector Map that my upcoming campaign will be using.
http://www.landofetarnon.net/TangoSectorPrint.jpg
It printed out very nicely on 8 1/2 X 11 glossy photo paper, a few minutes ago.
Moving on to adjacent sectors, for a few days, for some scenario wiggle room, then I will start mapping individual systems in Tango Sector, along with the system writeups, hopefully by the end of this weekend, then start generating NPCs.
Some potential players are asking my to run it using Decipher. We'll see. For now, I am more comfortable with LUG, and I like it's skills breakdown and character generation a lot more.
Hey as I said in my e-mail, I have all the LUG Books so I am cool with you going with LUG (I own all the books). I have a background of my character in mind, but I am waiting for more game info and Ok from you to go on.Quote:
Originally Posted by LUGTrekGM
Galactic South or Rimward, as it were of Tango Sector is Epsilon Sector, just finished.
http://www.landofetarnon.net/EpsilonSectorPrint.jpg
None of Epsilon Sector has writeups yet.
Sorry, haven't checked email, been too wrapped up in rigging these maps.
Will check it now.
Capt. V'lor has requested assignment to USS Majestic, and is approved.
The Captain's slot is now closed.
Interested participants, please apply to other positions.
More game info such as?
Ask away.
Just what you just sent me. Sorry damn response was tp log for the PMs you are getting in 5 parts.
Excellent
Nice banner, Captain. I like the colors contrasting / complementing.
A Clarification on Characters, and positions:
I have fielded a few inquiries as to open positions recently, and also have received some notes (and also have read many posts here on these forums, that there is a concern with having a player portray the role of Captain, rather than the GM).
I want to lay out my goals for character generation for the crew, and the role of the Captain as leader of the crew.
What I do as referee is promote to the Captain's player (and the rest of the players, really) the idea of delegating authority to the lower ranks as much as possible, but not responsibility, which lies with the senior officers, and thus ultimately the Captain.
I want to minimize micromanagement by the Captain, and urge the Captain in all missions/Episodes to set the goal, but not the methods. When doing the missions/scenarios (as Starfleet Admirals, etc.) I do the same thing: Here is your mission, go to it.
The Admiral won't say "Once you get there, Fire all forward torpedoes first, then turn about, hitting them from the rear. After that, take the left flank, once they are open." No.
All of the characters portrayed are competent officers of Starfleet. They don't need to have their hands held when the crap hits the fan. They take action, and drive the problem, and utilize the skills, talents and competence of their subordinates to the fullest.
The Admiral will say "You are the only ship available (if that is true for the episode). We have to prevent X from happening. You have 36 hours. Best of luck."
I urge the Captain to not cut some Player Character out of the scenario by "Ordering them to stay aboard ship." It's a simulation of life in Starfleet, sure, but we are all players, and want to have fun. Let's work together, have discipline, and unit cohesion.
I once had a past episode where an ensign security escort, led by a Commander Security officer beamed down to an encounter with some neutral smugglers. The security ensign, kind of trigger happy, drew his phaser, and it nearly turned into a fight, right there, but it was finally resolved by negotiation. But during the incident, the Security officer Commander ordered the ensign back aboard ship, thus "cutting him out of the scenario." This was wrong, in my view as referee, and I disallowed it, overruling the commander, with the First Officer.
After the scenario was concluded, the XO took the Ensign aside and privately counseled him about being too agressive. He likewise had a short talk with the Security officer about managing his people with a less dictatorial style. And the game went on.
I urge the Captain to give a landing party a goal, put someone in charge of it, and develop leadership in junior to mid-level officers, by letting them take charge, for good or ill. If the person in charge of the landing party screws up, a fix can be found, usually.
A whole landing party does not have to be Captain, and the whole bridge. It can be, but doesn't have to. I allow players to have multiple characters, at all levels of ranks. I also allow non-commissioned officers and enlisted people in the crew to be portrayed, if the player, and scenarios dictate.
I am fully aware that TOS said that everyone aboard USS Enterprise was an officer.
