Basic premise: The world is ending, and the players are a team traveling through alternate realities looking for a new place for humanity to call their own. Sort of like Stargate: SG-1 with more variety, higher stakes, and everybody's a civilian expert rather than a hyper-competent spec op.

System: Fate.

Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Interest?

I haven't watched SG-1, but the concept sounds interesting...  :)

Basically the PCs are traveling from world to world looking for technology or other resources that might help their own people, and ultimately, a habitable empty world capable of supporting the billion or so human survivors.

While there they have to do their best to blend in long enough to get a good overview of what each world has to offer.

Experts chosen for the mission will be anthropologists, sociologists, engineers, biologists of various stripes.

Could be interesting, yes.

Colour me interested. Especially if you would use fate accelerated to keep it rules lite.
Emphasis on action or Drama?

Emphasis on a combination of exploration and character growth/change. Players should have personal goals beyond (and within) the mission, and pursuit of these goals should change who they are.

I would absolutely contribute. That sounds boss.

I'd like to play this game also. If you don't mind having me. I have not played a FATE based game.

Could be a lot of fun.  I might suggest The Window for a possible system.

http://www.mimgames.com/window/

It's close to perfect for PbP games and it's free.

In reply to Bornite (msg # 9):

FATE Core is pay-what-you-want, and the SRD is free online.

In reply to Tortuga (msg # 1):

Color me interested!

In reply to Alyse (message #10)

Thanks for the reply, especially so quickly.  But I've never personally liked the Fate system.  But even if I don't play a character, I'd be more than willing to help out with the world building.  I've had a lot of ideas for this general proposal for several years now.

I would be very happy to play this, I love Fate and it's a cool concept.

I have no bones with FATE. But it definitely is better than The Window.

I do like the concept.  I love collaborative world-building,

Hm yes I had clearly decided upon using Fate, but unsolicited advice to use The Window instead has made me reconsider. I'm going to take a few days to familiarize myself with an entirely new game system to see if it better fits what I had in mind.

It was just a suggestion about Window.  There are a lot of good systems out there which can be adapted to PbP.  Some work better in PbP than others (and Fate works well).  It just seemed to me that The Window was almost designed especially for PbP.  But like I said, no matter which system is chosen, I'd like to help with the world building.
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I'm looking into Window but no assistance with world-building is needed, as the core gameplay in each reality is going to be the discovery of the nature of a given world.

That's not the world building I was referring to.  I'll rMail you with what I mean.

Upon reflection I have decided not only to eschew The Window, but to go with more Fate than ever before, in the form of Aspects-Only Fate. No skills. No stunts. Just a few Aspects. When you roll you get a +1 per Aspect that fits the situation, and you can still use them to Invoke/Compel normally.

The set-up:

People say the world is dying, but it really isn't. Earth is still there, 93 million miles away from the sun. It'll be there long after we're gone. Life will recover from what we've done, either in a few thousand years when the climate regulates itself, or now, if animals adapt to the super-storms.

Hell, humanity isn't even wiped out. Technically we can continue on indefinitely, down here, in our bunkers. We have food from our hydroponics. We have families. People are still having kids. We just can't go topside very often.

And hey, even the United States is still around. There's a flag over the Director's desk, and when the weather permits, we can communicate via satellite to other Americans in other bunkers. And we're all working together to solve the problem of this dying husk.

Some of the others, I'm told, are working on projects to fix the planet. I know for a fact that my brother's in a bunker trying to work out FTL so they can build some kind of space-arc to evac the survivors to some distant star.

Our project is a little more out there.

I don't know how it works, and I helped build it. Well, I was a technician working on the computer that programmed the computer that designed it. The second computer, (I call him Charlie) can't really explain to us how it works... the words it needs don't exist in English or any other language... but it has something to do with multiple world theory and quantum probability.

HOW it works is easier. You step on the platform, the machine turns on, and then you're somewhere else. In another universe. Because, Charlie says, it's more likely that you're there instead of here.

Okay.

The problem we're working on now is getting it to stick. See, anything you send to another world, after a short time... eight to fourteen months... it snaps back to our world. And anything you bring back with you eventually snaps back to its world of origin, unless it was like a sandwich and you ate it or something.

So we can visit other worlds. We can look around. We can bring stuff back to study it. But until we develop a means to stabilize the quantum charge, there's no way to actually evacuate the populace. And the teams we send to scout out other realities? No way to bring them back early or even communicate until they snap back normally.

Once they go, they're on their own.

But that's where we're at. Sending people blind into unknown parallel universes to try and find a new home for us, so that when we do perfect the technology, we can leave this rock and find a new home. Hopefully one we won't screw up so bad this time.

Excellent set up there, well written.

Looks awesome. :)

I agree with the comments above: nicely written and developed!

I also do appreciate the rules lite approach. It is basically fate accelerated now which is very much to my liking.
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