Traveller's Cafe 3: Brainstorming, discussion, tea, advice

[Kuela]

You are an average fantasy country bumpkin who happens to be indoctrinated in an obscure doomsday cult. After the members of your cult performed a dangerous ritual in an attempt to summon their god, they disappeared in an explosion, and you are one of the only survivors. Like the faithful acolyte that you are, you have vowed to ressurrect the cult while saving the souls of unbelievers. How will you do this? By giving people pamphlets, of course. Follow your grouchy mentor and your fellow acolytes as you travel the world, do strange sidequests, and learn a little more about what happened to the rest of your cult. Things are much stranger than they seem.

So I wrote up a neat little RP prompt. I've already got the premise down, but I'm no good at worldbuilding, and I'd like to ask if some of you would be willing to help me write this. Would anyone like to volunteer? If the project is successful, I'd be happy to make them co-OPs.

[New Finnish Republic]

I want a Titanfall RP now that I can actually be active on NS now...

[Camicon]

I want a Titanfall RP now that I can actually be active on NS now...

I'd be down for that.

[Argentinstan]

Mmm tea!

[G-Tech Corporation]

You are an average fantasy country bumpkin who happens to be indoctrinated in an obscure doomsday cult. After the members of your cult performed a dangerous ritual in an attempt to summon their god, they disappeared in an explosion, and you are one of the only survivors. Like the faithful acolyte that you are, you have vowed to ressurrect the cult while saving the souls of unbelievers. How will you do this? By giving people pamphlets, of course. Follow your grouchy mentor and your fellow acolytes as you travel the world, do strange sidequests, and learn a little more about what happened to the rest of your cult. Things are much stranger than they seem.

So I wrote up a neat little RP prompt. I've already got the premise down, but I'm no good at worldbuilding, and I'd like to ask if some of you would be willing to help me write this. Would anyone like to volunteer? If the project is successful, I'd be happy to make them co-OPs.

This seems like a fun RP concept. Have you considered how to handle the character shenanigans? Because this seems like excellent fodder for a dice-RP.

[The Land of Golden Blobfish]

Between watching Mob Psycho 100 for the third time and reading Carrie, I've been itching for a psychic power RP. Would anybody be interested in that sort of thing?

[Talchyon]

Between watching Mob Psycho 100 for the third time and reading Carrie, I've been itching for a psychic power RP. Would anybody be interested in that sort of thing?

What do you have in mind, Fish?

[Harbertia]

Between watching Mob Psycho 100 for the third time and reading Carrie, I've been itching for a psychic power RP. Would anybody be interested in that sort of thing?

I have an interest in such a thing; though your references of Carrie and Mob Phycho 100 has prompted me to ask; what do you have in mind?

[The Land of Golden Blobfish]

Between watching Mob Psycho 100 for the third time and reading Carrie, I've been itching for a psychic power RP. Would anybody be interested in that sort of thing?

I have an interest in such a thing; though your references of Carrie and Mob Phycho 100 has prompted me to ask; what do you have in mind?

Between watching Mob Psycho 100 for the third time and reading Carrie, I've been itching for a psychic power RP. Would anybody be interested in that sort of thing?

What do you have in mind, Fish?

Nothing really concrete yet to be honest, just a lot of ideas floating around. Here's 4 specifically I was thinking of though they're very rough and early drafts:

1) A Psychic Academy RP. Wasn't too sure about this as there's a lot of academy RPs going around recently plus psychic abilities are pretty similar to superpowers so it would be harder to make something unique.

2) Taken place in a world where a very small portion of people are gifted psychic powers, there's a shady organization going around kidnapping psychics and brainwashing them to use in their very own army. They plan to turn the world into chaos and rule over it as a master race of gifted humans. I was thinking of having the RP focus on a group of individuals who are being hunted by this cult.

3) A group of kids with psychic powers must uncover the mysterious events and disappearances around their town.

4) After the sudden explosion of a student's psychic powers at the highschool's Christmas prom, a group of teenagers find themselves thrown into an alternate dimension. This traverse awakened powerful abilities within each of them, however, allowed something to make it's way from this dimension to their world. The group must find a way back, and after that, seal the breach before their town is unknowingly destroyed.


What do you think?

