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

[Nuridia]

Is the 'Junior Gods' RP still in the works?

Unfortunately not, Harb. And the pirate one was a bust, now I'm deciding between maybe aliens and werewolves to see what will garner interest. I do plan on putting an RP up at another date, but I need to pick the subject. Wanna do pirates but people aren't really interested in that so I'm gonna see what else I got.

[Harbertia]

Is the 'Junior Gods' RP still in the works?

Unfortunately not, Harb. And the pirate one was a bust, now I'm deciding between maybe aliens and werewolves to see what will garner interest. I do plan on putting an RP up at another date, but I need to pick the subject. Wanna do pirates but people aren't really interested in that so I'm gonna see what else I got.

Well Aliens or Werewolves should be interesting. I'm not really into the idea of pirates either.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Looks good Harb.

A simple RP for the Season :devilishlydelightedgrin:

All of you are invited.

Tag incoming.

[The Batavia]

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: An Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Roleplay taking place between the events of Stardust Crusaders and Diamond is Unbreakable
Genre/s: Anime-based, Action, (I guess) Fantasy, humor
Character or Faction Based: Character based
Detailed Description: The year is 1993, four years after the defeat of the vampire DIO. More and more Stand Users are discovered every day by the Speedwagon Foundation. For a while now, the Foundation has been trying to recruit Stand Users to work for them as Agents to stop Stand-Based attacks, assassinations and other incidents.

The first six players (including me) start off as an international investigation team working for the Speedwagon who will be deployed across the globe to investigate incidents where a Stand-User is involved in. The other players who join later Will first be introduced as enemy Stand-Users, but can possibly be recruited by the Speedwagon Foundation after they lost their fight. I'll first only do random incidents for the sake of character development and such, but slowly and surely a bigger plot will be developed.

Need Help With: Interest, a Co-op, World building, further polishing and possible OOC and IC drafting.

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

[Pax Nerdvana]

I'm working on that Alien RP draft. Here's what I have:

RP NAME:
Alien: Evolution (SF/Horror)

Background:
Two months ago, contact was lost with research station RS-33. Nobody is sure of what happened, so we're going in to figure out what happened. There are suspicions that the station was researching the Xenomorph creature, and it got loose. We'll be docking with the station in t-minus 3 hours. That gives you three hours to prep. I'm sure you all are familiar with the M41A1 Pulse Rifle, but I'll give you all a quick refresher in case you've forgotten. It's a 10 mm caseless electrical pulse operated rifle, with a built in pump action grenade launcher. It has a 99 round magazine, with an ammo counter on the side of the rifle. I forgot to show you all the map. I'll pull that up now. We'll be docking at the main hangar bay, and going from there. We'll methodically sweep the station.

[Harbertia]

A quick update - The Stories in the Forest RP will be starting tomorrow- now may be the latest point one can join. I'm happy to say the lore has expanded and the characters have become woven together- it's looking great. I'm pleased as I was worried about how out of practice I am with OOCs.

[Harbertia]

The RP has started and is closed to new entries; mostly.

The desired number of characters has been reached so new entries will need a compelling character to be accepted- one woven into the existing set up that may enter the scene with ease. It'll be difficult to gain entry at this point.

[Danubian Peoples]

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept:An alt-history WW2 where players may or may not roleplay as a PT nation different from the one described in their custom fields.
Genre/s:Alt-history.
Character or Faction Based:The latter, I guess
Detailed Description:The RP begins on the 1st of January, 1936. Nations interested will have to file an application and in that application describe a nation that has PT tech and is a plausible alt-hist. No magic wizards or space aliens taking over America. (I didn't put that last part in the RP's set of rules, more on that later, but with the premise of the roleplay, I think everyone should and does know that)

Need Help With:Feedback regarding my OOC thread skills, for this is also my first P2TM RP, as well as more players to fill out the rest of the world. Link to OOC thread can be found https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=452697

Please leave this hashtag in place: #Mentorhelp

[Mister Thirteen]

So recently I’ve been juggling the idea of a “fantasy crusader” RP if you will. A small region in a “to-be-created” fantasy world is infamous for it’s Daemon worship and profane rituals. Canabilism, bestial fetishim, mass human sacrifice, using children as vents to the Daemonic realms, the whole nine yards. An order of holy crusaders, or Paladins, campaign into the region to exterminate the dark religions of old and convert the populace to their own religion.

