Off Duty (OOC)

[Bluehorse]

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Here is the place for all the OOC chatter and general discussion.

[GreyWolfVT]

nice image that is from the cartoon i used to watch when i was a lot younger

[Bluehorse]

nice image that is from the cartoon i used to watch when i was a lot younger

Yeah and I loved and still love the cartoons. We were all younger then. But now I have the joy of watching my own sons get into the same cartoons I did and it made for a great addition to our summer. tRGB and EGB were a big part of my childhood and early adult years and will remain cannon here. Sorry, this is taking so long folks, but I promise I am working hard to get this all up around the beginning of the school year.

[GreyWolfVT]

Yeah Brett you are a crazy man starting a pbp game up right as the school year is about to start up. Plus if you run that group at the school again with the students you'll be hard pressed

[Bluehorse]

Yeah Brett you are a crazy man starting a pbp game up right as the school year is about to start up. Plus if you run that group at the school again with the students you'll be hard pressed

Actually there was a church group in town that convinced out admin to get rid of it. I have to do the spelling bee this year instead

[GreyWolfVT]

oh boy i know how those go. Been around church groups that swore D&D is practicing black magic and devil worship.

[Bluehorse]

Yup. I had to meet with the Admins and everything. An "anonymous group" of parents brought in a petition on church stationary requesting the club and any like it be banned. Most of the signatures are not even parents for our school, just their congregation. Oh well... we had 1 epic year.

[GreyWolfVT]

well as the saying goes it was good while it lasted

[Bluehorse]

any chance there will be pre-gen. characters that we can choose from?

I wasn't planning on it but i will chat with you about it later and see what we come up with.

[GreyWolfVT]

alright was just curious since I don't have a general concept in mind and would be pretty much winging it Brett.

[Bluehorse]

alright was just curious since I don't have a general concept in mind and would be pretty much winging it Brett.

My advice would be put 3 in each stat and i will allow you to adjust once after a couple missions.

[GreyWolfVT]

But I wanna be like Peter Venkman

[Bluehorse]

But I wanna be like Peter Venkman

Be his son! It'd be perfect!

[GreyWolfVT]

Sounds like a plan to me.

[Bluehorse]

I could make you his daughter? Or maybe he just identifies that way? >:)

[Rusty Tincanne]

Are we going for jovial or serious? I know it's got ghost busters, but it is also ghosts and demons. If GW wants a Venkman character, I'll go with fast and brainy, maybe. Unless we go for a darker feel...

I can't believe churches are still against role playing games! Don't they have better things to worry about, like the homeless, poverty, the Infirm, Injustice, etc? Brett, go and ask your local Unitarian Church to write letters asking for a role playing group. Unitarians are great that way. All paths are their own, and each is equally valid.

[Bluehorse]

Rusty brings up a great point I wanted to discuss. GBs has always been famous for being one of the first movies to blend comedy and horror into something new and accessible. That being said, there are many stories, even in the animated series, that were quite dark. I often point to episodes like the Collect Call of Cthulu as an example. Also, the Extreme GBs were VERY dark. Also, there was Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters, which was (mostly) zanny and extra kid friendly, especially towards the end of the series. So I think we need to establish now just what kind of mood we want for all this. On a scale of 1-10 1 being Dark and 10 being Loney Toons, where would you like it to be, and please define what that means for you... I think I will make this a pole.... But we need to also have a real discussion of what kinds of things you would like to see vs. things you would call off limits. Especially if I am going to be pulling from actual historical stories/folklore, it can get rather ugly, and where as I would never outright want to make anyone uncomfortable, I have no qualms of giving you the creeps if that is where you want to go with this. That being said.... Which do you want? Light, Dark, balanced somewhere in the middle?

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[Zeromancer]

Ah, there we are. Looks like I've been added to the forum now. I'll take a look through the rulebook today and probably narrow down which role I'd like to have my guy fill. As for the tone, I'll say that I enjoyed the first GB film (1984) over the slightly lighter sequel (1989). The RGB series was pretty good, though there were moments when it could get a little silly. The Slimer! spin off was NOT my thing at all, even as a kid I thought it was too campy. I never really watched EGB. On that scale, I'd like the game to remain in the 4-6 range. The occasional wisecrack or sliming of "Venkman's son" would be amusing, but let's not have our own pet ghost or junior GBs... -.-

[GreyWolfVT]

I'm pretty much just making a character with my real personality I can be brainy and smart when I have to be but generally I do like to joke and kid around being snarky and sarcastic as well.

[Zeromancer]

Yeah, in a modern era/real(ish) world game like this, I tend to play characters that have a skill set similar to my own. Computer mumbo jumbo, outdoors survival skills, general brainiac (not the Superman villain)... It's generally easier to write what you know, as they say. Still, I did have an idea to play the great grandson of a firefighter who actually had been assigned to the original Ghostbusters HQ before it became their HQ. Thought it might be fun to have a link to the past, but not specifically related to a character. On that note, will this team be making use of the firehouse or have their own lair?