[K5pbem] My Thoughts On Restarting the K5 PBEM

[Jeff Skagen]

> What about everyone else out there? Agree/disagree?

Agree.

 > I like this. It would be good to see a bit more of other cities, and 
that's
> a great reason for people to use, or even be based in them. But a focal 
> point is likely to be the best option. Can we all agree on Hong Kong for 
> this?

It sounds to me like we already have pretty much agreed on that. But just to 
reaffirm my vote: yes, I think Hong Kong should be the primary focus city of 
the "new" K5 PBEM.

> Just for bookkeeping, it's probably best if we re-start the turn count, 
> and have "new" stories listed on a separate page, or at least a seperate 
> section of the page.

I certainly agree that the new stories need to be at least somewhat 
seperated from the old stories, given the change in time and setting.  GM's 
discretion as to whether or not to reset the turn count. I'm worried that 
doing so might tend to mentally distance us from the previous K5 run more 
than we want to.

> Should we make it a standard, then? All PCs get a character sheet - 
> whether by the player or another mmember of the game - for the GM's 
> reference?

Yes, I think it should be SOP for every character to have a 5th Ed. HERO 
System character sheet.

Also, there was the question of whether or not the character sheet should be 
posted. Although I think each character need to have a profile posted, as 
before, I do not think the character sheets should be part of it. Some 
players may have elements of thier characters they want to reveal over time 
in the stories, that would be exposed if the character sheet was posted. 
That was the case with Shoko, for instance, when I first started running 
her. Perhaps we could instead have an optinal link to the character sheet 
from character's profile page?

>> Okay. I am asking. What needs to be done?

Well, the introduction needs to be rewritten to reflect the new setting and 
current style of game play. In particular, the Gameplay examples may need to 
be altered to reflect the relative lack of GM involment with the stories 
each turn.

Also, the list of corporations needs to be updated. Jinsei and several other 
major corporations aren;t even reflected on it right now.

Although you have a map of Hong Kong, it is pretty basic; you might want to 
do a more detailed one, perhaps one that points out some of the more notable 
points of interest (such as the Mandarin Apartments, Jam's restaurant, and 
the Lu Ch'ian casino). There should probably be a "Places" list for Hong 
Kong similar to the one you have for the Neo York Zero Zone. In fact, we are 
going to need more detail on Hong Kong in general. As just one example, we 
know about Neo York's NYPD Inc., but we know nothing of how law enforcement 
is handled on Hong Kong. I suggest you may want to review the sort of info 
you currently have posted on Neo York and the Zero Zone, and try to develop 
similar background info for Hong Kong.

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