This RP was inspired by the historical Baltic Crusade and the Vigilants of Stendarr from Skyrim exclusively. Players can choose to play as an order Paladin or a warrior or warlock of the Daemon worshipping populace. This will effectively be much like Warhammer 40K in a sense. The majority of the RP will be epic and bloody battles of intense graphics and mass destruction.

Well?... Thoughts? Input? Comments? Insults?

[The Brotherhood of the Crimson Isles]

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: The roleplay will take place in the age of exploration on a global map, players are free to use a historical nation or design their nation how they wish and can explore, build, trade, war, etc
Genre/s: Historical/AltHistory
Character or Faction Based: It can be both, players have nations but the players in our region like to have interactions between characters when conducting diplomacy.
Detailed Description: The biggest thing I want feedback on is the actual roleplay system, in our region we have rp stats (unconnected to ns stats) which are kept track of in a google sheets. We do this so players have a quantifiable measure of exactly what their nation is like because in previous rps and it goes a long way to prevent god offing even when mods aren’t on because other players can easily see what they are all capable of and it helps the rp self moderate to a degree when mods can’t be on or when there is too much happening for the mods to keep track of everything. I will post my wip sheets and docs as well as the map and would really appreciate feedback on ways I could streamline things or remove unnecessary components as well as just general balance things. And also if anyone has an idea for how I could implement trade in a meaningful way I would really appewciate feedback on that.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 2f9X1ixQkw
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13LO ... OpQZFQpsy0
Sorry the map is a link, but it’s too big to post in the from
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... 721/s7.png

[Plzen]

-snip-

The mechanics are very incomplete, but I'd be interested to see where this goes.

[Shark isle]

RP INTEREST AND FEEDBACK REQUEST

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Please provide as much detail as possible.
RP's Overarching Concept: A Academy RP where you are training to be Agents of Vengeance or Furies.
Genre/s: Action, Academy, Adventure
Character or Faction Based: Character
Detailed Description: The RP is about an Academy in the Afterlife that trains students to be ''Agents of Vengeance", or "Furies". The characters would be people who have died a unjust death and were given a chance to avenge themselves by the headmaster of the Academy, The Angel of Vengeance. But in return, they would have to become students at his academy once they crossed onto the Afterlife and train to become Furies and help other people worth avenging. The RP would have the PCs training to become Furies in a strict, military school like setting while going on into the mortal plain in "study groups" answering a plea for vengeance heard by the Angel of Vengeance. The RP would have you fighting mostly evil humans and demons, who feed off of human misery and encourage more evil acts to occur to feed themselves.

Need Help With I mostly need help developing the Academy this RP is set in and developing the Angel of Vengeance character.

[The Brotherhood of the Crimson Isles]

-snip-

The mechanics are very incomplete, but I'd be interested to see where this goes.

I appreciate the interest. Yeah, this rp is till in the very early phases, I have it slated to begin in late December or early January. But if you’re interested in similar mechanics you can check out our current rp.

[The Brotherhood of the Crimson Isles]

So recently I’ve been juggling the idea of a “fantasy crusader” RP if you will. A small region in a “to-be-created” fantasy world is infamous for it’s Daemon worship and profane rituals. Canabilism, bestial fetishim, mass human sacrifice, using children as vents to the Daemonic realms, the whole nine yards. An order of holy crusaders, or Paladins, campaign into the region to exterminate the dark religions of old and convert the populace to their own religion.

