Hailing frequencies open (Intro & OOC chat)

I need a couple of days more before starting Chapter 4D (with Hank, Corbin, Mariella) as there may be someone else with them.

Ok, cool. Looking forward to seeing who the new NPC is!

Hi everyone, kinda of random, but do any of you have good recommendations on sci-fi books/book series? Specially if with a similar vibe to our campaign hahaha.

I don't know if it's totally similar but I liked Dark Matter.

I'd say go Old School. The Solar Queen series by Andre Norton, Foundation trilogy be Asimov (and not the later resumption), Dumarest of Terra, Space Vikings by Piper, things like that.

For video, go Star Wars. (No Roman numerals. No sub titles. No revisions. No animation. Just Star Wars.) Maybe season one of Mandalorian. The original Battlestar Galactica. Lost in Space is probably too old. 2001 for the aesthetic.

Riddick has fun vibes, it's just an action movie though
Firefly is great, may be the closest to what we're doing.

I love Asimov's Foundation (not the Amazon series, the books). His traders are the inspiration for our game's name

Is there a, or several, Interplanetary banks? How do credits work between planets?

Yup. Within the ITC, its the same credits. Until Altairia, its simple. Outside known space... Its more complicated. We will see when we get there. =)

As an aside, as I have Hank do various trade things, I am providing OOC comments to explain his reasoning. The purpose is so that if there is anything that Hank should know that I do not, you can point that out so I don't make a mistake that Hank should not have. That's not to say mistakes can't be made. Just that if Hank knows better, but I don't, I request a warning. (Heck, there could be times when Hank intentionally makes a "bad" decision. I just don't want to unknowingly do something Hank should have known better about.)

Thanks!

One of the things that I am not sure of, is if it's better to

1. Have shorter and more focused threads, even if it is just 5-6 messages long (like I did in chapter 4E) or;

2. to keep a single thread in the forums but with 2-3 "internal timelines" in it as they're somewhat related and the thread would be longer / more relevant.

For instance, I have Hank, Corbin and Mercer in thread 4D. Would it be easier to follow if it were 3 smaller threads, as, for now, you're not interacting with each other?

@daryen,@Esidrix,@PhoenixScientist

I vote for a thread per story thread/group, switching chapters when a story arc is done.

I do not have strong feelings one way or the other. I can live with splitting them, or leaving them merged. I guess splitting keeps things a little cleaner, but then the threads pile up. I don't have enough experience to know which works better.

Speaking personally, I know creating more threads tends to pile up, but helps me differentiate all the stuff that was happening at the same time, I have literally being reading past chapters like a book and taking notes, and having them be concise is great for organization.

Keeping the relevant characters in the same thread. With as many active players as we have, it can be a lot to scroll through to find 'my' part.

My preference is to keep related activities/story arcs in the same thread. Having separate threads is more concise, but I've found that I tend to ignore or gloss over threads that don't involve my character(s), particularly if there's dozens of posts/updates in which I'm not involved. While that's good for my role-playing ("What's been going on with you?"), it's detrimental to my sense as a player of what's happening in a larger story. Some amount of this in inevitable, particularly in a SF game where groups of characters are far enough apart that communication can't happen in real-time. But anything that we can do to reduce the number of such threads has my vote.

Thank you for the feedback. I will take all that in consideration for the next threads. =)

Having finished the character conversion, please increase all PCs and secondary characters hit points now by a flat +10:



For the next level up, we will also add +10 to the roll (ie. 3d6+(3×Con mod)+10 for a level 3 Expert)

If I got the wrong number for someone, please let me know.

The ones I know (Hank, Erin, Jil, and Mariella) all look correct.

Correct for Slaine and Mercer