Paranoia

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 29th, 2009, 12:03

Ah, I see what you've done there. No, that's a master copy and six different characters for six different people. Although different clones can have differences. The document's like that because I've started making the six characters and just uploaded it as it was.

punkchuck · Post by **punkchuck** » April 29th, 2009, 14:09

My feelings will not be hurt if I am not playing. It does sound fun but if it is going to kick off before this weekend, I better not play. I am kinda busy thurs and friday then off to Paris Saturday for about 3 days without internets. Would hate to ruin the start of it all if so...

So if it is starting next week sometime... cool, if not I will step out of the way

Post by **deject** » April 29th, 2009, 14:54

punkchuck wrote:My feelings will not be hurt if I am not playing. It does sound fun but if it is going to kick off before this weekend, I better not play. I am kinda busy thurs and friday then off to Paris Saturday for about 3 days without internets. Would hate to ruin the start of it all if so...

So if it is starting next week sometime... cool, if not I will step out of the way

Same, I'm already doing both SLA and Shadowrun, so it's no big deal if other people fill the spots.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 29th, 2009, 14:58

Right, if everyone is being so modest... I will take a spot

Anery · Post by **Anery** » April 30th, 2009, 12:00

Baliame wrote:Right, if everyone is being so modest... I will take a spot

this

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 30th, 2009, 12:25

Character sheets are made, and filled with characters. I'm going to let players choose their own skills, but most other stuff is either randomly generated or chosen by me to make a little interesting party interaction. I'm currently hopping between reading the rules and background, and writing the first mission, which already has me chuckling to myself. Not in an evil way though. Honest. Once I'm a bit more au fait with things I'll let people pick their character and do their fiddling with it.

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 30th, 2009, 13:17

I've just been playing around with a JParanoia server and a couple of clients. I hadn't realised I was live, so I was a little surprised when a helpful German chap came online and asked me what I was doing.

Turns out JParanoia is a chat client designed for the game, which allows the GM to talk to the players as himself, NPCs, The Computer, or even pretend to be the players. It looks like it can do other stuff too, but I didn't want to play with it while my server was being shown as live on Paranoia-Live.net.

Might open up an interesting avenue for the game.

Post by **Grimmie** » April 30th, 2009, 13:29

RE: Randomised/premade character stats
I think that the whole "Roll # of D#'s to generate your stats" is kinda cool, allowing you to randomly have a really strangely balanced guy (10 cha, 10 str, 1 int) It'd be fun to adapt personalities to that kinda thing.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 30th, 2009, 15:36

Grimmie wrote:really strangely balanced guy (10 cha, 10 str, 1 int)

Why is that strangely balanced? I think it pretty much reflects today's world.

Dog Pants wrote:I've just been playing around with a JParanoia server and a couple of clients. I hadn't realised I was live, so I was a little surprised when a helpful German chap came online and asked me what I was doing.

Turns out JParanoia is a chat client designed for the game, which allows the GM to talk to the players as himself, NPCs, The Computer, or even pretend to be the players. It looks like it can do other stuff too, but I didn't want to play with it while my server was being shown as live on Paranoia-Live.net.

Might open up an interesting avenue for the game.

I'd vouch for using this with teamspeak for side-talks for a Paranoia-evening thing, but that's impossible because of the sprogs now isn't it?

Post by **deject** » April 30th, 2009, 15:40

wait, so do we have a list of who's in? Because I'd like to be.

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 30th, 2009, 15:55

I think I'll skip JParanoia for now. It's hard enough getting to grips with a new system without having to learn to use some software with it. Also, running anything live, as we found out on Skype, is a nightmare compared to the relaxed pace of forum games. Bali's right though, using it with TS/Skype would be very handy (once we knew how to use it).

As for who's playing or not, that's still mostly undecided. I've written some of the mission (although I'm considering runing the one in the book first if nobody's read it - and they shouldn't have) and some of the characters, but I've read none of the rules (not that they matter much) and not enough of the content. It'll be a little while before I'm ready to run, but when I am I'll put a post up asking people to choose characters. Hopefully we'll work it out so that those people are the ones most interested.

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » April 30th, 2009, 22:36

Comrade computer, i would love to undertake this important research mission for R+D, but i'm afraid my laserbarrel has a hairline crack in it, so i must stop by PLC to obtain a new one! (hygeine officer signing on! :wavey)

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » April 30th, 2009, 23:26

When do we start? I'm getting all excited here.

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 1st, 2009, 9:07

As soon as I've got something to run for you. I had a productive night last night and got a fair bit of reading done. I now know some rules I can ignore. If I have an equally productive day I might have something by tonight, but more likely it'll be sometime during the weekend. Watch this space for character selection. Oh, and the Wiki might have some useful information on it now/soon.

Post by **HereComesPete** » May 1st, 2009, 11:39

So who's actually signed up for this?

Roman, Bubbles, Anery, Anham, Deject and Grimmie is it?

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 1st, 2009, 11:44

Umm, dunno. I was hoping all would become clear when I asked people to choose characters. If there's more people wanting to play than I can run (and it looks like there are), then I can run it on a rolling basis - once all your clones are dead the next person on the list gets to play. Like rolling subs or winner-stays-on pool. People don't tend to survive ages in Paranoia, although I'm running it classic (slapstick, silly deaths, but survivable) rather than zap (cartoon violence, possible to have all six clones killed before you've even found the briefing room) style.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » May 1st, 2009, 12:31

Hahaha, zap sounds great, though yes, do classic, I'd like to play for more than three hours in a row.

punkchuck · Post by **punkchuck** » May 1st, 2009, 13:02

HereComesPete wrote:So who's actually signed up for this?

Bubbles, Anery, Anham, Deject, Grimmie and PunkChuck is it?

You can take my place for now Pete and I can get in on the rolling basis thing when someone dies. Going to be gone for a few days and sounds like everyone wants to start asap

Post by **Roman Totale** » May 1st, 2009, 18:14

HereComesPete wrote:So who's actually signed up for this?

Bubbles, Anery, Anham, Deject, Grimmie and PunkChuck is it?

I responded first, mofo!

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 1st, 2009, 18:38

Now now, there's plenty of clones for everyone.