Okay gang, until such time as I feel inspired to churn out any more work on Alpha Polis, and until such time as the lot of us work something out about Ba's campaign, I feel we need to do something else to promote role playing.

Specificly, we need to do a star wars role playing game. I've got a nice little adventure set to mind, and would be happy to run it for a small to medium sized group.

Now, right now I'm pretty sure this is gonna have to be done over instant messages. I'm invisioning two to three hour sessions on saturdays, begining somewhere around 1 or 2 pm GMT. this is open to negotiation, but that's a time slot that grace and i are both available for. if it's utterly unacceptible to all you would-be jedi out there, we'll work something out.

So... who's up for it?

I'm down!!

Huzzah! May the Force be with us!

I tentatively agree to play

Hmm.. Saturday afternoon... Don't know if I can make that.

Still, I'd love to play if possible.

Questions:
- Jedi/Padawan? Or do we get to be droids, bountyhunters, members of a family of crimelords, etc?

- Original trilogy/All 6 films/Extended universe?

- Do we get to discuss who shot first? ;-)

Han shot first.

A jedi character is considered a padawan until he hits level 7, or maybe 8. i forget which.

the basic classes are Jedi Guardian (combat focused jedi), Jedi Consular (force focused jedi), Soldier (combat specialist), Scoundrel (rogue character), Tech Specialist (depending on how you build the character, this one can be anything from a medic to an engineer), Force Adept (non jedi force user), and Nobel (a good 'interaction' based class). i think that's all of em in d20.

you can be droids. you can be bounty hunters (i think there's a bounty hunter prestige class, actually), you can be a member of a family of crime lords, etc.

the adventure i've got in mind is set in the old republic era, so 'extended universe', but not 100% accurate to cannon.

went and checked, there's also a 'scout' class, bit of a sci-fi ranger i suppose. good for exploring new places.

and there's a 'fringer' class, a good jack of all trades, usually from the outter rim.

I'm in. Though the only time I can be on is Sunday.

k. we'll look at doing it at Sundays starting from 3pm, gmt, probably running till 6 since that's when roman has to leave.

Om's out, Bauke and Ben are in.

At present, roman's looking at playing some sort of droid, likely a fairly normal labor saving device that went rogue some how.

Doorsh will be our resident jedi padawan.

Ben, since he's open minded about getting a character assigned to him, can be a space faring captain hoping to strike it rich in the galaxy, but so far all he's managed to secure is his own little ship.

i'll suggest, for ease of narrative, that ben and roman's characters already work together. doorsh's character, or his jedi master, hire the completed party to work together on a mission to be announced closer to play.

grace, or a local friend of ours if he gets his act together and joins in, will be playing the other preassigned role, to be divulged later.

bauke is free to pick from any possible career path.

Yes, I was going to mention something about this at MSN, as droids generally needing an owner (or at least the appearance of an owner). I hope to have a character background ready sometime this week, or maybe the next. This one is becoming rather too busy...

I'll talk it over with Ben once I finish writing my character background up to meeting him, at which point we'll work something out.

if we don't have things ready for next sunday (the 18th), then it'll be march before we can get started. grace is only available on alternate sundays.

Are we playing tomorrow? (this question also brought to us today by Roman)

Yes! Please can someone remind Doors. 3.00 GMT.

Excellent. I'll be there.