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Post by daistallia on Jul 9, 2014 23:29:12 GMT
I've always liked mish-mash everything goes settings. Like where a Samurai goes through a time portal and fights Nazis with a chainsaw. Pretty much anything sounds good, really. The only thing I'd consider is how often people post- if it becomes ones of those roleplays where people post like 20 times a day every day and I come home from work and there's a giant mess of text that's like a small novel I think I wouldn't stick around for very long. Agreed on the last bit for sure! I did have another idea. Back in the 90s, there was an RPG called TORG. The setting involved Earth being invaded by other realities that fought to turn Earth into their reality. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 0:22:58 GMT
I'm pretty shitty with anything that's not some iteration of my NS nation, as I've been kinda country/world-building it over the last decade, slowly. Starting from scratch is pretty daunting to me, though might be feasible, depending on the setting.
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Post by Дьяково on Jul 10, 2014 2:31:39 GMT
Heh... If someone does end up running a superhero rp, I've already got my character mostly done... And now he's done... I haven't done a proper back story for a character in years... |
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Post by maurepas on Jul 10, 2014 3:17:35 GMT
I'm generally a big Steampunk guy. But I can pretty much do anything, color me in for whatever we decide to run. I've been dying for some more RPing as NS has prettymuch failed me lately.
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Post by Poli on Jul 10, 2014 4:27:02 GMT
So, seeing as EVERY setting is popular, right now, here are the possibilities I am personally strongly considering: - Co-running a closed or semi-closed game-style X-Men RP if someone who's more of a comic book geek than me would be my co-runner and let me also play a character. If one of you would be interested in that, let me know - I'd be looking for someone who's well versed in the X-Men and knows various minor characters who could pop up and such, because while I love the X-Men, my fandom is largely confined to the animated TV show of long ago (of which I remember very little except that I liked it a lot) and the movies (except for X3, because fuck X3), and so I don't know/remember a lot of the relative trivia. - Running a closed or semi-closed story-style RP in either a steampunk, urban fantasy, or post-apocalyptic setting (which of those three I'd pick pretty much comes down to "whichever one I can think of a cool story idea for"). - "Running" an open, "coffee shop" style RP (in which I don't so much give you a story as a setting and let everyone, including me, develop their own stories between characters) in a different one of the same three settings I just listed (again, which setting pretty much comes down to "whichever one I like best of the two I didn't think of a story for"). - Playing in almost any setting somebody ELSE wants to run (some definitely appeal to me more than others, of course). I don't know if I'll do ALL of those things, but I'm almost certainly up for any two of them, at least.  |
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Post by The Beautiful Darkness on Jul 10, 2014 4:41:01 GMT
While it's not my usual thing, I'd be down for a Poli run post apocalyptic.
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Post by TSM on Jul 10, 2014 4:48:32 GMT
I'd love to do xmen but I know precisely fuckall about the universe besides the movies
(also agreed X-3 was laaaaaaame)
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Post by daistallia on Jul 10, 2014 4:59:47 GMT
Oh, and if you want a café/tavern/whatever hangout, I've got an idea for that. |
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Post by muravyets on Jul 10, 2014 5:02:18 GMT
I'd be up for any of these or any combination thereof including all of them combined. Yes, I can completely envision a post-apocalyptic setting in which the world is rebuilt using steam tech and there are dragons. Totally. Also, you could set up an open "coffee shop" thread and just let it exist along with anything else we might do from time to time. They can kind of run themselves, especially if you make it an automat type shop where you don't need much in the way of staff.  |
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Post by Umbra Ac Silentium on Jul 10, 2014 5:16:21 GMT
I'd love to either a post-apocalyptic or sci-fi one. What is urban fantasy though?
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Post by maurepas on Jul 10, 2014 5:16:44 GMT
I know a pretty good bit about the XMen so I'm down for that as well, and any others of course.
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Post by daistallia on Jul 10, 2014 5:19:02 GMT
I'd love to either a post-apocalyptic or sci-fi one. What is urban fantasy though? Urban Fantasy is loosely any fantastic urban setting, but most commonly it's fantastic elements set in an otherwise contemporary urban environment. |
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Post by Umbra Ac Silentium on Jul 10, 2014 5:24:47 GMT
I'd love to either a post-apocalyptic or sci-fi one. What is urban fantasy though? Urban Fantasy is loosely any fantastic urban setting, but most commonly it's fantastic elements set in an otherwise contemporary urban environment. How does that work? Genies in the car engines and MD's in spellcasting? |
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Post by TSM on Jul 10, 2014 5:27:59 GMT
Kinda! Like Dresden Files or October Daye sorta stuff.
