Motley Is A Fool's Uniform

The other alternative for an online game was Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies. Rather than setting a premise and having you create characters for it, I'll go with what you want to play. Although I would like outré and unique characters by preference. Such as a Monkeysquid Koldun or aged wingman from Lost Kroyu. If you don't have the S7S rules, a pdf is available for sale here, a wiki full of ideas is available here, and a free set of the PDQ# rules is available here.

There are a couple of changes though.

• First of all Wealth becomes Wealthy (a Forte that generates Wealth Dice for you).
• You can take Equipment which gives you access to a wide variety of better gear, provided that that gear is of a mundane nature and only give a "natural bonus" (special items still need to be gained via specific Gear Fortes). Ruqs and Wingcloaks are not considered equipment, since it also grants the skill to use them.
• Fortes such as Sidekick, Sanctum, and Vehicle don't have free additional Fortes. Sidekicks and Sanctums and Vehicles act more like a skill, albeit one that might be used remotely. Damage falls back to the character alone. [Yes, that does mean if someone captures your sidekick and tortures them you could take the damage for him, if you like. At least until he is zeroes out, at which point they can't torture you through him any more.]
• There is a separate Skyship Forte. The MOD of the Skyship forte indicates the size of the vessel. [They will gain other traits, but not directly as part of character generation.] The Skyship Forte can be used as a bonus to command as well. Alternatively you could take a larger vessel with a smaller MOD, and be unsure of your command... [PS: Don't feel that someone has to take either a Skyship or Sanctum, btw. If needed, they will be provided. "What do you mean, sky galley slaves?"].

If in doubt for what level of absurd I'm aiming at, go watch Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Even if you are not in doubt, go watch it. It's well worth watching. Again.

Over to you (while I look to see where I hide my dice box so I can roll up that Paranoia character in my other online game). Feel free to ask any questions and talk amongst yourselves as regards to what you want to do.

ETA: And for the people that have so far said they are too busy to actually play (despite the slow turn rate [about the same as a MOD +8 Frigate I hope, although I have a feeling it might actually be the same turn rate as a MOD +12 First Rate Ship of the Line <grin>]) you can always feel free to kibbitz, shout out good form, and earn style points dice by making suggestions that particularly amuse me, especially if your suggestions get the players to earn their own style dice.

( Etiquette for LJ roleplaying )