Idiot's Array.

In perusing the Fantasy Flight Games Edge of the Empire forums last week, I stumbled upon a post by Zev Linare asking for peeps to join his play by post (pbp) game. This peaked my interest and I joined. I've never played in a pbp game before and thought it would be a fun way for me to play the game without having to devote another night of the week to gaming. From what I understand I only have to make a single post per day in the games forum (hosted by Myth-Weavers.com) and that shouldn't take too much time (which is scarce these days). You can read about Zev's campaign and all of our exploits at Star Wars: Idiots Array

Simple Possession Act I (pt 2)

"T-minues 2 minutes 30 seconds until emergency orbital reentry"

Holy shit! This station IS sinking!

It was good thing that on the way to this station I did a bit of research and happened to have a map of the station stored on my data pad. With that, a course to the next, and only, hangar was pretty easy to find.

GM NOTE: Old doc here went to pull up his data pad and try to search for another hangar. He rolled a triumph so I stated that he had already had the map stored and could find a short cut to the hangar.

Right behind me were Knosh and the others. In fact there were probably a few times during our run that Knosh pulled ahead of me. He seemed more panicked than the rest of us and was looking for an escape pod. Poor guy. It seemed that everyone he found, was already taken or that the entry doors were stuck. I guess that happens in a dilapidated space station. which made him panic even more.

Simple Possession Act 1 (pt 1)

The anticipation has been building and building within my group for weeks now and finally the campaign gets underway. All but our Wookie Pilot were present (which ended up hindering the group just a bit). Everyone seemed to have a great time, there was one person in the group that didn't play during my beta of Edge of the Empire campaign. He picked up on the mechanics quickly and enjoyed the systems as much as the rest of us...

Below is a narrative of what happened through the eyes of our Twi'lek Doctor.

Occasionally I may add GM notes if it's something significant to the mechanics of the session. If so, they will be indented white text with gray background.

Here we go...

The Cast

And away we go...

I've been writing pretty steadily over the last few weeks getting ready for my Edge of the Empire Campaign. I'm really excited about running and cannot wait. The title of the campaign is A Dark Black Past (DBP). Yes, Megadeth came across Pandora and I used a bit of lyrics, but it is makes for a perfect title for this campaign. The first episode titled Simple Posession and as the title suggests the episode revolves around... wait I can't exactly say just yet as I have some players that will read this.

I have about 9 people that want to play but based on past experience that is too many. I once ran a Star Wars RCR game that had 12 or 13 people and it was a nightmare. If I remember correctly they were trying to take command/control of a Star Destroyer and one combat lasted 4 hours. Needless to say that the campaign only lasted one session and was never brought back up. I'm really surprised that my players ever wanted me to GM again.

GM Holocron

Today, or yesterday rather, I've started my GM Holocron. I would like to thank GMChris and GMDave for this fabulous idea. They presented the GM Holocron on their d20radio Order 66 podcast. This idea will prove to be very very valuable in my future GM plans.

While they have a community GM Holocron, I've decided to do my own instead. I am having issues creating stuff on theirs. If one day I gain the right permissions to add pages, I'll contribute a lot of content.

Basically, a GM Holocron is a stockpile of resources designed to make the arduous task of planning and setup of a session easier. The GM Holocron is a document/folder/ file system that will contain lists of NPC's, equipment, adventures, images, ships, and encounters (called set pieces). I would normally have just used InDesign or Publisher,  but I have recently found Evernote which is perfect for what I want to do.