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Post by daistallia on Jul 10, 2014 5:29:35 GMT
Urban Fantasy is loosely any fantastic urban setting, but most commonly it's fantastic elements set in an otherwise contemporary urban environment. How does that work? Genies in the car engines and MD's in spellcasting? It varies, but yeah, that would fit. |
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Post by Umbra Ac Silentium on Jul 10, 2014 5:30:15 GMT
Kinda! Like Dresden Files or October Daye sorta stuff. I must apologize but I really have no idea what those are? It does sound interesting though. Especially if we can get some delicious technomagic supercomputer strong AIs and stuff. |
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Post by daistallia on Jul 10, 2014 5:34:30 GMT
Dresden Files is a series of novels as well as a TV show. The titular character is a wizard PI in modern Chicago.
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Post by Poli on Jul 10, 2014 5:46:10 GMT
Urban Fantasy is loosely any fantastic urban setting, but most commonly it's fantastic elements set in an otherwise contemporary urban environment. How does that work? Genies in the car engines and MD's in spellcasting? Sure. Basically, "urban fantasy" refers to "our world, plus magic." The Dresden Files (which is a deeply fun series of novels - highly recommended!) is one of the archetypes of the genre, in which a wisecracking noir-esque wizard PI living in Chicago - working, by late in the series, with a ragtag bag of allies including a Chicago PD officer, a vampire who feeds off sex, a werewolf couple, a Knight of the Cross, a magic dog, and some fairies who really, really like pizza - attempts to take out magical foes, but it can really be pretty much anything that has a world that pretty much looks like ours, with the addition of some sort of magical or fantastic element or elements. |
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Post by maurepas on Jul 10, 2014 5:46:13 GMT
Dresden Files is a series of novels as well as a TV show. The titular character is a wizard PI in modern Chicago. Speaking of that sort of thing back on NS, me and Mura were part of a group called the "Paranormal Investigation Team" or "PIT" and had several good adventures in multiple settings under that mantle. We could revive it or make something like it here. The group of characters would do exactly what it says on the tin: Investigate paranormal activity. I GMed one where we fought off a Zombie horde in Maurepas, heh heh. |
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Post by Poli on Jul 10, 2014 5:47:13 GMT
Dresden Files is a series of novels as well as a TV show. The titular character is a wizard PI in modern Chicago. Speaking of that sort of thing back on NS, me and Mura were part of a group called the "Paranormal Investigation Team" or "PIT" and had several good adventures in multiple settings under that mantle. We could revive it or make something like it here. The group of characters would do exactly what it says on the tin: Investigate paranormal activity. I GMed one where we fought off a Zombie horde in Maurepas, heh heh. That could be pretty awesome. |
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Post by Poli on Jul 10, 2014 5:47:42 GMT
I know a pretty good bit about the XMen so I'm down for that as well, and any others of course. Just to clarify - down for playing, or for helping to run it, or both? |
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Post by maurepas on Jul 10, 2014 5:53:55 GMT
I know a pretty good bit about the XMen so I'm down for that as well, and any others of course. Just to clarify - down for playing, or for helping to run it, or both? I guess both maybe, lol |
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Post by muravyets on Jul 10, 2014 6:01:47 GMT
Speaking of that sort of thing back on NS, me and Mura were part of a group called the "Paranormal Investigation Team" or "PIT" and had several good adventures in multiple settings under that mantle. We could revive it or make something like it here. The group of characters would do exactly what it says on the tin: Investigate paranormal activity. I GMed one where we fought off a Zombie horde in Maurepas, heh heh. That could be pretty awesome. Yeah, I kinda danced around mentioning that earlier. A revival of PIT or a PIT-like group would be fun. Let's see, we: 1. Fought off an infestation of giant, killer, interdimensional spider demons; 2. Were going to investigate a Philadelphia Experiment time travel thing on a ship at sea, but that fell apart because the GM had issues; 3. Handled zombies in Maurepas but got more trouble from the gangster Guild who hired us, and that one was great with Maure as GM; 4. Teamed up with masked Mexican wrestlers to fight chupacabras and Mayan underworld demon-gods while discovering a lost Mayan city in Yucatan, with me as GM, and it went pretty well if I do say so myself; 5. And tragically ended with DLN having a meltdown while GMing an investigation of a vampire serial killer. PIT was great. I would not mind resurrecting PIT if people are interested. |
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Post by Poli on Jul 10, 2014 6:18:32 GMT
Just to clarify - down for playing, or for helping to run it, or both? I guess both maybe, lol Awesomesauce! I'm sleepy and heading to bed in the next few minutes, but I'll try to send you a PM tomorrow with some details of the sort of game I envision running, and you can see if running it with me sounds like fun. That could be pretty awesome. Yeah, I kinda danced around mentioning that earlier. A revival of PIT or a PIT-like group would be fun. Let's see, we: 1. Fought off an infestation of giant, killer, interdimensional spider demons; 2. Were going to investigate a Philadelphia Experiment time travel thing on a ship at sea, but that fell apart because the GM had issues; 3. Handled zombies in Maurepas but got more trouble from the gangster Guild who hired us, and that one was great with Maure as GM; 4. Teamed up with masked Mexican wrestlers to fight chupacabras and Mayan underworld demon-gods while discovering a lost Mayan city in Yucatan, with me as GM, and it went pretty well if I do say so myself; 5. And tragically ended with DLN having a meltdown while GMing an investigation of a vampire serial killer. PIT was great. I would not mind resurrecting PIT if people are interested. That totally sounds like a thing I would be interested in. |
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Post by KITTY KITTY KITTY on Jul 10, 2014 7:31:02 GMT
I have never done online RP but I can write so if you're willing to tolerate a n00b I'm in for probably anything.
