Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-1734134-20160515122827

I posted in the "There's an RP" topic that I was interested in running an Only War RP. After a few chats and posts I've got a good number of people interested (Mando, Strangerthings, ND an T42). For now, that's all the players I'm going to be taking. This topic is just to discuss the game itself. The basics are,


 * It's the Only War Fantasy Flight Games system (this was pretty obvious, but you know, just to be sure)


 * It's going to be run on Roll20 and Google hangouts


 * 7-10 GMT on Mondays or Fridays


 * I'd like to start sometime after the 24th

The game takes place in a small renegade system which has recently succeeded from the Imperium of Man and needs to be retaken. It's four planets large but is well fortified, and the defenders are well equipped, trained and motivated and under the command of a powerful demagogue and revolutionary. The players are (starting off) ordinary people conscripted into a newly raised Guard Regiment from some argi and Imperial worlds and are part of the first wave landing on one of the systems fortress worlds.

The game is trying to focus more on normal people in horrible, god awful, why would anyone do this extraordinary situations, rather than hardened, insane, super elite, ubermenschen running around with their own premium brand plasma guns that their noblebright marble cities homeworld developed. This doesn't mean later on veterans won't be a thing, but as in actual wars, it takes time. For that reason, from the get go I'm keeping it down to the four basic Guardsmen classes (we'll move into expansions, etc. as the game goes on).

That's everything (I think). If anyone has any feedback or critique, feel free to post it and tell me I'm an idiot. 