[P2TM Chat] The Restaurant at the End of the Multiverse III

[Kaziimar]

I used the wrong thread...I'm so sorry, I thought this was the cafe thread.

[La Savant]

Greetings and well met, as you can see I am new here. At least this is a new account. I'm a returning member from 2010-2013 (roughly), and I am looking to get back into Nation States. I guess I could start things off with a question about an idea for a RP that I have. Mind you I won't be releasing it within any immediacy as I need to reintegrate myself here. I just thought I would use it as a point of introduction and conversation starter.

The idea is thus; in an ancient world setting (late stone age-bronze age, maybe iron age) a nomadic tribe has arrived in a lush region, uninhabited by any major tribes or kingdoms. The tribe is backwards and near barbaric, though are somewhat evolved in a sense. They're government is what one might call a "democracy of factions and parties". Decisions, policies, laws, and actions are discussed and voted on by three factions; the warrior faction, the religious faction, and the speakers of the tribe. Anyway, I'll come back to that.

The tribe settles in this region and evolves from tent-dwelling nomads and begin to establish a settlement, erecting temples to the gods, building houses and monuments, and erecting a forum and plotting farms, the whole nine yards.The tribe will face the challenges of growing as a society, such as droughts, famine, in-fighting, enemy attacks and invasions, negotiating with foreigners, and so forth. At one point they will face the opportunity to seize a kingdom and make it their own.

The RP will explore strategy, politics, societal growth, economic systems, diplomacy and such, and we will see just how well our players can evolve a society of nomads and what they will be molded in to.

Again, something I'm working on. Feedback is requested. It's good to be back!

[GlobalControl]

Dunno if this is really the right room for it, but I'd rather get it out there while its still sitting fresh in my mind, so that I can get feedback or told to take it to wherever. So if I must move it, tell me where and I'll jump, but i'mma let it sit here until then.

Something of a personal gripe but at the same time a bit of a question, relating to science fiction/FT roleplays in P2TM.
Often times I've seen the 'military' bit be described largely as 'list this, that, and so on, as well as numbers' but it really never specifies anything blatant, nonetheless covers something that I figure, for a lot of these rps, is very important. I myself am in fact guilty of it i'd wager, because well, I'm a Sperg. Logistics. Sure you have a military of over 30,000,000 people, but how many of those are actually even infantry or vehicle operators? What branches are they in, and of those how many actually even have a combat role?

I think that generally Logistics should be something to be included, add a bit more realism to the Nations of None Post-Scarcity and sometimes even Post-Scarcity societies in these rps. You could potentially extend this to actual NS nations themselves, but i'll just stick to P2TM. Logistics is important. Can't run a mechanized army without fuel, and can't march for long on an empty stomach, especially without water. You can't supply an armada with its torpedoes and fuel without tankers and cargo ships, and can't fix the more serious wounds from damaged warships without a hospital ship or station, or fix those ships themselves without shipyards or tugboats.

It might ruin the fun I figure for some, but for the sake of roleplay I think it could be generally considered to be important and it would add a bit more depth to rp.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Greetings and well met, as you can see I am new here. At least this is a new account. I'm a returning member from 2010-2013 (roughly), and I am looking to get back into Nation States. I guess I could start things off with a question about an idea for a RP that I have. Mind you I won't be releasing it within any immediacy as I need to reintegrate myself here. I just thought I would use it as a point of introduction and conversation starter.

The idea is thus; in an ancient world setting (late stone age-bronze age, maybe iron age) a nomadic tribe has arrived in a lush region, uninhabited by any major tribes or kingdoms. The tribe is backwards and near barbaric, though are somewhat evolved in a sense. They're government is what one might call a "democracy of factions and parties". Decisions, policies, laws, and actions are discussed and voted on by three factions; the warrior faction, the religious faction, and the speakers of the tribe. Anyway, I'll come back to that.

The tribe settles in this region and evolves from tent-dwelling nomads and begin to establish a settlement, erecting temples to the gods, building houses and monuments, and erecting a forum and plotting farms, the whole nine yards.The tribe will face the challenges of growing as a society, such as droughts, famine, in-fighting, enemy attacks and invasions, negotiating with foreigners, and so forth. At one point they will face the opportunity to seize a kingdom and make it their own.

