Character Creation

Character creation is incredibly easy. There are 5 parts to a character:
*Concept
*Attributes
*Specializations
*Survival Points
*Bad Habits

Concept
This is a one sentence descriptor of your character. "The football quarterback who bullies nerds." "The stoner who likes to play pranks." Etc.

Attributes
Attributes are made of 4 opposing pairs: Identify/Obscure, Persuade/Dissuade, Pursue/Escape, Assault/Protect. Most of these should be self evident but let me know if you have any questions. Attribute pairs must always equal 10. So if Identify is 6, Obscure will be 4. I recommend not having any attribute be lower than a 2 or 3 as it is a real handicap in play.

Specializations
These are modifications to your attributes that show some area of focus. This can be because of an item, talent or circumstance. For example, Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be specialized in Vampire Hunting as part of her Assault attribute. Specializations are 2 points higher than the highest attribute in the pair, but you must deduct 2 points from the pair, either 2 from the either, or 1 from each. So taking Buffy as our example, she started out with Assault 6 / Protect 4. She decides to take 2 away from Protect, leaving her with Assault 6 / Protect 2 (Vampire Hunter 8).

Survival Points
This is your HP, Luck, and metacurrency all in 1. As long as you have more than 0, you are safe from death. However the lower your points, the more bad things happen and the more attention you draw from evil forces. You can also spend this on altering die rolls and other uses that will be described later. When you reach 0 points, your luck is running out and any further SP loss will result in death. Default SP value is 5 so that's what we'll be using.

Bad Habits
These are character flaws and foibles that everyone possess. Maybe you sneak off alone for a smoke, can't resist going off alone with a beautiful babe, or maybe run away when scared abandoning your friends. Every character should have 1-2 Bad Habits. Bad Habits can be invoked whenever your character acts on them and that results in putting themselves or others in harm's way. Bad Habits are rewarded with SP.

Everyone should make a counselor that fills a specific role in the camp. So the nurse, the art instructor, the swim coach, the cook, etc. That's all there is. I'll post a sample character sheet everyone can use next time I'm at my computer.

Awesome, will make a character in a bit, as it seems pretty easy and straightforward. My idea would be a college student who is just working the camp counselor job to get a bit of extra money in. Arts and crafts might be a good fit as her specialization. She's not a huge fan of kids, which isn't ideal as a counselor 😄, but she can deal with them.

I'd be up for being related or otherwise linked to one of the other characters. Maybe I'm the younger sister of a repeat counselor here and I got the job through that connection. Or something else

Also, three more questions:

How does rolling work? Is the skill value a dice pool or a modifier?
And is there a limit or minimum to specializations or can we just take as many or few as we want?
How do we determine our SP?

I submitted a sheet. Just need to finish it up when I get the answers to those. Also, can you enable dice integration for this game so I can roll from my sheet directly?

1. Rolling is 2d10 + ability modifier against a Target Number of 15.
2. Specializations can't put an ability above 10 or lower than 1.
3. I forgot to mention begins at 5. I'll edit the post to add that.

I'll add dice integration now.

Looks good! I'll try to get special roll rules for doubles and rolling a 13!

Submitted Declan Fogarty. Camp cook, and fugitive from the Law! (Overstayed his visa)

Just need to figure out his bad habits!

Here's a template based on bowlofspinach's character.

SP: 5

table="rolls"
Attribute 1 | Roll | Attribute 2 | Roll | Specialization | Roll
Identify | 2D10+x | Obscure | 2D10+x | | 2D10+x
Persuade | 2D10+x | Dissuade | 2D10+x | |
Pursue | 2D10+x | Escape | 2D10+x | |
Assault | 2D10+x | Protect | 2D10+x | |
/table

Concept:


Bad Habits:

It's d10 sorry! Games almost never use d10 so I just default to d6 lol.

Fixed it

Ah, just noticed a bug in the sheet thing. If you have multiple rolls in one line, it will take the description from the first one. Eh, I can work around it

Testing

Okay, that's working. Here's the code for my new sheet that works around this issue:

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SP: 5


Concept:


Bad Habits:
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I'm thinking my character is going to also be a college kid. He's starting his freshman year on a wrestling scholarship, where he hopes to get a degree studying mycology. He plays a role as the camp's Physical Fitness counselor.

I couldn't figure out how to do the cool tables, so I just made a plain old one. Let me know if it looks right, as I also submitted it.

