If anyone has read any of the Dark Tower novels by Stephen King then they'll know what this is about. If not, then basically it involves gunslingers who face zombies, various monsters and demons, and all sorts of dangerous stuff on the way to the Dark Tower, the center of all realities. It takes place first in mid-world, then in any number of places from rural Maine to the ruins of a post-apocalyptic New York.

Rules:

We can have up to eight players, but we can make due with four or so. Your character has to be human, no half-elf druids or shit like that. There's a template like this you need to use.

Name:
Sex:
Place of Origin: (Gilead, Mid-world, or somewhere on Earth if you want)
Age:
Clothing/Appearance:
Weapon(s):
(List them like this)

Name: Revolver
Caliber: .45
Capacity: 6
Extra bullets: 18

Everyone gets one starting weapon. For starting weapons you get enough bullets to reload three times. For anything else, I specify how much ammo you get.

EDIT: The gunslinger will be an NPC. It seems better that way.

Sounds good.. I will try to get something worked up at some point today..

So basically you want one gunslinger and a bunch of his "pieces"?

Will this follow the books storyline, or will it be before/after it?

Edit: Either way, here's my character, although I'll need the answer for my backstory.

Name: Steven Quick

Sex: Male

Place of Origin: Mid-world (Lud)

Age: 37

Clothing/Appearance: Tall, with short black hair and tan skin, sinowy mussles and non-descript/non-diseased features. Dark green eyes, and a stubbled chin, he has a thin smile and long nose. He'll be an (ex, depending on time setting) Gray, and wear a yellow scarf tied around his left arm. He wears long, comfortably-loose denim pants and a button-up dirty white shirt, which he usually leaves half buttoned. He also wears a buttonup denim jacket with a dirty dark blue hood. He keeps his handgun hostlered at his right hip, with the bottem of his short half over the weapon. He also carries a purse, slung over his right shoulder and across his chest, resting at his left hip. He keeps a little food supply, as well as a waterbag and his extra ammunition, as well as a small knife that he uses as a shaving blade, as well as other fuctional things.

Weapon(s):
Name: Handgun
Caliber: .22
Capacity: 10+1
Extra bullets: 30

Ok, I've read all the books(Only the DT ones though, not any of SK's other work), so hopefully this will be ok
(also, if I recall the books correctly, don't all gunslingers start off with 2 revolvers handed down from their fathers? The only reason roland had only one after the second book was because he had a crippled right hand. So either this will have already happened at some point before we start playing or in the warm up, forcing the gunslinger to surrender his other gun to one of the other players meaning another person needs a .45 revolver)

Name: Simon Bailey

Gender: Male

Origin: Britain(It was under-reperesented in the books), Manchester

Age: 28

Clothing/Appearance: 5'10 with a clean shaven face and short brown hair. Wears a grey, non descript suit(at least at the start, expect it will get dirty and torn very quickly). Carries gun under the jacket in a concealed shoulder holster. Carries a briefcase (locked), and thinks of himself as a professional courier. Has few other items on him: A mobile(useless in mid world), a pen, a small army knife and his (Earth) wallet containing some british money and cards.

Weapon:

Name: S&W 627-5 Magnum
Caliber: .375
Capacity: 6
Extra Bullets: 18

I haven't actually read the novels, but I welcome a modern RPG anyday. A little history and info would be cool...

Name: Alan Cage
Sex: Male
Place of Origin: ??
Age: 29
Clothing/Appearance: Tall, with a well-defined thin build. Thick straight black hair with a matching goatee and brown eyes. Rose tattoo over right arm near the shoulder. Wearing a loose white sleeveless jersey over black jeans and trainers. Carries a pocket-knife and a backpack for supplies.

Weapon:
Name: Glock18C with flashlight extension.
Caliber: 9x19mm
Capacity: 17+1
Extra bullets: 51 (17 x three clips)

*Some Spoilers*








Basically, the world is falling apart: the barriers between dimensions/universes are collapsing and the "gunslinger's" world has "moved on", meaning the world itself is changing. Time is meaningless, and stupid to try measuring, and so is distance. It isn't surprising to meet a 300 year-old, although they wouldn't exactly think they were 300, they just lost track of the time.

