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General Chaos / Bard's Tale 4 Kickstarter

« on: June 25, 2015, 12:55:06 PM »

I wouldn't normally mention this.  Bard's Tale 2 was the first video game I ever owned back for the Commodore 64.  And now some of the original developers are apparently was

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RPGs / Prison Break : Eclipse Phase Edition

« on: June 01, 2015, 08:48:14 AM »

So my basic scenario plan is a group of mercenaries are hired to break into a Jovian Prison and escape with a prisoner.  The basic plan sounds good but I am falling down a bit on why someone would pay your basic EP style dogs of war to do the job.  Suggestions would be welcome.

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RPGs / EP: Scum Swarm

« on: May 01, 2015, 04:17:14 AM »

I'm planning out another try at an EP game.  I believe at some point, preferably the end of the first act, the players will probably become exposed enough that they'll need to leave Mars discreetly.  I am planning on presenting a scum swarm moving towards Mercury as an option. 

I'm tentatively calling the swarm Nuevo Vegas.  The concept a mobile transhuman Las Vegas run by the Night Cartel as a mobile above board gambling den and below board smuggling operation. (Mostly people and contraband).  I'm trying to come up with how to integrate the feel I'm looking for in swarm of richly decorated refurbished transport ships.  Suggestions?

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RPGs / Eclipse Phase Campaign Idea

« on: October 19, 2014, 03:01:43 PM »

I'm starting an EP campaign in the next two weeks.  I'll have 4 to 6 players and I want to use Firewall as a unifying force for the group.  This is also going to be a first EP game for most of the group, though all but one are familiar with most of the concepts involved. 

I usually start with an antagonist. My initial idea is a rogue Firewall agent auctioning off secrets to the highest bidders, or gathering resources for some kind of coup.

A few ideas I'm certain I want to touch on include;red markets, the Martian quarantine zone, lunar banks, the ultimates, uplifts, exhumans and the titianian commonwealth. (I know it could be a lot to cover.). I'm just not sure about how to tie it all together.  I thought to start by having the PCs sent to interrupt an auction at a main belt red market station.  And tie the rest of the ideas together as information that had already been compromised/sold.  I'm sure my idea is full of holes.  For example if they interrupt the auction is the seller the rogue firewall agent?  Or just a proxy he's using for the sale?  For another what is the rogue's goals? Just get enough rep/cred to buy a personal station and drift off into space?  I considered the rogue having been a router or proxy, maybe even one using his/a firewall team in his plans.