At Tora's suggestion I've started working on an Urban Arcana game again.  Won't be able to start immediately, as I'm planning to move this month and will be busy with that, but everything should be good to go in about a five or six weeks.  The game will be played via some chat system yet to be determined and played weekly, likely during late evening (specific time depends on group availability). 

The party will be operating as a mercenary-type "special operations" team for a major power player in a post-semiapocolyptic world (WWIII scenario, most major cities destroyed, world economy trashed and just picking back up, borders redrawn all over, etc).  Their sponsor is neither good nor evil, per se, just greedy and power hungry and has plenty of jobs for groups like the PCs and others of similar skills.  The party will begin play at ECL 8 so that players can select races with level adjustments if they wish and everybody should have the chance to start play with at least a level or two in an advanced class.  Also, the PCs will be pretty well equipped and I plan to give each PC a couple of minor magical items specifically suited to them.  Magic will be prominent in the game, but primarily used as an "alternate technology,"  basically a different way of doing something that could also be done otherwise (simple example: fireball= big hand grenade, data read + degauss = hacking a computer and wiping the hard drive, etc).  Players should be ready to face high tech opponents and challenges as well as magical ones.  Keep in mind that magic and technology can be mixed, like nightvision goggles that also see invisible things (those security guards might be more alert than they appear, a +2 flaming Beretta 93r of speed (put that in the hands of a gunslinger with the Burst Fire feat and start counting bodies), tires of maneuverability (for when you've ran out of ways to mechanically trick out your street racer), etc.

As it stands there are two PCs already.  Arkana, aka Ana, a female gnoll fast hero/infiltrator and her brother, Arkane, aka Kane, a tough/strong hero (he might have some thrasher levels, not sure).  Ana is sneaky and Kane smashes things.  There's also an NPC, the party's contact to their sponsor who also goes along on missions in case something weird happens (*evil grin*) and confuses the objectives.  He's a drow smart/fast/techno mage (only 1 lvl in TM)and is sort of a jack of all trades, great at nothing but competent with computer hacking, stealth, demolitions, chemistry/alchemy, handgun use, and magic.  Basically, he can easily augment the party but not outshine the PCs; his main purpose is as a guide and a standby plot device waiting to happen at any given point. 

Any and all d20 Modern and Urban Arcana clases are welcome, as are any race found in either source.  The one exception is psionics; I don't know much about psionics and as such can't comfortably work them into the game.  Anything else in the books goes.  If you're not sure what class you want to play, the group could use a soldier/gunslinger type (Kane specializes in melee combat, so a specialized ranged fighter would augment him nicely) and one or more spellcasters (mages, technomages, acolytes, and even mystics would all be great).  A character skilled at investigation (dedicated/investigator or even a field scientist) could be useful when snooping around on certain missions, and a fast talking charismatic type could even work as a distraction sometimes and a spokesman other times (there are at least two advanced classes specialized for such). 

Anyone interested can either post here, PM me, or email me at Flushmaster1@hotmail.com.  Let me know what race/class you want to play so I can adjust my notes accordingly (wouldn't be as fun if I set up a brawlfest for a heavily stealth or magic based party, for example)  As I mentioned above, I'll be busy with this move for a while, but will be slowly but steadily building this campaign so it should be good to launch by early/mid February. 

Aaaaaalmost wanna port my Fast Hero/Gunslinger over. I could do an investigator or a Gadgeteer, as well.

Is there a way one of you could walk me through the creation process anyways?  I hate to be a newborn blanket or anything, but I tend to do better with something like that.


Also in other news: all games in the first post with threads in Zetachannel have been linked up with working links, so if any of you want to dance a waltz down memory lane, now you can.

Alrighty. Mike, I made this an official thread.

H'okay, also, I got you linked up in the Upcoming Attractions sticky. We are good to go.

Oh. Almost forgot. My brother has a PDF of the books, and is currently working to figure out how to get him off his CD storage.

IM me, Ill walk you through it step by step.

It's simpler then in regular D&D in most ways.

I will be playing a Blink Dog

Im going to take a level in a hero class based on whatever the party needs: at the moment charismatic. Though someone should definitely take the primary negotiator slot, so I can maybe go for something else.

Machiavelli is making an SMG-wielding gangster.

Is the Arms Locker okay to use? I loves me some FN Five-seveNs.

You already have an idea of my character: Mexican Elf Landscaper with a pole chainsaw. Oh yeah.

The Tbilisi Tankfists

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