Think of a post-apocolyptic wild west, and you're close. Except here and there (especially in mid-world) there are fragments of the "old people", a lost civilization of 1,000's of years ago with technology that far surpassed current real world. Except in this world, there are also fragments: doors and "thinnies" mostly, which lead to another where and when (thinnies mostly in end-world).

It's a very interesting series. Regardless of RPing, I suggest you read it.

Also (still spoilers)











The old peoples technology has generally either failed altogether, is in the process of failing or (in the case of some AI cases) gone completely insane. There is also magic, which was part of the world before it 'moved on' and is also failing now. And at the heart of it all is the dark tower, the central axis on which all reality spins.
And the dark tower draws closer(sorry, I couldn't resist )

Thank GOD someone answered. And thanks, workmad3 and Raven. I think we might have enough, especially if MikeHendo responds. The gunslinger's mangling during the early part of the RP sounds like a good idea.

EDIT: The gunslinger is going to be an NPC, not a player.

Anyway, I'll keep the sign-ups for another few days while I get to work on a backstory and stuff. I shouldn't make you do all the work.

As for when it takes place, it's sort of an alternate universe, maybe somewhere just a bit off the same beam as Roland's, so things are similar but different, and it's maybe a year or two before Roland's quest. And as for the end of the 7th book, the Dark Tower harbors many secrets. It may contain many things other than what it does at the end of the saga of Roland. Well, I've got to prepare a full-fledged RP. Sign up if you want, and this isn't the end of the sign-ups. Any time during the game there can be a newcomer.

Please withdraw my request to join this game.

The gm.. well.. seriously lacks experience of "how to use a forum"

In the past hours he has:

1) Told me to post my character info into the thread, without
realizing it's already there (was right here, but I removed it)
2) Taken information that I sent to him in PM (which stands for "private message") and posted a comment on it PUBLICLY

I can't imagine how much of a disarray there will be with the actual "game"


I guess I need to just realize i'm too old for this stuff anymore. I'm 2.5 times older than the "GM" - I own a backpack that's been around 3 years longer than he has.

EDIT: Forget it.

You claim to be older, but what you just said seems to drip immaturity. For one thing, he posted a response publicly on the forums because it appears to apply to all of us in that it offers a new faction to join rather than just being apart of the gunslinger's party.

And in my opinion, you can never be too old for this stuff

Raven";p="538201 wrote:You claim to be older, but what you just said seems to drip immaturity. For one thing, he posted a response publicly on the forums because it appears to apply to all of us in that it offers a new faction to join rather than just being apart of the gunslinger's party.

And in my opinion, you can never be too old for this stuff

That would be because you don't understand, nor realize the implications of what I said.

I said something to him, "as player to gm" in "confidence" something along the lines of "I want to be an anti-hero"

Something I wanted to address to HIM only.

He replied to it, in the forum, PUBLICLY. .. (paraphrasing) "Well, if you want to work against the party, that's a good idea, i'll pitch it to everyone"

Who in the party would "trust" my character after that?

Now, since I had not SAID that I want to work "against" the party in my posting.. he was "letting out my little secret" to EVERYONE.

Imagine you are watching a movie where there is an "unknown villian"

and 5 minutes into the movie, someone says "I can't believe the villian is the hero's uncle"

Imagine if you were told, while watching star wars "episode 4" where we first meet luke on tattooine.. "Oh, by the way.. that guy in black is your daddy"


Imagine you are starting up a new D&D campaign.

One of the players wants to play a ranger who .. oh .. just happens to have a dark SECRET like.. he's a werewolf.
Do you think it's a good idea for the dm to go..
"Ok, we've got the party done - Johnny the paladin, bobby the mage, sally the thief, and tony the ranger werewolf?"


Chronology

I introduce my character (in the thread) at
"Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:19 pm"


I PM him at "Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:25 pm" (that's like.. oh, 19-20 hrs later?) and say..."I'd like to play my character as described in the thread in your RPG"

He Replies at "Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:06 pm" (almost two hours later)
with... "Sounds all right. Post your character and stuff in the topic, though.
"

Of course, by this time, my character had been in the thread for just about.. 26 hours.

