Hello, I'm interested in trying my hand at running a play by post game of Lords of Creation. If you're interested in playing please post in this thread. If you have a copy of the rules, I'll give you the rolls for your character and you can do the rest. If you don't have a copy of the rules, then we'll have to figure something else out.
The game is set in the modern day and will start at Keystone State University in Pittsburgh, PA. A few quick facts about Keystone State:
Ungrad Enrollment: 30,000
Graduate Enrollment: 12,000
56% female, 44% male
School Colors: Black and Yellow
Athletic Nickname: Rebels
Mascot: Tom the Tinker (a man in late 1700's garb with a musket. The nickname and mascot both come from the Whiskey Rebellion which occured in western Pennsylvania in 1794.)
The PC's should all have some affiliation with the University. You can be students, employees, or townies.
Here's the rolls for those of you who've already expressed interest over in my initial thread on the OD&D discussion boards:
Coffee:
Muscle: 9
Speed: 9
Stamina: 8
Mental: 11
Luck: 12
$480
Life Points:17
Calithena
Muscle: 11
Speed: 14
Stamina: 14
Mental: 9
Luck: 9
$180
Life Points: 18
Doc
Muscle: 10
Speed: 14
Stamina: 13
Mental: 10
Luck: 16
$680
Life Points: 14
When you've got you're character written up please post it.
I have never seen the rules but I'm sure I could fake it with everybody's help
Welcome aboard Makofan! Here's your stats:
Muscle 9 (+1 damage)
Speed 12 (+2 initiative)
Stamina 10 (heals 1 lifepoint/day)
Mental 9 (+1 power modification)
Luck 16 (7 Luck Roll)
$940 starting funds
So what does that mean? well your 5 stats are all rolled with 2d10. A score of 1-10 gives you a modifier of 1 and a score of 11-20 gives you a modifer of 2.
Your personal force is a measure of your overall well- forcefullness I guess, and yours is equal to 6. You've got to get it up to 11 to make 2nd level.
Your physical score is: 11. This is your baseline chance to hit (11 or less on a D20)
You have 20 Life Points- unconscious at 0, Dead at -6 (negative your personal force)
Well, that's about it. You've got 6 points to spend on skills and $940 of cash or stuff. Just give me a little blurb about what your character is like and I'll pick out some appropriate skills and gear.
Quote from: wulfgarWelcome aboard Makofan! Here's your stats:
Muscle 9 (+1 damage)
Speed 12 (+2 initiative)
Stamina 10 (heals 1 lifepoint/day)
Mental 9 (+1 power modification)
Luck 16 (7 Luck Roll)
$940 starting funds
Well, that's about it. You've got 6 points to spend on skills and $940 of cash or stuff. Just give me a little blurb about what your character is like and I'll pick out some appropriate skills and gear.
Sabrina Kluebottle is a bubbly blonde undergrad in her second year at Keystone State, majoring in Anthropology, Philosophy and Mythology. She is an unexceptional student, and may have had trouble getting accepted, if not for the fact that her father, Dr James Kluebottle, is the Dean of Literature at the university, but Sabrina has been lucky all through her life. With her good looks, reasonable grace, and freshly enthusiastic personality, she earned a spot on the Rebels Football Cheerleading team.
Sabrina's main goals in life are to have fun, and to not embarass her dad too much. She would like to travel the world when she graduates to see gorillas in Africa, the Mayan temples, the Acropolis in Athens, etc, and her family has the money to allow her to indulge this way.
Sabrina has a good grounding in classic literature and myth and archaeology(and romance novels). Trained in ballet and gymnastics as a little princess, she still works hard on her fitness, and regularly jogs. Since starting university she has joined the fencing club, and taken up kick-boxing. She realizes she has a knack for making good things happen to her, and has started to push her boundaries to try to explore this ability.
Let me know how much more you need
Sabrina Kluebottle
Muscle 9 Damage +1
Speed 12 Init +2
Stamina 10 Healing 1
Mental 9 Powers 1
Luck 16 Roll 7
Total 56 Force 6
Physical: 11
Life Points: 20
Skills:
Unarmed Combat 1
Rapier 2
Social 2 (Historical, Archeology)
Theatrical 1 (Acrobatics)
Weapons
Rapier (Attack 13, Damage 1D6+3)
Equipment:
Nicely furnished dorm room and wardrobe
Cheerleading and Fencing attire
Rapier
Pink Corvette (with on-campus parking pass)
Pocket size pepper spray canister
Wicked cool!
Okay, I'm here.
It's been forever since I've read the rules, and they're at a friend's place -- I'll have to get them back from him. So I might be a bit slow in getting these stats transformed into a character.
But at any rate, I'm here.
Hi Coffee. If you'd rather just describe your character and have me fill out the sheet for you like I did for Makofan, that works too.
