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Blue Flame Press is proud to announce the launch of the Omega Corps Initiative. A New organization dedicated to advancing the lives of gamers globally. Be they console, RPG, CCG, Miniatures whatever if your a gamer you have a home. Linked to our Press foundation the Omega Corps seeks to connect to gamers from all walks and bring them new experiences and a warm welcoming community. Working with the Press Collective of creative writers, and game designers the Corps initiative will deliver a cutting edge community experience. The Omega Corps is now operational and the new flame of the future has arrived!

1/17/12: Welcome to the Academy, Project Dissonance & Project Solarios

Hello again fans and gamers. Tonight I'm very pleased to have some major Press and Corps announcements. Many of you have been waiting for info on several of these issues so lets get down to it

First on our agenda tonight is a update to the hotly demanded Corps Academy. Many of you have emailed me and outright pleaded for us to start the classes and discussions and I want you to know I read every mail sent my way. Now before you show up at Corps HQ with torches and pitchforks let me assure you the classes and academy itself is well underway and moving slowly but surely into the realm of working. We hit a few hiccups with our squad captains and had to decide on courses we will be offering. The climate around such forums is a bit tense these days so we wanted to always offer a different perspective. The academy will start likely late March with myself opening the classes with my rather martial take on the arts of combat and my personal style everyone has dubbed the "Magus Arts". Interested? good check us out and see what secrets I will lay forth for your eager consumption.

So, since the academy issue is now done lets move to the next major announcement. In conjunction with our huge sponsored network of table top RPG games - read my post below to see em all- our master DM has united the game masters from every game and created a mind bending global story arc, that winds between every franchise in the Wold Of Darkness setting that includes most of the White Wolf games we sponsor. Excluding Exalted of course- each team is thus far deeply engaged in this huge single story that is frankly, mind bending in the scope. Vampire players sitting round a table with Changelings, Mages and Werewolves working together, Hunters and Scions at odds. The games are simply insane to watch as these often shy and exclusive game teams start to meet their peers and get a first hand look at how interconnected the setting truly can be. My own personal Mage team, - yes folks I play not just preach from this website- is deeply embroiled in the growing conflict as a unknown evil starts to unite the darker halves of every faction into a global conspiracy. Paradox is flowing free and many a village has been devoured in combat between ticked off Vampires and Werewolves. Many cities have been reduced to rubble as the Gods of Scion and Mages battle titanspawn and the Silver Ladder. If you want in, our forum will soon be hosting a special board where I will help outside teams get involved in what we are calling Project Dissonance. All players are welcome to read the updates to the campaign and join the discussion.

Finally, I'm simply astonished to be announcing that the Forum may soon be hosting a all new RP experience. After months of debate the Press design team and myself have sat down, looked at the novel I'm curently writing and started to design a whole new Rp universe. Custom crafted for players who want a dark gritty experience in a world were lines are not cut and dry and humanity is a obsolete species. The setting right now has no name but is being called Project Solarios by our design teams. Currently we are just in the design phases but what is shaping up is a whole new take on what people think of as the modern "magical traditions". Drawing from our favorite sources of inspiration we are working hard to find a blend of action, tension and harsh reality that will - we hope- offer our fans something unseen on the often overused and tired forum RP scene. This is not another typical setting and world, using our best resources we are crafting a world with scope, history and morality. Stay tuned here as I reveal more details as they happen.

Well we always like to close with some humor, so let me pose this riddle to you. How does a Mage manage to Paradox a whole town out of existance? Find out in the forums lounge to see who the guilty culprit is. Give ya a hint, That dastardly mage is typing this post. Whoops. Now if you miss my reference look up Mage: The Awakening and read up on it. The system is worthy of every gamers time. Oh and before I go, I just want to let you know that our forum requires a valid active email acccount to register. Many of our new members forgot that and complained to me. I had to inform them as I am you now, I get sent a verification email when you register. If that welcome email bounces I know why. Trying to use a inactive or invalid email will be shown and the server will not allow you to finish activating your account. Please remember to use a VALID and ACTIVE email account- you can opt out of mass emails very simply and easily and we NEVER send you spam or crap mails. Further CHECK your bulk email folders if you have a special one, our server sends the welcome email - which holds the link to activate your account- as Bulk priority. Many of our members said they never got it and they did, it was simply shunted to a separate folder that many people keep for the typical crap most of us get as bulk email. Till next time, may your crits always be perfect and never crap.

