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#1 Xanius

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Posted 26 November 2011 - 09:17 PM

[Today 08:37 PM] Xanius: It's a huge RP/Adventure type of RP but... with a lot of work I'd like to make it. =/
[Today 08:36 PM] Xanius: So if one side losses interest and the 4 people on that side aren't posting, you have all the others to play with.
[Today 08:34 PM] Xanius: Each side will ALWAYS have something going on.
[Today 08:34 PM] Xanius: I'd control all sides of course so I'll heavily be involved.
[Today 08:33 PM] Xanius: Your character can die any time. You can be killed then create another person right after to start over again. It'll be a survival type of thing. You can have more then 1 person, but only certain people can do that. I.e, People I know can handle it.
[Today 08:32 PM] Xanius: If you do great in your battles in the RP, you can slowly work up and become a captain or so of a small group of soldiers. Wont really affect much. But more effort you put in over a longer time the more you become worthy and a part of the story.
[Today 08:31 PM] Xanius: You are fodder, you will have times where I might try to kill you. Where I WANT to kill you but you HAVE to get out of it some way or another.
[Today 08:31 PM] Xanius: But your nothing more then just a normal person. There's thousands of others JUST. Like. You.
[Today 08:31 PM] Xanius: Big war between countries happens, you can either fight to kill each side, fight to kill both sides, or fight to protect everyone and bring an equal peace.
[Today 08:30 PM] Xanius: They frame each others groups since they use both magick and tech so they can easily pull it off.
[Today 08:30 PM] Xanius: You'd be a part of one of the 6 groups. Just a basic worker, soldier, street performer. War breaks out, the Evil group that splits both ways tries a crazy approach, make the world be at war, kill all of the other countries and let themselves be the only ones left.
[Today 08:28 PM] Xanius: Haven't come up with names just yet since I haven't put much into it. But you'd have those two two extremes on each side. Strong Tech, Strong Magic. Then you'd have general people that just grew up in either side. General distaste for one another but they deal. Two others are pretty much just rogue like groups. They use both and want the countries together but one group is purely evil, other is an actual honest to goodness good group that cares for the people not power and what not like the others.
[Today 08:26 PM] Xanius: Theres some people in the middle of course, that want both to be joined together and stop being separate. Some on either side that want the others gone and dead. Theres basically 6 different 'groups'
[Today 08:25 PM] Xanius: One is more modern, lots of technology, think of like Zanarkand in FFX. Other focused more on a magicial/spiritual side of things. Both lived in decent harmony for thousands of years. Staying out of conflicts. There was a huge war a good 20,000/30,000 years ago that destroyed much of the world. You currently live in the new said world were a peace is there, both sides still hate each other. But... the co-exist.
[Today 08:22 PM] Xanius: Does the idea of an RP set inside of a war between two countries seem like a good/bad idea to you?

Just a small bit of the idea. Wanted to get this out here to see what people thought of the general idea first before I started working on anything major. Wanted to try my hand at a RP, going really large and huge for it. Making it somewhat like ST was. Really long/large story with a 'fanfic'. Should be nice, or at least it's interesting in my mind.

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Posted 26 November 2011 - 09:32 PM

I like it. It's a good idea and it cant die unless everyone lets it die.

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Posted 26 November 2011 - 09:44 PM

As I said before, I really like the sound of this. Especially since it invalidates the whole "MY CHARACTER HAS A STORY THAT IS NOT THE RP'S STORY" argument. >_>

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Posted 26 November 2011 - 09:52 PM

"There are thousands of others JUST. Like. You."

I believe you had me there, good sir. That, and the story sounds really interesting. Only thing I really can see here that raises a bit of a concern is that it looks like the kind of RP meant to be done with a large group of people...could just be me, though.

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Posted 26 November 2011 - 09:57 PM

I like the idea. If no one lets it die and everyone plays their part/ plays along fine, then this'll be a really cool rp. It's hard to get these type of rp's to go well unless there are lots of people involved. I hope lots people do join up, it'd be a really good RP.

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Posted 26 November 2011 - 10:05 PM

The larger the better to be honest. But I could do it with 2-3 people really.

It'd be hard to pull off but I think I can manage it really. Theres a lot of planning that would need to happen but it'd be really neat. You COULD join with 6 people. Ten join with 6 each and you have 60 people. See? 10 of them can die in one big explosion if you mess up. 30 could be in airship and have it's engine hit. If you can't jump off without a parachute or something you'll die. Magic side could summon wings and fly down, tech side might have armor that can unfold into wings or a power jet and fly away. Lots of things to do. You'll be in control of a lot of what happens. I'll make the battle field, you guys make up the weapons, the spells, the creatures, the whatever you want. I approve it, you use it. Simple as that. If there some strong magic you want to use, that is like a bright flare that blinds everyone for 10 seconds, it'll take you awhile to get it off. A solar gun would take a long time to recharge/and or get very hot, might be a single time use type of thing too. You can wear no gear, tons of gear with techs, come out like a Batman with tons of gadets. Could be an amazing wizard with tons of books, spells, summons. You could even use a Gun, shoot magick out of the gun and control where it goes. Again, there would be limits to moves. Tech could snipe you from miles away with a super heavy rifle. One shot only, usually a heavy armor round used to take an airship out miles away. Ditch it once used since it's like 100 pounds. It'll be very very open. You can make dual things too. Like the idea of a saber that swings a pulse wave of energy out? Then you can enchant it with runes stab it in the ground and once someone walks across the ground it covers a huge explosion goes off? Sure thing.

