Very early this Sunday morning, fifteen gamers finally played together again after a long time via a combination of technologies (Zoom, and Roll20).
The game: Star Hero, in a home brew setting.
The setup: On a slow boat to somewhere, a team of Marines and a handful of Confederation Starfleet military types from various races and branches are called into sudden active operations, as they're the only ones near enough to respond. A huge cylindrical object, suspected to be an O'Neill colony, once in stable orbit is suddenly kicked into relativistic speeds towards an unaligned planet along the Confederation / Alliance border. Life signs have been detected on board, so it's up to the hastily assembled crew to save the lives of those on the cylinder and the planet!
It's really amazing how in-sync everyone still is after all these years. Despite the size of the group, folks took efforts to avoid talking over each other, procedures for communicating over the channels were proposed, refined, and implemented. And we had a blast.
Looking forward to the next one.
Fifteen gamers! The last time I was in a single RPG with that many players was probably 1994 or so. It's encouraging to know an online run can accommodate so many.
ReplyDeleteHaha! My last time, barring any convention games that have slipped my mind, was also in the early 90s.
DeleteIt was a blast, and we hope to repeat the feat again soon!