http://www.alphaomegathegame.com/

That website must have cost a lot of money. Apparently they were at GenCon. Big booth, no game.

Who are these people? What is this game? Why do I have a fetish for overdesigned superstylish RPGs from Canada?

Questions must be destroyed by answers!

Also, online chargen. Hello, WOTC.

That site is pretty intense.

I sense a heartbreaker

Okay, that website is pretty freaking cool (although it would be nice to be able to move the mouse without animations popping up all over the place just occasionally) but I still have absolutely no fucking idea what the hell it is.

Quote from: Geoff HallOkay, that website is pretty freaking cool (although it would be nice to be able to move the mouse without animations popping up all over the place just occasionally) but I still have absolutely no fucking idea what the hell it is.

A postapocalyptic technofantasy RPG set during a war between two alien civilizations which correspond to angels and devils, apparently, although there's very little information about the game itself and some even suspect that the whole thing is an elaborate hoax. Also, I've seen a fair number of folks complain that they've been duped because it isn't a MMORPG.

Here is some info copied from the various sites.

They weren't exactly handing out the information at Gen Con.  Lemme see what I can wrassle up.

My Wraeththu Sense is tingling.

Pretty sweet site, I'll give them that.  Plus post apocalyptic/western world I'm also down with that.  Interested peaked likely hood of every buying it or seeing it I say 10%.

Now from what I've gleamed about the mechanics of the system here is my theory.

There are 6 segments to a round.  In each segment you can potentially act.  To act your roll dice.  The type of dice you roll are based on a stat/skill + modifier combination.  You have a dice pool that you can split up between the 6 segments.  So if you have 6 dice you could act once in each segment rolling a die and hoping for the best.  Or you could put more eggs in one basket and act, less but roll more dice potentially scoring a better result (ie act in 1 segment but roll 6 dice for that action).  This may be a pick the best result, or add them up result, can't tell.

I'm guessing that there will be a good number of stats 6 - 9 and a nice selection of skills, powers, misc to make this a fairly fiddly game to play with (personally I have no problems with that).  

I predict that combat will be about as complicated as a standard 3rd ed game goes and run about as smoothly.  I also predict a big fanboy list of equipment/mutant like bits to tweak your uber roxxor character out with.

That's about all I can deduce at the moment.

Quote from: kryystNow from what I've gleamed about the mechanics of the system here is my theory.

This is just about everything that I've heard of their "6-6 System". The same tidbits used to be at their messageboard, too, before it crashed about a week ago.

Quote from: jrientsMy Wraeththu Sense is tingling.

Dude, it's not ones senses that tingle in Wraeththu.

But, yeah, a lot of hype and...self-confidence. Still, I'll be checking out the final product.

Seanchai

Quote from: kryystThere are 6 segments to a round.  In each segment you can potentially act.  To act your roll dice.  The type of dice you roll are based on a stat/skill + modifier combination.  You have a dice pool that you can split up between the 6 segments.  So if you have 6 dice you could act once in each segment rolling a die and hoping for the best.  Or you could put more eggs in one basket and act, less but roll more dice potentially scoring a better result (ie act in 1 segment but roll 6 dice for that action).  This may be a pick the best result, or add them up result, can't tell.

Oy vey.

But it's SO PRETTY!

Yep definitely pretty.  That opening artwork does much to light a fanboy like fever in me.

It sounds mechanically over-complicated. The backstory seems dull as well - I started reading it and it turned into generic postapocalypse junk. It's unfortunate, because the site looks cool, but I don't see any hooks to draw people in and distinguish it from any other postapocalyptic RPG.

That's pretty much my take as well.  Reminds me of a mashup of Tribe8, Armageddon (the Unisystem game), and David Gemmel's John Shannow novels welded to a hyper-detailed combat-centric system.

What shocked me the most about the site was that I fell victim to its viral marketing campaign about a month ago.  It was due to a cool, nameless, movie trailer that I caught when I went to see Transformers.

Some of the buzz on the web was pointing to that site's predecessor as being connected to the movie.  There was only that big orb on the page and a bunch of puzzles to solve that unlocked grainy video.  It was very mysterious.  To find out it was connected to this game... wow.  I've never heard of a marketing campaign like that for an tabletop RPG.  If nothing else, they've achieved a RPG market first: blockbuster production value marketing campaign.

Compare that to the 4E launch... Gleemax... that idiotic trailer... the WOTC site crashing...

If they didn't have D&D they would be nowhere.

Quote from: architect.zeroSome of the buzz on the web was pointing to that site's predecessor as being connected to the movie.

Apparently that was a pretty common assumption at one point, although the "Cloverfield connection" has long since been debunked (unless that's yet another piece of misinformation). Still, an actual movie trailer for a tabletop RPG would be... extravagant.