The Green Room (OOC)

[Grognardsw]

The Green Room (OOC)



For drunken or drug-influenced ramblings that would be out of character for your normal selves. And game stuff.

[Grognardsw]

Alright boys, time to play. The year is 1976, your hometown Boston.

The BRP rules: here

Character Generation



- The character sheet is here

- Please make all rolls linked to campaign (#904).
- For attributes, 4d6 pick the best three, assign as desired.
- All other rolls per the rules.
- If a Skill you want isn't listed, make it up. Like Instruments, Drinking, etc.
- The "Powers" section can be used for history and other random notes.
- Let's see a picture of your rocker, in all his 70s glory!
- On the character sheet, feel free to also list your instrument, favorite bands, beer, recreational drugs of choice, vices, addictions, misdemeanors and/or felonies, and secrets if any.
- Assume you already have your instruments, a van, and the basics of the rocker lifestyle. On money, pick a day-job (likely a dead-end or mindless job), suggest a salary or hourly rate, and we'll work out how meager your savings is. Unless you're a silver-spoon kid spending dad's money.

House Rules

- Natural 1 (on d100) is a critical for double damage or similar rocking effect.
- Natural 100 (on d100) is a fumble, in which there is a 50% chance of something unfortunate or darkly humorous happening (e.g. string breaks, gun jams, slip/fall, vehicle crash, etc.)
- If firing into a melee and you miss target, there is a 50% chance it hits someone else, randomly determined by a roll.
- Characters with multiple attacks per round: the second attack occurs at the end of the round.
- For touch attacks, the defender's AC is just Dex. bonus if any. One is not trying to penetrate armor or hide, just touch. However, if an AC is based heavily on speed, the AC will remain as is.
- Please link rolls to the campaign, # 904. On-the-fly rolls don't count.
- I like to spoiler dice roll results, it makes for a cleaner IC thread.

[Urson]

Awesome. I'll work up a character later and get him posted. I'm thinking roadie/tech dude.

[OGRE MAGE]

What's with all these rules, man?

Rockers don't follow RULES!

I should have time to get something together over the weekend.

[Grognardsw]

While Rob actually plays an instrument, I'm just a music fan myself. One doesn't need play in order to be a musician character. I was assuming all would be band memebers. If there were players beyond six, maybe there would be roadies, but the quartet we have is a good band size.

The world is our real world of 1976, hometown Boston (though otherworld things may happen and who knows where it will take us.)

All rule sets assume characters cut from a heroic cloth, far above the average in their respective specialty. But we're just working musicians and common men (probably with high skills in instruments and such.) So if you want to roll straight 3d6, instead of '4d6 drop lowest,' than feel free to do so. In this game, Charisma will help you more than other stats. Equipment (better described as personal possessions) would be pretty basic as well. Don't deck out like a mercenary. I don't think most musicians have weapons, though I suppose with an appropriate backstory (e.g. all the men in the family are hunters and you have a bow and rifle back at your parents house) it's possible. Musicians would rather make love not war?

So here's the current list of possible band names:

- Quasality
-Tetraquark
-Thunderfuzz
- Clockwork Angels
- Boomshanka
- Equinox
- Thaco
- Tiamat
- Venger Rides Again
- Dungeon Master
- TPK
- Wandering Metal Monster
- Mosh Monster
- Tomb of Horrors
- First Edition!

[Urson]

Since I suggested it, naturally, I vote for 'Clockwork Angels'. But it's not a hill I plan on dying for.

[Rex]

I am working on something, should we list instruments here so we don't all end up with the same instrument?

[OGRE MAGE]

I was thinking a frontman/bardish type rocker who can play a little bit of everything. So if someone else wants to hit things with a stick for their instrument, go for it.

[3d6]=11 [3d6]=9 [3d6]=14
[3d6]=10 [3d6]=7 [3d6]=10
[3d6]=7
I will toss the two lowest and roll Int and Size as BtB 2d6+6
[2d6+6]=5+6=11
[2d6+6]=8+6=14

for:
Str 9
Con 10
Siz 11
Int 14
Pow 10
Dex 11
App 14

I assume we aren’t using Edu?

[Rex]

My rolls. Not sure about Edu, if we are not using I will drop the 6 (# in parentheses is without Edu).

Ability Scores [4d6c1]=11 [4d6c1]=8 [4d6c1]=16 [4d6c1]=15 [4d6c1]=7 [4d6c1]=10
Ability Scores [4d6c1]=13
Ability Scores [4d6c1]=6

Thinking of a female bass player.

Str 7 (8)
Con 8 (10)
Size 6 (7)
Int 10 (11)
Pow 16
Dex 13
App 15
Edu 11 (gone)

[Grognardsw]

I don't see Edu. in the rules' character sheets, so yes BRP doesn't use it (unlike CoC.)

[Ardak2000]

So here's the current list of possible band names:

- Quasality
-Tetraquark
-Thunderfuzz
- Clockwork Angels
- Boomshanka
- Equinox
- Thaco
- Tiamat - I like This One, but how about Vorpal Opera!
- Venger Rides Again
- Dungeon Master
- TPK
- Wandering Metal Monster
- Mosh Monster
- Tomb of Horrors
- First Edition!

[Grognardsw]

Mel looks good Ogre. The format is fine if that is easier than the character sheet.

Folks shouldn’t feel forced to pick one of the professions listed on p. 14 if they’d prefer to make up their own. Mel’s thief background goes with his history. The list of typical professions doesn’t include a musician per se, so just pick what skills one would like and make sense with background.

[jemmus]

Hi all, good to be here. I'll work on learning the rules and make a character sheet soon. So we tentatively have a bass player and a frontman/multi-instrumentalist. Can I claim rhythm guitar? Or if someone else wants it, that leaves the drummer, which is good too.

Throwing some more band name out there:
By-Tor
Tobes of Hades

[Grognardsw]

Give a hand-horn salute and welcome to Jemmus and Bluehorse, who will be joining the band!



"Now get off your arse and finish your sheets!" yells good-naturedly band friend and manager Jimmy Daniels. "And fracking pick a frocking name or I'll fricking do it Las Vegas style with frucking dice!"


Well, I get up at seven, yeah
And I go to work at nine
I got no time for gamin'
Yes, I'm workin' all the time

It seems to me
I could game
A lot better than I think I am
I guess that's why they call me
They call me the workin' man

I guess that's what I am
'Cause I get home at five o'clock
And I take myself out an ice cold beer
Always seem to be wonderin'
Why there's not much gamin' down here

It seems to me
I could live my life
A lot better than I think I am
I guess that's why they call me
The workin' man

Well, they call me the workin' man
I guess that's what I am

[OGRE MAGE]

Welcome!

I really dig all this nostalgia Grog!

Talk about a different style of drumming between the two. (and kit size)

Gamin' Man?

[OGRE MAGE]

I would be fine with By-Tor, but.....

How about "Snow Dogs" instead?

[jemmus]

"Gamin' Man," LOL. Snow Dogs is good too. Strangiato?

Now I've got Rush earworms going on all day!

[Bluehorse]

Getting this going!

[4d6c1]=16 [4d6c1]=17 [4d6c1]=14
[4d6c1]=11 [4d6c1]=14 [4d6c1]=11
[4d6c1]=14

Str 16
Con 17
Size 14
Int 14
Pow 14
Dex 11
App 11

[jemmus]

(Post glitched, text deleted. Sorry about that).

[jemmus]

(Another equipment/mic infinite loop feedback failure, recording over this one too. Sorry. )