I'm a big fan of random rumor charts for rpgs, so I've written up one for this campaing. Once you have a character, I'll private message you the rumors your character has heard.
I just bought a copy of LoC on ebay - should have it in a few weeks
Cool, I'm just waiting on a couple more pc's and we can get started.
Hmmmm, well there's nothing like the deafening roar of silence to dampen a would-be GM's spirits. SO far it's just me, and Makofan. If you're up for some rules-lite, crazy adventure-heavy rpg action, please feel free to speak up and join my campaign.
Well, once my rules arrive, if I can figure them out, I'll try to drum up some friends. Brumbar loves trying to be a god.
Lords of Creation game arrived today - give me some time to read the rules now!
Cool. Read away, and see if you can rustle up some players.
Question
Now I have read the rules, how do you get Powers? Just like skills, except you can't buy them to start the game?
I don't have my copy of the rules handy, but basically yes. However, my recollection is that you can improve skills immediately any time you get experience points. You can only gain a power when you level up (and you level up by increasing your personal force). The experience chart shows you how many powers you can have at each level. There's some discussion in there somewhere about the power gained being appropriate for the world you're currently adventuring in (if level up while running around Middle Earth, the GM may not feel it's appropriate for you to take another level in the Cyborg power for example).
Roll up some stats for Brumbar and I will explain the game to him and get him to design a character
Here's the rolls for Brumbar's character:
Muscle 11
Speed 8
Stamina 13
Mental 13
Luck 2
$100 (but like your character I'm happy to give him additional stuff if it fits the background he comes up with)
Life Points 22
has this anything to do with the Phillip Jose Farmer books?
Hmmm, I've never heard of Philip Jose Farmer before, so I can't really answer that question.
Lords of Creation is one of the handful of games that Avalon Hill put out in the mid 80's. The basic premise is that PC's that start out as fairly ordinary people can grow in power and have all kinds of adventures across time and space. It could also be used to run a game within one genre- fantasy or futuristic sci-fi for example, but the author's intent is to mix and match any and all genres.
Who is Farmer and what are his books like?
And are you up for a game?
Philip Jose Farmer's most famous book is probably "To Your Scattered Bodies Go", which launched the Riverworld series. In it, all the people from history are resurrected on a giant planet that has a huge river that runs through it. When people get killed, they just reappear somewhere else on the world. The great explorer Richard Francis Burton decides he is going to figure out what it all means. It eventually explores the destiny of mankind and the afterlife.
I myself do not think the game is based on Farmer
I was specifically referring to his Gates of Creation series, which mirrors very closely the Amber books.
QuoteHere's the rolls for Brumbar's character:
Muscle 11
Speed 8
Stamina 13
Mental 13
Luck 2
$100 (but like your character I'm happy to give him additional stuff if it fits the background he comes up with)
Life Points 22
Nicholas Graf is a graduate student in engineering who arrived here on a football and wrestling scholarship. Unlike other atheletes he is very interested in actaually getting an education and has spent his academic life studying electrical engineering. Being an orphan with no relatives he spends time working on campus as instructor for various clubs like fencing and the computer club. His major has been electrical engineering but his electives have been mythology and ancient languages.
Would you like more?
Sounds good. I can whip up the rest of the stats later today.
Nicholas Graf
Muscle 11 Damage +2
Speed 8 Initiative +1
Stamina 13 Healing 2/day
Mental 13 Power Mod +2
Luck 2 Roll 6
Total 47 Personal Force 5
Physical 11
Life Points 22
Skillls
Unarmed Combat 1
Rapier 1
Social 1 (Historical)
Engineer 1 (Electrical)*
Computer 1 (Computer Operation)
Weapons
Rapier attack 12 Damage 1D6+3
Equipment
Modest off-campus apartment
fencing attire
high end laptop computer (provided by University)
Beatup pickup truck
* because Nicholas is an electrical engineer but didn't have a lot of points for skills, I swapped around mechanical and electrical in the Engineering ranking, so if/when Nicholas gains level 2 in the Engineering skill he'll pick up mechanical engineering then.
So Lawbag, would you care to join the game? If so, I'll roll up some stats. Otherwise, we can get started tomorrow with the intrepid duo of Nicholas and Sabrina!
Quote from: wulfgarCoffee:
Muscle: 9
Speed: 9
Stamina: 8
Mental: 11
Luck: 12
$480
Life Points:17
John Henry Harrison couldn't make the football team to get a scholarship, so he occasionally tends bar at night to supplement his meager financial aid. He also plays poker when he can (he's reasonably lucky).
21 year old Junior (he'll take more than four years to graduate...) studying pre-Med.
(Very loosly based on Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, from the book MASH (not the movie or the tv series, but the original book.)
Welcome aboard, I'll have a writeup for your pc posted shortly.
