Okay new thread where I will post stuff for the PBM I intend to start. A lot of stuff in the PbEM throne war thread but thought it was about time I put stuff in one place.
Maybe it ought to be moved to the PbEM forum don't really know forum protocol on this.

So I am looking for a list of interested players. Even if you won't have time to play but have some interesting ideas I would be happy to have folks only involved in character creation and the characters will become NPCs. Gives me some new ideas.

Basics

200 point characters
All childern of Oberon (can be illigitimate bastard children of course)
No Cannonical elders in Amber (aside from Oberon and Dworkin)
The title of the piece is "Spoken Truths" (I always adapt the titles to my Amber Games from If by Kipling the relevance of which may or may not be lost in the mists of time).  
Initial Setting - Oberon's Wedding to Lady Ophelia

There is a website //www.jibbajibba.com/Amber but a lot of stuff will be revamped before things kick off. I will keep
The Sanctum - an Amber political system
2 new attributes - Political Influence and Birth Order
Skill sytem
Partial Powers

I was asked to knock up a sample character creation process so have done this and it's available at http://www.jibbajibba.com/Amber/Vincent.htm. He is not terribly original but it's really about the process.

awesome stuff, the example character clarifies the skill system very nicely.

As mentioned in the PbEM throne wars thread, I'm definitely interested in playing.

Just to help and make it easy to see who's interested, I'll volunteer to maintain a list of interested players.

Interested players:

• boulet
  
• gabriel_ss4u
  
• Locathus
  
• Logos7
  
• Schattensturm
  
• Stormwind
  
• SunBoy
  
• The GIT!
  
• weilide
  
• Xenon
  
• ...

Interested in Character creation only:

• Croaker
  
• ...

I've taken the initial list from posts in the PbEM throne wars thread and I will continue to monitor this thread for additional interested players. If I've missed anyone or included anyone incorrectly, my apologies - let me know and I'll correct it immediately.

I may be able to participate in Character Creation, but nothing else.

You got it.
I'm interested, only death or jail can keep me away.

Sayyyy, anyone thinkin' of playing a chaosian?

ooppss
double post

I'm so not sure... (about the chaosian thing, I mean, I'm all for playing)... I'm playing one right now in a f2f... but they're SO BLOODY COOL.

ohgawdohgawd,,, choices, choices...

I was wondering if any of the 'what is all this Amber stuff about anyway' crew were interested in the character creation process?

Also would like to put a thread in the PbEM forum here for general OOC chat and heckling.

Mechanically the game will run via a Wiki. I use Moinmoin if you are familiar as it has page level security in a simple list format so players can only see threads they are invited to. This makes it great for use in a game context as you can have open threads, private GM/player only threads, limited access threads for clandestine meetings and trump contacts. You can even have threads that players think are secret but have actully opened up by the GM to allow other characters to evesdrop
Also after a period of time the old stuff can be opened up for universal viewing.
As you can see from the site I wrote a simple dhtml page that allows players to run a trump scry using the 'standard' deck I will obviously update this with all the new PCs. I use these scrys on occassion as plot feeds so players can run em then post a screen shot to the site. I will see if I can't automate that process somehow.

Oh one small thing.
I don't mind Chaosites at all but characters that are openly antagonistic to Amber need a strong review. I could handle it but woudl be a chllenge

That's exciting ! The moinmoin thing sounds awesome too.

have i posted one of these before ? maybe ...

I went and read 'If', and it is a rather interesting piece. i can see why you use it for titles, and it has given me ideas. spoken truths indeed.

the wiki sounds like a very interesting idea. having a secure storage of everything sounds like a good idea, the worst problems i have had with PBEM games are when i lose whatever old emails i had stored for whatever reason.

i know i will certainly be in Amber myself. too much of interest to me on that end of reality to be honest. plus the sanctum does look interesting. seeing which of us end up as wardens of what will be interesting.

As far as character ideas go, I have one that is starting to flesh itself out nicely. As to whether she will be a Chaosite, I would say that it is fairly likely. I believe I will enjoy the challenge that being a bastard half-breed in a campaign rife with politics and intrigue will be. :devil:

@jibbajibba: will the positions listed in the sanctum (i.e. the 8 wardens) be the same as are currently on your site, or are they liable to change somewhat before we start?

Quote from: Stormwind;310919As far as character ideas go, I have one that is starting to flesh itself out nicely. As to whether she will be a Chaosite, I would say that it is fairly likely. I believe I will enjoy the challenge that being a bastard half-breed in a campaign rife with politics and intrigue will be. :devil:

@jibbajibba: will the positions listed in the sanctum (i.e. the 8 wardens) be the same as are currently on your site, or are they liable to change somewhat before we start?

Probably as listed I started to run through them and I could see how I could increase to 9 (spliting either the aremy or navy) but not how I would decrease to lower than 8 really.
I could drop the Warden of Remba and make Remba an independent kingdom and I could drop Warden of Dreams and not worry about Tir. But the games I have run previously these are 2 of the most fun wardenships and powerwise both kingdoms need to be kept under strict observance so.
In any case I have a liking for the number 8 in an amber context

Okay I have some more ideas about Chaos and think I can come up with something that will satisfy those who deciee to have links with that end of things.
Generally I wanted to post a short note about play style and mechanics.
Once characters are done , not a quick process, I might do a couple of historical scenes between PCs. I do like to stoke some of that deep seated sibling resentment.
Then I issue a Turn 0 to each player. This is the starting point for your PC. Its a bit rail roady but hopefully, if I am doing my job, I will have gotten a good handle on your character and it will suit. The stuff in there is scene setting and may include some prior decisions but nothing onerous (i have posted a couple here from previous games on a thread here on PbEM methods of play so take a look and I welcome comments.
From that point onwards its run through the wiki in a forum type system but with the additional security etc. Typically PCs will start separate but will group together on occassion where this happens we will need a bit of discipline as this has been the death of all my previous PbEMs where a participant doesn't reply for 5 weeks and every gives up. GM reserves the right to take action on behalf of a PC if they do not reply in such a case for a given time we will determine that time as a group I say 2 weeks but 1 week might be better. Standing orders for response to given situations might help this but generally as a GM I would say caution is the key and I would never put a PC in a life threatening situation as a reult of such action.
Re skill contests and the like, for instance combat, I will provide information in the narative and it might be subtle. So if You are confronted by an opponent with inferior warfare I will not say 'you have superior warfare what do you want to do?' I am far more likely to say, 'The ninja adopts something akin to a Lau Gar cat stance but you can see that the balance is a little off. He swings the short blade he holds in a showy arc and guestures to you with his left hand.' If you had inferior warfare it would be more like, 'The ninja springs down in front of you. His blade is a flash of silver as he beckons you toward him.'  I mention this specifically because in the past players have had to had their arses kicked a few times before they learned this one.

I do have an option of doing chat server based sessions as well as one offs if we can get folks together. There is an chat tool build into the site but it was always a bit slow I might be able to enhance it with a new Jabber app.