1/2/12: New Year, New things.

So, here we are in 2012. No zombie apocalypse to speak of just yet so thats a good thing for all of us. Humor aside welcome back for the first post of the new year. First updates.

Our latest major update is the rapidly growing selection of teams sponsored by the Corps, thus far we have 14 total. 2 each of: Werewolf the Forsaken, Vampire the Requiem, Changeling the Lost, Mage the Awakening. 2 Scion teams, 2 Pathfinders and now our recently added 2 Dresden Files RPG teams. Now the FATE systemn is unknown to most of us so this team has a lot to proove far as sponsorship goes. Time will tell but being a huge fan of the actual books I'm genuinely hoping it works out and becomes a mainstay in the collective. At this point our resources are fully taxed so sadly we will not be adding more teams to our squads until our funds stabilize or we find more dependable space.

That said, the forums moving along with stability, not many users to speak of, though we are a spammer magnet for gods knows why. Still our community took a few hits recently with membership leaving as we went through some growing pains. It happens and none of the core team is worried. On a follow up the Corps Academy classes will be starting very soon so be sure to register for them asap.

Since thats almost all we need to say I would again like to invite everyone to sign up to the forum and Corps exclusive access but also remind potential store owners that the Corps needs a home base so if your interested in hosting our events - and we will be making it worth your while- drop me a line and lets see if we can't work a arrangement out. My email is always open for such things so don't be afraid to use it. Welp thats all for now, Happy New Year hobby gamers.

12/28/11: Voices from Never-Never Land & Corps Academy

Now that the holidays are over for the most part I'm back from the beyond as it would seem. And for the record yes that first line of the intro is a lyric reference from the new album by a Corps favorite band Nightwish. In this update we have a lot of new information to lay down so lets get to it

First, after getting the team together and working things over the Press has decided to discontinue the RP on our home forum. It's been a long hard run trying but times and things change. I'm sure many of you noticed our new fresh layout and the new areas. As I detailed in my prior update the forums been remodeled to support the organization more completely. Our members have adapted and barring a few lazy lurkers we hope to get activity to boots and return soon. Now in that vein you'll be pleased to note that both myself and the press members have begun uploading our homebrew material for the systems the Corps supports. More is on the way but we take care to playtest and carefully weight our designs for maximum play potential before we upload em to the forum.

Second is a rather new direction for half the Corps, those members being part of our metaphysical departments. In a effort to extend our grasp and get ourselves some engaging discussions going we have begun a outreach program - through the Corps network- to find folks who wish to help us form a new style of community. That leads into what we lovingly call Corps Academy. Many of you have noted our new Meta-Physical discussion boards, one of them bearing the tutular name. That board is being prepped to host a bit of a online experiment. I and a few choice members of the Corps team have agreed to start online classes of a sorts. 4 to 5 month seasons based around a plethora of ideas, concepts and techniques from Energy Work to more general issues like shieldings etc. Now we realize many other forums do this style of help. But the Corps is in a unique position in that our network of masters branches into all major fields of thought not just one dogmatic view, thus our classes will be a more ecclectic style. Focusing less on if your wiccan or druid and more on the fundamentals and core, regardless of theology and theory behind what to do and what not to.

Now I realize this may get some folks nickers in a twist, but really thats almost what the press has always done, we work our own angle and lets the dust settle before we judge. Techniques do not belong to one style in our humble view and many techniques can be enhanced and refined by taking away the lables of those who use them and looking at the issue itself without a backdrop of implied theology. Yes there are a few links even we of the open mind will simply not tolerate, and those shall not be said openly unless they raise their heads on the forum, but we feel that our huge base of information would be of great resource to folks who just want solid knowledge without a religious or theological bent to it. The classes and blogs will be starting soon, so be sure to keep a watchful eye and register since they are only open to Corps membership.