Name: Lucas Roland
SP: 5

Identify: 2D10+6
Obscure: 2D10+2
Specialization: Knowledge of Nature 2d10+8

Persuade: 2D10+4
Dissuade: 2D10+6
Specialization:

Pursue: 2D10+6
Escape: 2D10+4
Specialization:

Assault: 2D10+6
Protect: 2D10+4
Specialization:

Concept:
College wrestler with a love for the outdoors and aspirations for a degree in mycology.

Bad Habits:
Likes to sneak away and smoke pot after campers turn in for the night.

Jessica Turner, the swim coach. Nobody really likes her, and she knows it. A bit of a "beach", so to speak. I'm still thinking about a good Specialization to have for Persuade/Dissuade.

Hmm. I was going to go swim coach, but I guess I'll take martial arts instructor. No problem. Will update my character.

So that's college student / camp counselor, camp cook, physical fitness instructor, swim coach, and martial arts instructor?

Giving some thought to what will make a nice fit. WhtKnt, have you picked a gender for the martial artist?

[size=120][b]SP:[/b] 5[/size]

[table="rolls"]
Attribute 1 | Roll | Attribute 2 | Roll | Specialization | Roll
Identify | 2D10+6 | | | |
| | Obscure | 2D10+2 | |
| | | | Knowledge of Nature | 2D10+8
Persuade | 2D10+4 | | | |
| |Dissuade | 2D10+6 | |
| | | | Specialization | 2D10+X
Pursue | 2D10+6 | | | |
| |Escape | 2D10+4 | |
| | | | Specialization | 2D10+X
Assault | 2D10+6 | | | |
| | Protect | 2D10+4 | |
| | | | Specialization | 2D10+X
[/table]

[size=110][b]Concept:[/b][/size]
College wrestler with a love for the outdoors and aspirations for a degree in mycology.

[size=110][b]Bad Habits:[/b][/size]
- Likes to sneak away and smoke pot after campers turn in for the night.

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Here you go, fungi. You can just copypaste this into your sheet

I'm not sure camps have a dedicated martial arts instructor lol. Everyone is a counselor, just with different responsibilities. I'd imagine there would be an instructor that covers all the physical activities, one for water activites (swimming, kayaking, etc.), a naturalist (hiking, camping, scavenger hunts), arts and crafts/music, cook, and nurse. Anything I'm missing?

Martial arts could be a sub-thing of physical activities. Maybe they share that post.

There's probably also a head-counselor. Would that potentially be one of us (definitely not me 😄) or an NPC?

NPC. I'll use them to world build and give schedules and all of that stuff. I think the best way to take care of narrative structure is to create a daily schedule that a summer camp would have, and make parallel threads for those, and characters can post in them. So we'd have 3 or 4 parallel activities going on at the same time, then as people get whittled away and stuff, gradually consolidate the threads.

Sounds interesting

Say, just what kind of game have we signed up for here?! =]

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Have two character ideas:

1. Male counselor. Athletic former college football star, running the nature program. Lied about his skills, is at the camp to get with another counselor.
2. Female counselor. City girl, dropout from a medical school program in NYC. Recharging at camp on the advice of a friend counselor, acting as the nurse.

Either of these a better or worse fit based on what others have going on? That's a query for you too, nezzeraj. The associated counselors in both cases could be PCs or NPCs.

I like both ideas

Sounds neat. On a note, who would the friend counselor be for your second idea?

Also, I just realized that since you gain Survival Points for doing dumb stuff, does that mean those that do dumb stuff have a fair chance of living longer than those that play smart?

Well, those that play dumb will probably also have way more need to spend SP, so maybe it balances out 😄

If you go with the first option, I could be that other counselor.
I'd also still like to be linked to another counselor who pulled me on board, friend or sibling maybe if that works with anyone's concept. Maybe if you're going with the second option, that one could be the same for both of us.

Open to ideas for either counselor mentioned in the two brief pitches. The first would be the attractive object of some affection and terrible horror movies advances by the athlete horndog, the other anyone who knew the girl in NYC and convinced her to spend the summer recharging. Just putting them out there as potential connections.

Before choosing, will wait for others to weigh in, and for WhtKnt to pick a gender.

I have her as being female, but if a male is a better fit, I'm not opposed to changing.

Nezzeraj, if you would rather not have a martial artist, I can make her the nurse instead. Just let me know.