It'd be... really indepth and have millions of things. Could even have countless sequels, hell even prequels with much more 'ancient' spells and machinery and such. So yea... it'd be awhile but I'd turn it into a huge forum event RP for everyone. I think it'd be fun and people get to make tons of people if they want. That can fail and be bad, H&V anyone?, but... since people might drop like flys... it might be fine. Never get too attached though. People die in war all the time. Friend or foe. No one is safe when you are the warfront.

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Posted 28 November 2011 - 12:24 AM

as Devil's advocate, I think the plot sounds far too unending for it to be very feasible. ST had a clear end in mind and clear directives that the people running it knew. This sounds way too much like a day in the life sort of thing. Almost TOO big. The fact that you would say eh, make a new character and keep going is kind of silly too. I'd get attached to characters. Not make some simply for fodder.

With no real end seemingly in sight it almost sounds like it'd be an RP that is built on killing other players in the RP. I don't see how that would be very enjoyable, personally. War settings aren't usually very interesting, I feel, because there's so much chaos going on. There should be a lot of strategy involved on both sides warring over specific pieces of turf or resources.

It's interesting but I don't feel there would be enough substance in the things outlined to make this go very long. I'd give it a shot, though, I guess.

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Posted 28 November 2011 - 07:58 AM

I think if done correctly, the RP would result in something like Type-0, with multiple characters each playing a small part in a huge story. If a character dies, you can send another one off from the barracks to replace him/her. It might just work. Plus, I don't think that Kai means to say that characters will be killed off every other post or so, just that the possibility of dying isn't as small as in other RPs. Your character is vulnerable and mistakes that you may make might end with heavy consequences. This promotes smart and tactful RPing and demotes the bullshit RP type we have going on where everyone is trying to get their character to be the lead star. For this reason, I think the idea is brilliant.

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Posted 28 November 2011 - 09:45 AM

I get the mortality angle, which is definitely nice. However, Type-0 seems to have a mission based structure about it. Also they're all on the same team. This would possibly pit one group against another. It has a few recipes for disaster built in, but now I suddenly want to play in it >_>

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Posted 28 November 2011 - 05:43 PM

I may just come out of writing retirement for this.

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Posted 28 November 2011 - 09:38 PM

I would definitely join up with this, so long as we have a nice team of competent RPers out to actually, you know, work as a team.

My only suggestion would be to try and fine-tune the plot/directionality of it a bit. The six different factions allows for far too many choices which would lead to several teams being completely ignored and whatnot. While I'm a major fan of the morality of the situation, I feel the factions could easily be cut down to three instead of six. Magic, Tech, and then that group in-between. It could be up to the people who play on that in-between team as to whether it is actively trying to extend the war or try and bring about a peaceful resolution.

But yeah, I do really like the ideas behind the RP and I would without a doubt join up.

Partly because Dion isn't running it, because, let's face it, the guy's a trainwreck.

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Posted 28 November 2011 - 10:01 PM

I've been thinking about this one a lot, since it seems like it could be a fun exercise that may turn into something of real substantial staying power.

The warring nations could work, but the cause has to be something pretty substantial. Arguing over resources, trading, or maybe even newly elected leaders who are warmongers.

I think that the roleplayers should all be conscripts in the war to a degree (I don't see the point of playing a civilian) be it that they sign up or are forcibly drafted.

II also kind of think the roleplayers should all be allied to one group or the other, but I don't dig the whole "evil empire" thing that would happen. I just feel one side will be vastly overcrowded compared to the other. I don't want my own characters to face off.

Also I think that Alu should probably be a dungeon master type deal where he would be the overall leaders/movers/shakers in the world and the platoon commanders or whatever while also being the random event guy. Like telling people to ship out to one place, and so a few board an airship and then something happens to it. Add a bit of that randomness that would keep things fresh and create challenges that aren't directly combat, I suppose.

I just don't know how characters will end up dying unless their controller wants them to or they're put into an unwinnable situation.

These are just my thoughts to maybe help spark better ideas.

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Posted 28 November 2011 - 11:05 PM

Partly because Dion isn't running it, because, let's face it, the guy's a trainwreck.


Thank you, Igshar. -_-

I've never really done an RP so you can't really say that. Remember all the effort I put into TZB? AND NO ONE JOINED. Thanks for giving me a chance.

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