[Harbertia]

I have an interest in such a thing; though your references of Carrie and Mob Phycho 100 has prompted me to ask; what do you have in mind?

What do you have in mind, Fish?

Nothing really concrete yet to be honest, just a lot of ideas floating around. Here's 4 specifically I was thinking of though they're very rough and early drafts:

1) A Psychic Academy RP. Wasn't too sure about this as there's a lot of academy RPs going around recently plus psychic abilities are pretty similar to superpowers so it would be harder to make something unique.

2) Taken place in a world where a very small portion of people are gifted psychic powers, there's a shady organization going around kidnapping psychics and brainwashing them to use in their very own army. They plan to turn the world into chaos and rule over it as a master race of gifted humans. I was thinking of having the RP focus on a group of individuals who are being hunted by this cult.

3) A group of kids with psychic powers must uncover the mysterious events and disappearances around their town.

4) After the sudden explosion of a student's psychic powers at the highschool's Christmas prom, a group of teenagers find themselves thrown into an alternate dimension. This traverse awakened powerful abilities within each of them, however, allowed something to make it's way from this dimension to their world. The group must find a way back, and after that, seal the breach before their town is unknowingly destroyed.


What do you think?

I like three, which could be combined with 2 though in a way that keeps such hidden from the bulk of players till it's discovered as part of the mystery element.

[Talchyon]

I have an interest in such a thing; though your references of Carrie and Mob Phycho 100 has prompted me to ask; what do you have in mind?

What do you have in mind, Fish?

Nothing really concrete yet to be honest, just a lot of ideas floating around. Here's 4 specifically I was thinking of though they're very rough and early drafts:

1) A Psychic Academy RP. Wasn't too sure about this as there's a lot of academy RPs going around recently plus psychic abilities are pretty similar to superpowers so it would be harder to make something unique.

2) Taken place in a world where a very small portion of people are gifted psychic powers, there's a shady organization going around kidnapping psychics and brainwashing them to use in their very own army. They plan to turn the world into chaos and rule over it as a master race of gifted humans. I was thinking of having the RP focus on a group of individuals who are being hunted by this cult.

3) A group of kids with psychic powers must uncover the mysterious events and disappearances around their town.

4) After the sudden explosion of a student's psychic powers at the highschool's Christmas prom, a group of teenagers find themselves thrown into an alternate dimension. This traverse awakened powerful abilities within each of them, however, allowed something to make it's way from this dimension to their world. The group must find a way back, and after that, seal the breach before their town is unknowingly destroyed.


What do you think?

4 sounds really original.

[Plaats]

I posted an idea on here about a month-or-so ago but, after working on it for a bit, I shelved it (partly because life got in the way). Here's another idea I've been toying with recently...

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: Anthropomorphic animals in a post-apocalyptic setting, need I say more?
Genre/s: A surreal post-apocalyptic dark comedy adventure.
Character or Faction Based: Character
Detailed Description: So, I've got a load of incredibly different and diverse but incomplete ideas on a word document. Every time a new idea comes to me, I write it down but generally move on and forget about it. Something about this ideas has stuck with me and I can't seem to get over it.

I don't have much in the way of detail and I don't want to define the post-apocalyptic setting too much, I think people tend to get too caught up in what happened rather than what's happening. I like the idea of a world where society -- or what's left of it -- has begun to forget about the past and accept the present, where everything that might seem horrific to us is just mundane and commonplace to the people (or animals, I guess?) inhabiting this post-apocalyptic world.

Why anthropomorphic animals, you might ask? Honestly, I don't know. I could say it's because I find the juxtaposition between something usually reserved for children's cartoons and a post-apocalyptic hell-scape to be amusing or it represents humanity's true bestial nature but I'd be lying; I just like the idea.
Need Help With: As I've said, I want the setting to be intentionally vague and generic so I don't really need any help with world-building, but I need some sort of goal for the characters to work towards. I like the idea of a post-apocalyptic 'slice-of-life' RP but without some semblance of direction, I think it could become quite boring. I don't want their goal to be particularly important or impressive, the more trivial the better.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

[Esternial]

I posted an idea on here about a month-or-so ago but, after working on it for a bit, I shelved it (partly because life got in the way). Here's another idea I've been toying with recently...

