DadeLeviathan

--Nevermind--- Damn that was fast.

The other members of the group have actually opted to go with Dragon Age, as they are currently more in the mood for dark fantasy rather than lovecraftian horror. If you're still interested, we're going to start playing later this week. Our schedules are a bit hectic, so I would honestly have to get your own schedule and have a sit down meeting with them before I could give you a basic schedule. In terms of basic rules, we'll be following the Green Ronin Dragon Age rules, including the set 3 beta rules, including a couple of alterations in my own homebrewed set which allow for starting pets and starting specializations. Additionally, they want to use a virtual tabletop rather than IRC, and I will most likely be using Roll20 to cover that aspect. If you're still interested, PM me your contact info (AIM, etc) and I'll get in touch. If not, I'm sorry that we're not going to be doing CoC anymore.

Hey all. My friends and I are trying to get either a Dragon Age or Call of Cthulhu PnP game going via IRC, but we need, preferably, 2 or 3 more people (although we can deal with as little as 1 or as much as 4 or 5). I figured I would post a topic here to see if there is any interest amongst you in joining. if we choose Dragon Age, it will start off with a pre-built adventure to get us going, afterwhich it will transition into my own written adventure which explores many different places through Fereldan, starting with the city of South Reach and moving throughout Fereldan, including the great cities of Denerim, Orzammar, and even the fables keeps of Warden's Keep and Vigil's Keep. With Call of Cthulhu, the campaign will take place in the early 1900s, and depending on player actions, may very well continue onwards through the timeline. There is an impending doom that is slowly creeping up upon the world. Its seeds are planted in a very inconspicuous place indeed: a seemingly innocent train-ride on the famous Simplon-Orient Express throughout Europe. The campaign prologue and first chapter will be my own personal take on the famous CoC rendition of Agatha Christie's famous mystery. after this, the campaign will continue onwards through the early 1900s, as the investigators continue their tumultuous adventure down the proverbial rabbit hole. I've always liked to introduce a healthy does of "weird" into my horror campaigns, so if we choose to play CoC, it will certainly contain enough weird horror-fantasy staples to keep you all interested. So if anyone would be interested in playing something akin to either of these, please either respond or shoot me a private message.

Technically it's possible just not plausible. Making a AAA game costs a massive amount of money compared to the money being raised on kickstarter, and that doesn't even include the even more massive amount of money needed to market the game. So would it be possible to raise, say, $25M on kickstarter? Sure, but it's not remotely plausible. You would have a higher chance of winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning twice in the same day. Even if you found a bunch of incredibly rich people, you'd still be talking at least 2500 people donating $10,000 each. That's just not even remotely plausible. Possible yes, but so is a falling piece of meteor landing directly in your coffee cup. Doesn't mean it will happen.

The books are very similar in bouncing around. They stay a bit longer than the Show (at least the first season. I don't have HBO any longer, so I haven't yet gotten to see the new episodes, how I assume they will follow suit. I love the book series, but this is my complaint about them. They are an ensemble piece, but there are few "easy" transitions between the stories of each charcater unlike their was in Lord of the Rings.

I both agree and disagree. While I would love to see kickstarter or another crowdsourcing format to help bring back old-school aspects of RPGs, I also want the developers to really make the game that they want to make. That is when the greatest games are made. With almost every single game on my "Best RPGs of all time" list, you can find interview after interview where the developers are talking about how it was the game they truly wanted to make at the time. Personally, I would love to see great modern RPG, on a completely original IP. Modern non-fantasy RPGs are rare to come by, good ones ever more so. Alpha Protocol tried to hit the mark, and i think it did succeed in some areas, but didn't in others. A great 2D isometric RPG in a more modern, gritty setting would be fantastic.