I found this trailer on Youtube, and it is quite amusing. It will not fit into the kind of Mars we want in our setting, but I will post it anyway. Have anyone seen the movie, is it worth watching?
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Old School Mars
I found this trailer on Youtube, and it is quite amusing. It will not fit into the kind of Mars we want in our setting, but I will post it anyway. Have anyone seen the movie, is it worth watching?
Monday 29 August 2011
10 facts about Mars
To prepare for the new setting I have been reading a lot of stuff about Mars, and it has been enjoyable to once again take an interest in our Solar System. I am still trying to put my ideas down on paper, but it is a slow going. Hopefully I will have some concrete soon, but in the meanwhile please enjoy ten facts about Mars.
- Mars can easily be seen from Earth with the naked eye. It's brightness surpassed only by Venus, Jupiter, the Moon, and the Sun.
-A Martian day is called a sol, and it is a bit longer than an Earth day. It last just under 24 hours and 40 minutes.
- A Martian year is a bit over 668 sols, or just under 687 earth days.
- Mars rotates on a tilted axis, ensuring that the planet experiences seasonal weather variations similar to Earth.
- Mars has an eccentric elliptical orbit, causing greater variations in the length of Martian seasons.
- Martian surface temperatures vary from lows of about −87 °C during the polar winters to highs of up to −5 °C in summers.
- Mars is the site of Olympus Mons (estimated height of between 21-29 km ) the highest known mountain within the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon (more than 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up to 7 km deep).
- Mars have two moons called Phobos (fear) and Deimos (loathing).
- You have to travel about 182.5 million miles to reach Mars. It would take 41.6 years to fly that distance in an airplane, but only a bit over 14 months in the Space Shuttle.
- Today there are 13 man made objects on the surface of Mars.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I am thinking of calling our setting «Tales from the Red Frontier». What do you think? Good or bad?
- Mars can easily be seen from Earth with the naked eye. It's brightness surpassed only by Venus, Jupiter, the Moon, and the Sun.
-A Martian day is called a sol, and it is a bit longer than an Earth day. It last just under 24 hours and 40 minutes.
- A Martian year is a bit over 668 sols, or just under 687 earth days.
- Mars rotates on a tilted axis, ensuring that the planet experiences seasonal weather variations similar to Earth.
- Mars has an eccentric elliptical orbit, causing greater variations in the length of Martian seasons.
- Martian surface temperatures vary from lows of about −87 °C during the polar winters to highs of up to −5 °C in summers.
- Mars is the site of Olympus Mons (estimated height of between 21-29 km ) the highest known mountain within the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon (more than 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up to 7 km deep).
- Mars have two moons called Phobos (fear) and Deimos (loathing).
- You have to travel about 182.5 million miles to reach Mars. It would take 41.6 years to fly that distance in an airplane, but only a bit over 14 months in the Space Shuttle.
- Today there are 13 man made objects on the surface of Mars.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I am thinking of calling our setting «Tales from the Red Frontier». What do you think? Good or bad?
Tuesday 23 August 2011
The List
I have already mentioned that The Group met over a couple of beers to discuss what kind of setting we want to play. One of them came up with the idea that we should name films, TV-shows or comic books that could be used as references for what we want to create together.
I have sorted the List into categories, just so it will be easier to define what the Group wants to play. I have not managed to put all of them into a category, so feel free to come with suggestions.
Factions and Intrigue:
Rome
Dune
A Game of Thrones
Dysfunctional future:
Bladerunner
Children of Men
Land of The Blind
I have sorted the List into categories, just so it will be easier to define what the Group wants to play. I have not managed to put all of them into a category, so feel free to come with suggestions.
Factions and Intrigue:
Rome
Dune
A Game of Thrones
Dysfunctional future:
Bladerunner
Children of Men
Land of The Blind
Transmetro
Event Horizon
Gattaca
Moon
Look + Feel
Romeo + Juliet (The Baz Lurhmann movie)
Total Recall
Mad Max
I must admit that they have not made it easy for me (or themselves), but we managed to get the most basic stuff down on paper. The player characters will be descendants of one of the first Scandinavian families/houses to colonize Mars, and there will be Replicants. The last part seemed to be very important to them (I really can't argue against that, I find them cool too). I have some ideas how this can evolve into a proper setting, but that will have to come in a later post.
One thing I have decided is to use the rules from the game Eclipse Phase, hopefully it will work without too many adaptions. Highly recommend all of you to take a look at the game, it is one of the more interesting settings I have ever come across.
