Paradox Diaspora
Paradox Diaspora
There are monsters in 18th century London
Note – This campaign has ceased and become private as it may appear in a convention format in the near future and I want to avoid spoilers
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Composed and copyright – Alistair Lock for the Magic Bullet series The True History of Faction Paradox
Game Information
A PBeM/PbP game set in the universe of the Doctor Who spinoff, Faction Paradox.
Game Rules
- System: Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space (DWAITAS)
- Setting: Sometime during the new series – but in 18th century London. Non-native characters do not need to come up with a backstory of how they came to be there.
- Player Knowledge: None required
- Rules Knowledge: None required (rules are quite simple)
- Allowed Characters: Any race in Doctor Who (requires GM approval), Human or variant of does not require approval. No Time Lords. Prefer no “mindless” or drone-like races either (no Daleks, Cybermen or infected/possessed race types)
- Notes: Character backgrounds may be modified for plot reasons. Game will be played online. Story Points will be awarded for player contributions.
Paradox Diaspora Comments
Not a problem. My last week in my current job before 3 month transfer anyway – so not sure how regularly I can run this game as it is. Feel free to post, but I may not respond daily.
apologies about my random vanishing. I got a new hard drive and haven’t been able to figure out how to import favorites into here. I just managed to get back here by getting an email newsletter thing from the site. I’m doing work stuff right now, but I’ll hurry up and post something as soon as possible. Didn’t mean to vanish like that on you guys.
It’ll be nice to get back into the swing of things. Quite the long christmas break we had huh?
I just have to go back and see what we were doing again, I only vaguely remember at this point.
I’ll be back at work next week – which means I’ll start the game up again then :)
I hope everyone had better holidays!
Ouch, no wonder. Didn’t say before it was your dad that died. Sorry to hear that. :(
Dad’s funeral was Tuesday. All close relatives came down from Sydney. We’re now sorting out his stuff. Game will most likely start again in February.
How are things going with family?
No kidding. Take your time then, we’ll be around when you get back. Hope things go well for your family in the meantime.
Oh, man, Curu, I am so sorry :(
Will be a while longer, I had a death in the family today.
Happy new year everyone, ready to start up again?
Darnit – there’s just too many things on in the next two weeks. I’m going to call hiatus until the new year as there’s preparation that needs doing.
Happy holidays folks! And we’ll start up again in two weeks.
Ah ok. Well I guess we’re going to just see what Craig does then and then react like the wind.
Sorry, should have posted this earlier – BullyBoy will be unavailable for a while so regard Sylar as an NPC until he can play again.
You seen Sylar lately by the way? Not sure where he went off to, and I’d hate to have to force in a reason for him to have gone missing or whatever.
Should be getting back in gear shortly :)
Any update on what’s going on? Still busy, or we going to be back up soon?
Well that’s good to hear at least. Got some family issues going on at this end by the way, but since the family members are several states away, it probably won’t affect my activity once this gets going again.
Good news on the father front, I’ll not post here, but you can read details on my blog
Well thanks for filling us in on what’s going on at least. Hope things go well with family, and if worse comes to worse we’ll see you in a week I guess.
There’s going to be a bit of a slowdown for the next week for personal reasons (Father in hospital and assignment due), so don’t expect daily updates from me until after the 19th.
What can I say – I like making props :)
That has got to be the most ominous looking map I’ve ever seen that you got there for Westminster.
For me to not be busy, mostly :)
I’ll have something up today.
What are we waiting on right now?
Libraries Australia Forum today and an ALIA one tomorrow – I’m not likely to post (or at least not much) until Friday (Australian time – day after tomorrow).
Back again (even managed to get some posts in yesterday)
I guess we’re just waiting for Curufea to return for now?
It is a tricky situation – the alternative may be for me to quote the difficulty before rolls are made – or possibly to let folk know that there are additional factors that make something harder than it would otherwise be? As a general hint that storypoint may be need to succeed.
Something that occurs to me now is how we are going to handle rolls in general. Because of story points, it might not always be best to just once in a while ask if we want to use a point, because that to me seems to give away when something is important enough to warrent asking about it.
Do we want to worry about that at all, do we want to have to deal with having the GM ask if we want to use a point every time something fails, how do we want to go about that?
I’ve been wondering how to do it, actually and was thinking of putting it off until the PCs were familiar with each other – I’ll post a discussion on the forum about it.
How often will the adventure log be updated?
No they’re fine now – I’ve also now updated them to include any portrait avatar image you attach. OP limits the size of these images to 256 pixels per side, however.
Are the character sheets still acting up at all with awareness and presence?
Well, you could find an avatar image :)
We’ll probably play the game through email to begin with at least, so I’ll post a discussion thread on the forum about that too.
Anything you want the two of us to do in the meantime while we wait on players?
I’m in!
And looking forward to getting started… I’ve already got a character idea swirling around in the dark and secluded recesses of my mind….
There was onother on the DWAITAS forum and I had some interes on RPG.net but haven’t yet advertised for players there. I’ll go post something.
Anymore players planning on joining?
I think you have to be a player first to respond to the forum, so for those folk out there wanting to put things in the forum – Apply to be a player first!
Also, I can’t seem to find how you respond to the thread in the “forum” area in here.
Looking to see what this site is like, but in the meantime I got it saved in my favorites list so I don’t lose it. Can’t wait to get things going!
Thankyou! We’ll see how it goes :)
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMIN… (ahem).
DWAITAS is a terrific system. It’s incredibly simple, but it is also quite tactile and evocative of the good Doctor’s myriad adventures.
I’m glad you shared this site with us in the forums, and I look forward to seeing more from you in the future!
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