The usual rules still apply, and it looks like we have a full roster. It goes as follows:
- Hope Bryant
- Tina Hartman
- Erik Mitsch
- Kalim Oldziey
- Matt Snauffer
- Adam Simon
Get ready to run for your life. It's going to be fun!
Game Slang
Sounds weird huh, that you'd have to learn a bunch of slang to get the feel of the game. I've been playing this for so long that the words are second nature to me. So I figure I'd better tell you what you need to know before you look at me like I have lobsters crawling out of my ears. And these are NOT in alphabetical order.
- Kibble - It's what it sounds like and it's what you probably eat. It's a foodstuff that provides the bare minimum nutritional value that corporate wageslaves need. You knew a guy who ate real food once. He still talks about it.
- Keen Nano - New state of the art technology.
- Yoboys, goboys - Who you hang with.
- Yogangs - The name given to groups of kids with common interests.
- Gogangers - Violent people on motorcycles.
- CorpSec - Unfortunately, you're going to hear this name a lot. They are the police of this world and you have no rights when you're up against them.
- Combat Zone - An urban phenomenon common in all major cities. Boston was the home of the first Combat Zone. It's what it sounds like. A place where people are routinely murdered, raped and worse. Bad news is, if you're a lower eschelon child, you grew up here. Equatible to the Barrens of Shadowrun only with less Devil Rats.
- BuReloc - Bureau of Relocation. These are the guys that kick you out of the edges of the Combat Zone and put you in camps for "re-education." Bad people to mess with.
- Megas - Megacorporations. They are the government.
- CNM Virus - This is the plague sweeping across the world in 2027. Also known as the Carbon Death, the Carbon Plague and the Oozing Death. It is a nanovirus that kills fifty percent of the adults it infects. It kills twenty-five percent of all children who catch it, with a seventy-five percent chance of the child evolving into one of the seven basic sports of cyberevolved beings.
- Choombata - A friend. Also shortened to Choomba or Cho.
- CHoo2 (Chew-too) - A weak grain alcohol used as fuel after the Middle East Meltdown. Occasionally put in drinks to double alcohol content.
- Corpsicle, Dead Boyz, Dead Girlz, Zombies, Wage Slaves, Sararimen - Anyone working for, or passively supporting, the dominance of the megas. They're probably your parents.
- Edgerunners - These are the people who fight the system but aren't evolved and are adults from the mean streets of 2020. They have been everywhere, done everything, have more metal in them than flesh and probably killed a lot of people before you were an itch in your daddy's crotch. Bad people to cross, good people to have on your side.
- 'Trodes - Short for 'Electrodes.' If you want to live in 2027, you'd better have some. They allow you to see Virtuality, an important and dangerous aspect of the CG world. Virtuality is too big to be explained in a short snippet. It will be explained the first night.
- The Eden Cabal - The people trying to free the minds of the prisoners of the Incorporated States of America. Mentioning this word in ublic is almost guaranteeing the arrival of an AV-9 or a Spinner full of Domestic Security Agents to ask very uncomfortable and often fatal questions.
- AV-9, Spinner - The typical flying car of the 20's.
- Raptors - These guys and gals are the scum of the earth. They're cyberevolved kids who hunt down other cyberevolved kids for corps or even worse for money.
- Boostergangs - Psychopathic streetgangs with a chip on their shoulder and the cyberware to prove their dominance.
- Poseurgang - Gangs who have genetically or through the magic of plastic surgery altered themselves to look like famous cliques of people. Popular themes in Night City are the Gilligans, the Kennedys and the Rat Pack.
Upcoming Game
A Wraith Tale
Charon Needs You!
- In life, the spoils of war go to the victor. In Death, the spoils of war go to the forges. Welcome to the Great War. As World War One rages across the battered countrysides of Europe, an insurrection of the dead is waged in the underworld. For the living, war is hell. In death, it’s literal…
- Take on the roles of the dead spawned of WWI and take place in the great play which has just been set. Discover the secrets of the underworld by the sides of the Ferrymen. Become a part of the unfolding of the grand design. Welcome to the war against Oblivion itself.
- Hurry up and vote on it! Roster is full and as follows:
- Jeff Evans
- Tina Hartman
- Adam Samuel
- Nate Cosgrove
- Chris Uttenreither
- You! Wanna join?
- It with be run with Guest NPCs Erik Mitsch and Nick Leamy.
- Things to keep in mind for playing Wraith the Great War:
- You don't need to know a damn thing about World War One to play, just that it was a time where if you were in the war, your life was nasty, brutish and short.
- You aren't going to use standard WW character creation methods. It's not going to be exactly like the freeform rules of Cybergen, but will be similar in many ways. Characters will be developed to a point before the game begins.
- Get comfortable with the idea of someone else pulling your strings. Don't get discouraged by this. Chances are, you'll be doing the poulling for someone else.
- I will not lie to you: THIS GAME REQUIRES ADVANCED ROLEPLAYERS. And I ain't talkin' about AD&D. I'm talking people who ROLEplay not ROLLplay. It's about passion and emotion not how many points of damage your vorpal blade does. This one definitely ain't about killing orcs and plasmics. Deal.
- This game has a lot of potential for fun, but can be incredibly detailed and complex. Roll with it and you'll get what you want from it.
- Things to think about for Wraith the Great War characters: There were a million different ways to die in 1918. By the time the war was over there were diseases, new ways to kill and be killed, poverty and nastiness. You could have been an American GI in the wretched trenches, a German soldier, a resident of war torn france... anything. Don't worry about language/culture barriers. All of these get broken when you're dead.
Current Game Rankings
- Gonna keep this as simple as I can. I archive all letters and all requests for games. I also notice that a lot of people aren't casting all of their votes, so there are still some heads not totally counted for. Those who still have votes will be notified of how many they have remaining and urged to cast their final ballots. I'm going to run a poll on this page to show where our votes seem to be falling. To see where we seem to be heading, just keep an eye on it. Here's the list (I like lists):
Note: numbers changed as votes trickle in. Lists have been updated and votes tallied. Some of you have not sent all of your votes. There are several ties as you can see below. We will disuss in which direction we wish to go at the Wed. night meetings. Current leaders are typed in bold and games already completed are in italic. Please, I stress to you: cast ALL of your votes if you want your opinions to stand for something!
- Abberant - 2
- Brave New World - 3
- Conspiracy X - 0
- Cybergeneration - 3
- Cyberpunk 2020 - 1
- Deadlands: The Wasted/Weird West - 2
- Fading Suns - 0
- Hunter: the Reckoning - 4 (Not released)
- In Nomine - 0
- Mage:the Ascension - 2
- Shadowrun (Played - Last count, seven votes) - 7
- Tribe 8 - 0
- Wraith: the Oblivion/the Great War - 3
- Vampire: the Dark Ages - 2
