Traveller's Cafe 4: Brainstorming, Discussion, Tea, Advice

[Forest State]

Yeah, I see. Personally it's easier for me to make things that are more gritty and realistic because I guess the increased struggle makes me care about the characters more and adds a bit more tension IMO. But I get that the other style is probably the more popular one, so I'll probably try to incorporate that more into my next project compared to the ones before that.

Realistic is more popular here; for some reason. I went through four RPs as the same super powered character... two as a different character... I just - It was great to get out of oppression (what the characters where in) but the aftermath was worse. It just drained me.

Terra got the family she wanted but lost Takashi offscreen- and- broke. She literally broke and spiraled into insanity and it was horrible. Paranoid about everyone, the new government, and- it was just terrible. Making matters worse is that the OP felt it best if her son's memory of what she is was 'erased' - it was horrible the whole ordeal was horrible. That's why I want something light- just- Terra didn't want to be a hero or villain just to be 'normal' and that's why I want something less dystopian in nature. To get away from the stress of brutal oppression, secrets, and fear.

People say they want something realistic but they end up creating a hell. Which is hard for me to understand- my own life has had downs but it's not near as bad as what some hosts depict life to be.

If not the host the players- everyone's had a lose, everyone's mentally unstable, and everyone's looking to betray another. I nearly killed three different player characters in that RP series, and with that other character actually took advantage of two others. No one was safe not even when the Order fell. I hated it- tried to kill the entire- .... it was horrible.

What made it so horrible to me is that people actually believed I was a good person through it all- when Terra should have been killed in book one. So many people she hurt so many people.

Edit: I know I shouldn't say that she should have died in book one because she did well after but the in- I'm sorry.

Edit: Yet for some reason I tried to start it up again- only to realize that I couldn't do it anymore. I can't do anything like it anymore even when I build the setting I can't. I abandoned this one.

Hmmm. I thought GAU and Young Bloods were both less realistic and more campy/traditional superhero RPs, but I've only been in one of the two and it was inactive for months when I was in it. The Infinites too, but I suppose that has more to do with it being a comedy thread.

[Main Nation Ministry]

I have mentioned this at the last thread, but I was planning on a RP based around the Machine of Death book series. This is what I came up with.

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: A machine is invented which predicts how you die. Rather than something straight outta Final Destination, your characters are shown how they will die and how they react.
Genre/s:Slice of Life
Character or Faction Based: Character Based
Detailed Description: A machine is invented that could tell from a blood sample how you will die, which is shown on a silver of paper in block letters. Can be from DROWNED, OLD AGE, or CHOCKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. Nothing else. No other details. No matter how much you use the machine, the result is still the same. The machine can either be clear or vague depending on your card. OLD AGE can be natural causes, or getting in a hit and run with an elderly driver. Despite this, many people who are fearful would become fearless. Becoming thrill-seekers doing risky stuff like skydiving. But a hint of realization comes in. If you were BURIED ALIVE and you were skydiving, what if you accidentally land in a gravel pit or land at the path of a collapsing building?

This RP is set on the official day where the machine is released to the public. A low-budget advertising campaign was made the day before, which attracted some attention. On the very day, the machine has already been manufactured and duplicated, so they can appear to different cities at launch. Our story is set in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the machine has appeared in a kiosk in a mall and in the office of an average doctor. While many are skeptic, the machine has already chosen the fate of those who use it. And be careful, the machine has a dark sense of humor.

Need Help With: While I have gotten down a possible location for the RP to be set in, as a fictional location would be complicated to do, there can be the chance where there could be another location which might fit the RP. Another thing is if I should have "scenarios" implemented. Basically, these are events IC on how you can have your character be more developed. An example can be a party game night, minor accident, or concert.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

[Plzen]

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: The players represent corporate leaders, seeking to harness - and sometimes abuse - the forces of globalisation and economic growth to provide their respective shareholders with a nice big dividends.
Genre/s: Mechanics-based, light strategy, modern setting
Character or Faction Based: Both. Players will represent corporate leaders, but the mechanics revolve around their respective corporations.
Detailed Description: Welcome to your new job, Chief Executive Officer! Congratulations on your appointment. Needless to say, our stockholders are very much looking forwards to seeing your accomplishments, here at the top of our old and established corporation. Old and established, yes, but not yet very extensive. It will be your job to change that. Our wonderful globalised economy offers our corporation so many new ways of expansion and brings us so many new opportunities to profit, and money will be your tool to reshape the world in our vision. Play your cards right, and the stockholders will happily send you descending down on a golden parachute to retirement on your fifteenth yacht, and your legacy of impoverished, flooded, and/or war-torn cities will hopefully never be discovered. Link to OP draft.

Need Help With: First of all, gauging interest. I want to see roughly how many participants I would be looking at, if I decide to go ahead and run this thing. I also consider this RP to be more or less fully developed, but if anyone has suggestions, I'm still very much receptive to them. Even if you aren't interested in participating, I'd appreciate hearing why you're not interested.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

[Pax Nerdvana]

I have some ideas for a military SF RP, if anyone would want to help. I can explain more later.