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Post by Gamerdog on Jul 10, 2014 10:58:51 GMT
I could also help run it if you need me to.
I'm no mentor but I've been RPing on and off on NS for the past year and a half.
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Post by Esternial on Jul 10, 2014 11:48:45 GMT
Dresden Files is a series of novels as well as a TV show. The titular character is a wizard PI in modern Chicago. Speaking of that sort of thing back on NS, me and Mura were part of a group called the "Paranormal Investigation Team" or "PIT" and had several good adventures in multiple settings under that mantle. We could revive it or make something like it here. The group of characters would do exactly what it says on the tin: Investigate paranormal activity. I GMed one where we fought off a Zombie horde in Maurepas, heh heh. This I might get behind. |
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Post by Grenartia on Jul 10, 2014 17:12:58 GMT
If you have enough time on your hands/ other volunteers to run others. I've never run something like that. Could it just be like a more formal mafia with a bit more inventiveness on the 'suddenly, this happened' stuff? Sure, why not? Incidentally, as I mentioned elsewhere in passing, I would LOVE input/help/advice from the more experienced RPers on this forum - Murv's already here, but I know there are others of you ( Khan supports Poli.? Korladis misses Poli? Indigo? Other people whose RP experience I'm not remembering at this moment?) who could probably help guide me and others in figuring out how to make this work, even if you don't particularly feel like participating actively yourselves. Maybe Len Hyet would be interested. Also, don't we have Tiger Kingdom here as well? I dunno how active I'll really be but I'm good with most anything that isn't generic sword and sorcery fantasy This. Also, I would be interested in seeing how Maggie RPs. My favorite setting, by far. So long as its done realistically. Less Star Trek TOS (though I love and respect the shit out of it), more Stargate (any, though SGU definitely takes the cake, IMO). I'm always down for alternate history. Daistallia was originally an AH version of Singapore - if Singapore had been settled by 15th C. Swiss mercenaries, and that might be fun to go back to. Grenartia was basically a parallel Earth plus 3 interstellar colonies, if that Earth had a nuclear war in the 2030s, later reunited as a single nation, and developed FTL within a century. While it's not my usual thing, I'd be down for a Poli run post apocalyptic. As would I. I'd love to do xmen but I know precisely fuckall about the universe besides the movies (also agreed X-3 was laaaaaaame) I know absolutely nothing about Xmen, and feel I'd be a fish out of water, so I don't want to do an Xmen RP. |
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Post by Breadknife on Jul 10, 2014 22:48:03 GMT
Just a note that I have no particular preference but I'm sort of interested, perhaps after seeing the first game's progress so I can get myself in the right mindset (noting a parallel Sign-Up already existing, which while I'm tempted to join, would probably instead exercise my voyeuristic rights on, instead). I'm a veteran 1 of tabletop RPGing, particular favourites being pre-D20 Star Wars, Space: 1889 and Babylon 5 settings, so somewhat varied... except... I've just realised... the "space" theme. (But I've also done Cthulhu, too... if you ignore the fact that they're technically space-monsters... and there was a particularly interesting free-form Buffyverse, that I recall.) But full-fledged forum RP is a novelty to me. 1 As measured by "time served", rather than by counting the "battle honours" earned... |
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Post by Poli on Jul 10, 2014 23:46:05 GMT
Okay, so, I have a maybe-possibly-beginning of an idea for a story-type semi-closed RP. I am considering stealing a significant chunk of the setting from the Kate Daniels series of novels by Ilona Andrews - to quote their description of said mechanic: So. Two questions for you all: 1. Would you want to play in this setting? 2. If so, have you read the books from which I stole this idea? (I ask because, if NOT, I may also use a modified version of a major antagonist from the same books. If any interested players HAVE read the books in question, I will not use that antagonist.) This is still just a maybe-possibly, so no promises that this game will happen even if I get enough interested players - like I said, I just have the verrrrrrrrrrry beginnings of an idea, and I'm not yet at all sure if it'll actually work. |
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