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JT · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 207 Location: Murrietta, CA

Just watched the first ep. Seemed surprisingly good, at least from the standpoint that all the previous stuff after the movie left me cold. Perhaps helped that over lunch today, a friend pointed out that it has at least as much in common with Space: 1999 as it does with Voyager.
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dan · Joined: 23 Jul 2008 Posts: 23

thirteen7 · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 87

Sorry dan,

I don't understand your question.

What I am saying is that to my mind playing a scheming character would need allowances from the refs/crew. I'm not sure that it could be done 'freehand' (as it where - I can't think of the suitable word, sorry).

That siad other people think it might be possible. Perhaps its more a self referential point that I personally coul not do it? I'm not sure.

Its a topic that I'm more than happy to talk through further, and indeed to have my mind changed for me.

Hope that helps.

Dave
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JT · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 207 Location: Murrietta, CA

Powerplays are about bluff. If you are going to play a private agenda, then you will have to do the stuff that makes it work. Plot, rules and ref calls can't really help where raw charisma is required.

Last year, I played in a Vampire LRP. One player built her character to have a kind of awe-inspiring aura power. Unfortunately, she was five-foot-nothing, painfully shy, wore black and and tended to stand in the corner out of the light. She also had a very quiet voice. Despite everyone's best efforts to support her game, she became wallpaper within half an hour, and had no up-time impact after that. On paper, she had it all. But she couldn't play shat she had.

Some things have to come from the player. Charisma is one of them.
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thirteen7 · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 87

Oh yeah - undoubtedly.

What I guess I'm saying is that even if its done well, and with charisma, I don't think it would be supported by players and that it would only come forward by the refs allowing it to intrude on the main campaign.

Looking at it this is clearly less about Stargate, and Stargate LRP in general and much much more about the games/systems I have played in previously. Thus I have no doubt that if someone started playing to a personal/private agenda then this would be acted/reacted to accordingly.

As per the question regards to Sexual Orientation I asked ages ago this has actually got very little to do with the Stargate game but rather with other systems I'm involved in.

This makes very little sense as I read it. Suffice to say that I'm more commenting about experiences in other games when I have seen people trying to play to another agenda and either being flat ignored or jumped upon from a great height. Just ignore me!!

Regards SGU, I'm looking forward to seeing where they take Carlyle's character in particular with a view to seeing how they take a potentially 'bad guy' character and make him fit with a team of good guys, and how they make him likeable/watchable.
Some more characterisation of the others would be nice too!
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JT · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 207 Location: Murrietta, CA

SGLRP has plenty of private agendas, turf wars, squabbles and witchhunts, pretty much since day one in fact Smile

At the moment, there are too many stereotypes in the show. The influences are pretty clear-cut But I love the visual identity of the ship interiors.
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Olivia Chase · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject:

Well episode three has gone and I really enjoyed it.

Nice to see they kept some of the SG humour in the script and the inter party squabbling was far to familiar!

Lt Tamara Johanson will be fun to watch, but I'm biased.
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Jess Parker · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject:

Is it my imagination or does Franklin (the chap with the portable dialer) strike a startling resemblance to one of our SGers?
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Olivia Chase · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject:

Ah, it wasn't just me then. Maybe he's just lucky.
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Woody · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 479

A considerably younger version maybe

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