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: Anthropomorphic animals in a post-apocalyptic setting, need I say more?
Genre/s: A surreal post-apocalyptic dark comedy adventure.
Character or Faction Based: Character
Detailed Description: So, I've got a load of incredibly different and diverse but incomplete ideas on a word document. Every time a new idea comes to me, I write it down but generally move on and forget about it. Something about this ideas has stuck with me and I can't seem to get over it.

I don't have much in the way of detail and I don't want to define the post-apocalyptic setting too much, I think people tend to get too caught up in what happened rather than what's happening. I like the idea of a world where society -- or what's left of it -- has begun to forget about the past and accept the present, where everything that might seem horrific to us is just mundane and commonplace to the people (or animals, I guess?) inhabiting this post-apocalyptic world.

Why anthropomorphic animals, you might ask? Honestly, I don't know. I could say it's because I find the juxtaposition between something usually reserved for children's cartoons and a post-apocalyptic hell-scape to be amusing or it represents humanity's true bestial nature but I'd be lying; I just like the idea.
Need Help With: As I've said, I want the setting to be intentionally vague and generic so I don't really need any help with world-building, but I need some sort of goal for the characters to work towards. I like the idea of a post-apocalyptic 'slice-of-life' RP but without some semblance of direction, I think it could become quite boring. I don't want their goal to be particularly important or impressive, the more trivial the better.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

Hmm...I think Mad Max follows kind of the same storytelling as you describe, providing little/vague details on how everything got messed up.

As for goals you could have them start off as a small ragtag group of strangers wanting to band together and carve themselves a home somewhere in post-apocalyptia. Secure a water source, deal with trouble that crossed their way, etc.

[Plaats]

I posted an idea on here about a month-or-so ago but, after working on it for a bit, I shelved it (partly because life got in the way). Here's another idea I've been toying with recently...

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: Anthropomorphic animals in a post-apocalyptic setting, need I say more?
Genre/s: A surreal post-apocalyptic dark comedy adventure.
Character or Faction Based: Character
Detailed Description: So, I've got a load of incredibly different and diverse but incomplete ideas on a word document. Every time a new idea comes to me, I write it down but generally move on and forget about it. Something about this ideas has stuck with me and I can't seem to get over it.

I don't have much in the way of detail and I don't want to define the post-apocalyptic setting too much, I think people tend to get too caught up in what happened rather than what's happening. I like the idea of a world where society -- or what's left of it -- has begun to forget about the past and accept the present, where everything that might seem horrific to us is just mundane and commonplace to the people (or animals, I guess?) inhabiting this post-apocalyptic world.

Why anthropomorphic animals, you might ask? Honestly, I don't know. I could say it's because I find the juxtaposition between something usually reserved for children's cartoons and a post-apocalyptic hell-scape to be amusing or it represents humanity's true bestial nature but I'd be lying; I just like the idea.
Need Help With: As I've said, I want the setting to be intentionally vague and generic so I don't really need any help with world-building, but I need some sort of goal for the characters to work towards. I like the idea of a post-apocalyptic 'slice-of-life' RP but without some semblance of direction, I think it could become quite boring. I don't want their goal to be particularly important or impressive, the more trivial the better.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

Hmm...I think Mad Max follows kind of the same storytelling as you describe, providing little/vague details on how everything got messed up.

As for goals you could have them start off as a small ragtag group of strangers wanting to band together and carve themselves a home somewhere in post-apocalyptia. Secure a water source, deal with trouble that crossed their way, etc.

Mad Max is kinda vague although each film does sort of describe how the world ended up as a post-apocalyptic hellhole at the beginning and the series does effectively chart Earth's -- or at least Australia's -- descent into post-apocalyptic madness; the first film isn't even that 'post-apocalyptic'.

I want this RP to begin some time after the apocalyptic event or series of events so the world before's just a faint memory and society's begun to accept the post-apocalyptic world as 'normal': mutant animals and plants, deadly radiation, roving marauder gangs, and zombies are all considered commonplace while death, disease, and famine are brushed off as 'shit happens'.

As for the characters' goal, I'd prefer them to be in competition rather than working together; I just think it's funnier if they're vying for something silly or trivial.