As a Navy veteran, that doesn't make sense to me, so I have most of the crew as enlisted persons, with ranks appropriate to their position.
A Chief might be in charge of a phaser crew, A First Class Boatswain's Mate might be a shuttle pilot.
The Medical section of the ship will usually include a Doctor/Surgeon of at least Rank LT, a Nurse rank LTJG, and a few Hospital Corpsmen of perhaps Chief, First Class, and 2nd Class Petty Officers.
Any of these characters might be sent with a landing party, depending on the mission. Granted, the junior enlisted guys might not have the same levels of education, and initiative, perhaps, but they are still valuable crew members, not just "Red Shirts".
Please be aware of that, when you are portraying your Starfleet Officer characters.
Micromanaging is a very real problem, since there is a set rank structure.
I don't have it set up where the powers that be call every maneuver or shot in combat, and they trust the people in the chain of command to do thier jobs properly, and let them do it.
The Captain has the final say as to the ship's course of action, but they should take into account as much information as they can get from the crew.
If I run into a character/player that wants to micromanage everything, (sometimes it is not the Captain, but a Department Head PC) I have a few scenarios where an Admiral comes aboard (or I have one of the senior crew do it), and illustrates by example to the player/character, "give your people a free hand."
I am aware that such a problem exists, but if it crops up, I will be sure to correct it as I see it develop.
I served on a Cruiser that was a flagship in the Navy, and so I have seen this work in action. I was lucky to have a very good Captain, for many years.
As to the positions still open, I want to clarify a few things:
CO: PC Capt. V'lor [Position Closed]
XO: GM
Science Officer: PC [Open]
Chief Engineer: PC [Open]
Doc: GM
Comms/Damage Control: GM
Security: PC Optional [Open]
Helm/Weapons: PC [Open]
Navigation/Shields: PC [Open]
Of course, If you'd like to play something else, let me know. I reserve the XO to myself as an advisor to the Captain, to fend off trouble with the scenario before it starts, as much as I can, by giving useful advice as to possible courses of action.
The Doctor, I am not really opening to players. I have run a few ship-based games before and the doctor would often act out or try to hog scenario time with all kinds of open heart surgery and other similar things, and thus take the focus off the bridge and mosts of the scenarios. If we need to do such things (like a medical dept. involvement, I can do them faster, as a cut scene, as GM.
I reserve communications to myself since most of it is The aliens say X, and then the Comms person repeats it to the crew. Similarly as a Comms NPC I can give damage reports faster, without having the type this to the player / relay to the crew thing going on.
Most Security Officer positions I have seen usually are not content to be on the bridge, and thus agian, want to take the focus away from the more or less main space action, having security drills and such, that while realistic, do not add substantially to the overall theme of the episodes that I am trying to present.
But they are very effective and have a lot to do in a landing party, so it is an optional position.
I ask that any Helm/ Weapons or Nav/Shields characters take some other sciences as a backup (such as Sulu was an Astrogeologist, before he was a Helm Officer) to fill out a landing party.
I am also open to players having multiple characters, so that there is a variety of roles open to all. In one game I had the same player who ran the Captain (and did an outstanding job of it) also portrayed a 2nd Class Petty Officer enlisted medical technician, so that when the XO (or lower ranked officer) and party beamed down, he went along as medical support, allowing say, the Navigation LT. to lead the landing party.
In this way, everyone has a chance to practice leadership, and followership, at different times, with different scenarios. I believe this is called "Troupe-Style" play.
In my experience, it worked out well.
So if you have a character, say a young ensign Biologist, or some other type that is not a Dept. Head, but is useful on a landing party, I can and will accomodate those other types of characters, just that sometimes the focus will not be on them, all the time, every scenario.
It is not that the characters are less important than the episode, or my story, it is that I need more than just the two or three characters of a small handful of players to do the story to what I feel is full effectiveness.
It is the adventures of the Crew, as a whole, and as individuals within it.
It might be the case downj the road, say there is a medical emergency, I will need players to play the roles of a doctor, Nurse, etc, but I don't want to have full time players for those positions As Their Only Character. I also don't want to be caught is a situation where I, as GM, am playnig Doctor, Nurse, and Patient all talking to each other, while the crew watches. I really can't stand that type of thing.