The RP will explore strategy, politics, societal growth, economic systems, diplomacy and such, and we will see just how well our players can evolve a society of nomads and what they will be molded in to.

Again, something I'm working on. Feedback is requested. It's good to be back!

Well, I personally love this idea- but I’ve always been a fan of Antiquity as a RP setting. Are you planning to model players as lineages of characters? Specific individuals who impact history at various points? Guilds/clans/factions?

[Olthenia]

Greetings and well met, as you can see I am new here. At least this is a new account. I'm a returning member from 2010-2013 (roughly), and I am looking to get back into Nation States. I guess I could start things off with a question about an idea for a RP that I have. Mind you I won't be releasing it within any immediacy as I need to reintegrate myself here. I just thought I would use it as a point of introduction and conversation starter.

The idea is thus; in an ancient world setting (late stone age-bronze age, maybe iron age) a nomadic tribe has arrived in a lush region, uninhabited by any major tribes or kingdoms. The tribe is backwards and near barbaric, though are somewhat evolved in a sense. They're government is what one might call a "democracy of factions and parties". Decisions, policies, laws, and actions are discussed and voted on by three factions; the warrior faction, the religious faction, and the speakers of the tribe. Anyway, I'll come back to that.

The tribe settles in this region and evolves from tent-dwelling nomads and begin to establish a settlement, erecting temples to the gods, building houses and monuments, and erecting a forum and plotting farms, the whole nine yards.The tribe will face the challenges of growing as a society, such as droughts, famine, in-fighting, enemy attacks and invasions, negotiating with foreigners, and so forth. At one point they will face the opportunity to seize a kingdom and make it their own.

The RP will explore strategy, politics, societal growth, economic systems, diplomacy and such, and we will see just how well our players can evolve a society of nomads and what they will be molded in to.

Again, something I'm working on. Feedback is requested. It's good to be back!

Well, I personally love this idea- but I’ve always been a fan of Antiquity as a RP setting. Are you planning to model players as lineages of characters? Specific individuals who impact history at various points? Guilds/clans/factions?

Forging your own tribal lineage sounds like good fun.

[La Savant]

Greetings and well met, as you can see I am new here. At least this is a new account. I'm a returning member from 2010-2013 (roughly), and I am looking to get back into Nation States. I guess I could start things off with a question about an idea for a RP that I have. Mind you I won't be releasing it within any immediacy as I need to reintegrate myself here. I just thought I would use it as a point of introduction and conversation starter.

The idea is thus; in an ancient world setting (late stone age-bronze age, maybe iron age) a nomadic tribe has arrived in a lush region, uninhabited by any major tribes or kingdoms. The tribe is backwards and near barbaric, though are somewhat evolved in a sense. They're government is what one might call a "democracy of factions and parties". Decisions, policies, laws, and actions are discussed and voted on by three factions; the warrior faction, the religious faction, and the speakers of the tribe. Anyway, I'll come back to that.

The tribe settles in this region and evolves from tent-dwelling nomads and begin to establish a settlement, erecting temples to the gods, building houses and monuments, and erecting a forum and plotting farms, the whole nine yards.The tribe will face the challenges of growing as a society, such as droughts, famine, in-fighting, enemy attacks and invasions, negotiating with foreigners, and so forth. At one point they will face the opportunity to seize a kingdom and make it their own.

The RP will explore strategy, politics, societal growth, economic systems, diplomacy and such, and we will see just how well our players can evolve a society of nomads and what they will be molded in to.

Again, something I'm working on. Feedback is requested. It's good to be back!

Well, I personally love this idea- but I’ve always been a fan of Antiquity as a RP setting. Are you planning to model players as lineages of characters? Specific individuals who impact history at various points? Guilds/clans/factions?

I’m thinking that yes. Dividing the RP up into Acts and-or chapters or periods.
The big question for me though (well 2 actually) is basic mechanics and “will people be drawn to this’?