John Henry Harrison
Muscle 9 Damage +1
Speed 9 Initiative +1
Stamina 8 Healing 1/day
Mental 11 Power Mod +2
Luck 12 Roll 7
Total 49 Personal Force 5
Physical 9
Life Points 17
Skillls
Unarmed Combat 1
Street Criminal 1 (Street Connections)
Science 2 (Chemistry, Biology)
Stage Magician 1 (Slight of Hand)
Weapons
Baseball Bat attack 9 Damage 1D6+1
Shotgun attack 9 Damage 3D6 Range 100ft Ammo Capacity 2, takes 1 action to reload each round.
Both the bat and the shotgun belong to the bar John works at and are kept behind the bar in case someone gets out of hand. John's quite thankful he's never had to use either one.
Equipment
reasonably furnished dorm room
Card table, cards, set of poker chips
student loans
Hey wulfgar,
Just saw the reference to this game in Makofan's thread...
I don't have "Lords of Creation" (and to be perfectly honest, I do not intend to get myself a copy), but I'd like to play in this game if you're willing to have me :D!
Welcome aboard Kipper. Here's your rolls:
Muscle: 7
Speed: 14
Stamina: 4
Mental: 10
Luck: 10
$120
Life Points: 10
Just give me an idea of what you want your character to be like and I'll fill out the rest of the game stats. The game is starting off at a ficitional university in Pittsburgh. The other 3 pc's are all students, you can be one too, or you can come up with some other reason to be hanging around campus.
Great :D!
Give me a day to think about it, and I'll have a character concept up to match the stats tomorrow.
As I'm reading it, the character is quite fast, but a bit weak, and a bit on the poor side...
Quote from: kipperAs I'm reading it, the character is quite fast, but a bit weak, and a bit on the poor side...
Yep, that about sums it up.
What I picture for kipper's character is the little asian boy out of the second India Jones movie (or something like that but older)
@ Brumbar: funny enough, I was thinking of roughly the same idea :D
@ Makofan: hope you don't mind me entwining my character with yours ;)
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James Kluebottle
James is the 11-year old brother of Sabrina Kluebottle.
James has lived in the shadow of his much more popular and outgoing elder sister for his entire life. Everything he does is always compared (unfavourably) to her accomplishments.
Much to the disappointment of his father, James shows no interest in school, often skipping school entirely to wander about town on his own, sometimes getting into trouble and having to have his parents pick him up from the police station. He often ends up at the university campus on his jaunts, where he will alternately ride his omnipresent skateboard on top of various architectural features, or slip into classes just for the fun of it... no-one seems to pay him any attention or question his presence, always assuming he's with someone else.
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I'm not sure how skills work in LOC, but I'm imagining his strengths to be in the areas of stealth (avoiding notice), skateboard-riding, lying his way out situations if he is questioned, and maybe a bit of petty crime... maybe also overhearing gossip, and a surprising knowledge of general trivia... if you need more background information to help flesh him out, please ask :)
He's Bart Simpson
Damn :(, I didn't even notice that until you said it... I *really* don't want to my character to be Bart :(... gotta re-do the character now...
EDIT: Problem is, I *do* want him to be a fairly young kid (10-14). My original idea was somewhat like a street kid, but trying to update it to present-day Pennsylvania... somehow he ended up too much like Bart though... any ideas how can I make him less like Bart :confused:?
Hah! It's funny reading the comments there must be some telepathy going on here- my take on Kipper's character was half bart simpson and half John Connor from Terminator II. Here's what his sheet looks like:
James Kluebottle
Muscle 7 Damage +1
Speed 14 Initiative +2
Stamina 4 Heal 1/day
Mental 10 Power +1
Luck 10 Roll 6
Total 45 Personal Force 5
Physical 9
Life Points 10
Skills
Slingshot 1
Street Criminal 1 (street connections)
Theatrical 1 (acrobatics) - for use with the skateboard
Computer 2 (computer operations, computer programming)
Weapons
Slingshot range 80ft damage 1D6
Equipment
Bag of marbles (for slingshot ammo among other things)
skateboard
forged student ID (says he's 18 and get's him access to the libaray and computer labs on campus)
MP3 player
Let me know if that's unbartish enough for you.
Rumors have been sent out to everyone via private message.
That's great wulfgar, I can live with that :D. I guess the fake ID works fine for passing electronic locks, but I'd like to see the look on someone's face if he ever has to show them his ID saying he's 18 :D
I'm going to start a new thread for the actual game. If you've got any off topic comments or questions later on, go ahead and post them in this thread, that way we can keep the game thread as on topic and easy to navigate as possible. This should be fun!
Awesome pictures, wulfgar. I looked at that tower and thought to myself "Zool"
QuoteI looked at that tower and thought to myself "Zool"
That's exactly what I think everytime I see that building!
I've made a custom "South Park" avatar for James Klubottle :D (http://www.sp-studio.de/)