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Hi Redmond,<br>
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Yep we are on. This Sunday we are playing Diaspora Hard SF with FATE. Diaspora is very Hard SF, i.e. the laws of physics are not broken and the implausible is avoided. There is no artificial gravity, no force swords, no reactionless space drives, no psionics, no humanoid aliens etc. FATE is a narrative rpg system focused on telling stories and giving players a chance to affect thje storytelling. That said Diaspora can handle tactical combat in spacecraft or with rifles.<br>
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We'll make you a character during the Q&A phase at the start of the session. If you start thinking about ideas for your character now it would really help.<br>
Every character has a home system pick one from the attached camapign info.<br>
Every character begins the game knowing two other characters (whoever volunteers on the day). These meetings influence your phases<br>
Every character has five phases that sketch out there life prior to the start of the game. As other characters influence two of these phases you can't finalise them before Sunday but it would help to have a few ideas. The phases are:<br>
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phase one: growing up<br>
This phase should establish the character’s home system and maybe some information<br>
about his family and upbringing. <br>
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phase two: starting out<br>
This phase describes the character picking a direction in life. It might be a career<br>
choice or an education or it might be a circumstance forced upon him, but it should<br>
be a formative choice that establishes who the character has decided he will be.<br>
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phase three: moment of crisis<br>
Now players will write a brief description of an event that created change in the<br>
character—something that the character would talk about later (maybe to his pals<br>
around drinks, maybe only to his wife, maybe to himself while in his sleep with the<br>
cold sweats and the voices and the screaming). The moment of crisis must reference<br>
another character<br>
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phase four: sidetracked<br>
This phase is about events out of your control. As with life, not everything goes as<br>
planned, and it may be that your life has taken an unexpected turn. This phase revisits<br>
the story of another characters moment-of-crisis event from your character’s perspective.<br>
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phase five: on your own<br>
In the final phase, write briefly about where the character is now. What are his<br>
immediate needs and goals? What is he doing to get by in a hostile universe?<br>
It'd be great if your phase five placed you on the backwater world of Exoarctica in the Faith/Reason system. <br>
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>From: Redmond Hamlett [redmond.hamlett@gmail.com]<br>
>Sent: 11/3/2011 1:12:15 PM<br>
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>Hi gang, <br>
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>Still on this Sunday? I think I am finally free for a change!<br>
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>Let us know<br>
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>Cheers<br>
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><br>
>Redmond<br>
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>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:32:38 -0700<br>
>From: "Carl Brown" <catodon@whale-mail.com><br>
>To: <diaspora@mimesisrpg.com>, <churchofgaming@rpgreview.net><br>
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>With preparing a review article for RPG Review and lots of science stuff<br>
>to do I have been snowed under the last couple of weeks. I'm afraid I'm<br>
>going to have to delay the next Diaspora session. Diaspora next week<br>
>intstead?<br>
>Anyway, as a replacement how is BattleTech again? (with less maps and<br>
>mechs to speed play. I'd like to try a couple of platoons of infantry<br>
>this time.<br>
>Also, what about BV rather than tonnage? Its more balanced and the<br>
>master unit list giving BV values is free online.<br>
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>On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Carl Brown <catodon@whale-mail.com> wrote:<br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>> (Diaspora/one off)<br>
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>> With preparing a review article for RPG Review and lots of science stuff to<br>
>> do I have been snowed under the last couple of weeks. I'm afraid I'm going<br>
>> to have to delay the next Diaspora session. Diaspora next week intstead?<br>
>> Anyway, as a replacement how is BattleTech again? (with less maps and mechs<br>
>> to speed play. I'd like to try a couple of platoons of infantry this time.<br>
>> Also, what about BV rather than tonnage? Its more balanced and the master<br>
>> unit list giving BV values is free online.<br>
>><br>
>> Care2 makes it easy for everyone to live a healthy, green lifestyle and<br>
>> impact the causes you care about most. Over 12 Million members!<br>
>> http://www.care2.com<br>
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>I'm up for more BattleTech. Obviously a glutton for punishment after<br>
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