Actually, we seem to have a pretty stacked group of counselors in the athletically inclined department: a wrestler, a martial artist, a swimmer...

I initially planned on being the physical fitness counselor, but my background also says he wants to get a degree in mycology, and I also chose a Specialization in "Knowledge of Nature". So how about instead I be the "naturalist (hiking, camping, scavenger hunts)" counselor, and then that opens things up for one of the other athletic PCs to be the Physical Fitness counselor?

Maybe the swimmer could be in charge of water activities, and then @WhtKnt's martial artist can be in charge of Physical Fitness? Just a thought.

I think it makes sense if my character is in charge of water activities.

Toilet scrubbing, I see

Bold of you to assume that the toilets at this camp get scrubbed.

Bold of her to assume there are toilets at all.

There should be a race to determine who digs the poop pits!

Does the cook also want to function as the groundskeeper? Could probably use a maintenance person who has to go out into the storm to fix all kinds of problems mwahaha.

DO NOT RECOMMEND.

I work as a hotel maintenance man, irl. Maybe my naturalist counselor can also do some maintenance work at night, as an excuse to engage in his bad habit?

😆

Absolutely. I was thinking of playing the handyman tbh. I’ll just change my picture to something more groundskeepery.

Edit: Saw the post up about hotel maintenance. Happy to leave it to funfungiguy, if they want!

Also the possibility of playing some kind of priest or pastor if we take the religious angle. If anyone would be up for that!

I figured your schedule would already be kind of full since you have 4-5 activities you're in charge of while the cook and nurse only have one. I didn't want anyone to not have enough opportunities but if you guys work out something everyone is happy with that's cool too.

There will be wooden outhouses but with modern plumbing so it has the aesthetics of old-timey bathrooms but without the requisite nastiness lol. I might put in three seashells for wiping though...

If this makes sense to Funfungiguy, then I’ll jump into the role of caretaker/groundskeeper/handiman. Handiman/Cook doesn’t exactly strike me as a likely pairing, however!

Is it possible to go for no specializations? After thinking about it, I can't think of anything that I would get much of a use out of without being too niche or too broad.

Ok, I think I have my character. She's a retired curmudgeon teacher working off demerits from a DUI. Not sure what her function at the camp would be yet. What do we still need that would suit this old bag? Actually, I picture her as being somewhat in shape so that she can run from ghosts. She plays tennis and pickleball in her spare time as she has to keep busy to stay away from the bottle.

No, no; you go for it @KCC.

Yeah that makes sense. Let's hold off on my idea.

Who wants to connect with the old lady jock alchy. Maybe an old student of hers?

I actually bought this game years ago, and never found a group to play it with, so I was re-reading it for this game. You don't have to take specializations in every Attribute pairing, and even the rulebook warns that they can really leave you at a big disadvantage in other aspects and there's ways to get the best bang for your buck to even make them worth it. I only took one specialization at all, which was "Knowledge of Nature", and only because Specializations can bleed into different Attribute rolls than just the pairing you put it in, and I figured it was broad enough that I could use it in more that just the Identify/Obscure pairing.

Windy, You could be the one who got me to sign up as counselor. Maybe I am an old student of yours.
Oh, or do you want to be my aunt?

@Windyridge: I was gonna say, maybe she could be the Head Lady at the camp, but that probably wouldn't be a job given to somone just working off DUI service.

Either works for me Bowl.
Probably not. xD

Considering my character is an alcoholic, maybe it runs in the family

@Bowl, now that I think of it, aunt might be better for the drama that can be squeezed out of it. Like OMG my niece/nephew has been taken by aghoul.

@bowlofspinach: Maybe since you're a college student doing this for money, and I'm going to start college next summer, your character and my character go to the same school, and we met at my student orientation (either you're a freshman as well or maybe you were the one that showed me around), and your PC and mine became friendly and you told me about this job they were hiring for as a summer camp counselor and that's how I got the job?

Could be. I probably wouldn't have advertised or really tried to spread the news but I might have mentioned it. What was your character like personality wise. Maybe you were either really excited about the idea and immediately signed up then or you signed up specifically to spend time with me or I talked you into signing up because that way, this job might just be a bit more bearable

Yeah, I was thinking that we don't know each other really well. Maybe during orientation I mentioned that I was looking to get a degree in mycology and that I pretty smart about nature stuff and biology, and you were like, "Oh hey, the summer camp I work at is looking for a nature activities counselor; maybe if you know a lot of nature stuff and need some money before school starts this fall..."

