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The Walking Dead - Survival: New Orleans

TheyMostlyComeAtNight said
Cymru am byth!

The Walking Dead / Pathfinder idea

YipeeXD said
I don't think I'd be able to post that sheer amount regularly

A paragraph per post? As I said, that's only three sentences. You technically managed that in the post you just made claiming you wouldn't be able to post that much!

The Walking Dead - Survival: New Orleans

I'm glad everyone is excited, but I am afraid we won't be starting yet. I'm going to be very busy for the next two days with work, after which I'll have an entire week free, so I'll probably start the IC on Monday. I also told Penguin that I wouldn't start until he was back from holiday, which I think is either Sunday or Monday. In the meantime, feel free to ask questions of me about plans for the story, spitball your own plans with fellow players, and generally try to educate yourselves.

Being from Britain, and a one-time Historic Tour Guide, I can tell you that 'The British Isles' include the five countries; Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, England and Wales. The United Kingdom was created originally as a union of England and Scotland back in the 1600's when Scotland's King James VI, who was the closest living relative of Elizabeth I (who never married or had children), became King James I of England. It's also worth noting that, despite what many people believe, Queen Elizabeth II and the current royal family can trace their heritage directly back to King James I so technically... England is still ruled by the Scots.

And it's usually around this point that I bring up that I'm half Scottish and lord it over my English subjects.

The Walking Dead - Survival: New Orleans

Totts said
I live in the UK and actually have barely any knowledge on the climate/geography of the united states or what buildings might be there. Fill me in anyone?

I'm not too worried about 100% accuracy. I'm from the UK too, never been to the US in my life, have no idea what New Orleans looks like. We're using it as a base, but I'll be adding my own narrative elements to the story too, so things like disused warehouses, shops, cafés, etc could all appear anywhere at any time when they're needed. I'm not going to stick to New Orleans geography that closely, beyond the obvious facts that it's near the ocean, has a big-ass lake next to it, and is surrounded by the 'bayou' marshland.

The Walking Dead - Survival: New Orleans

Yeah, he does have quite a lot of stuff, but most of it is small and not particularly valuable. Stuff like toothbrushes, combs, cutlery, etc. could all easily have been picked up along the way, given that it's been 18 months since the outbreak.

Anyway, Tatsua, Fell and mpjama, your characters all look fine.

Larceny, yours looks okay too, but you might have missed the part on the front page where it says this is 18 months after the outbreak, so he presumably wouldn't still be wandering the woods just outside his college. He'd have to have either met up with someone or otherwise figured out some way to survive this long by now.

As for the beginning of the RP, I'm thinking that rather than instantly be in the middle of New Orleans itself, we should meet up in the town of Slidell, which is just to the north-east across the lake. This means we can play out moving into the city itself, as well as deciding what route we'd take into the city (bridge, boat, etc). You can take a look at Slidell on Google Maps, it seems like an interesting suburban setting, and there's some canals and things around too for extra fun.

The Walking Dead - Survival: New Orleans

Totts: Character looks fine.

Antagonist: Looks good. I like the idea of having a rookie police officer on board. Could make things interesting.

TheyMostlyComeAtNight: I'll need to see a finished character sheet before I comment. Looks fine so far, though.

Note: Character looks fine. Only thing I would say is that since bread is a highly perishable commodity, he must have either made it himself recently or found it frozen.

I'll put up my own character sheet soon. In the meantime, I'd like people to start thinking about how they want to start things off. Should we all be in separate groups to begin with and meet up at a later point, or should we begin as a group having been forced together following some kind of calamitous event (I was thinking forced to take cover from a herd of walkers in the same building, or something like that)?

EDIT: My character sheet is now up on the front page. Marcus Calderón.

The Walking Dead - Survival: New Orleans

Possibly a little. I'm not too worried about characters being 'balanced', but as I said in the interest check, there will be no plot armour or 'lol my character survives even though he clearly should have died'. The only thing I would say is that you now have the task of explaining why a Canadian outdoorsman is hanging around New Orleans, which is about as far away as you can get from Canada without getting your feet wet.

The Walking Dead - Survival: New Orleans

You're probably right. I do know that Season 2 of the Telltale game takes place primarily in a time between 18 months and 2 years after the outbreak, and there are still plenty of walkers and survivors. The reason I wanted to set it a good long time after the outbreak is because it presents a different sort of RP with different sorts of potential plot points, with hardened characters rather than complete rookies who don't understand how bites work.

I think I might reduce it to 18 months. That way it takes place alongside the game, but on the complete opposite side of the country so there's no chance of interaction. I wasn't planning to have any canon characters show up anyway, unless we happen to end up in a place that they could reasonably appear.

The Walking Dead - Survival: New Orleans

Fell said
Quick question, are we allowed to play multiple characters at once or would you prefer we stick to a single character at a time?

I would prefer if you began with one character. If necessary we can up that number later on, but I've always felt that at the beginning of an RP it's best to keep things simple, so the fewer characters whose names we have to learn and whose movements we have to keep track of, the better.

Sticking with the theme of 'keep things simple', I should also mention now that I had planned this roleplay begin with no more than 8 players, myself included, so there are limited spaces available. I might stretch that number if I have an exceptional number of high quality applicants, but for now that's where I'm at. I don't personally like the 'first come, first serve' mentality some GMs have, because the best CS you get might be the last one posted, so I'll pick a cut-off date at some point and take the players I think will be the best fit. In the meantime, if I say your character sheet is 'Accepted', it just means I've read it and haven't found anything glaringly wrong with it, not that you're definitely in the RP.

Penguin and Fly, both characters seem fine, so you may consider them 'accepted'.

The Walking Dead / Pathfinder idea

The OOC is now up!

It's a little sloppy at the moment, but I'll pretty it up later. For now, if you're in a particular rush to post a character sheet, drop it there and I'll have a look.