Event Horizon
Gattaca
Moon
Look + Feel
Romeo + Juliet (The Baz Lurhmann movie)
Total Recall
Mad Max
I must admit that they have not made it easy for me (or themselves), but we managed to get the most basic stuff down on paper. The player characters will be descendants of one of the first Scandinavian families/houses to colonize Mars, and there will be Replicants. The last part seemed to be very important to them (I really can't argue against that, I find them cool too). I have some ideas how this can evolve into a proper setting, but that will have to come in a later post.
One thing I have decided is to use the rules from the game Eclipse Phase, hopefully it will work without too many adaptions. Highly recommend all of you to take a look at the game, it is one of the more interesting settings I have ever come across.
Sunday 21 August 2011
First post
So what should I write about in my first post on my first blog? The obvious answer is my experiences and thoughts on the all too-addictive hobby called roleplaying games.
I still remember when I first heard of the concept. I was around fourteen or fifteen years old and I frequently hanged around the local youth club with some friends. One of them told me about a new cool thing he had been doing last weekend – it was of course a roleplaying game. What caught my interest was the fact that he had played a werewolf that had their own kind of martial arts – how awesome isn't that? A week later I played my first session of Werewolf - the Acopalypse, and I just knew it would change my life.
It did not take long before I steadily played a variety of roleplaying games, mostly Werewolf – The Acopalypse and Vampire – The Masquerade. I also frequently played Cyberpunk 2020, Call of Cthulhu and a swedish game called Western. I never played any of the D&D games – in fact my first encounter with the setting was the Baldur's Gate computer game.
It did not take a long time to find a new group of people to play roleplaying games with, when I moved from my hometown to study at the University. Again the first game was Werewolf – The Acopalypse, but soon we were playing Mage – The Ascension. I have no idea how many hours I have used on that game, probably years in total. There were of course other settings like Star Wars and Birthright, and they are in fact the first level-based games I ever played.
The last few years have been a period where my gaming have been kind on and off. I have tried a lot of different settings with different people, and it was an enjoyable experiene. I have played Runequest for the first time of my life, and the Warhammer 40K games. The last year I have played in the Book of Worlds, and it has been fun to again be a part of a group that plays regularly.
That ended when our GM moved to Canada to be with his GF, but luckily the group still want to play together. We had a couple of beers the other day, and it seems I will take on the part of GM. I am no stranger to it, but I am not an experienced GM. I am confident though, that with a little help from my players it will be a fun game. Once again we want to make our own setting, but this time it will be a Sci-fi/Cyberpunk inspired game. We have already several ideas, but more of that in a later post.
I still remember when I first heard of the concept. I was around fourteen or fifteen years old and I frequently hanged around the local youth club with some friends. One of them told me about a new cool thing he had been doing last weekend – it was of course a roleplaying game. What caught my interest was the fact that he had played a werewolf that had their own kind of martial arts – how awesome isn't that? A week later I played my first session of Werewolf - the Acopalypse, and I just knew it would change my life.
It did not take long before I steadily played a variety of roleplaying games, mostly Werewolf – The Acopalypse and Vampire – The Masquerade. I also frequently played Cyberpunk 2020, Call of Cthulhu and a swedish game called Western. I never played any of the D&D games – in fact my first encounter with the setting was the Baldur's Gate computer game.
It did not take a long time to find a new group of people to play roleplaying games with, when I moved from my hometown to study at the University. Again the first game was Werewolf – The Acopalypse, but soon we were playing Mage – The Ascension. I have no idea how many hours I have used on that game, probably years in total. There were of course other settings like Star Wars and Birthright, and they are in fact the first level-based games I ever played.
The last few years have been a period where my gaming have been kind on and off. I have tried a lot of different settings with different people, and it was an enjoyable experiene. I have played Runequest for the first time of my life, and the Warhammer 40K games. The last year I have played in the Book of Worlds, and it has been fun to again be a part of a group that plays regularly.
That ended when our GM moved to Canada to be with his GF, but luckily the group still want to play together. We had a couple of beers the other day, and it seems I will take on the part of GM. I am no stranger to it, but I am not an experienced GM. I am confident though, that with a little help from my players it will be a fun game. Once again we want to make our own setting, but this time it will be a Sci-fi/Cyberpunk inspired game. We have already several ideas, but more of that in a later post.
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