And maybe I'm only getting like a quarter-ride athletics scholarship for college my first year as a red shirt, so I was like, "Oh hey, I kinda actually could use some money before school starts this fall."

Works for me

Since this is the grand reopening of death camp, they probably need all new counselors. So makes sense that one pulls in the next and so on

Alright, yeah. So that's my connection to at least one other PC. Your character and mine met at my freshman orientation and you mentioned this job where they were looking for a nature activities counselor at this summer camp.

Alright, I just submitted Dacey. Pic to come tonight.

Basics
Full Name: Dacey Darla Williams
Nicknames: Dace, DD, Williams

Concept
Med school dropout from the big city looking to spend the summer recharging and rethinking things.

Attributes & Specializations
Identify 6 / Obscure 2 (Medical School Specialization 10)
Persuade 6 / Dissuade 4
Pursue 4 / Escape 4 (Sprinting Specialization 8)
Assault 3 / Protect 7

Survival Points: 5

Bad Habits
Can't Help But Help Those In Need
Incurably Inquisitive

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The way the point spend works with specializations is a little borked, but shouldn't be a big deal in a game like this.

Now I just need to know: who convinced Dacey to take the summer "off" and work at the camp so she can re-think her dropping out of med-school?

Now that you mention it, the point spending on specializatrions is a bit weird. Not necessarily broken or anything but weird.

It's broken IMHO. It's like it wasn't tested in anger. There are some pairings that actually result in higher numbers at the end than others, if you also specialize. But no biggie.

How so?

Looking at it twice, I think you're supposed to tally the specialization after lowering the attributes, which makes a big difference (as opposed to basing it off the original value). So nevermind! Changing my mind. Still weird, but not borked. :)

😄

So @Bowl, my character will be your aunt. She got the job by court appointment and told you about the summer job. Would that work for Susan?

Anyone else?

Will tinker with the groundskeeper today then! Change some things around! We can’t staff an entire place ourselves, I imagine. And some gaps could probably be permitted.

"Wait? Who’s drives the bus?"

"I dunno. Some guy. He’s dead now!"

Yes, specializations are not required, just to add some extra detail to make your character stand out. There will definitely be some NPCs to raise the stakes (and body count lol). I just want every PC to have stuff to do so want all the major jobs covered. Anything left over will be delegated to the NPCs. Looks like characters are all coming together! If anyone is still looking for character connections, since it's a religious camp you could be a non-believer forced to go by a family member, or attend the same church, anything like that.

Jessica definitely seems like someone who's part of the church clique, so she would probably know anybody who goes to the same church.

Also WhtKnt, interested in how you see hiding Kristen's Wiccan worship as a Bad Habit. It seems like a rather specific situation where you would a) have someone who would want to know that Kristen is Wiccan and b) that fact is important enough to be detrimental when she avoids that talk.

Okay, so it is a religious camp, then?

That can work, but I need to think on the religious angle a bit. Is there a possibility your character didn't tell DD it was a religious camp?

Do you think he was working at the camp before it was shut down after the "incident" (to be determined on the nature of it) or is he a new hire for the camp?

He’s an old fella. Could be that he was working there, sure!

Let's go with I'm the lame aunt who you remember as always having a few too many drinks.

The lame aunt who I'm sure I can sneak a drink from occasionally. Perfect

Excellent. I'll put my character together today.

Right. Any ideas from anyone what function Patty could have at the camp? Crafts maybe, or sailing instructor, outdoor specialist/hiking etc?

I'm currently on Crafts, though I could change that since Susan has no interest in crafts anyway. She would have just applied for that because it sounds easy. I think we have a nature person as well. I'm not sure about a water person yet 🤔

Yeah I just realized there already is a nature person, but I'm up for water or crafts although I'd prefer something water-related.

And there's a swim coach so that leaves arts and crafts. Patty can do that.

Patty Smith is submitted! Watch your booze folks!

Then I'll just need to find something else. What else is still available?

Oops sorry, I forgot to check with you. Is that ok? If anyone can think of another job, Patty is easy.

Susan as well. As long as we both have a job in the end, that's fine with me. Or we could both be arts and craft. Maybe whoever hired us messed up or was like "eh, who cares. Not my job"

Haha that would be kind of fun.