Also, I would like to formally announce the Corps now has 6 RPg teams under our sponsorship. Among them my personal Scion team, as well as teams for the following games: Pathfinder d20, Exalted- second edition, Mage the Awakening, Vampire the Requiem, Changeling the Lost and Werewolf the Forsaken. Yes folks thats a whole bunch of White Wolf games there but our teams favor more "adult" games. You eventually grow out of hacking away at dragons and want to tell a story not worry about optimizing your half elf rogue for max damage against a troll. Thats In no way a insult, a simple statement that we found through talking to our membership. The younger crowd seems to favor fast combat and less story. The more mature crowd by and large like their RPG's with meat and a side order of story. It's just how the search turned out. We threw our support out there to run and help sponsor game masters who needed a hand, those groups took us up on the offer and found themselves with a wealth of aid at their disposal. Fear not, if you have yet to get in on our generous content and aid network, the forums waiting and theres my email as well.

So to close this last update before the new year I'd like to finish by reminding folks that the Press and Corps are just hitting stride and we have a long way to go. The hobby gaming communities around us have embraced us and for that we deeply thank them but this is a far reaching effort not limited by state borders, and it's only as strong as our legions of followers.....er fans I mean. Theres room to grow, and we will always look to expand and reach the new hunting grounds that exist out there. If you have doubts ask the local LARP crew we recently signed on to sponsor. Thats right folks soon that very lucky team of people will have me and the Press writing them storylines and battle scenarios as well as our rather experienced armorer and tailor working to make their gear better then ever. Now you may say " What do they have to do with hobby gaming?" In truth nothing but they had the courage to find me and ask for help, a small crew of maybe 20 people looking to get started. They called and the Corps answered. try it out and see if we can't get you to wear our colors in no time flat.

12/17/2011: Changes Ahead

With the holidays right around the corner, and the Press design team sick of long sunless hours locked in our design rooms, the Corps and Press have called a break for the holidays. We've been working non stop from one thing to another and it's all become a jumble. Even the best need a break.

So, What do we have planned for the new year? well lets talk about this year. In accordance with our scaled back team we are downsizing the RP importance on the forum. It's been a good run but really thats not helping us entertain you our fans so, while a smaller - and no less amazing- one will remain it will not be our focal point. The Forum will get a face lift soon to expand our Press and Corps areas with unique categories and expanded player support from both sides of our organization. The Press teams will be moving to support existing RPG's and will be releasing cool new swag when we can free opf charge for existing RPg's that we sponsor, Including Pathfinder, Exalted, Mage: The Awakening, Scion and others. Now we know those are not our systems or games so we won't be charging for our free stuff, just loading up the boards with tips, hints and new stuff for everyone to loot and use at their liesure.

Further the Corps will be moving to aggressively gain space for our planned Corps nights. Yes we still need someone with a adventurous spirit, and a ton of space to open to me and the team so we can host games like M:TG, WOW CCG and more alongside our several sponsored RPG teams, and our new Warhammer Mini's group. While I've petitioned most local game shops near our home base none have even batted a eye before saying "no". But hope is not lost. if your a Hobby gamer on Long Island - our largest branch location- and have/attend a hobby shop that has space, and is interested in allying with the Corps email me. I'll show up in person and explain what we would like to arrange. That aside, the Corps will be hosting online seasons of our favorite RPg's online and free of charge in the very near future. First up is Pathfinder since it's OGL and easier to run. But Exalted and Scion are in the contention after we format a disclaimer.

Now, 2012 is just around the corner. First on our list is something rather radical. The trend lately is live streams of favored console games broadcast via the web for free. Well the Press and Corps, being the utter nerds we all are- have decided to once we get space ready try for a live Hobby stream weekly, with MTG tourneys, and RPg sessions live from this website. It's high time the best players in our favored areas goit some web rep. Crazy? Oh completely but we know it will work. Now following or if we can manage that, the Corps has been runing a local tourney for the past month. Locally of course out of our super secret bunker but with solid results and attendance, maybe we will expand that. Time will tell. The Corps agenda for 2012 is simple, truck along and keep giving our readers and fans reasons to join the movement. Seriously join us, or we may resort to using a mono-blue deck to mind control you. -Kidding-

The Press agenda for 2012 however is more, ambitious. I'm currently working on a deal with our resident game designer Dr.Gon to get him to promote and outline his exclusive game on our forum and site prior to him selling it to Piazo publishing. The Press realized it's not financially able to buy the rights, and can't contend with a huge company like Piazo but Dr.Gon owns the rights still so we got him on the line. Further we are on record to keep updating and soon spully exclusive content and bonus stuff for 6 full RPG systems, leading that charge is the OGL stuff of course but fan content is also on the agenda for many of the games we sponsor. Including a whole new Pantheon for the Scion RPG by White Wolf, one of our favorite systems and settings.

