Call for Players!!

OOC:

Apologies for the slightly off-topic post for some of the lists!

One of my PBEM games, Ethereal Gothic, needs some players.

One player has had to drop out, and he would like someone to take
over for him running his character, Mingan.  Mingan is a Mohawk
Indian from Canada, and makes his living as a hunter and tracker.  He
is very similar in style to the Mohicans in the movie 'Last of the
Mohicans' with Danial Day-Lewis, but this game is set in 1889 so he
is pretty familiar with the white man's world.

I would also like to add a new player, a Hill Martian or Canal
Martian warrior/hunter that the party can hire as a guide for their
first adventure.  This character is not yet created, so the player
can design him/her as they wish.

Anyone interested in playing either please contact me offlist. Some
info on the game appears below. :)


Ethereal Gothic is set in the conjoined worlds of GDW's 'Space:1889'
and TSR's 'Masque of the Red Death'. The game utilizes the GURPS
rulesystem, especially GURPS Steampunk and GURPS Horror. The game is
inspired by the works of Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe,
Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, and Jules Verne. I suspect some H.P.
Lovescraft will sneak in as well. Plus plenty of Tarzan and John
Carter of Mars!  More recent inspirations include the _Mummy_ movies,
the Indiana Jones movies, Coppola's _Bram Stoker's Dracula_, _Sleepy
Hollow_, the Flashman novels, and of course 'The League of
Extraordinary Gentleman' (the comic, not the movie). In other words,
Victorian Sci-Fi and Victorian Horror with some humor thrown in. :)

I've created a yahoogroup for running the game, you can join by
sending an email to this address:

etherealgothic-subscribe@???????????.com

Lurkers are welcome! I have set the list so that my permission is
required to join, to keep out spammers. sending an email to the above
address will start the process automatically. I'll then send on off
list email to confirm the potential member isn't an automated spam
producing address, and then add you in.

Useful Websites

The game will use the GURPS engine. The GURPs Lite rules are the min
required for the game, and are available for free download from the
GURPS home page.
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/

Heliograph, Inc still sells Space:1889 products, plus has lots of
free articles on the system (include a couple by yours truly) up
under TRMGS.
http://www.heliograph.com/

The RPGA's Living Death page is the best source for Masque of the Red
Death information.
http://www.livingdeath.org/default.htm

Space:1889 ship deckplans:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9135/space1889.html

This is a great Space:1889 site, though the background image makes
the text difficult to read. Highlight the text and it is much easier.
http://www.mateengreenway.com/steampunk/Space1889.htm

These two sites, 'Major-General Tremorden Reddering's Colonial
wargames page' and 'Adventures of the Red Shadow', are simply great
for atmosphere, and a looks at some really cool colonial wargame
miniature games.
http://zeitcom.com/majgen/index.html
http://www.warflag.com/shadow/index.html
--
"...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?!"
"As he has ever judged," said Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed
since yesteryear..."
J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_

Paul Westermeyer,  pwestermeyer@????????.??.com