@bowl. Ok found two. Admin or music? What's your pleasure? Or do you want crafts back? I'm fine with any.

I'd be most interested in crafts if you'd feel like doing either of the others. But I could also go with music. Or we can share the post

I'll do music then. Admin might not be is active with kids.

I think of it as more a liability than a bad habit, but I see where you are coming from. Let's go back to my original thought, "Enjoys skinny dipping (at night or alone)" and keep the Wiccan attribute as flavor.
That actually fits well with the character, who probably would have kept it on the down-low because she didn't want to "out" herself.

Just to be sure I'm tracking... we're saying Kristin was friends with Dacey previously. Was she Wicca back then? Is there a reason she wanted to a) work at a Baptist summer camp, and b) wanted an old friend to come too?

If that's too weird or unworkable, I can have Dacey's mother be Baptist, and be the one who convinces her that a summer spent at a quiet camp is just what she needs after all that terrible time in awful NYC...

Sure, Kristin has been Wiccan for more than a few years. And working at the Baptist camp might be exactly the reason that she wants an old friend along. Someone who, like her, is an outsider. As for why she works there, I can say that she is in college to get a degree in education and having worked as a counselor at a summer camp doesn't look bad on your record. Maybe this is the only local camp that she could find work at.

Ah, ah, think I've got it. Kristin convinces Dacey to come down and work at the camp, and when Dacey gets there she's like, "WTF? K, this place is a Baptist camp. Do you know you're..."

I can work with that. Dacey will be a little mad at Kristin to start with, but she'll get over it when the shit starts hitting the fan. ;)

Lol loving the characters. If anyone is still lacking a definite position, there is still the general chaperone duties of taking groups of kids to the various areas and being an assistant to whatever activity they currently do. Looks like everyone has a character submitted! We have 7, which is perfect. When everyone has their character personality/backgorund finished, please make a short paragraph on the character sheet so I can easily reference it. We are go to start on Sept. 1!

Boop, flavor text. After looking at the rest of the cast, I think Jessica has approximately a 0% chance of survival, if we go by survival horror tropes. I tried to up her survival rate by introducing a tease for character development, but all that does is place her death later in the film. Once it's been referred to, curtains.

Jokes aside, looking forwards to the game.

Loathed by most around her, Jessica Turner is a girl with a nasty personality. Kids and staff alike find her to be one of the worst things to happen to them this summer. The feeling happens to be mutual, though a contender for such a distinction may appear quite soon... But behind her biting sarcasm and sour attitude lies a slew of doubts and insecurities. Perhaps if one were to persist in getting to know the ornery gal, a more relatable side could be revealed. Jessica volunteered to become the camp's water activities counselor after her church minister mentioned a camp which needed such a position filled this summer, a decision that she has come to regret, now more than ever.

This is so funny.

When might we decide what happened to close down the camp before?

I assume a hushed up murder spree

The kids are not going to survive very long in this game, are they.

I remember a comment about it maybe being revealed in-game? You know, at the start of Act II. ;)

I joined an East Texas University game a while ago and I remember one of the other characters there was also studying mycology. Was that you playing them? Just a random question 😄

Yeah it was. When we tried the Savage Worlds game but our GM ghosted us. I have a handful of characters "ideas" that I like to plug into different rpg rules systems and see how they differ from one system to another, and Lucas Roland is a pretty frequently used character I tinker around with. It's never really the same character from one game to the next, I think because different rules make you roleplay different based on little tweaks on what they can and can't do. So no Lucas Roland is ever really the same from one game to the next, even if I have the idea I'm going to try and RP them the same. It always varies.

I have a second account, which is strictly for playing and running horror/post-apocalypse games. This account is pretty much for everything that isn't horror or post-apoc themed. I meant to apply to this game on my horror game account, but I forgot to log out first, and by the time I realized I wasn't using my horror game account, nezzeraj had already approved me, so this account it is for this game.

In my other account, I ran a zombie apocalypse game of TinyD6 for a while that you were in until we found a good stopping point, and I used a TinyD6 version of Lucas Roland as the character creation example. And then I used Lucas Roland for the Savage Worlds: ETU game we both got hosed on.

I remember that game. I can't remember that GM username right now but it was a really good game. But that's curious. Why do you have a separate horror account? Just so you can avoid looking at them on your main when you're not in the mood? 😄

I think I'm going to do a classic "history of the camp around a campfire" scene to reveal what happened to close it down. It'll allow me to do unreliable narrator shenanigans cuz you'll be hearing about it through another character, and you can decide in-character if you believe it or not, or if there's a grain of truth etc. I think keeping the true history a secret will help be a little more suspenseful ooc.