[Labstoska]

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: An alternate timeline of WH40K where it is now M61 and the grimdarkness of the galaxy has been cranked to eleven.
Genre/s: Science Fantasy
Character or Faction Based: Maybe both??
Detailed Description: It is the Sixty First Millennium. The galaxy, already a war torn hell as it is, has become an even worse hell for its inhabitants. The Imperium has died, but not with a bang, but rather, with a whimper. In the final days of M45, no vox nor astrotelepathic transmission was received from Holy Terra once again, as it was slowly but surely consumed by a miasma of chaos and insanity. The Emperor expired on the Golden Throne, causing the Warp Rift which He has kept in bay for so long to expand with utter violence. Daemons flooded the Imperial Palace as hundreds of vessels sought to escape the new Eye of Terror of Sol. Alas, they would not find escape. The Void Dragon awakened at last, and enthralled the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars, and utterly slaughtered every escaping vessel they could find. The forces of Chaos fought the Dragon's legions of silver sentinels and corrupted Mechanicus forces, but in the end could only contain it, as the Dragon ensured that Sol was his.

His, except for one orb of diamond hard resilience - Titan. The Grey Knights and the Custodian Guard fought on in the moon for thousands of years, destroying wave after wave of daemons that sought to take the relics in the hands of the Grey Knights. Every mundane human on Titan has died a thousand years earlier, but the mighty warriors stand fast to their ground.

The Necrons have returned in full force, but many have become slaves to the merged C'tan, some of whom are once again whole. The Deciever, the Nightbringer, and the Void Dragon, to name a few. And yet, the Silent King marshals his forces, determined to bring the galaxy under the dominion of the Necrontyr once again.

Elsewhere in the galaxy, Ultramar has become mankind's last bastion of hope in an insane galaxy. Roboute Guiliman returned to life without any known reason, and has forged his realm into an indomitable fortress. His brothers Vulkan and Lion El'Johnson have returned from their stupor as well, leading the Empire of Ultramar as an unstoppable Triumvirate. They seek to refound the Imperium, but the road is still long.

The Eldar, who have held to dear life for so long, feel the end approaching. The Eldar race now keeps only five bastions of power - Commoragh, the Black Library, the Exodite Worlds, defiant Biel-Tan, and the wandering super fleet of Ulthwe. Half of the others have been consumed and devoured as the Tyranids crashed into the galaxy with a final, mighty Hive Fleet many times greater than Leviathan, aptly known as Hive Fleet Apocalypse. Others were destroyed as Chaos ran rampant. All that remained of the ghost craftworlds are the giant wraithbone skeleton, the pulsating Infinity Circuit, and numberless scattered soul gems, containing the souls of the murdered Eldar. The Eldar, however, are as defiant and arrogant as ever - they will not give the galaxy to any usurper.

Unknown to the rest of the galaxy, it was the Orks that saved it from the ravenous hunger of the Tyranids. As the Tyranids surged, the Orks met them with equal violence. Octarius drew upon thousands of WAAAGH!!s to itself as the Orkish race fought the Great Devourer with joy. A billion trillion Orks fought Hive Fleet Apocalypse in a final confrontation in the east of the galaxy, expending their numbers as they unknowingly saved the rest of the galaxy. As the last Ork slew the last Tyranid of Apocalypse, he died with a smile from his wounds. But while the Orks all but disappeared, hulking, armored figures have emerged from the Webway, wielding armor and weapons of crystalline composition. The Old Ones have returned. And with them, the Krork.

The Tau, in their naivety, have expanded into a realm of corpses and ash. Every world they found was dead, its life consumed by the hunger of the Tyranids. As they terraformed each world with impunity, the Tau became less optimistic. They became cynical, and vowed to destroy all those in their path, as the other races cannot be trusted with the galaxy. This was the Tau Empire after all, isn't it?

But most terrifying of all was the birth of a new Chaos God: The Star Father. As the Emperor died upon the Golden Throne, the Star Child suckled into reality, killing the Astronomican. When the Emperor destroyed Horus' soul utterly, part of His soul was cast into the Warp as well. This fragment became the Star Child. At first, it was benevolent. But as it was fed by the fanatical devotion of the citizens of the Imperium, it became increasingly insane. The Star Child came to see that to enforce order, one must dominate and repress. Thus, as the Emperor died, the Star Child screamed into existence, and became the Star Father over time. Whereareas the daemons of others spread chaos and disorder, his daemons dominate the minds of mortals. Where the daemons of others are nightmares incarnate, His daemons are faceless automata, suppressing the free will of mortals. The daemon worlds of the Star Father sprung all over the Eye of Terror, places where men and women are subservient to the point of lobotomy in a cycle of self defeating order.

