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Wed, 09/09/2009 - 19:19
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Article Idea: Personel Files

Though, we'd have to call it something slightly different as SJGames does something very similar with their Transhuman Space setting. The basic idea is to come up with a group of 3 to 8 characters usable as PCs or NPCs and fully stat them out with a short back story and relationship for each one. Each edition of the article would give a group of characters ready to play and one or two short adventures that the group might get involved in.

I plan on working something like this up on my own but I would love to work with others on it as well. Perhaps do it as a monthly project or a semi-regular article to go up on DC.

The article would go something like this:

Title
Group Roster (Name, 2 to 4 word character summary, point level)
Group Overview (2 to 4 paragraphs)
Character Entries
>Character Name; Character Summary; Point Level
>Bio/Backstory (Quarter to Full page)
>Stat Blocks (Attributes, Skills, Equipment)
>Personal Equipment/Item descriptions (If any)
>GM/Secret Information (Stuff only the GM and Player should know about the character, if any)
Group Equipment (Descriptions of Vehicles, Bases, or other Shared Gear that is owned by the Group if anything)
Adventure Ideas (2 to 4, half to full pages max -Or- 1 full longer adventure and 2 to 4 shorter paragraph adventure outlines)

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Thu, 09/10/2009 - 05:15
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

I am going to start on my own as I said, but I'd like to share what ideas I'm currently brainstorming as possible themes for the first article.

Asteroid Prospectors
>The crew of a small mining/prospecting ship including stats for the ship itself working in the belt.
>Captain/Pilot, Ship's Engineer, Mining Foreman/Mine Engineer, Science Officer, Purser/Accountant
>Adventure: Artifact Strike - The party comes across an alien artifact buried deep in the heart of an asteroid.
>Adventure: Rescue? - The party comes across a distress beacon only to have a rogue infomorph enter their ship's computer and begin plotting for its own purposes.
>Adventure: Hypercorp Expedition - The party comes across a hypercorp expedition bound for trouble.

Scum Salvagers
>A small company of salvage operators working to glean a living out of the wreckage orbiting Earth. Includes stats for a small salvage barge.
>Captain; Pilot; Security Enforcer; Engineer; Salvage Hacker
>Adventure: Locked Box - An old satilite is more than it seems when the crew cracks it open they find a treasure trove, and trouble.
>Adventure: Mercy Mission - A scum barge has had a catastrophic misfire of its thrusters and is now in a declining orbit around Earth, the crew is called in to save the day.

Aphrodite Actions
>A group of Venusian troubleshooters working towards independence from the hypercorps
>Face/Negotiator; Security Operative; Infomorph Newshound Hacker; Wealthy Activist
>Adventure: Rescue Me - A well-known atavist has disappeared with rumors of kidnapping recently, when the group comes across a signal bearing the activist's signature out of an automated platform.

I'm also open to suggestions. These are meant to get the ball rolling for ideas.

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Wed, 09/09/2009 - 20:24
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

Hmmmm... would you see this as some sort of "Template Package", essentially a group of pre-made archetypes that are designed to actually work together rather than the generic stuff in the book? Or would you rather this be fully realized characters that have all ideas ready for them (names, detailed history, etc)?

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Wed, 09/09/2009 - 20:49
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

Janus wrote:
Hmmmm... would you see this as some sort of "Template Package", essentially a group of pre-made archetypes that are designed to actually work together rather than the generic stuff in the book? Or would you rather this be fully realized characters that have all ideas ready for them (names, detailed history, etc)?

More of a template made to work together. The characters should be ready or nearly ready to be picked up an played but not so detailed as to be without room for modification or alteration to a player's playstyle. The idea is that the characters could be used for pregens in a pickup game or they could be used as starting points for more detailed characters. It is certainly the goal to give a package that can work together, but also the idea is to leave a good deal of room for alteration.

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Wed, 09/09/2009 - 22:59
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

Sounds like a certainly useful concept, and definitely something I would like to assist in. In early stages of the project perhaps just get a list going of group concepts for people to pull from if they don't have ideas of their own right away?

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Thu, 09/10/2009 - 00:05
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

Janus wrote:
Sounds like a certainly useful concept, and definitely something I would like to assist in. In early stages of the project perhaps just get a list going of group concepts for people to pull from if they don't have ideas of their own right away?

I'm not against compiling a list, if you have more concepts please post them, but I would like to decide on a first article idea and get working on it in order to work out how things will be laid out and work. Also I think the fuller version would be more useful as content for the site. If we are to become a bigger site we have to have content.

Though please be sure I am happy for any help I can get, and am still in the brainstorming ideas phase anyway.

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Thu, 09/10/2009 - 00:54
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

Oh yeah, sure! I'll post some random thoughts up here when I can think of them, and feel free to message me on chat or here on the wiki if you want anything more before your first "Establishing Post".

