Out of Character banter.

Hello everyone. Could you post in this thread how you are going with character creation any questions on what is the next step so I know what to communicate up front. Ill be in and out the next few days due to easter and I hope to get us going at least early in the new week maybe before. But yes please. Message in this forum to see if everyone is connected.

So I will go first.

I will not have a character on the ship but I have posted a basic character sheet form, I am curious if you can see it. but if not I will post it at the end of this.

I am in GMT +3 ( I live in Vilnius) and I have an office job, so basically I can post every weekday. and some week ends. So, I will keep pace with us all. And depending on everyone elses posting schedule I will set either a 48 hour cycle or a 76 hour cycle, pinned to GMT+3.

My name is Jeremy, I am an Australian who worked around the world for ten years and then settled in Vilnius, Lithuania, Married, got a dog, and I work vaguely in quality analytics for a big drug pusher. I love stories, I love making stuff with people. And I am excited to try this with you.

I have played PbP once. and not for long. I have never played anything outside the DnD / OSR school of thought, and nothing in Sci Fi. Again, I am excited to try.

Thanks!!!


and Character sheet.

Name: Kim

Class: Warrior

Str: +2
Ag: +1
Int: -1
Will: 0

Health 19 / 19
Armor: 1
Supply 3 / 3
Credits: 3

Abilities:
Brute (+2 melee)
Hardy (+4 health)

Skills:
Athletics
Pilot


Look:

Although he has very bushy dark eyebrows, Kim can be described as "Beautiful". A permanent squint means that when his eyes are open, everyone takes notice. Powerful voice. Well muscled after a childhood of carrying rocks and dreaming of a better day.

Gear:

Shotgun (+1)
Knife (+1)

Hi. I once was a mechanical and then nuclear engineer. I spent a few years assigned to a fast attack submarine and spent 60-70% of that time at sea. I have lived in New England for decades. First small town and now small city. My favorite food is blue shell crab steamed in beer with old bay seasoning and corn on the cob. My family has kids, cats, a dog, and a bunny. I practice as an attorney.

I first played 2e in 1990 but had played tunnels and trolls before that. I have been into play by post since 2007. I like play by post with simple rules like the ones for this game. I think I would like simple rules in person too, but it has been a very long time since I played in person.

My character, Li, is a 2-rated PK with military psychic training. He also is trained in network infiltration and information extraction. His unit was right sized when the military realized that their soft skill psychics were more effective for getting information. He has a small and unpredictable pension payment. It's unpredictable because he's always on the move and it can take time to accomplish interplanetary bank transfers. Somewhere the money must be slowly accumulating? Li just wants thrills. He's not very disciplined.

Hi all! I am really looking forward to this game.

I work full time, but it's an office job, so pretty much the same deal as you, @CaptSammich.

I'm in Australia which is currently GMT+10 without Daylight Savings. A bit of an odd timezone, which probably just means that I will be posting during weird times for most of you.

Ive being roleplaying since the early 80s (Yes, I'm that old), and I've played and GM'd a lot of Pbta. I'm happy to answer questions, but I'm not going to vounteer advice as that can be really annoying. I'm really just happy to play with whatever hijinks that we want to get up to.

Character creation for Offworlders is really easy, but I'd prefer to know what style and feel of game we are going for. See my question in the Testing and setting thread.

Hi, everyone! I'm newly self-employed (writing and program management) and am working more hours than I used to while I figure all of it out. Currently have a steady monthly retainer at least until the end of the year so am very thankful.

I'm in the eastern time zone in the US. Open to 3 or 4 posts a week but I'm not really sure as it's been ages since I was in a pbp. It might turn out I want to do more.

I played my first rpg about 5 years ago. All my games have been online. I started with D&D5e but haven't played that in a while. My games are Pathfinder (1e and 2e) and Starfinder right now. I did some pbp around the same time but life got in the way and only just dusted off my accounts this past week.

Still reading the pdf, but I'm leaning heavily toward the Outlaw class, with agility and willpower being my best skills. I'll spend some time this weekend thinking through some ideas.

Excellent!!! Thanks everyone. Great to meet you all. So we have a solid amount of timezones so that will keep us moving, and it seems we are all able to post regularly so I think we aim at a 48 hour turn around unless some would prefer not. But we can play it by ear. After easter feast I will write up a bunch of stuff and hope to get us going. Already loving the vibes of this crew with tones of life experience and gaming experience. Hope to draw on all of that as we go. Enjoy the eggs or chocolate or whatever you do for this weekend (I will head to grandmas for lithuanian egg and salads mmm best)

@Tibbius, love that post, great inclusion of other aliens. This is going to be awesome!!

Lol — thanks!

Oh hey @CaptSammich, I just noticed in your original post that you're an Australian. I saw the bit about you living in Latvia, but missed your origin story. Always good to see a fellow Australian in these Pbp sites even if you're in a different Tz these days.

I hope Vilnius is treating you well.

Left Australia in 2013 to do some short courses in Sweden and South Africa for a non profit i worked for. Ended up staying in sweden to work in a communication department for a while and then decided to move to Lithuania to set stuff up here or just see what it is like. and then was stubborn when everything fell apart and then met a cute lady :D

Before all of that I was a musician, wedding and concert photographer. It was a good life. Never played RPGs until moving here and having one of my friends invite me to play 3 sessions only to say he never wanted to run games. So I started running games and never looked back :D

Grew up in Canberra, lived in Newcastle for a while. Brother in Melbourne, sisters in Sydney, other sister and parents still in the capital. We will go visit them for christmas. Pretty excited.

Where have you hailed from?

Nothing like a little coincidence! I grew up in Sydney, but kind of settled in Canberra after I went to university here. I've been here long enough to be considered a long term Canberran, I guess.

canberran!! Nice. When did you study what? Maybe you even know my sister haha.

Sorry all, it's been a little bit busy at work, but I should be able to get a post in the forums up tomorrow.

Thanks for the heads up. And all good on my front. Weekends are sometimes slower for posting for me too So. hope its fun and good times.

Yeah, no worries. Work can definitely get in the way sometimes. :)

Sorry I been a little quiet, work is keeping me busy at the moment, and it took a little longer to post than expected.

All good. Ok sweet. So at work tomorrow I will push the story along so that we get up in the air and on our way. If you would like to do anything before I railroad a little bit, please post. Otherwise I will post what I post tomorrow and if we need to correct things we can.

Hi, everyone. I'm sorry to have been absent. I had a couple of emergency situations that just resolved. I'll be home tomorrow and will be able to catch up.

Thanks for the update. Sorry to hear of the emergencies. I hope everything is better now. And for sure. Tomorrow is great.

I will be on family vacation June 11–19. Will not be posting or checking this game during that time. Will be back after that.