Sounds perfect

Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good way to create a backstory with questionable truth. I like it.
The other account is BenShotFirst. I helped to give some advice and do some playtesting for a guy that eventually published a post-apocalyptic rpg on DriveThru that was sort of a "lite" version of a game with a tactical "Twilight2000" feel but you plug in your own apocalypse theme (aliens, robots, zombies... stuff like that, but also things like a meteor strikes, or all the fossil fuel runs out, or just a flu kills everyone... lots of possibilities).

The account basically was just one I used to solo play different encounters in different scenarios and give feedback to the game designer. Then I think I started running games with it using the FFG End of the World rules system. Then I just decided I'll use this one for post-apoc stuff, but with zombies being a frequent theme, it slowly bled into the horror genera as well.

I guess now I just keep them separate because I enjoy compartmentalizing. This account is mostly for fantasy and science fiction. That one of for horror and apocalypse stuff. Sort of like not letting my mashed potatoes touch my corn at Thanksgiving, or letting gravy touch my cranberries. Obviously I'm not going to die of they do come into contact with each other, I just greatly prefer they don't, I guess.

Planning to hold you to this! ;)

Two perpetually drunk camp counselors. This is just going to go great 😅

Hiding their drunkeness could be a specialization for Obscure...lol

I have "Smuggling Small Things" as a specialization, specifically to sneak alcohol wherever I go.

It's also one of my Bad Habits 😁

But why not? Heh.

Going to get started on a Character soon. Is my understanding correct that we're making Counsellors for the camp rather than people attending?

Well we're not camper kids. But I don't believe you have to be a counsellor. One person is the handyman, I know.

I think staff and counsellors and generally adults was the vibe. I'm sure exceptions could be made, but nezz should weigh in here...

Yeah, they should all be employed by the camp, not attendees.

Are we taking bets on who gets got first?

We really should do a pool...

Sounds like a neat idea. How should we do it?

We should just write up the names and brief descriptions of the characters and then let the wider GP community bet

That could be neat. Make use of that janky poll type post.

That would be fun!

I was secretly hoping someone would take up the reigns on the poll... excellent!

Sounds like a good time.

So I tried to make a poll thread, got an error every time I tried to post it, then saw 3 new threads, so apparently it worked? But I can't see he poll itself, so let me know if it works for any of you.

Still waiting for PixE's character, so game may start a day late or so depending on how long it takes. I'll have a "camp schedule" posted later today that will give everyone a timeline of where they will be at any given time of day.

I don't see it anywhere but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? Do you have a direct link?

Poll doesn't show up. I tried making one in a private game, got the errors and no poll, so I assume that the feature just doesn't work.

It does work though. Here it was being tested by Qralloq.

Odd, I remember that, and it wasn't too long ago. In any case doesn't seem to be working right now. Probably better as a regular thread anyways, so we can tell who voted for who in the pool.

By the way, I don't think I got to read all the character's descriptions yet.

I asked the Q man to check and it still works.
Probably some niggling little thing. I'll play around with it tomorrow too.

Poll doesn't work for this really. We want people to be able to place their bets on who dies first and who survives until the end 😄

Oh thanks for the reminder. If everyone can click the book icon in the character list so everyone can view your characters that would be great. I'll go ahead and create a table and everyone an vote with a post and I'll add it to the table.

Character is public now

Patti is public now.

Dacey's on the public train too.

If someone can explain how to make it public I'll do that.

Go to your list of characters. Click on the folder to the right. Then it will turn red and become public

Kristin has been public.

That's a folder? I always thought it was a lighter and had no idea what it was for... Lucas should be public now.

It does look like a lighter now that you mention it. Hah!

It's for burning your character sheet when the character dies

Ok so I’m quickly getting a Character together. My Character is a Drugs/Everyday Counsellor that the kids can go and talk to about how they’re feeling.

Just got to sort out my Attributes and Specializations

Ok so I’m done apart from Specializations. I have the rules but it doesn’t make it clear? Here’s what I’ve got….

Name: Aden Miles

SP: 5

Concept: Aden is the camp Counsellor trying to keep kids off of drugs whilst being a pot head himself. He likes the kids to feel that he totally understands and that he gives them a safe space to talk about their feelings at and away from Camp.