So yes, we have many evil plans for the new year, and likely the rest of this year will be made to update our forum and content provisions every day. If your not a active forum member or a Omega Corps member sign up now. Also on the forum note, due to a huge amount of spam accounts - which i delete personally. Please if your signing up from this site put a BFC somewhere in your username. Just so we know to fast track your account status and keep our spamservice from killing your account wholesale. You can totally change the name once your in, so fret not. It's just to help the staff and I know who's legit and who wants to bork our lovely forum with spam. The former we welcome, the latter we massacre wholesale.

Welp, thats all for now folks. I'll be back later this month for more updates. Till then I'll leave you with our trademark closing style. Remember Vorpal weapons are always fun until you fumble a critical and slice your Gnome Clerics head off. Please, practive safe Vorpal combat everyone.

12/2/2011. Corps Holiday Reflections

First update of a very special month for many but more so for the Corps which has seen a rebirth these past weeks in both interest and activity here and on the forum. It's a funny thing that something so minor would garner such attention but I suppose it was the right time.

Of all the questions I get lately all focus on something I'd like to clarify namely the differences in our twin organizations. The Press is of course the parent, but also our main design/publishing studio. All of our forum designs and RP ideas - even those ideas that work with established RPG's like d20- come from the minds at the Press. Now, the Omega Corps is the new one, as I have said the Corps is not about design but promotion, support and linking the huge community it represents together. The Corps Game Resource Division often works with our Press team to provide new ideas and hooks for our RPG sponsor teams so in a way they do work together and overlap.

But I digress. Back to the stuff you want to read about. Our forum as I said earlier is hosting a new RPG right now and the design is nearly finished. But rather then our usual set in stone style we have opted for a more free form style by providing only a basic outline of players options and allowing our members and players to do the real creative foot work. The RP should reopen sometime this month provided I have the time. Further the first round of Corps exclusive content will be online as well so Corps members are in for a early Christmas treat in the form of dozens of new options.

Now over to our outreach program which is trucking along, we have added two more RPg teams to our sponsored list and now run a Pathfinder d20 game as well as a White Wolf Scion game right beside our well established D&D 4E campaign arc which is in chapter two. If your a local player near one of our core members and need a team or DM please let us know, every month we are adding more support options and better aid for our sponsored teams. Our Pathfinder team just got a truckload of fully designed loot this past week for their final dungeon crawl in this arc. This is of course exclusively designed swag which you won't find anywhere else. Moreover our forum is always open and welcoming to players who need creative help or Dm's who need evil tips.

Until the next update, may the Dice god smile upon your critical threats. If he does not however call us, we know where he lives.

11/25/2011. The Corps moves ahead

Greetings again. So it's a few weeks after our initial announcement and the activity on this page has spiked I see, That is indeed good news folks. More over our forum hits are skyrocketing. Looks like the Corps is trucking right along in the hearts and minds of our followers.

So This weeks update begins with Thanksgiving wishes to all Corps members. But now that that's out of the way lets get down to the meat of the update. Following a few meetings with local Corps staff I'm glad to say we are solidly enshrined in the backs of many of the local game communities minds. Near us we have managed to get our outreach program into gear and now sponsor several table top RPG events at local comic shops. Small yes, but effective as a start, seeing as how the Corps is not exactly well funded just now our grand ambitions of putting up prize purses for the local folks and hosting grand dungeon crawls must wait just a bit.

On the flip side my phones been ringing off the hook of late, I'd like to remind those folks who want to reach me, leave a message. I usually monitor my phone and answering machine pretty closely, but I'm not just going to pick it up unless I'm expecting a call. If you have Corps business please just start talking to the machine and if I'm around I'll pick right up. But I'd prefer if you would use the contact information provided right on this site, Email always gets to me much faster and avoids the annoying answering machine.