This RP was inspired by the historical Baltic Crusade and the Vigilants of Stendarr from Skyrim exclusively. Players can choose to play as an order Paladin or a warrior or warlock of the Daemon worshipping populace. This will effectively be much like Warhammer 40K in a sense. The majority of the RP will be epic and bloody battles of intense graphics and mass destruction.

Well?... Thoughts? Input? Comments? Insults?

Hi, in my region we recently had a nation based roleplay set in a fantasy world. From my experience with it is you’ll want to set up clear rules as to how magic will work in your rp because what I’ve learned from both sci-fi and fantasy rps is that you need something in place so players know what they are able to actually do

[Mister Thirteen]

Hmph.

[Harbertia]

Hmph.

Your idea reminds me a lot of the Diablo setting.

But I'm wondering how this order even exists in a world as you have described.

[Harbertia]

I've gotten obsessed with Star Wars recently- like last week on into this week- ongoing right now.

Watching videos on youtube, trying to download the core rulebooks of the RPG, reading Wookipedia, and getting into discussions on the topic.

.... I'm in the mood for Star Wars. I thought there was an RP going on but there isn't that I can find so- anyone thinking of launching one or care to share what they'd one out of such an RP?

[Dayganistan]

I've gotten obsessed with Star Wars recently- like last week on into this week- ongoing right now.

Watching videos on youtube, trying to download the core rulebooks of the RPG, reading Wookipedia, and getting into discussions on the topic.

.... I'm in the mood for Star Wars. I thought there was an RP going on but there isn't that I can find so- anyone thinking of launching one or care to share what they'd one out of such an RP?

I recently went and watched the main series movies from episode 1 to 8 and got kind of interested in Star Wars lore as well and was kind of disappointed to see there wasn't a Star Wars RP going on at the moment. I'm not sure what kind of Star Was RP I'd really want though.

Also kind of related to this, something I thought would be kind of interesting would be a Star Wars vs Earth type of situation where the Empire or First Order discovers Earth and tries to take it over.

[Plzen]

Also kind of related to this, something I thought would be kind of interesting would be a Star Wars vs Earth type of situation where the Empire or First Order discovers Earth and tries to take it over.

"The real world is suddenly placed in a fictional setting" is always an interesting premise.

[Harbertia]

Also kind of related to this, something I thought would be kind of interesting would be a Star Wars vs Earth type of situation where the Empire or First Order discovers Earth and tries to take it over.

"The real world is suddenly placed in a fictional setting" is always an interesting premise.

Indeed, I actually wrote a bit about that last week. A CIS meets 1950s Earth scenario by having Episode 1 take place in the year 1944 (when George Lucas was born).

Formal diplomatic relations between the UN and CIS beyond audio communications preluding the arrival of Ambassador Bonteri occurred in the year 1956 with General-Secretary Dag shaking Bonteri's hand in greeting as the event was televised. This set a casual tone which even with Bonteri's regal air demonstrated the shared humanity. Among the topics brought up in this public reveal was Bonteri's Human appearance to which she also expressed that Humans beyond Earth where surprised to have found a world inhabited by other Humans who did not even know of Corellia which to them is a homeworld. This casual mention sent waves across the scientific and religious communities; with Humans having (it would seem) not originating on Earth the 'Origin of Man' by evolutionary standards that relied on fossils from Earth had to be reconsidered. Additionally too does the belief that mankind was created on Earth though some, such as a portion of the Christian population, rationalized that these Corellians may be descended from Enoch who was taken from Earth by God before he could die prior to the flood. Some stretching such so far as to speculate that Enoch became a new Adam from which another Eve was forged. Others, a larger portion determined that this first contact was 'the Great Deception' and that the end of the world- the rise of the New Order was close at hand. Bonteri was too human they speculated to be a real alien and thus the event must be staged. Such was a view held by other, none religious, groups as well who feared the encounter to be a globalist falsehood.