Attributes:

Identify 4/ Obscure 6

Persuade 7/ Dissuade 3

Persue 3/ Escape 7

Assault 3/ Protect 7

Specializations:

Bad Habits:

Stoner Hippy – Aden likes to have a smoke at least twice a day (when he wakes up and before he goes to bed) when’s he exceptionally stressed then this can be more depending on the situation. Occasionally he likes to dabble with something psychedelic like Salvia or Shrooms

Half the counselors at this party are constantly either drunk or high. This is starting to look like a real horror movie! 😄

Right? Patty and Aden will get a long just fine. High and drunk. What could go wrong?

Then so will Susan and Lucas 😁

lol this sounds great. What do I pick then as my specialization? What have you guys chosen?

You can choose anything. Or nothing. Our character sheets are all public so you can have a look at them through the characters tab at the bottom.

I'm just waiting for a scene where all the addicts sneak out to do drugs and run into each other.

Have submitted my Character. Couldn’t think of a specialization so let’s get started! (^_-)

Specializations are created by adding 2 to the highest stat, and subtracting 2 points from either stat in the pair, or 1 from each. So an Assault 5 / Protect 5 with Specialization could be:
Assault 4 / Protect 4 (Specialization 7) or
Assault 3 / Protect 5 (Specialization 7) or
Assault 5 / Protect 3 (Specialization 7)

The points are added before they are subtracted. A Specialization can't be higher than 10 though, so you can't have an Assault 9 / Protect 1 with a Specialization. Hope this helps!

Cool all characters have been accepted! I'll make a post about important NPCs and kick off the game tonight!

Can I suggest we don't do the screenplay formatting? I'll play along and do my best if everyone wants to, but I find the formatting fiddly, it takes extra time, and it's limiting in terms of how ideas are conveyed. Might be alone in my thinking on that, though.

I agree with Harrigan on that, so you're not entirely alone.

Yea, the idea is neat but it limits things like dialog tags, which I like to work with. Also, copypasting the "centered" tag every time you write a post seems like it would get annoying quickly

I don't know how to do it, tbh. It's definitely cool looking, but it's a bit over my head.

I can understand that. I am really sad the "snippets" function is gone, as you could save specific formatting and use it again and again with one click. Would be perfect for this. Oh well, feel free to use normal formatting.

Sorry nezz. But I'm confident we can make it cinematic. =]

I know, just thought it was a unique idea lol.

RIP, Declan

You'll be missed, you old piece of brine-soaked leather!

I like Declan's final moments. Sets a high bar for the rest of us, heh. Rest in peace, Declan.

Patty won't need a denouement as she plans to outlive you all. Bwahaha

Yeah that was a pretty epic death scene. I will have to do something on par with that lol

Houston, we might have our second casualty...

Yeah, this aged well.

Indeed!

Susan will actually survive all of you at this rate

Advice: don't run an OSR game with our benevolent GM as a player. He exacts revenge!

Haha! I'm not vindictive at all! But the new post is up! Good luck!

So do I need to off her in my very next post?

Dacey faints from seeing the worms and dies

…falling on the voodoo doll of Susan, driving the pin through its head.

It doesn't have to be the very next post. If we think of it in movie terms, it would be sometime in the same scene but not necessarily immediately.

Roger that! (Meanie!)

This is pretty cool, though. I'm excited to see how this turns out.

And there's Dacey, done.

Time to do a head count. Who is even left at this point 😄

Patty, Kristin, Aden, and Jessica. Aden's been MIA for a bit and still has some rolls to make so his future is unclear. Patty has enough SP to easily survive, Kristin and Jessica could go either way depending on upcoming rolls!

Are we done? Was going to post something else but not sure if we’re finished.

That’s not me wanting to be finished…..I know I’ve been a bit here and there but this is the most fun I’ve had with an RPG in a LONG time

Nezz might not be fully available for posting for a bit. Check in absences.

But we're not done quite yet. Some are still alive. Not me, though

Patty is patty is Patty is! :-)

Rescue has come. You still have to narrate what you do to get to that rescue. I'll post an epilogue after everyone has posted.

Thanks, nezz, for running this! It was a lot of fun and I always like trying out new systems. I'm not sure I'll use this system again myself but it had some interesting ideas and I really enjoyed playing in this!