Dresden Files: The City of Lost Sleep

I saw but I have just been too busy so far this week. Very excited to get this going but Thanksgiving/Black Friday are very busy in the restaurant world, and I am training 4 new employees. Hoping to be back to normal by Saturday, I apologize for the delay.

Geez, yeah that sounds like the work week from hell. It's all good, take your time, hope to see stuff this weekend.

Is this Dresden Game still going and accepting players? I have a character from a previous game, that I think would be perfect for this game if you're still taking players.

still in chargen and city creation. I cannot speak for deus but I think we still want players. We have been stalled from the holidays hopefully it will pick up again soon

Thanks Azzorak. If Deus says yes, then I'll apply to join.

Hey sorry, I'm still getting back into the swing of checking the site daily now that the holidays are long past us.

Yeah man, we've definitely got room for more players, and you're welcome to port in a character from a previous game. I'd just like to know the High Concept for the character ahead of time.

Also for the existing characters we're still slowly progressing through the phases of character creation, and while I'm trying to get things moving again it may take a few more weeks before they're done with characters.

Looking forward to seeing what you're bringing to the table.

No worries DeusMalum. Reading where some more of the game threads, I'm less sure that the character would suit, so I'll leave it up to you to judge.

As originally envisaged Dr Mathias Falkenburg is a four centuries old Frankenstein's monster, living amongst the supernatural community, and occasionally, acting as a doctor for them. He spends his time doing medical research, specialising in illness with no rational explanation, publishing a few articles to obscure journals, which are inevitably ignored.

It was the medical aspect which made me think he might be suitable, however, he may be too supernatural for the tone of the campaign.

Dr Mathias Falkenburg
High Concept: Lab created Frankenstein's Monster
Trouble: High maintenance - chemicals keep me alive
Aspects: A creation of science and magic, The monster within me rages, Medicine is a calling and a duty, Mostly undead

Let me know if you think he's suitable, if not, I'm still interested and perhaps Falkenburg can be changed, or I can come up with a different character (although perhaps one maintaining the medical idea).

PS: the game description says the power level is "Up to Your Waist power level", but the forum in Games Tavern says "Feet in the Water Power Level", so I'm not sure what the power level of the game is.

It was increased to up to the waist. Initially it was to be feet in...

Azzorak is correct. I opted to increase the power level to give players more options when making characters but never updated the OP to reflect that. I've corrected that mistake.

On paper I don't see why your character wouldn't be a fit for the team, as long as the points you need to put him together still fall within the limit set by Feet in the Water. It seems like a really interesting character. It looks like you've got 4 Aspects chosen in addition to your High Concept and Trouble. Are you interested in adding on two additional aspects from the last two character creation Phases, as outlined in the character creation rules in the book? Basically you'll be able to pick aspects for two of the other characters and two other players will decide on aspects for you, as part of a shared history. I'd like the idea of the characters at least being acquainted ahead of time, even if you're not all intimately familiar with one another and best mates.

I think that, if the high concept fits with the party, it can scale to most power levels. In the chest deep campaign he was introduced, Falkenburg was scaled up to be an indestructible monster, but the character conception does not require that.

Question: Isn't Falkenburg only missing one aspect? I thought there were 5 phases aspects, which would mean I'm only missing one.

Question: do the characters start knowing each other? If so I'd like to consider the last two phase aspects to try to include another character in the Guest Star and GS Redux phases.

PS: I've applied to join the game, if that's ok.

Accepted!

You're correct, the good Doc is only missing one aspect, with the other 4 covered.

As far as including another character, do you mean one of the other PCs or an NPC? I'm using the rules for GS and GS Redux as listed in the book so that I can have the player characters all start out knowing each other. Would this mean dropping one aspect in order to get 5 at the end of character creation, or going up to 6 with your existing 4? This is my first time DMing so I'm not sure if you're REQUIRED to have exactly 5, or if that's a bare minimum.

Also I think your high concept fits for sure. One of the other characters is also old by mortal standards, I try to be flexible in putting games together.

Now that I can see the Character Creation: Aspects thread I can see that were up to the first phase of character creation, so I don't think there's any need to rush ahead, or assume that all the aspects for Falkenburg are going to stick.

It seems like the easiest thing to is to join the thread and the process.

That works perfectly. I'm trying to get things rolling again now that we're past the holidays, but it's a slow process.

I'm also trying to find time to do some stuff for the city creation side of things.

Are you guys still trying to get this together and any chance you are looking for additional players?!

It would be pretty great if they were

Its coming slowly but surely. I think we are mostly through it now. Couple more aspects and a few city tweaks.

We've definitely got room for additional players. We're perilously close to being done with character aspects, and we just need to iron out the faces of New York before we're done and ready to start.

If you guys have High Concepts and Troubles for characters, feel free to post them here and then apply to the game. What we'll probably need is for you guys to get Aspects 1-3 done as quickly as you can, and then I'll pair you up with some of the existing characters to give you guys your Aspects 4 and 5.

Also once you're in, feel free to start contributing Faces to the proper thread, once you've had a chance to catch up on the locations and aspects for New York that have been developed (and feel free to suggest more if you feel like).

I was thinking a focused practitioner who uses Spirit channeling to enhance his martial arts. Kind of a cross between Wong from Big Trouble in Little China and the gym leader from Karate Kid (but less of a jerk). Something like...

Billy Patterson
High Concept: Chi Master Martial Artist
Trouble: My Neighborhood Needs Me

Billy Patterson grew up around here and lived here most of his life. When he was a kid, he was always the little guy the bullies singled out to pick on so his folks enrolled him in martial arts classes down at the neighborhood Y. Billy took to it like a duck to water and eventually discovered the more spiritual aspects of martial arts. Through focus and discipline he learned to focus his chi into his fighting style. Now grown, Billy still lives in the neighborhood, though it's gone downhill in recent years. He has his own dojo where he teaches self defense and he does what he can to help keep the streets clean. Sometimes there's things out there that the cops can't - or won't - deal with. Times like these, a place needs it's own kinda hero.

I like! Feel free to apply for the game if you haven't already.

Application: SUBMITTED!!!!!