Online ME campaign

I am starting up a ME campaign and am looking for players

System: GURPS (GURPS newbies welcome)

Format: Online using combination of Google Wave for story development and RPtools for encounters. Story development will occur throughout the week and real time sessions will be scheduled every couple of weeks or so. 

Setting: Current plan is to start in Bree at around year 2000 of the 3rd age. This is flexible though and I am open to other ideas. 

Party: The standard points for characters will be 150. However, unless the part exceeds 6, only 1 elf (Sindar or Silvan at 200-225) and 1 dwarf (at 175 points) will be allowed in the party. To balance this I will be allowing extra points to other players for things not normally considered in GURPS character creation, ie. special items, extra starting money, etc. Think of it as MERP background points. 

Play will be "heroic" - all characters will be required to have, at the very least, sense of duty to their race and only free people races are allowed. However, beyond that, morally ambiguous characters (ie. Boromir) are allowed and even encouraged. 

Magic will be available but toned down - no fireballs or things like that, but things like nature "magic" will be readily available for those who wish to train in it. 

Within the above framework, any thing else as far as items, character creation, magic spells, etc. will be allowed (per GM approval and/or tweaking, of course). Creativity in character creation and play is encouraged and rewarded. 

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Hope that helps!

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Great idea! I'm just introducing my son to the game and when he's more accostumed to it and when I have a little more experience as a GM we'll consider joining as players in a venture like the one you offer.

/Russell

looks cool im interested. Havent played for a long time and i really want to get back into it.

Russell, this is a great format for learning the system so feel free for you and your son to join in. I can even just add you to the Wave so you can observe how the mechanics and flow works w/o you needing to create a character. Just drop me an email if you are interested.

Would be very interested in playing when you get it going - let me know.

yeah cool would love too.. let me know dates and  such