Other Savage Worlds?

[Freemage]

As a general rule, can I suggest that new games should be keyed to start at the beginning of a new Quarter? Usually, by the last month of a Quarter, you know where your EP count is going to stand, and can make the decision to throw down or not to claim a spot.

Either that, or we go to a more hardcore 'you have to have the EP at the time the slot is held for you' system, but as someone who has benefited (twice!) from the more lax approach of pre-registering based on expected EP tallies, I'd be a bit hypocritical to suggest it now.

I 100% get this, but my first game started a month before Q3 began, and I was grateful for it. The timing worked out perfectly for me, and I was then able to join another game when Q3 started.

That said, I’m now scrambling for EP so I can try and play Deadlands whenever it starts up, so I can see both sides. I’d prefer it if we had most games on the quarter system with a couple interspersed (insofar as there are GMs willing to start new campaigns).

I think actual gameplay should start on the Quarter, to be clear. Recruitment would be the month before Quarter's end, and could include players who have a 'lock' on getting enough EP with the end-of-Quarter reward. That way, the GM can do set-up and even opening Interludes (like Tribe did for New West), letting anticipation and excitement build.

[Daniel]

All above comments are valid.

Look at it this way though...

I as a GM want to start a new game ... today ... (be it Rifts or not) and am ready to start. Oh...I have to wait two months to start a game, till Jan 1st of 2018?!

Yeah cool thanks, bye.

When a GM is ready (and their game approved) they should be able to start. If the Party is small at first, so be it. It'll grow.

I DO get the Quarterly start idea. It sounds logical. I even like it. However, I think we should not curb enthusiasm when it arrives.

Note: I personally am not starting a new group

Also on the EP to play issue. Borrow from future you should be an option. Don't make it messy and loan people EP (from account to account), just let people borrow from their future EP for up to 1 Character Slot in advance. No really, you make a commitment, and take a loan out for next character slot, you can then play in that new game, however you can not spend EP on other stuff like Auto Aces etc until you pay off the Bank of EP!! Don't make me send Ninja Shark Assassins after you!

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[Hardin]

Also on the EP to play issue. Borrow from future you should be an option. Don't make it messy and loan people EP (from account to account), just let people borrow from their future EP for up to 1 Character Slot in advance. No really, you make a commitment, and take a loan out for next character slot, you can then play in that new game, however you can not spend EP on other stuff like Auto Aces etc until you pay off the Bank of EP!! Don't make me send Ninja Shark Assassins after you!

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I would be 100% in favor of this. Anything that makes it easier to get more players in more games while simultaneously encouraging site buy-in is a good policy in my book.

[Freemage]

Also on the EP to play issue. Borrow from future you should be an option. Don't make it messy and loan people EP (from account to account), just let people borrow from their future EP for up to 1 Character Slot in advance. No really, you make a commitment, and take a loan out for next character slot, you can then play in that new game, however you can not spend EP on other stuff like Auto Aces etc until you pay off the Bank of EP!! Don't make me send Ninja Shark Assassins after you!

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I would be 100% in favor of this. Anything that makes it easier to get more players in more games while simultaneously encouraging site buy-in is a good policy in my book.

If our EP Ledger Master is willing to run the books this way, I'd be happy with it.

[Daniel]

If our EP Ledger Master is willing to run the books this way, I'd be happy with it.

I would, I'm not Admin, so ultimately I am not able to decide that, but I think it would work.

Ultimately I think it comes down to ... Game On!

[Jarvis Ursus]

I have no issue starting the Deadlands game beginning of 1Q 2018 if that is what folks prefer. I will get the one sheet into VV this weekend and we can go from there.

[Ndreare]

I have no issue starting the Deadlands game game start of 1Q 2018 if that is what folks prefer. I will get the one sheet into VV this weekend and we can go from there.

Cool

[Hardin]

I have no issue starting the Deadlands game beginning of 1Q 2018 if that is what folks prefer. I will get the one sheet into VV this weekend and we can go from there.

Whenever you want to start it, there are folks who will play!

[Carlos]

I have played Deadlands...and Hell on Earth, but not the Savage versions. I may consider it...but if I am running Nightbane in EU I might not have the time.

[Freya Kay]

I love the idea of taking time to set up the game for the start of the new year and use it to do an interlude for the characters before that.
ETU game proposal in progress...

[Corsario]

The acceptance letters have been mailed!

You finally have the envelope in your hands. The university logo proudly on it. You can't prevent the shaking of your hands when you rip it open.
"Dear Student, Welcome, and congratulations on your acceptance as an incoming Freshman student..."
You smile while the doubts and questions of these last few months go away. You a university student now. Your future starts now.
Yes, you know graduation and success are not guaranteed, but it is now within grasp. What you ignore is that survival isn't guaranteed either.
Welcome to the East Texas University.

Ready to go back to school?

[Sgt 86Delta]

I am working details out for a Savage Rifts - Black Market Campaign

and would also like to propose an Interface Zero Campaign in the Savage Dimensions.

[Jude Maverick]

What's Interface Zero?

[Corrigon]

Its a cyberpunk style setting

[Delilah Carter]

Ah, okay. Cool.

[High Command]

IZ is Shadowrun Intensive on story and gear, but is limited to hard science fiction in terms of outlandishness. They have designer mutants, cyborg is a race, and hacking rules that are insanely baked into the concept of the world on a level that is kinda insane.

I've often said if I wanted to run a Golden Age Pre-Rfts game, IZ would be the vehicle to do so. Actually Pre-Savage Rifts I ran a CS ISS Game on RPOL using it. I could personally care less about the story of the world itself, but I'd be interested to see what Sgt86Delta can put together too.

[Sgt 86Delta]

I would run IZ more Cyberpunk and less Shadowrun. I always saw RIFTS as the way Shadowrun should have been, integrating science and magic.

For an idea of my proposed setting, you could read the following:

• William Gibson's
• Count Zero or
• Johnny Mnemonic

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• Phillip K Dick's
• Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep or
• The Man in the High Castle

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• Larry Niven's
• Dream Park

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[High Command]

I just meant the body of and implied level of background expansion, not the magic

[Icosa]

Hmm. Interface Zero would be very cool.

I'll keep an eye out for this.

[Jude Maverick]

Hmmm... Interesting. I haven't read a lot of cyberpunk. I own the 5e Shadowrun game, but have never played Shadowrun. I did enjoy the Gamers 4 movie, though.

[Fizzwaite Zipwidget]

Well, IMO the 5e rules suck so you haven't missed much there. The world setting, however, is very awesome.

[Jude Maverick]

The setting did seem pretty cool. I built a dwarven adept for practice. I can't say one way or the other on the rules, since I haven't played the other editions.

[Hardin]

A waaaaaaay too early heads up, but the Monster Hunter International SW Kickstarter has funded and will be out next year. For anyone interested in playing, I’m planning to pitch VV to let me run an MHI campaign.

Link to the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ga ... worlds-edi