In a dark future wasteland, the great cities have risen and fallen. Civilization’s grip on mankind has grown weak and arthritic. Dark forces seek to renew forgotten covenants, and primordial beasts reclaim the wilderness.
One thousand years after the Fall, a strange new world rises from the old: a world of savagery, super science, and sorcery…
These are mutant times!
Tempora Mutantur is an old-school rules-light fantasy/post-apocalyptic RPG, run via the internet using Skype and Gametable. This gameblog is intended to capture character information, house rules, campaign background, session logs, and player communications.
About Skype
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the internet. If you don’t already have it, you can download the software application from the Skype homepage. Given the rather ‘rarefied’ nature of an old-school, bronze-age, rules-light RPG campaign, I figure the best way to gather enough interest is to run the games over the net.
We will observe several points of protocol when gaming via Skype:
- All game times will be in Mountain Daylight Savings Time (UTC-6), with sessions scheduled at the whim of the referee.
- Where possible, all participants will make efforts to encourage an environment supportive to gaming, with minimal background noise or interference.
- The referee shall initiate and manage all game sessions. I will contact each player on schedule at the start of each game session. If the signal is dropped or a player is lost, the referee will attempt to regain contact.
- If the number of players becomes difficult to manage, a ‘caller’ may be designated to declare PC actions.
About Gametable
Gametable is a remote RPG whiteboarding client. It is designed to play RPGs online, providing an interface for all players to use a shared map. You can download the software application from the Gametable homepage.
Essentially, Gametable is an ‘internet whiteboard’ with dice rolling capability. I’ll use it to sketch pictures or maps and roll dice during a game session. It also has chat capability, which can be useful for background chatter during the game.
Each Gametable session requires one person to host. By convention, the referee will host the sesssion using the following settings:
- IP: 70.73.44.164
- Port: 6812 (default)
- Password: Mutant
Typically the Gametable session will be set up about an hour before the scheduled game time.