In private, once away from the public's eye- Bonteri was able to make the situation fully known to the Secretary-General and representatives from the three most powerful nations on Earth. The Confederacy of Independent Systems was in a war of succession with a Grand Republic; a bureaucratically choked institution waging war with a slave army against worlds seeking to peacefully leave and handle those matters the republic failed to. As an ambassador of the CIS she had come to negotiate for trade agreements between the United Nations of Earth and the CIS to diminish food shortages in the Confederacy. This food would save millions of lives from starvation and bring revenue from thousands of worlds who would send merchants to Earth.

The United Nations was understandably reluctant to be pulled into a Galactic conflict. They where concerned that, having recognized the CIS by accepting it's ambassador they may become a target for the Republic and it's slave army (as the CIS described it).Some nations however began independent negotiations to begin trade. Once China began to procure B1 Battle Droids the other powers of Earth saw this trade as necessary for the balance of global power and they too began to open to trade with the Confederacy.
Through this trade the people of Earth learned of the Jedi, who where described as a religious warrior sect originally meant to keep peace in the Republic through diplomacy but having become by this war enforcers of the Republic's will and commanders of it's slave army. This order's practice of taking children from their mothers to be raised as warriors and indoctrinated into their religion did not set well with the public which found more reason to despise the Republic as support for the CIS grew.

But these relations would be short lived with Bonteri being recalled as ambassador and replaced in 1957 by a more alien diplomat. That year she would be assassinated far away while seeking a peaceful resolution to the war and the Confederacy of Independent Systems would fall.The newly formed Galactic Empire would sweep into CIS territory- and Earth would fall under Imperial occupation a few years into this last stretch of the Clone Wars. Pleads of neutrality being unheeded due to Earth's recognition of the CIS through accepting it's ambassador and various nations forming treaties with it. The Emperor's 'New Order' spread across the globe.

By the mid-60s Earth had an appointed Imperial Governor and was being promised eventual representation in the Imperial Senate. The 60s was largely a time of rebuilding after the Imperial Invasion and saw efforts to eradicate racial tensions by focusing such emotions towards none Humans; which made the bulk of the CIS member worlds.The Imperial Governor's administration put a lot of effort into this with the CIS being put in blame for having; according to Imperial education, pulled Earth into the conflict when it was not ready- seeing Earth merely as an asset to be had in that war. The 60s also saw various revolts take place, and resistance movements rise. The Governor took the action of force to suppress such making the 60s both a time of rebellion and social change.

Notes:

• 1972 - Imperial Senate Establishes State Atheism in the Empire. The New Order Philosophy adopted as a Political Religion.
• 1976 - Episode 4, Senate Dissolved, Regional Governors given legislative power over their regions. As such they could choose to increase religious freedoms if they so desired or manipulate trade laws to that which they desired. In short they could now make the law to fit their population. Destruction of Alderran and the first Death Star.
• 1979 - Episode 5
• 1980 - Palpatine's Sith connection made public knowledge, acknowledged as State Religion of the Galactic Empire. Allowing the the Emperor and such individuals as Vader to be more open in their display of power where it had previously been a secret order comprised of the highest levels of Imperial authority. Episode 6, Death of the Emperor, Destruction of Death Star II.
• 2010 - Episode 7, destruction of the New Republic Capital and Starkiller base.

What are your thoughts Plzen?

@Dayganistan: Does it still suit your Empire vs Earth desire?

