Oh, Hell yes.

*wants in*

Isn't that what your soon-to-be-players and the "Modify" option on your posts are for?

I'm interested if I'm available.

I still want to make playing.

The game's a potentially long-running one, and eventually, depending on what you guys choose, we could start the war all over again.

Screw it. I'm tired of waiting.

The Rules:

So the most important thing in this game is the story itself. That being said, whenever possible I'm going to leave as much up to narrative as possible. For example if you're trying to persuade someone do something, you should speak or act persuasively. There is no automatic Persuasion roll that determines your success. Similarly if you look at something I'll assume your character is smart enough to see it (unless they're like... blind or something) and I'll leave it up to you to extract meaning.

But in order to increase the sense of peril and prevent the game from being a juvenile game of one-upmanship, there is a system in place. As mentioned previously, the system is entirely Diceless, so there is no real randomness into how things transpire. Here's how it works.

Attributes

There are three basic Attributes. Body, Weapons, and Mind. Your character will have a score in each of them, like this:

Body: 10
Weapons: 15
Mind: 10

This score will be used in one of two ways. Either for an Action: or for Combat.

Actions are doing stuff. If you want to lift a heavy boulder your Body score needs to be higher than whatever the rating of the boulder is. If you want to pilot a ship, your Mind score needs to be higher than the rating of the ship. For example:

Bob has the above stats. Bob wants to live a heavy boulder. The boulder has a rating of 10 Body. Therefore Bob lifts the boulder.
Alternately Bob wants to fly a space ship. The ship has a rating of 50 Mind, so therefore Bob can't pilot the ship.

Combat is any time that you're in conflict with someone else, be it another player or an NPC within the universe. In the most basic form, Combat works pretty much exactly like Actions, except instead of a random rating, you're pitting your stats against those of your opponent, and they're pretty straight-forward. If you're fighting hand-to-hand, you use Body. If weapons are drawn, you use Weapons. Combat is a bit more involved than that, but we'll get into it later.

Some of you are probably wondering how you can control your own destiny if everything is based on stats. Well here's how.

Cool Points:

Simply put, Cool Points let you do Cool Things. They are the device that allows you to be the cinematic badass you always wanted to be. Want to charge across a field of open gunfire without getting hit? Spend Cool Points. Want to fire your gun behind you while in zero G in order to ensure you get back to the airlock? Spend Cool Points. Want to John Woo it and dive across an open field while firing two semi-automatics and hit every bad guy on the field with unerring accuracy? Spend LOTS of Cool Points. Want to get laid? Get Extenz and start showering more often.

Cool Points work in three ways:

1. Narrative Badassery: If you want to do something really cool specifically related to the narrative of the game, like the above-mentioned Zero G maneuvering, you spend Cool Points. Cool Points allow you to slightly bend the laws of physics or probability in your favor. The more Cool Points you spend on something, the more spectacular the results.

2. Combat Badassery: If you want to pull off an especially awesome attack (or alternately some sort of impressive stat-based daring-do), you can spend Cool Points for a one-time bonus of +10 to whatever stat you like, per Cool Point spent.

3.[/b]Training[/b] (Badassery): Cool Points kind of work like Experience Points in other games as well, in that you can spend them to permanently boost stats or boost/buy skills. More detail on this later.

As previously indicated, Cool Points are disposable, so you'll probably wanting to obtain more at some point. You can do this by accomplishing missions within the game as part of the crew, or your character will also have specific narrative goals that once achieved will net Cool Points. I may occasionally award Cool Points for especially creative or cool things you do in game, but this is entirely up to GM fiat.

Combat:

Combat works largely like described above with a few modifiers and variables. They are as follows.

Range: There are three Ranges in combat. Long Ranged, Melee, and Unarmed. "Long Ranged" generally consists of projectile weapons like guns. Usually there is a limited ammo supply involved. "Melee" consists mostly of swords and bludgeons, though things like whips and such are included in the category. "Unarmed" relates to any combat involving bare fists and legs like martial arts or grappling. Unlike the other two which utilize the Weapons attribute, "Unarmed" utilizes Body.

Whoever has the longest ranged fighting implement decides the nature of combat. So if you have a sword and your opponent has a gun, it's Long Ranged combat. If you have a sword and your opponent doesn't have any weapons at all, it's Melee. If you don't have the appropriate fighting implement to fight back, you can still defend yourself, but you can't damage your opponent.

If you win a round of combat, and it's physically possible, (i.e. if you're barehanded and your opponent is attacking you with a knife, as opposed to being barehanded and 100 meters away from your opponent who has a gun), you can then change the nature of combat as you so choose.

Environment: Using your environment to your advantage if highly advisable. If you can duck behind a steel beam and make your opponent his the beam instead of your face, do it. If you can push your opponent off a cliff instead of standing there duking it out, go for it. This will usually result in a quick and dirty point bonus or sometimes a narrative consequence, and is generally left up to GM fiat. The most obvious (and possibly most vital) use of your Environment is cover, which depending on the quality could get you anywhere from a 1 (Chain Link Fence) to a 100 (meter-thick stone wall between you and opponent) point bonus. Highly useful for not dying in gunfights.

Teamwork: Teaming up is very straight-forward and easy. If you and your buddy gang up on one guy, you simply add your scores together. As you can imagine this is highly useful when it comes to winning. Note: This also applies to non-combat actions, like lifting something heavy or anything else you could theoretically do as a team.

Tools: In combat, Weapons are your primary tool. Weapons themselves carry their own bonuses to combat, ranging anywhere from 1 (Table Leg) to 100 (Anti-Matter Chainsaw Sword-Cannon-Chucks). Other equipment might have other effects like Body Armor or some other impressive device that you concoct that might have a narrative effect. Note: You can also have tools for non-combat related things, like actual tools for engineering or maybe a flight manual for piloting that'll give you a bonus to certain tasks.

Endurance:

Obviously we don't want Combat and such things to run on indefinitely. That's why we have the 4th Attribute Endurance. Endurance is similar to HP in traditional games, with a few minor differences. Most noticeably is that there will be far less points than your standard HP. This is because in general, you'll only be losing one point of Endurance per round.

If you lose a round of combat, you lose an Endurance point. The only exception to this is if you lose a round of combat really badly. If your opponent's score is 10 points over yours, you lose 2 Endurance points, and so on for every additional 10. So if they're 20 points over yours, you lose 3 points, 30 points of yours, you lose 4 points, etc.

If you get down to 0 Endurance Points, you fall unconscious. If you go below 0, you're either dead or shortly on your way there unless you get some immediate attention. Endurance points will naturally heal over time, at about 12 hours in game (or hopefully between sessions real-time) of complete rest per point. Alternately if you have a physician handy, they can repair most of the damage.

And that's pretty much all the rules . Next, character creation.

Quick question: can we assume the events of the movie are part of the past, or is this strictly Fox series 'Verse? I ask because the movie had more far-reaching effects, and all, which could affect both character creation and plot.

You guys can work it out some. Like if you find another person you want to create compliamentary characters with.

So like for example if two people wanted to make analogues of the Boondock Saints, talk to me about it, and I'll see what we can work out.

Also, if I get any characters that I think would be compliamentary, either as a result of backstory or nature, I'll give you guys the option to know each other.

Also, anybody who wants to do a small intro session for their character, most likely via AIM, lemme know and we can run it.