[La Savant]

UPDATE: Working on my ancient world RP. I may complete it as early as tomorrow, we will see.

[Esternial]

Hey guys. It's been a while, actually.

Still remember me, perhaps? I was the guy who wrote How Roleplays Die, a dispatch about roleplaying in this site which is so well read that I have been notified that it's been linked as recently as a few months ago.

I've kinda written an another essay, this time called Why Do Free-Form Roleplays Work?

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1196585

Hope you are interested!

It was quite the read.

I sort of disagree with your input on forcefully killing someone's character. A dungeon master isn't going to give their players a pass if they do something immensely stupid. You shouldn't arbitrarily kill them, certainly, but if they put their character in an impossible situation they shouldn't godmode their character out of it.

I'm certain these instances are very rare, but sometimes you have people that create a mary sue and don't want to give them up under no circumstance - this itself already displays a disregard for co-operatively writing a story with others.

[Finland SSR]

Hey guys. It's been a while, actually.

Still remember me, perhaps? I was the guy who wrote How Roleplays Die, a dispatch about roleplaying in this site which is so well read that I have been notified that it's been linked as recently as a few months ago.

I've kinda written an another essay, this time called Why Do Free-Form Roleplays Work?

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1196585

Hope you are interested!

It was quite the read.

I sort of disagree with your input on forcefully killing someone's character. A dungeon master isn't going to give their players a pass if they do something immensely stupid. You shouldn't arbitrarily kill them, certainly, but if they put their character in an impossible situation they shouldn't godmode their character out of it.

I'm certain these instances are very rare, but sometimes you have people that create a mary sue and don't want to give them up under no circumstance - this itself already displays a disregard for co-operatively writing a story with others.

Thanks for the review. I did write "no killing characters under any circumstance" in the essay, but, honestly, these types of situations are reason why I, personally, imagine the recommendations as at least somewhat malleable.

The best situation, obviously, would be the player being conscious enough to understand that they should accept the consequences of writing their character into an impossible situation, from which the only method of escape is to jeopardize their own plot, but I understand that sometimes this may not be the case.

[Dayganistan]

What are some active RPs at the moment that would be easy for a newcomer to jump into? Preferably not of the superhero or fantasy genres.

[Rostavykhan]

What are some active RPs at the moment that would be easy for a newcomer to jump into? Preferably not of the superhero or fantasy genres.

If you're into something with a variety of genres and/or story arcs, then Voyage Through The Multiverse might be worth checking out. Might not be. I don't know how you feel about multi-genre/crossover style RP's with different player-driven stories over a structured single plot. It's fairly active, however.

I'm also totally not shilling I swear.

Dunno if this is really the right room for it, but I'd rather get it out there while its still sitting fresh in my mind, so that I can get feedback or told to take it to wherever. So if I must move it, tell me where and I'll jump, but i'mma let it sit here until then.

Something of a personal gripe but at the same time a bit of a question, relating to science fiction/FT roleplays in P2TM.
Often times I've seen the 'military' bit be described largely as 'list this, that, and so on, as well as numbers' but it really never specifies anything blatant, nonetheless covers something that I figure, for a lot of these rps, is very important. I myself am in fact guilty of it i'd wager, because well, I'm a Sperg. Logistics. Sure you have a military of over 30,000,000 people, but how many of those are actually even infantry or vehicle operators? What branches are they in, and of those how many actually even have a combat role?

I think that generally Logistics should be something to be included, add a bit more realism to the Nations of None Post-Scarcity and sometimes even Post-Scarcity societies in these rps. You could potentially extend this to actual NS nations themselves, but i'll just stick to P2TM. Logistics is important. Can't run a mechanized army without fuel, and can't march for long on an empty stomach, especially without water. You can't supply an armada with its torpedoes and fuel without tankers and cargo ships, and can't fix the more serious wounds from damaged warships without a hospital ship or station, or fix those ships themselves without shipyards or tugboats.

It might ruin the fun I figure for some, but for the sake of roleplay I think it could be generally considered to be important and it would add a bit more depth to rp.