[Brusia]

There was a Star Wars RP awhile back with what I thought was a really great premise, which unfortunately never made it to the IC stage. It was set shortly after the New Sith Wars near the start of the Ruusan Reformation, where we sort of see the era of the Old Republic ending and becoming the Republic we know from the start of the prequels. I think it's a really interesting era for a Star Wars RP as there isn't a whole lot written on it, which would give the RPers a good deal of freedom in how they want events to progress, and I think the demilitarization of the Republic and Jedi Order, end of the Jedi Lords, and forcing of the few remaining Sith into hiding gives players on all sides a whole lot to write character responses to. Here's the old OOC if you're interested in reading more: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=449390

I think it could be interesting to have a similar sort of RP set in that era (though I might move the RP start date up abit to bring it closer to the end of the New Sith Wars). What do you think?

[Plzen]

You know, in light of the recent Volume 6 premier of RWBY, would anyone be interested in hosting an RP in that setting?

[Harbertia]

There was a Star Wars RP awhile back with what I thought was a really great premise, which unfortunately never made it to the IC stage. It was set shortly after the New Sith Wars near the start of the Ruusan Reformation, where we sort of see the era of the Old Republic ending and becoming the Republic we know from the start of the prequels. I think it's a really interesting era for a Star Wars RP as there isn't a whole lot written on it, which would give the RPers a good deal of freedom in how they want events to progress, and I think the demilitarization of the Republic and Jedi Order, end of the Jedi Lords, and forcing of the few remaining Sith into hiding gives players on all sides a whole lot to write character responses to. Here's the old OOC if you're interested in reading more: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=449390

I think it could be interesting to have a similar sort of RP set in that era (though I might move the RP start date up abit to bring it closer to the end of the New Sith Wars). What do you think?

I think you are correct in that such an era offers the most creative liberty to players. As Star Wars has always focused on War (and it's in the name) having the RP closer to the end of the New Sith Wars would fit but on a personal level I've not really been one to get carried into war. I suspect I'd play someone who wasn't as focused in conflict but would still take action; like Padme from Episode 1- went to the senate but the senate failed her.

However the OOC you have there already has the makings of a conflict in the works. It's focused on something players can focus on as a group; finding this Sith Lord. I like your current idea and would still be up for one slightly further back but feel the present one to give the most purpose to why the characters are together.

[Harbertia]

I've had a few characters in mind for a Star Wars RPG but didn't actually get to play them.

A Pod Racer, a Bounty Hunter, and then... the more recent idea has been a Kaminoan and that- poses a lot of issues.

My Pod Racer needs a sponsor, the Bounty Hunter needs gadgets, but the Kaminoan....

just by being Kaminoan poses issues. Trying to find where they are in the expanded universe is challenging. They where a known member of the Republic over 9000 years before the Battle of Yavin but ended up leaving the Republic- without incident- years after that. Prior to the New Sith Empire War- many thousand of years before.

During the time between leaving the Republic and creating the Grand Army of the Republic the Kaminoans where reclusive but still had trade deals- creating clone mining teams, being active enough fro some of their saberdarts to be around- but always keeping secret about where they are from and preferring to remain out of galactic affairs. They had arrangements with private individuals and so forth.

So- during those years- say shortly after the New Sith Empire fell- they where still rarely seen, highly enigmatic, and isolationist.

By the time of the clone Wars they saw themselves as simply filling out an order and filling new orders for clones but as separate from the Republic still (having no senator and not being under it's laws). Still some Kaminoans thought about how long ago Kamino left the Republic without incident and felt sympathy for the CIS and Separatist movements.

But- for this setting (the inbetween old and declining republic) I'd have to ask questions like "Why is she off world?" "What would her general occupation be called?" and so forth. I'd have to ask how she'd get involved with other characters and how being largely none combative she would take part in their venture.

I know that her motives are primarily these;

• Profit
• Knowledge
• Security

And that personality wise she's polite yet secretive and - yes secretly hold rather displeased thoughts and puts on an air of empathy that has virtually been eliminated.

*I've got to run off for a bit but any help brainstorming about such a character is welcomed*

[Harbertia]

@Dayganistan: Also I haven't abandoned your proposals. I'm just showing interest in other options as well so the Earth/Star Wars option is still worth discussing.