Firefly Roleplaying Chatroom

POSTED BY: GuerillaTheatre
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 20:00
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GUERILLATHEATRE

Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:26 PM

Anyone know if these exist?

HAKEN

Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:29 PM

If you need one, I could probably build one on FFF.NET. Nothing fancy, of course.

GUERILLATHEATRE

Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:49 PM

I know that I would be interested in playing in a Firefly Online RPG. I'd hate to have you go to alot of trouble if noone else was interested though.

Anyone else interested in playing?

FIRETHORN

Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:02 PM

Just received my book today and hope to get in a game or start one over at the WOTC's site.

-Fire

"You have to finish it, lad. You have to finish it. For a man to lay beaten... and yet breathing? It makes him a coward."
-Harrow

JONESY

Monday, October 17, 2005 4:59 AM

Being married with 2 little girls about the only way I can play would be online either at night after everyone goes to bed or on Saturdays.

PYREFX

Monday, October 17, 2005 8:54 PM

I'm a long time roleplayer and I've been involved in online RPG for about 10 years now. I was the head ST for white-wolf online's open Sabbat game up until recently.

Online games are easy to pull off. Even if you can't get a bunch of folks into a chatroom at the same time, in a setting like Serenity, where your "crew" is on a ship, close quarters, for sometimes months at a time, playing in a format like MSN, Yahoo, or AOL Instant Messengers would work great for one on one or a three to four person session.

from there, sites for the game like www.geocities.com/praisecaine can be set up to get people up to speed on what's going on and give a basic set of rules and references, not enough so as to make purchasing the book pointless (gotta thank joss and co. somehow for thier efforts). personal character pages can be built, fanfics based on the actions taken can be written, crews can be set up to be NPC'd, etc. etc. etc.

The sky is the limit on something like this and if anyone is interested, i suppose i wouldn't be opposed to helping out as much as i can. i'm still heavily involved in other online games and my wife and i are expecting a baby in late november, but if it helps get the ball rolling, you can contact me at...:

MSN and e-mail: pyre_fx@hotmail.com
yahoo: pyre_fx
aol: pyrefx
icq: 36100071

"I call her Vera."

ENGINEANGEL

Monday, October 17, 2005 9:33 PM

i'm definately interested.

JADEYEOW

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:03 PM

Wow! Lots of White Wolf refugees here!

I'm also a former White Wolf Storyteller from the Dark Ages: Vamire Game at white-wolf.com. Kind of interested in something a little different and I love Firefly. I'd be willing to aid in getting the game off the ground if you guys want to set it up.

Just let me know!

~Jade

HAKEN

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pyrefx:
Online games are easy to pull off. Even if you can't get a bunch of folks into a chatroom at the same time, in a setting like Serenity, where your "crew" is on a ship, close quarters, for sometimes months at a time, playing in a format like MSN, Yahoo, or AOL Instant Messengers would work great for one on one or a three to four person session.

What would be required to run something like this in a forum-like environment? It wouldn't be exactly like a forum per se, but more like a MUD, but not real time. What would I need to build to make it possible for people to play on FFF.NET? What tools would a GM need? What tools would players need?

PYREFX

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:29 PM

well, first and formost you'd want the ability to Send and Update. You don't want an auto-refresh on something like this because it'd be real easy for folks to get swept away by it. From there some of the basics are, well, basic: Font Color, Size, Format. Picture posting capabilities be it through java or otherwise.

The difficult bit is the dice roller. There are 6 different types of dice used in this game. It would be handy if a roller were set up to post in the chatroom. With it you could select the number of dice and what type... Yeah, that'd be abit more difficult. deffinately something to be discussed.

"I call her Vera."

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