I never bother with numbers for militaries if I can, though I tend to not really take part in RP's where military numbers and statistics matter. Like, I try to give general numbers and focus a little on describing different branches, logistics, etc, but hammering out detailed sheets of numbers and divisions and whatnot gives me a headache.

Though, I'm less of a super MilReal MT/PMT/FT type person who would probably care about that, too. I prefer to just make semi-decent pixel art and write little tidbits about my stuff.

[Skarten]

Ya ever feel like playing as an syndicate in an sci-fi faction RP but then realize there are no faction sci-fi RPs that are alive

[G-Tech Corporation]

Ya ever feel like playing as an syndicate in an sci-fi faction RP but then realize there are no faction sci-fi RPs that are alive

Mass effect factions is active right now

[Revlona]

Ya ever feel like playing as an syndicate in an sci-fi faction RP but then realize there are no faction sci-fi RPs that are alive

Psst

[Harkback Union]

Winter is coming...

[G-Tech Corporation]

Winter is coming...

A new Harkback GoT RP you say?

[Harkback Union]

Winter is coming...

A new Harkback GoT RP you say?

Alas no...

You will be very few in, lost in a world of ice, with an enigma to solve before the clock hits midnight.

I can say no more then that.

[Harkback Union]

A new Harkback GoT RP you say?

Alas no...

You will be very few in, lost in a world of ice, with an enigma to solve before the clock hits midnight.

I can say no more then that.

The time has now come:

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[Kyrusia]

Congratulations to Giovenith, our newest Senior P2TM RP Mentor!

[Giovenith]

Thanks for all your continued trust and support, everyone. I'll continue to try my best with the responsibilities given.

[Rostavykhan]

Honest question on my end - Are mentors still really even a big thing? Like, I know it used to be a big thing back a few years ago, but I honestly can't think of the last time I've seen any big events or mentors really being active around NS, at least in P2TM. I usually only get reminded of it when, like, I see the occasional G-Tech post and see mint and think "oh yeah, that's a thing."

I'm not terribly active outside of my one RP and the occasional lurking around new RP's though, so I'm probably just not seeing most of what happens in P2TM. I also know II and NS have their own mentor groups, I just don't post there anymore, lol.

Really should get to putting that worldbuilding and art to use in those subforums though...when I get off my lazy ass and decide to do more...in a million years...maybe...it's on the to-do list. That Star Trek state will be given love some day...and the Dieselpunk one...

Ya ever feel like playing as an syndicate in an sci-fi faction RP but then realize there are no faction sci-fi RPs that are alive

Now I'm thinking of Warframe's syndicates.

Or that one faction from that Civ IV Final Frontier mod...

[Rostavykhan]

Ya ever feel like playing as an syndicate in an sci-fi faction RP but then realize there are no faction sci-fi RPs that are alive

I've been wanting to do a Star Wars faction on and off for a bit...

But not like in a Star Wars RP or anything, and not like the Empire or CIS or anything.

Like, playing in some Multiverse or sci-fi crossover RP as a single Clone or Stormtrooper unit that's stranded and left on their own. Specifically, a communications and support unit. Just a small regiment of troopers with speeders and walkers, running around behind the lines setting up communication lines and command posts and convoy routes, and scouting around and running small ops like that while other factions are doing their big showdowns and battles.

[Pax Nerdvana]

Ya ever feel like playing as an syndicate in an sci-fi faction RP but then realize there are no faction sci-fi RPs that are alive

I've been wanting to do a Star Wars faction on and off for a bit...

But not like in a Star Wars RP or anything, and not like the Empire or CIS or anything.

Like, playing in some Multiverse or sci-fi crossover RP as a single Clone or Stormtrooper unit that's stranded and left on their own. Specifically, a communications and support unit. Just a small regiment of troopers with speeders and walkers, running around behind the lines setting up communication lines and command posts and convoy routes, and scouting around and running small ops like that while other factions are doing their big showdowns and battles.

That could be fun. I've always wanted to do an RP based around X-Wing Rogue Squadron.

[A Paradise for Few]

What are some new (below 100 ic posts) superpower RPs?

[Ithalian Empire]

A FT nation rp for people who want to get there space on.