[Jackania yugo]

I have some ideas for a military SF RP, if anyone would want to help. I can explain more later.

You mean sci-fi? Could be interesting.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I have some ideas for a military SF RP, if anyone would want to help. I can explain more later.

You mean sci-fi? Could be interesting.

Yeah. Scifi. The premise is that everyone os RPing as a star fighter pilot, stationed on a carrier, fighting something. I don't know what yet. All players would be in the same fighter squadron, as well.

[Jackania yugo]

You mean sci-fi? Could be interesting.

Yeah. Scifi. The premise is that everyone os RPing as a star fighter pilot, stationed on a carrier, fighting something. I don't know what yet. All players would be in the same fighter squadron, as well.

Like the sound of that. Just try not to make it star wars. Not that star wars is bad (HERESEY) but it's a bit...well...cliché.

Maybe also add mechs?

[Harbertia]

You mean sci-fi? Could be interesting.

Yeah. Scifi. The premise is that everyone os RPing as a star fighter pilot, stationed on a carrier, fighting something. I don't know what yet. All players would be in the same fighter squadron, as well.

Despite the fact that I don't usually RP combat very well, this has my interest.

[Jackania yugo]

Pax, maybe instead if just enemy faction there could be multiple that interact in diffrent ways. One example is one faction is battling the carrier and the another faction shows up ad they start fighting each other. The carrier might be able to get away.

[Harbertia]

Pax, maybe instead if just enemy faction there could be multiple that interact in diffrent ways. One example is one faction is battling the carrier and the another faction shows up ad they start fighting each other. The carrier might be able to get away.

I prefer us players being on the same squad.

[Harbertia]

Well I have for a while been wanting to host an RP in that Fairly Modern Grimm setting (it's like 'Once Upon a Time/Wolf Among Us/Happily Ever After High') but one that takes place during the 2nd World War with the war being tied into the bloodlines. Something the public doesn't really know (since no one really knows about the bloodlines save those in the culture).

So I've been thinking of how to weave fairytale lore into the war.

All I've got so far is Adolf Hitler means Wolf Shepard.

Adolf Hitler's sister Paula Hitler married and became Paula Wolf.

That's it.

Hitler is of the Shepard bloodline but half Wolf; a hybrid. His alcoholic father was a Wolf, and his father's mother. Karla Hitler left Mr. Hitler at some point.

Essentially his family are a mixture of Wolves and Shepards.

But that's all I've got. We've never created a Shepard bloodline to really work off but I do want something to be going on with the bloodlines.

Any suggestions?

[Jackania yugo]

Pax, maybe instead if just enemy faction there could be multiple that interact in diffrent ways. One example is one faction is battling the carrier and the another faction shows up ad they start fighting each other. The carrier might be able to get away.

I prefer us players being on the same squad.

Keep that the same. I said the enemy factions.

[Harbertia]

I prefer us players being on the same squad.

Keep that the same. I said the enemy factions.

Such is more for Pax to manage. I think he'd have an easier time handling one enemy faction; having to act the part of various NPCs in that faction is already a lot.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Pax, maybe instead if just enemy faction there could be multiple that interact in diffrent ways. One example is one faction is battling the carrier and the another faction shows up ad they start fighting each other. The carrier might be able to get away.

I prefer us players being on the same squad.

Yeah. We don't want to make it too complicated for poor ol' Pax. I'll start actually planning tomorrow, if I remember. I'm glad there's at least some interest too.

[Seraven]

The fresh thread smell...

You post here lot more than before, Anowa.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Ok. I have some background and stuff together, but it still needs a lot of work.

RP Name: The Second Intergalactic War
Genres: Character/Science Fiction

Lore/Background:
The year is 3989. The United States of Terra are at war with an alien race from another galaxy. For the second time. The first time around, the United States of Terra, barely won, and managed to push the aliens back in the Fourth Battle of Deneb. That was 30 years ago. The aliens are a humanoid race from the Andromeda galaxy. They are almost identical to humans, except for having blue skin, six fingers, and black hair. Not much is known about them, only what could be gleaned from the wreckage of their ships, and the dead. They are known as the Skix, and tend to be much smarter than the average human. And now they're back.

Tech:
The humans and the Skix have similar levels of technology. They are both capable of traveling to other star systems relatively fast, in about 2 months or so, via hyperdrives. Laser and plasma cannons are commonly used, as are basic energy shields. Terran ships tend to be more angular than Skix vessels.

The United States of Terra:
The UST was founded in 2465 in the aftermath of World War IV, by survivors from the former United States of America, the European Federation, and the Asian Union. They used a modified version of the US Constitution and united humanity. Space exploration than flourished. Dozens of worlds were colonized. There were a handful of uprisings and insurgencies, or occasionally hostile aliens. Thus, the UST Interstellar Force was created. The USTIF is the largest military branch. Ever.

The USTIF:
The USTIF uses a multitude of vessel types, including fighters, carriers, gunboats, cruisers, transports, and shuttles, although you only need to know about the fighters and carriers. The standard fighter is the SF-28 Corsair III. The standard fleet carrier is the Essex-Class.