In all of this, hundreds of petty Imperiums have been carved into the great Imperium's corpse. All claim legitimacy over every other. Some are controlled in secret by Exodite Eldar, those erie and strange lords of the realm who never seemed to die of old age. Others are ruled by Space Marines and Fabricators that could not fully comprehend the terror of these times. Another is ruled by the Ecclesiarch in exile, and is a station of religious insanity as "heretics" were burned by the billions. Still more are ruled by surviving Inquisitors.

Dark times indeed!
Need Help With: Deciding if this should be character or faction based, as well as the concept itself.

(Inspired by a WH40K fanfiction of the same concept btw, called the Shape of the Nightmare to Come and Age of Dusk by Lord Lucan.)

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

I need this RP in my life. As for wether it should be character based or faction based I would say that both is a good idea.

[Korhal IVV]

Well, I am thinking that if it has characters, people starting in different locations(for example I am in Biel-Tan, and you in Ultramar) would make interaction difficult. Unless... If the characters are all part of an organization dedicated to fightning Chaos, and does not differentiate if you are human, eldar, demiurg, tau, or such. As long as you hate Chaos, you can be part of it. Sounds good???

[Skarten]

I posted an idea on here about a month-or-so ago but, after working on it for a bit, I shelved it (partly because life got in the way). Here's another idea I've been toying with recently...

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: Anthropomorphic animals in a post-apocalyptic setting, need I say more?
Genre/s: A surreal post-apocalyptic dark comedy adventure.
Character or Faction Based: Character
Detailed Description: So, I've got a load of incredibly different and diverse but incomplete ideas on a word document. Every time a new idea comes to me, I write it down but generally move on and forget about it. Something about this ideas has stuck with me and I can't seem to get over it.

I don't have much in the way of detail and I don't want to define the post-apocalyptic setting too much, I think people tend to get too caught up in what happened rather than what's happening. I like the idea of a world where society -- or what's left of it -- has begun to forget about the past and accept the present, where everything that might seem horrific to us is just mundane and commonplace to the people (or animals, I guess?) inhabiting this post-apocalyptic world.

Why anthropomorphic animals, you might ask? Honestly, I don't know. I could say it's because I find the juxtaposition between something usually reserved for children's cartoons and a post-apocalyptic hell-scape to be amusing or it represents humanity's true bestial nature but I'd be lying; I just like the idea.
Need Help With: As I've said, I want the setting to be intentionally vague and generic so I don't really need any help with world-building, but I need some sort of goal for the characters to work towards. I like the idea of a post-apocalyptic 'slice-of-life' RP but without some semblance of direction, I think it could become quite boring. I don't want their goal to be particularly important or impressive, the more trivial the better.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

Sooo,we're people trying to survive in a world with Eldritch Abominations as it's common fauna?
Count me in.

[Breathless]

Two words~

"Steampunk" and "Samurai".

Where does that take ya'll?

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Two words~

"Steampunk" and "Samurai".

Where does that take ya'll?

Boshin war XXL?

[Labstoska]

Well, I am thinking that if it has characters, people starting in different locations(for example I am in Biel-Tan, and you in Ultramar) would make interaction difficult. Unless... If the characters are all part of an organization dedicated to fightning Chaos, and does not differentiate if you are human, eldar, demiurg, tau, or such. As long as you hate Chaos, you can be part of it. Sounds good???

Hmmm what if a person wanted to play as a chaos worshiper and from the backstory that you have created it sounds as if everyone is even more xenophobic than in 40k.

[Korhal IVV]

Well, I am thinking that if it has characters, people starting in different locations(for example I am in Biel-Tan, and you in Ultramar) would make interaction difficult. Unless... If the characters are all part of an organization dedicated to fightning Chaos, and does not differentiate if you are human, eldar, demiurg, tau, or such. As long as you hate Chaos, you can be part of it. Sounds good???