That said, the forum has seen a big uptick in activity and interest to which we are all grateful. More hits means more potential members. And to that end, we are now ready to announce the brand new Omega Corps RPG that is currently being built for the forum. Seeing that we had somethinmg special, the staff and I set about streamlining and updating our concept to a formal and full RPG system, but this ones designed for online play by post style. Using our unique setting, and adding some free features we have opened up the whole deal to allow new folks to jump right in. Including switching to a standard race/ class style system but with our own twists of course. Players can now choose from 15 total races - and growing-, five power cores and least we forget half a dozen factions within the setting. Further we have tossed the formal and stuffy idea of a regulated power registration in favor of allowing players to simply design their own. Yes, anything goes provided it meets our simple terms. Mainly it has to fit and work within the theme and design intent of the power core and race the player chooses. It's all simple logic really.

As I type this Trizap, and others are working to expand those race options. Now some of the material is free that is true but a lot of it is only open to Corps members who join up via paid membership. - which is a paltry 10$ a month and entitles you to all access passes to the Corps boards, bonus content - enough to fill a RPG book- and more. Right now the RP is however closed while we handle the new designs and we hope you can bear with us while we seek to provide the best RPG we can. But in the meantime you can drop by our new and improves G.R.D area and chat it up about your favorite hobbies.

On The Organization side, the G.R.D - Gaming Resource Division- sponsored it's first console tournament this past weekend via the PSN and Ultimate Marvel V Capcom 3. Many of you signed up, and fun was had by all with the winner opting to remain secret and walk away with his free year of Corps membership. We hope to have even more tourneys soon but that depends on my work schedule and interest from fans. Our squad commanders are busy working to try and snag us a place to hold public events. Thus far no store seems open, yet. We hope to find ourselves a generous sponsor willing to loan the Corps space weekly for events, if your so inclined Email me please. Our console vets and table top fans are chomping at the bit for that email to be sent so I can summon them to the first public event.

Also, in the past few weeks many of you have asked me about just how much pull the Corps has as an organization. To answer that I'd need to know how much you expect a new group to have? Just now within our own circle quite a lot, but not much outside unless you ask one of our - yet to be found- sponsors. But I would question why this needs to be asked. We are a gaming organization yes, but I feel like folks think we can call up major companies like Wizards of the Coast or Capcom and just tell em to send us free prizes for our events. Thats not gonna happen, least not until the future shows itself. If thats all that matters, or stands between you joining us or not maybe you should rethink that. We are not here to provide you cool free merchandise - yet-. We are however here to help you find a active d20, CCG, Tabletop minis etc, team or store in your area, and do a damn fine job of that sort of organizing.

To close this update I'd like to send a huge hat tip to our veteran member Darkdragon. Dr.Gon as we call em has finally finished his table top RPG/miniatures/ccg. Some of you may have caught his appearance at NY Comic Con this past year to check out his wares. Currently he's looking for playtesters so if you want in, Sign into the forum and contact him. Also This month holds free stuff, new members who use the code "Corps" in their username when they register get 3 montsh free membership and instant access to the Lycan race for the RP. If your a former member we encourage you to join back in and help us get things rolling. New folks are always welcome, just remember our software cross checks email, if it comes up spam you won't get in.

11/14/2011. Announcing The Omega Corps.

Long time, no see. My apologies folks. Following a serious medical issue involving my father last November, and my old CPU blowing up like a rocket on the fourth of July, I lost all access to my website and FTP transfer. Thus not a peep out of me but for the forum.

For a long time now the press has floundered, our goals remaining scattered and confusing. Now that ends. It's time to unveil the rise of the Omega Corps, the core of the Press has banded together with me to really kick this movement and organization in the rear end to catapult it into the new era. Now is the time for the rise of the Corps and with it the radically new approach we have to this organization.

The Omega Corps was created this past summer after a period of soul searching and reflection by myself and my core team of friends. We wanted a new face, and new goal. Our groups of followers from the Console/PC gamers, to the Hobby gaming folks. From the LARPers, Cpsplayers and Anime buffs. Of course our Creative writing and Spiritual core followers as well. All our bases came together and gave me a kick to refound this organization. That is what I did, A new look, new logo and most importantly new drive is what we will now push for. But moreover we seek to establish a beachhead of true honest ethics to those who are our members. Many organizations these days advance goals but fail to live up to the standards of morality and ethics that make a organization truly worth supporting. The Corps Values are what any parent would ask for their kid, and what every adult should adhere to. We are not simply a organization but also a lifestyle. Rest assured, we not only talk the talk but live it as well.