So I ask that players have a "Main" character, and one or more "Backups" from the regular crew, and that they also be open to taking over selected one-shot or guest NPCs, if they like, for one or two scenarios, or playing their "backup" characters, from time to time, so that everyone gets a chance to play, nobody is "Stuck on the Ship", etc.
Enough ranting. I just wanted to bring these issues to light.
I am pretty sure that this will be an exciting, and dramatic experience for all.
I still have about 2 weeks' worth of work to do before we launch, but I am getting there.
After seeing some of the work V'lor did with Banners, I was semi-inspired, did a few that were not what I ultimately wanted, but ended up finally with this, for the game:
http://www.landofetarnon.net/MajesticBanner1.jpg
Hmm . . . pre-TNG . . . post-TMP era trek . . . interesting time . . . if I get the time . . . which work seems to soak up like a spung . . . I may submit something. So this is going to be a Yahoo Forum based game?
Good question, Jalu.
I'm using the Yahoo Groups as the storage of files because 4 years ago when I started the game, money was tight, and yahoo and geocities are free.
I ran 5 games since then, and just got in the habit of using the Yahoo Groups area for storage of files and data, and as a mailing list. I had the geocities site in place since my old FASA Trek games in college in the 90's.
What I plan to do now on the 1st of May is to rent yet more webspace (I already run a Neverwinter Nights Server, plus forums) and build a for-real Trek RPG website and forums, to have all the data in one place. That should all be in place around or near episode 3 or so, as there are a lot of graphics and data to organize, so mid-late May. I've already started that provcess, just not uploaded a lot of pictures, since I am currently limited by bandwidth on Geocities, and my yahoo groups, both.
To answer your question directly, I'd MUCH prefer if we played it using OpenRPG on some night convenient to all.
I'd prefer thursdays, if I had to ask for a preference, mostly because my old Trek groups (who I might be able to recruit from) played the majority of times on Thursday nights, and most gamers have a friday game already rigged. Of course, if none of the old crews return, I'm open.
As of yet, no one has expressed any preference for a night, except I have scheduled it for thursday nights on the RPG Registry recruiting database, and Capt. V'lor has confirmed a sign-up for the captain's position. If we proposed a non- thursday night, as a group, I'd need to get with V'lor, but for right now, Thursdays is on, and set.
All positions are first come, first served, and since V'lor has committed to that, I have too.
Failing to set up a coherent group via openRPG, I will ultimately have a forums set up, but I much prefer real-time chat a la open RPG, which is free software.
But if it comes down to a turn based email / forums post, I can live with it, since there is a tradeoff of detail, for action. Again, it's up to whatever the group as a majority can deal with, but I prefer a chat interface with a diceroller function. If needed, we can do a chat room, and I do all the dice rolls by hand, but really OpenRPG is a good tool.
I have also used WEBRPG in the past, didn't like it much. I have heard of other software out there that costs 20-30 US, but forget the name right now. I have GRiP for Traveller (played in another gents Traveller game online), but it's got bugs, and I am not all that familiar with using it as a GM, either. I feel that GRiP was a waste of money to buy that software and the QLI company that wrote it has been slow in fixing GRiP's well-known bugs.
In the past, I have run my Trek game on wednesdays, thursdays or fridays. In 2004, I ran a differnet game on each of those nights, but it was ultiamtely too much work to maintain.
Sunday afternoons to evenings is out for me, as I have a tabletop group that plays at my home, run by another GM. Any other night is fine.
I know that most gamers have fridays or saturdays all tied up already. It's all a question of what nights people have open.
I'd like scenarios to run for 3 or 4 hours, if possible. In the past I ran games from 7 or 8 PM to 11 PM or Midnight, EST, which seemed to work well, but I am open in hours or time, also, since I am retired.
If players need a game every other week, rather than once a week, I am fine with it too.
Once every three weeks to once a month is too broken up for me to keep consistency, usually consistency in player participation, but also my own sense of timing.
