Muscles, Magic and Metal! Rifles, Robots and Rockets! Grab the dice. Lock and Load! Our group may be looking for one more long term player. We generally play almost every Friday at 8pm NYC time till about 11pm, although we are scattered throughout the states. On rare occasion we play up to 5 hours. We generally have 3-5 players present+GM. All players may not be present every week, but they play regularly. We are looking for the same. Anyone is welcome to join, but patience with small talk, and flexibility of gameplay are necessary (no rule quoters please). We play a consistent and casual endless campaign of a streamlined version of Rifts, with a hint of Shadowrun. I have been running the campaign with varying friends since 1991. The current squad has been playing together for about 3.5 years on Roll20. We are a bunch of Gen X "bros" that know each other for many years in rl. For us it is about hanging as much as playing, but the focus is the game. The game runs slowly, and often starts late. Waiting time may be filled with the ramblings of the demographic (professions, houses, wives, kids, sports, tv, movies, games, generally avoiding politics). Alcohol consumption is common but not excessive. Think Friday Happy Hour meets Rifts. Gameplay has generally involved equal amounts of role-playing, recon and intelligence gathering, and combat including melee, ranged, robots, magic, psychic, astral, drone, metaphysical, cyber, vehicular, and on rare occasion bro vs bro :D. Where my game takes place is during a time equivalent to an early information age where pockets of technology are guarded by corporate, political and military powers while humanity lives a typical dystopian lifestyle attempting to survive, fellow humans, rivals, gangs, nature, supernatural influences, dimensional and alien intelligences, small armies and large militaries, The group is the second generation of the shady arm of operatives serving under the guidance of Cyber Knights (Rifts Jedi's) attempting to build a civilized society that respects all. 30 years ago (in game time), the continent of New Cali which had separated from the North American mainland during the apocalypse and coming of the rifts, had become commonly known to various powers on Earth. Some elements of society were already pushing and pulling on the continent. Under the covert military guidance of a former Cyber Knight, and former Coalition States (the bad army) officer Commander Karl, a new government and nation was carved. Now, the ideas that were fought for and paid with the lives of un-celebrated mercenary veterans a generation ago have been sold out to corporate power and backroom politics so the people can have fast food and chain stores while their freedoms and livelihoods are silently taken away. With few allies, on perpetual defense, tight finances, and limited forces, one of the few remaining veterans with the ability to pick up where Commander Karl had left off when he died years ago, Ghost Stryker, formerly Sgt. Stryker of CW Security under Commander Karl, a New Cali veteran, and former mayor of Garlictown, discreetly builds political power while covertly building a black ops strike team. The squad is currently in Oregon where they are supposed to lay low, and watch over their shipmates for a year, and do occasional jobs for a business partner. The Ozzy has not shined upon them and things have gone very wrong... Let me know if you're interested \m/
