OOC Thread

Awesome!

And I believe I fixed the map, let me know if you still cant see it.

It worked for me.

Can confirm. Hooray for a working map!

If any of y'all have Adam's Chrome Extension, let me know if you can see the background :)

Yup! Looks good.

Regarding origins - I'm tempted to be either a Ghoul, a Super Mutant, or a Mister Handy. What are the complications with the Mister Handy origin?

Lots of updated stuff to go over! Will watch the youtube series tomorrow. Can barely keep my eyes open.

I guess it's not really that big of a deal, but it changes your hit locations, there's a lot of special things that they can and can't do and they have more choices when it comes to arm attachments and equipment packs and stuff as well.

They have freakin' arm attachments? Dope.

I'm assuming skills are the same in the games? I'll probably go Repair, Survival, and Small Guns (shotgun). Any of the origins offer a bonus to those?

Eh, kinda. You will see what I mean, I think I’ll have some time to post the origin options tonight :)

Well. I finally broke down, and ended up buying it. I would have eventually in any case. Guess I'll have to forgo beer this weekend :P

Now I just need a couple of hours more each day so I can get to read it

That's great, Furmyr!

Also, if anyone hasn't seen the Three Eyed Townie link that aquafina posted, I recommend checking it out. Videos are only around 5-10 minutes. Definitely worth watching to learn the game rules.

Haha, yeah I had to not go out to eat the week of and after, but it was worth it!

And Queni, glad you liked it! I found him very helpful as well

Alright y'all, here's a little update:

A lot of my other games have been kinda slow recently (besides Candlekeep, Rage and Queni know lol), so I've had more time than I thought I would to get this game set up the past week. I am going to try to post Steps 4 and 5 for character creation tonight, but I will wait til everyone chooses their origin before I post Step 6: equipment packs, cuz they're based on the origin you chose, and I'm only gonna post the packs that apply to y'all cuz that's less work. Besides that, I believe I have the rest of the core rules posted here, and anything else we're missing, I'll mention along the way.

Tonight/this weekend/early next week also I plan to start posting more setting details so you guys can actually begin to create your characters and ground them in the setting if you so choose. I love character backstories and I love intertwining them with the overall plot, so the juicier the better! For the couple of games I've run here on GP, I've given the players a list of questions to answer for the characters to help flesh them out, so expect to see that eventually too (totally optional, just for those who have the time)!

So, with all that being said, I'm hoping to get the game actually started sometime next week/weekend, let me know how you guys are feeling!

Feelings? You know when dogs get excited they sometimes do tippy taps? Yeah, that's me. Example!

I'm infatuated with playing a Ghoul, but I also wanna be a Super Mutant. Argh.

How's everyone else leaning?

Awww! So cute :) Glad to hear it!

I'm leaning towards a vault dweller or possibly a survivor.

I am going vault dweller.

What does the science skill do?

For a Tagged skill to start, are we allowed to buy 3 levels or only 1, since tagging give us 2 levels?

@ aquafina
I am submitting my character so you can see where I am going with her. Thoughts and suggestions welcome. I have no ideas off the top of my head regarding the experiments of her vault yet.

Here is the official description for the Science skill:And honestly, I’m not sure how useful the Pilot skill is gonna be. It’s used for "driving land vehicles, or pilot flying vehicles", vehicles like vertibirds, tanks, cars, and motorcycles are the examples it gives. The games don’t feature working vehicles except for vertibirds really, and having cars and stuff kinda ruins the whole exploration thing I feel like, it’s almost like fast travel.

During character creation, no skills can be increased above the rank of 3. Tagged skills start at 2 and everything else starts at 0. I highly recommend buying that third rank for all of your tagged skills first.

I was leaning towards a Vault Dweller. Someone who has no business being outside, but has found themselves on the outside despite this. An administrative assistant, used to a comfortable job pushing papers, who now is way in over his head.

Here's an idea...What if the vault characters came from the same vault?

I'm thinking of going with the idea that my character could have been like a soldier/guard.