Here is a very short .avi trailer (4.71 mb) that I did, that both pays homage to the franchise, and the players of the last campaign that I ran on openRPG using LUG / ICON Rules, called "Triangle Quadrant."
Scenes depicted are of ships and places used in-game, shot with minis, and various backdrops using a webcam.
My wife is urging me to do a better one, since I have better software and tools now.
http://www.landofetarnon.net/LUGTrekTrailer.avi
(I can't get this to work via browser, you might have to rt. click and "Save As.")
Where can one get a Codex to view this?
Sorry, I'm not sure. It opens for me with Microsoft Media Player 9, after I save it to my hard drive and play it. I have it hosted on my Neverwinter Nights Server.
I'm not at all versed in multi-media or the different codecs and such. My PC does all the work.
After searching around a bit on google, I found this:
http://www.updatexp.com/codec-for-wi...-player-9.html
For media player 9.
I'll rig some software tools from there, and try to identify what specifically is needed.
I see that windows is now using WMV format. I'll look around, and see if I can convert .avi to .wmv by re-installing Pinnacle Studio 7 (which is what I used to shoot, cut, and edit the thing some years ago.)
After re-installing studio 7, I was able to convert it from .avi to .wmv by resampling it.
However, the quality of it is horrifically poor, with graininess all throughout, dropped frames and lots of problems.
Maybe I'll just shoot and release an updated version, down the road.
Preparation notes:
I've added some pics to the Yahoo groups site in the photos section for various NPC officers of Starfleet, and some NPCs for the USS Majestic campaign.
I've been updating the Astrogational Database. All items marked for the Sierra, Tango, and Epsilon Sectors have at least basic entry. All maps for those three sectors are done, but no planetary systems for them have been detailed. I'm finishing off the map of the Rimworlds sector tonight, and then will detail a few specific systems and planets in Tango Sector, to support the First Season's episodes.
Tomorrow I will flesh out the crew, and start writing the first episode of First Season starting on Friday, based on the outline I already have.
I am still working on my background alot of IRL stuff this week is iun the way but I am almost done. I just adding in some things hopefully no later by Friday.Quote:
Originally Posted by LUGTrekGM
I am looking forward to see it when you are done, so that I can write the first few scenarios around it. If I have to, I will delay writing the first episode until I get it.
So far, we only have V'Lor as a player. We might pick up a few more by recruiting in the Open RPG rooms early next week, as long as that is the format we are going with.
That's more or less why I am going to fill out the crew with pre-generated pcs, to save time down the road.
Rimworlds sector pic is finished. Taking a break for a few hours, then will start on detailing specific systems of the Tango Sector.
The plan is to rig all of this data, and have it on a small website by perhaps Tuesday, or Wednesday. Depends on how fast it takes to propogate DNS, I will be buying webspace and a domain on the first of may to support this, likely from my current provider. We'll see. Maybe I can rig a subdomain, attached to my regular site or something. I'll have to do some research.
Getting some response from former players. At least one is interested in joining, as a security officer / head of security.
I've revised the Caprica Sector Map from its look from previous campaigns, cleaned it up some, made it less cluttered.
http://landofetarnon.net/Caprica.jpg
Will be working on NPCs for most of this evening.
Got sketches of the NPCs done. Will flesh them out tonight.
Also working on the first Episode, and first season arcs. Without Characters from the crew, it'll be a little generic, but I am going with the first arc centered around Capt. V'lor, to start with, and some npc conflicts that hopefully we can bring to the front, as we come to discover the crew in the First Season.
Should have brief crew bios by late Wednesday.
Have not got any suggested bios from anyone yet, for the three applicants.
I have:
Captain V'lor
A Security Officer, perhaps
A player from Australia trying to work out times we might be available, that fits his schedule.
Looks like we will shoot for next week, 11th of May instead of tonight as a start.
Hopefully, we can get a good liftoff on the 11th then.
I'll fill out the decks listing of the ship, detail the NPCs some more while I am at it.
Good luck, guys. Have fun :)
That's the general idea. Thanks for your support.