I reply at "Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:21 pm" that the character is in there
and has been for a day....

To which he replies basically "Oops, I didn't notice, since I just reactionarily replied to your PM" at "Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:57 am"

To which he replies, IN THE PUBLIC FORUM, at "Posted: Today at 3:50 am "

"Well, if your character is opposing the gunslinger's party he might need a bigass cutlass-looking thing like that to help him. "


I *NEVER* said I was going to be opposing the gunslinger.

I was not going to charge up, and "play" an enemy...

I told him I want to be the "anti-hero" type player character. and the reason I PRIVATE MESSAGED HIM was because I did not want the OTHER PLAYERS TO KNOW WHAT I WAS UP TO.

You know what? I've never been a GM before! Cut me some slack, will you? This isn't as big of a problem as he's making it out to be. I screwed up. I realize that. But it's not like I made the world explode just because of this one little thing. And the way he said it, like "I'm going to be an anti-party member", made it a bit easier to think the way I did. If you'd made it just a BIT more clear, then we wouldn't have come to this. Eznoc, if you're 2 or 3 times older than me, doesn't that make it kind of pathetic that you're reacting this badly? Oh, you own a 17-year-old backpack? Good for you. Shove it up your ass and leave me alone. If you own a backpack that's older than the creator of the RP you just joined, and you're that much of a hardass about it, then why do you even THINK that you'll have a good time if you bitch this much about a simple mistake?

JB_Finesse";p="538386 wrote:You know what? I've never been a GM before! Cut me some slack, will you? This isn't as big of a problem as he's making it out to be. I screwed up. I realize that. But it's not like I made the world explode just because of this one little thing. And the way he said it, like "I'm going to be an anti-party member", made it a bit easier to think the way I did. If you'd made it just a BIT more clear, then we wouldn't have come to this. Eznoc, if you're 2 or 3 times older than me, doesn't that make it kind of pathetic that you're reacting this badly? Oh, you own a 17-year-old backpack? Good for you. Shove it up your ass and leave me alone. If you own a backpack that's older than the creator of the RP you just joined, and you're that much of a hardass about it, then why do you even THINK that you'll have a good time if you bitch this much about a simple mistake?

actually, i was not complaining about your DM skills.

I complained that you apparently do not know how to use a forum (i.e. you should maybe, read my post?) So, I have little to no faith that your "administration" of any activity conducted on a "PBF" format will be successful.

This has nothing to do with DM'ing skills. That takes imagination, not technical expertise.

And I disagree with wether or not you "made the world explode" - You let the cat out of the proverbial bag.

I shouldn't have had to make myself more "clear"
it was PRIVATE MESSAGE that I wanted to be PART OF THE PARTY, yet.. "anti-hero"

that is completely different than what you inferred to the PUBLIC thread, that "Someone (namely the guy with the cutlass) wanted to be on the "enemies" side of things"

I don't consider your "Faux pas" a "simple mistake" you completely, utterly, and openly told *everyone* my secret.


It would be one thing, if it were your only mistake before the game had even started. But, since that isn't the case, I withdrew my interest.

To answer your question "What made me think I'd have fun".. because it was a campaign setting that interested me.

But your "forum naivete" discouraged me from any belief that you can handle the responsibilities involved in running an rpg over the net.

Eznoc, I can see it was a mistake. Yes, PMs are private. However JB misinterpreted what you were trying to say. If it was possible for him to do that then it must have had something that could be misinterpreted and therefore not perfectly clear (anti-hero is not perfectly clear. First thing I would think if I saw that is a separate party)

Basically, mistakes were made. and if you no longer wish to play then fine, easiest way would be to just go. I at least am still willing to play, but if you keep on ruining JBs confidence then he will never get it off the ground and this mistake that affected your character and made you wish not to play will have stopped everybody from playing what could be a good and interesting RP.

I'm not saying you were wrong to get upset about it, but if theres anything else then please PM the person in question and discuss it there (and JB, again not a criticism, as you made a slight mistake in understanding the thread and thought two parties would be a good idea etc. etc. but in future get permission for revealing PMs as they are meant to be private. other than that, I hope work is going fine on the RP and it all turns out good )