I'm totally in agreement that content is important so we can get this going right just as things are starting.

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Thu, 09/10/2009 - 05:33
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

An idea or two before bed

MeshCutters
>A team of infomorphs and characters who are almost completely immersed in the system-wide communication grid known as the mesh.
>AGI Entrepreneur - Works to arrange business contacts and acts as the group's face in the mesh.
>Re-Instated Hacker - Used to work a desk job before everything blew up.
>Mercurial Researcher - Human is such an old term and way of thinking; still you can't go it alone, yet.
>Re-Instated Ex-Executive - Once he was one of the elite and now it can't even afford a body, but it still has got skills and drive to get back to the top.
>>I'm not sure how these would fit together exactly. Still an infomorph troubleshooter team sounds like a good idea.

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Fri, 09/11/2009 - 02:00
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

Firehouse42
>”New record. This is my twenty-third sleeving this month.”
>A dedicated veteran Firewall team specialized in running quick “in and out” missions on what's left of Earth.
>>NOTE: Agents in Firehouse42 are built with 1200 points rather than the standard 1000.
>>>The idea of this group is to push the system a bit and create veteran characters right off.
>Captain Lewis Corsair – Team Leader
Captain Corsair has lead more missions and died more times than he knows. He has taken mental trauma that would have most egos too fragmented to even compile into a working shell and still holds a level head and calm mind in the toughest situations.
>Multi-Ball! - Mercurial Scientist
The being having chosen its designation as “Multi-Ball” has left many of its more human traits by the wayside, but not its sense of humor and, seemingly, its dedication to help humanity. Unlike many agents it chooses to have multiple copies of its ego running simultaneously, regularly merging and forking them, leaving one behind on missions and combining what remains of itself afterward in-order to maintain a sort of continuity with itself. It's chosen name is based on the appearance of its favorite sleeve is a series of basketball sized spheres, of its own design, each equipped with gyroscopes and light thrusters for momentum and motion management.
>At least three other members of the team. A hacker, and ace quick-reaction pilot would be good ideas.
>Adventure Idea: Portrait of a Run – Someone high up wants a painting that still might exist downside, at least where it was wasn't hit with anything direct. Go and getting it would be a big chip for Firewall negotiations about something, which you're not cleared to know, but it would help, big.

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Fri, 09/11/2009 - 20:55
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

Unknown Soldiers
>A hypercorp covert-ops team specializing in getting into other hypercorp facilities and then getting things out.
>Social Engineering Specialist, Covert Entry/Demolitions Specialist, Data Hacker, Extraction Specialist(aka driver)
>Adventure Idea: Broken Bottle – The mission is to head in grab some salvaged TITAN tech and get out. Once inside the team finds the station on lock down and soon they come across their first headless body.
>Adventure Idea: Disposable Soldiers – It was an easy run, get into a nearly deserted facility, grab the data cores and get out. On the way home the group finds their pass-codes have stopped working, and security clearances seem to be revoked.

Crash Course Inc.
>A gatecrasher team working out of the Fissure Gate(Operated by the Love and Rage anarchist collective).
>Site Security Operative, Field Tech Engineer, Alien Tech Anylist, XenoArcheologist, XenoBiologist
>Adventure Idea: I Need A Team! - A prominent hypercorp scientist has made his way to the Fissure gate and booked time to go through, and he wants the team's help.
>Adventure Idea: Distress Call – On a field expedition the party begins to pick up a regular pulsing signal.

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Wed, 09/16/2009 - 05:56
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Re: Article Idea: Personelle Files

Sentinel Hill
>A team of Jovian operatives working to protect humanity from itself.
>Adventure Idea: Dangerous Seeds – The team has learned of a new seed-ai project operating out of a collective colony in the main belt. The mission is to infiltrate the anarchists, verify the rumors and if true take out the seed along with the research(and researchers).

Farlight Express
>An anarchist delivery/courier service getting goods and services shipped through the void for the good of some.
>Captain/(Inner-system legal)Owner, Engineer, Cargo Master, Medic
>Adventure Idea: Stow-Away – A custom biomorph the Express is hired to deliver becomes active and begins to cause trouble aboard ship.

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Thu, 09/17/2009 - 00:34
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Re: Article Idea: Personel Files

Posted my working list of ideas got 8 so far and I'm working on choosing an idea to develop out into a full article.

The file is posted in Open Document Text format. If your word processor doesn't read it or you don't have a word processor you can download one for free at OpenOffice.org.

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Mon, 10/05/2009 - 00:52
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Re: Article Idea: Personel Files

Looking forward to it!
Do you mind if someone else snags one of the ideas on the list to start helping out with the project once you've got your first one started?

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Tue, 10/06/2009 - 18:49
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Re: Article Idea: Personel Files

My idea was to be a group project with authors cooperating to create each article.

Thus both snagging, and working together on the same article is welcome. As is adding your own ideas for the list.

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