Player interest query

[tel]

I've spent the past day or so looking over the Vorkosigan sourcebook, and I was wondering if there was any online interest in a Vorkosigan campaign. I would be willing to run one. I do have an offline gaming group that does play one-shots like this, but they normally play, er, simpler oneshots. This could be via chat, on Livejournal/Dreamwidth, or on OpenRPG, or play-by-email, or any other venue players might prefer.

I understand there used to be a Vorkosigan RPG on livejournal that was more the classic livejournal RPG style, with people playing their versions of canon characters and interacting with each other. I'm not really looking to do that. What I'm interested in starting is more like the online analogue to a pen and paper RPG campaign, with players playing original characters within the universe. The game would have a defined endpoint/goal and would be small (preferably 3-5 players or so).

This would not -necessarily- be using the GURPS Vorkosigan system (edit: I'd likely be using PDQ, don't worry if you've never played it, it's very simple). Would there be interest in that sort of thing?

(edit: Tentative initial scenario would be Betan survey personnel captured and secretly held without contact with the outside world on Barrayar, reason unknown to them. This would be set during the approximate timeframe of Shards of Honor/Barrayar. Player characters could be from any advanced planet on decent terms with Beta Colony (I have a set of customizable pre-gens that includes a Jacksonian and an Escobaran) and there'd be opportunities to play (male) Barrayaran military characters as well.)

Comments

[aedifica]

Maybe? I've never done an online RPG.

[elf]

Oh yes please!

I've never played an online RPG, but I'm a veteran of the paper-and-dice versions. And I could scrounge through my GURPS reference works and see if there's something about converting GURPS to a diceless system that might work for online play.

[flourish]

How quickly would the game go? I may or may not be able to do it (I don't have a ton of time) but I would be super interested. If it was something that was either played over a short period of time in real-time, or something that was played over a very long period of time not-in-real-time, I'd be down with it.

I'm glad you're not necessarily thinking of using the GURPS system... complicated!

[(Anonymous)]

(From LJ.)

Would totally be interested. Have experience in LJ/GJ/IJ, PBEM, chat, board, but not tabletop. I'd personally prefer a journal format because I think it's the most flexible these days, but whatever would be cool. Plot sounds good!

[enleve.livejournal.com]

I may be interested in playing.