The SF-28 Corsair III:
WIP

UST IntrepidV:
WIP

Your Role:
You are a fighter pilot in squadron VF-10 "Grim Reapers", stationed on the UST Intrepid V(CV-44) of the Ranger-Class. You are heading out on a long patrol to hunt the Skix, escorted by two cruisers, the UST Rodger Young, and the UST Normandy, and four destroyers, the Coral Sea, the Gearing, the Iwo Jima, and the Khe Sanh.History has not been forgotten.

[The Templar High Council]

Yeah. Scifi. The premise is that everyone os RPing as a star fighter pilot, stationed on a carrier, fighting something. I don't know what yet. All players would be in the same fighter squadron, as well.

Like the sound of that. Just try not to make it star wars. Not that star wars is bad (HERESEY) but it's a bit...well...cliché.

Maybe also add mechs?

Less Star Wars, more Star Fox. Various vehicles, primarily single-occupant fighter ships, room for camaraderie.

Speaking of single-occupant, Pax, would you be open to the idea of multi-crew ships? Like bombers that have a pilot and an ordinance officer, or larger ships with manned turrets? Each one being more effective at certain jobs, maybe even a rock-paper-scissors dynamic, to encourage variety in the ships crewed for missions.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Like the sound of that. Just try not to make it star wars. Not that star wars is bad (HERESEY) but it's a bit...well...cliché.

Maybe also add mechs?

Less Star Wars, more Star Fox. Various vehicles, primarily single-occupant fighter ships, room for camaraderie.

Speaking of single-occupant, Pax, would you be open to the idea of multi-crew ships? Like bombers that have a pilot and an ordinance officer, or larger ships with manned turrets? Each one being more effective at certain jobs, maybe even a rock-paper-scissors dynamic, to encourage variety in the ships crewed for missions.

I'm thinking mostly one man fighters, but yeah, we could definitely work in bombers.

[Indo-pasif archipelago]

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: The players represent corporate leaders, seeking to harness - and sometimes abuse - the forces of globalisation and economic growth to provide their respective shareholders with a nice big dividends.
Genre/s: Mechanics-based, light strategy, modern setting
Character or Faction Based: Both. Players will represent corporate leaders, but the mechanics revolve around their respective corporations.
Detailed Description: Welcome to your new job, Chief Executive Officer! Congratulations on your appointment. Needless to say, our stockholders are very much looking forwards to seeing your accomplishments, here at the top of our old and established corporation. Old and established, yes, but not yet very extensive. It will be your job to change that. Our wonderful globalised economy offers our corporation so many new ways of expansion and brings us so many new opportunities to profit, and money will be your tool to reshape the world in our vision. Play your cards right, and the stockholders will happily send you descending down on a golden parachute to retirement on your fifteenth yacht, and your legacy of impoverished, flooded, and/or war-torn cities will hopefully never be discovered. Link to OP draft.

Need Help With: First of all, gauging interest. I want to see roughly how many participants I would be looking at, if I decide to go ahead and run this thing. I also consider this RP to be more or less fully developed, but if anyone has suggestions, I'm still very much receptive to them. Even if you aren't interested in participating, I'd appreciate hearing why you're not interested.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

I'm interested in this. Will check the draft OP soon

[Nuridia]

I know it failed the first two times, and I'm not gonna reboot it right away...maybe two or three weeks. But who would be interested in a reboot of the Junior Gods if I did it?

[Harbertia]

I know it failed the first two times, and I'm not gonna reboot it right away...maybe two or three weeks. But who would be interested in a reboot of the Junior Gods if I did it?

Me, I'd play Hsiss again and attempt to avoid the freak out from the previous game- seeing how I was utterly convinced that Hsiss would be unmade if she failed.

[Agoi]

I know it failed the first two times, and I'm not gonna reboot it right away...maybe two or three weeks. But who would be interested in a reboot of the Junior Gods if I did it?

Sounds like a deity RP... I'd be interested in this...

[Turmenista]

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: In the midst of a global resource crisis and hard economic recession in 2027 America, a large NGO is offering high school students that would otherwise not be able to attend college a free chance for financial aid in the form of a "summer internship program." The program is catchy since the NGO teases being able to travel abroad to great places and make great money during the summer, but its true, nefarious form comes when these teens sign the contract and are issued a ticket to The Congo aboard a strange looking plane...
Genre/s: Post modern tech, Drama, slice of life, with slight aspects of dark comedy
Character or Faction Based: Character
Detailed Description: See above; in dev.

Need Help With: Help brainstorming

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[Olthenia]

What is the bare boned essence of roleplaying? Is there even such a thing? If you had to define "roleplaying", how'd you do it?

[Harbertia]

What is the bare boned essence of roleplaying? Is there even such a thing? If you had to define "roleplaying", how'd you do it?

You and your friends go out into the woods out behind the house.

Everyone declares they are something like an Elf, Giant or Dwarf and you all go along with it.

Fighting Orcs, and dealing with the twists and turns introduced by your peers.

Because your having fun no one objects to these turns they just role with it as a stick becomes a sword and a stone the most magical and powerful relic of all time.

Such is the bare bones of roleplaying.