Hmmm what if a person wanted to play as a chaos worshiper and from the backstory that you have created it sounds as if everyone is even more xenophobic than in 40k.

Xenophobic they may be, but Ultramar and the surviving Craftworld Eldar (and the petty Imperiums controlled by Exodites) would most likely ally themselves, even if it is just an alliance of necessity. The Farsight Enclaves are still around, so they also count.

As for playing as a Chaos worshipper, perhaps they could.

[Plaats]

I posted an idea on here about a month-or-so ago but, after working on it for a bit, I shelved it (partly because life got in the way). Here's another idea I've been toying with recently...

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: Anthropomorphic animals in a post-apocalyptic setting, need I say more?
Genre/s: A surreal post-apocalyptic dark comedy adventure.
Character or Faction Based: Character
Detailed Description: So, I've got a load of incredibly different and diverse but incomplete ideas on a word document. Every time a new idea comes to me, I write it down but generally move on and forget about it. Something about this ideas has stuck with me and I can't seem to get over it.

I don't have much in the way of detail and I don't want to define the post-apocalyptic setting too much, I think people tend to get too caught up in what happened rather than what's happening. I like the idea of a world where society -- or what's left of it -- has begun to forget about the past and accept the present, where everything that might seem horrific to us is just mundane and commonplace to the people (or animals, I guess?) inhabiting this post-apocalyptic world.

Why anthropomorphic animals, you might ask? Honestly, I don't know. I could say it's because I find the juxtaposition between something usually reserved for children's cartoons and a post-apocalyptic hell-scape to be amusing or it represents humanity's true bestial nature but I'd be lying; I just like the idea.
Need Help With: As I've said, I want the setting to be intentionally vague and generic so I don't really need any help with world-building, but I need some sort of goal for the characters to work towards. I like the idea of a post-apocalyptic 'slice-of-life' RP but without some semblance of direction, I think it could become quite boring. I don't want their goal to be particularly important or impressive, the more trivial the better.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

Sooo,we're people trying to survive in a world with Eldritch Abominations as it's common fauna?
Count me in.

Speaking of eldritch abominations, I had another idea for a 1920s post-apocalyptic Lovecraft RP.

[The Republic of Atria]

Remember that Sci-fantasy RP I mentioned I was making? I made it: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=428658

[Waztaskio]

Anyone feeling a good Fallout roleplay? Hasn't been a really good one for months. I created the RoD series of Fallout Roleplays which can be found here;

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=420505
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=403469
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=399365

I'm toying with the idea of making a Fallout RoD IV, but I'm not sure how much freedom I should give this one. The first one was across the entire USA with custom nations, while the later ones were either continuations of the first or in the case of the third a limited region. Any advice for me if I do another one? And if so, would there be any interest?

[Breathless]

Anyone feeling a good Fallout roleplay? (...) Any advice for me if I do another one? And if so, would there be any interest?

I'm not too sure I'd join an actual RP - I'm terrible at these things - but if you did go ahead and start one, you might consider limiting the game world a bit. By limiting, I mean making it smaller. Instead of an entire continent or part of the former U.S. as your stage, why not just try sticking to a single city and its immediate surroundings? I know a move like that probably puts name 'Republics of Dust' to shame, because who ever heard of a multiple republics in a single ruined city, but still - bare with me!

With such a small scale to work with, most players would probably wind up playing small bands of people with anything from a few dozen to a couple hundred members. That brings the RP down to a much more personal level. You're not a big ol' nationstate here - you're a road-tribe of latter day survivors, fools and corpses scrumming for resources in your own little corner of a hell-blasted city. Your actions matter on a scale like that. If a member of your tribe or faction gains fame as a doctor or shaman, their name might spread across the city. If your tribe becomes host to the wildest gambling hall or makers of the finest hooch? Yep - folks are probably going to know that too.

Actions matter on a small scale RP, and that brings a flavor you don't see in many Fallout RPs these days. Some might like it. Others not so much.

Lastly, another thing the smaller scale has going for it is that it'd be a lot easier for players - all the players - to interact with one another. In larger RPs, it's always easier for one or two factions to be stuck with absent neighbors. If anyone in the game is (more or less) within walking distance however, that won't be a problem.