The Corps is organized by twin components made up of our Gamer Advancement Division - The G.A.D- and our S.R.D - Spiritual Resource Division- that work as a united front and for a complete goal of supporting and enhancing the singular ideal of the Corps. The Gamer Divison will work unilaterally on many fronts to advance the interests and hobbies of the supporting groups and seek to enhance their lives by connecting them to one another through our Contact network. Players can meet people, organize leagues and events at local stores and just hang out with others who will support and enhance their hobbies for the better. As I type the Corps is seeking supporting sponsors who would be willing to led us space for weekly gatherings, game tournaments - both console and hobby- and meetings. Least there be any mistake we are NOT a Political organization. The Corps refuses to even engage or allow politics within the Corps, this community is built on a single goal. Everyone of our core groups knows how to have fun, they want to have fun and want to connect with others who share their interests. That is what the Corps will do.

The Corps is also the front for the long awaited first novel, written by myself, that will retell the exhausting saga of the forum RP in vivid detail and accuracy. Moreover, the Corps will support our new ARG forum initiative that seeks to enrich our forum members experience with new bonus content for paid membership that will unlock tons of new material that you can't get anyplace else. Even better, Omega Corps gear is in design, we offer new style silicone bracelets, keychain lanyards and more. Thats all arriving by mid 2012 for your wearing pleasure, so show your Corps pride and join the movement.

Now the biggest questions I get are of course about our S.R.D. For the logest time, friends and I have sought out the truths of this world, working with gifted and amazing individuals in the metaphysical and scientific community to reconcile those two. We have witnessed acts of inhuman ability and helped others cope with their gifts, several are dear friends of mine - If you are reading this contact me-. This was a calling, and I answered with a glad heart. The S.R.D squads are soldiers and helping hands, here to help you when a spiritual crisis looms and you can't find another to help. Our network is open and accepting of all faiths and ready to get you back on track, or popint you towards resources that will help you. But thats a tale for another time. The Core of the Corps initiative is our singular drive to advance and enhance the lives of gamers globally through the organization of the Corps itself. It's towards that goal we move and we are going about it very aggressively.

Why now? Well thats a good question, sometimes your initial vision is clouded, the Press was a solid organization but it never had the proverbial "Boots on the ground" the Corps are those boots and that number is growing slowly and silently every day. We are sending the clarion call to all of the above groups, now is the time folks to link up and have some fun, the Corps is here for you and we won't go away. Right now on the forum you can access with a click a full FAQ of the Corps goals, sign up for our newsletter or take part in the most expansive, open and welcoming community and RP on the web. In coming weeks this site will see changes, as will the forum and our overall style of working. So look for our Squad commanders in your area handing out cards, engage them if you wish - politely of course- come to the forum, email me whatever you wish just get involved! If your a person who embraces any ideas of either of our twin divisions come on and get involved we need your help!. If your a owner of a hobby gaming or comic store contact me and I'll happily organize a Corps night with you. If your a member of a religious organization and think the Corps mentality fits with your interests contact me, I'm more then happy to engage in conversations with folks who may want to sponsor us.

In closing, this is new ground being broken and yes, ambitious as all hell. But this is why I founded the Corps and the Press, to advance the goals that are near and dear to my heart and enriched my life and the lives of everyone whos ever allowed me to Dm their table top RPG, or places a CCG deck across the table to face me in a duel. It's high time a organization like this was started, not for politics and "social issues" but to advance the core ideals of this large and growing community. That these people are not strange but simply folks who choose to find other outlets that are not more accepted forms of decompression like say sports or dance. For many Friday Night Magic is just that, a means to let go of the stress of life and just chill with people who accept you. The Corps is here for them, we will support them, and work to give them a organization that will not only offer cutting edge material but a constant supportive community that will be smeplace they are welcome and free to enter.

This is Squad Zero Commander Trevor RC Emmott, Press and Corps founder. If you are up to the challenge, then now is the time to join the Corps.