Quote from: Headless;1013563There are 3 games running on the same system.

Amber based on Zelazneys books.

Lords of Olympus. Based on Greek mythology.

Lords of Gossamer and Shadow.  Based on an infinite hall with doors to all worlds.  

I've done a compare and contrast review in the review section.

The aforementioned review:  http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?37091-Review-and-Comparison-Lords-of-Olympus-amp-Lords-or-Gossamer-and-Shadow&highlight=Lords+Olympus

Be Warned!  The review is excellent and may lead to the expenditure of currency! (I bought LoO afterwards!)

QuoteSadly, pretty much every Amber forum online seems to have dried up over the years.

There are still a few active Amber forum-based pbp games that I know of. Playing LoO would be a nice change of setting for us diceless fans.

I'd love to play Lords of Olympus.

Quote from: quozl;1013862I'd love to play Lords of Olympus.

I'd like to try it as well, although I've never played Amber, LoO or LoGaS.

That looks like 5 people interested in playing.  With 2 other posters.  We just need a DM.

We do have enough interest to start a game. How about we start the gaming in mid-January with the time until then working on character concepts. If no one is set on GMing I could give it a shot. But with 6ish PCs, I may not be able to post to all of you every day. We should also decide on the type of game, player vs player, or more cooperative style.

Quote from: edster;1014068We do have enough interest to start a game. How about we start the gaming in mid-January with the time until then working on character concepts. If no one is set on GMing I could give it a shot. But with 6ish PCs, I may not be able to post to all of you every day. We should also decide on the type of game, player vs player, or more cooperative style.

Which of the three games/rulesets are we using? (I'm guessing the rules are similar for all, but I'm not sure I have time to read all three in a month).

Quote from: marksolino;1014104Which of the three games/rulesets are we using? (I'm guessing the rules are similar for all, but I'm not sure I have time to read all three in a month).

The core rules are exactly Identical.  4 atributes.  Auction at the start to determine rank order.  No dice so fist place always beats second.  

The differences are in setting and powers.  The pattern is a really cool power, but it is completely unique to the Abmer setting.  So Pundit replaced it with olympian magic.  Which is also cool, but it doesn't make sense as a way to walk between worlds so he added that too.  

Amber diceless and Gossamer & Shadow have rules for building magic items and familiars.  All the charcters in G&S are total gear heads.  Pundit was leaning away from all that.  He had Olympian artificing as an optional rule I think, if I remember correctly, the rules were not as developed, the power was much less felexible and more expensive.  

He also developed magic more.

Quote from: edster;1014068We do have enough interest to start a game. How about we start the gaming in mid-January with the time until then working on character concepts. If no one is set on GMing I could give it a shot. But with 6ish PCs, I may not be able to post to all of you every day. We should also decide on the type of game, player vs player, or more cooperative style.

I think starting date/daily posting doesn't matter with play by post, let's just attempt to post at least 2-3 times once, taking our time might be good for various reasons, and if we have more players more time only means giving them all more reaction time

First however, if you decided to be the GM pick your preferred setting/ruleset, so we can work with that to make characters(on this, I have to agree that having some time to create concepts/chars is a good idea)

I think Lords of Olympus would be best for the rules/setting. I will set up a forum for posting, probably on ZetaBoards. Until I have something running you can send your character ideas to me by PM.

Quote from: edster;1014173I think Lords of Olympus would be best for the rules/setting. I will set up a forum for posting, probably on ZetaBoards. Until I have something running you can send your character ideas to me by PM.

You don't want the campaign to be run here?

I suppose we could but with our own forum we can keep all game threads, private sections, and out-of-character areas under our own control. Or is there a subforum on this site that will give us all that?

Quote from: edster;1014184I suppose we could but with our own forum we can keep all game threads, private sections, and out-of-character areas under our own control. Or is there a subforum on this site that will give us all that?

http://www.therpgsite.com/forumdisplay.php?26-Play-by-Post-Games

Spike's Traveller campaign is why I even found this forum by random chance, although I just missed that one due to cancellation.

As far I can see using multiple threads was also done by others so having OOC and IC threads shouldn't be a problem, private section is basically PM no?

We had an IC thread an OoC thread and an interest thread which was logistics meta discussion and other.  

If we move I might not follow.

Quote from: Headless;1014203We had an IC thread an OoC thread and an interest thread which was logistics meta discussion and other.  

If we move I might not follow.

The benefit of playing here is to ask Pundit about situations or rules if they come up.