Tyreaus
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 14:56:03 GMT -5
I did an RP like this before and thought it'd be a good idea to bring it here and see what happens.
Basically it's an OECDRP - Open-Ended Character-Development Role-Play. There's a minimal number of things that are sorted out as far as the roleplay goes, so focus is less on what happens and more on how it affects characters. Everything is open. Locations, species, events, character developments... The only thing is that everyone has to be ready to work on their toes without bashing heads over conflicting ideas and plans. Everyone's gotta get along with everyone else OOC, and posting often is a good idea.
Of course this didn't work so well the first time so, before we actually jump into anything, we need to set out a few things so that it doesn't get too chaotic. Things such as, who is controlling the main villain, who the main villain is, what the main plot device is, and power limitations were basically the problems the last time.
So for whoever's interested, some feedback would be nice.
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Post by Dhaos on Aug 27, 2010 15:53:24 GMT -5
I would play a "main" villain. But I won't be here next week. Unless I play one of those "rising to the top of the food chain" villains. Like the Mastermind type guys
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Post by Spellca on Aug 27, 2010 15:57:05 GMT -5
Ty, I already gave you my full support. I will tweak Gaius back into his anti-hero self again and I should be ready to go.
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Post by Jedi Matt on Aug 27, 2010 15:58:38 GMT -5
I can do something
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Post by Therider on Aug 27, 2010 16:53:44 GMT -5
Count me in too.
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Tyreaus
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 16:54:03 GMT -5
I would play a "main" villain. But I won't be here next week. Unless I play one of those "rising to the top of the food chain" villains. Like the Mastermind type guys Chances are the villain guy isn't going to be introduced right away anyway. ... Spellca, you should be doing this. I'm experienced too much, I'm bound to make it more technical than it should be. xD You WERE the humour guy in the last one after all.
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Post by Spellca on Aug 27, 2010 16:57:20 GMT -5
I should be laying this all out. Well, if you insist. I do suggest you keep tabs on me because while you may construct a world of technicalities, I make one far too large for my own good.
Our main villian should be left untouched for the most part. Introducing our target forces us to focus on getting it...which turns the RP into a short, plot driven mess. While leaving the final stages a mystery, the characters form and become complex before some plot is introduced. This makes the plot a factor to the characters rather then the characters be a factor to the plot.
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Post by Therider on Aug 27, 2010 16:59:24 GMT -5
I got confused at the factor part.
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 16:59:50 GMT -5
I should be laying this all out. Well, if you insist. I do suggest you keep tabs on me because while you may construct a world of technicalities, I make one far too large for my own good. Our main villian should be left untouched for the most part. Introducing our target forces us to focus on getting it...which turns the RP into a short, plot driven mess. While leaving the final stages a mystery, the characters form and become complex before some plot is introduced. This makes the plot a factor to the characters rather then the characters be a factor to the plot. Larger is better. Besides I imagined that most other people would be helping to formulate the surroundings and locations - why it's open ended. I'd be to controlling in comparison. lol. But yeah, I'd still say that Hao is the main villain and can control a protagonist character as well so that he can still participate while people don't bitch over who's the bad guy. xD
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Post by Spellca on Aug 27, 2010 17:02:26 GMT -5
Alright then. I think this should play out like an epic dark fantasy of sorts without whatever races and beings they choose to be assuming it isn't too corny and cliche. Then flashbacks and past events can expand the vision of our world as we construct it moving forward. Locations can be locations but giving them no meaning to the characters just make it the same as a plot driven mess.
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 17:06:31 GMT -5
Aye, though it doesn't necessarily need to be a location one of the character's has visited before. Oh and rationality of where they're going is probably something... -scratches head- Maybe I should just get the character sheet up, and we see where it goes...Chibi's the villain guy, the major plot devices can be figured out shortly after...just sort of get the ball rolling first...
(damnit I do not do well setting up roleplays. >.< )
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Post by Spellca on Aug 27, 2010 17:15:45 GMT -5
Regardless, Ty, we should see what we start getting character wise and then start to layer things over each other.
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Post by Ender on Aug 27, 2010 17:16:54 GMT -5
I'm in
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Post by Jedi Matt on Aug 27, 2010 17:23:06 GMT -5
Cool
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Post by Ender on Aug 27, 2010 17:26:51 GMT -5
Character code?
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 17:27:59 GMT -5
Yeah sorry that the set-up is a little choppy guys, I only know how to join open-ended RP's, not make them. xD
Anyway, general profile outline, spice it up how you like it:
Name: Age: Height: Weight: Race: Powers and abilities: Weapons: Likes: Dislikes: History: Appearance:
As long as you have information somewhere along those lines, the format doesn't really matter that much. I'm looking for written quality, not visual quality - more information is better. It's just so I can tell that you're not an incompetent douchebag. lol.
While I'm at it, some rules:
-Third person past tense with full, written sentences. "Tyler walked into a bar" is third person past tense. "I walk into a bar" or "-walks into bar-" aren't. -I don't care so much about spelling, but if your writing is so horrid that I can't read it, use a fraking spellcheck. -If the story goes a certain way and you don't like it, tough. I don't care for people who want to totally control a roleplay. Everyone contributes their little bits into it. -That being said, give other people a chance to say. It's the point of an open-ended RP. (unless someone doesn't care, then fine leave them out) -Don't kill other player characters without their permission. No debates. -Powers are open-ended but remember; your level of cheapness is directly proportionate to how much of a cheap whore you are in real life. Don't be a douchebag. -Rule #7 - Don't be a douchebag. -If there's a problem, PM me or someone who's neutral in the situation and have them sort it out. -Use your posts to develop your character. The plot will go on its own, we don't need special attention to that. Your characters, however, don't develop themselves. -Rule #10 - Don't be an immature little child AKA douchebag. EDIT- If you have a particularly big idea that might significantly change the entire roleplay or that is controversial, PM it to me first. I don't mind the little things but outright changing the roleplay itself is douchebaggery. -Rule #12 - Your admin tells you not to be a douchebag. You better not be a douchebag. Don't be a douchebag.
Anything I might be missing?
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Post by Jedi Matt on Aug 27, 2010 17:39:16 GMT -5
Did you forget that one rule? Don't be a douche bag?
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 17:40:04 GMT -5
Crap you're right!
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Post by Spellca on Aug 27, 2010 17:41:34 GMT -5
I like the creation sheet, I will get onto it.
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Post by Therider on Aug 27, 2010 17:41:47 GMT -5
Do we post the sheet here or PM?
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 17:42:34 GMT -5
Doesn't matter. Usually questions I don't specify don't matter. lol.
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Post by Marly on Aug 27, 2010 18:11:02 GMT -5
RPs are like advertisements to participate in a play. You join one, and you're unlikely to join an another.
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 18:12:47 GMT -5
RPs are like advertisements to participate in a play. You join one, and you're unlikely to join an another. ... COME ONE COME ALL TO SOME RANDOM ROLEPLAY WHERE NOTHING REALLY HAPPENS! Why? BECAUSE I SAID SO WITH CAPSLOCK ON, THAT'S WHY! ;D Approved by the international capslock committee.
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Post by Jedi Matt on Aug 27, 2010 19:15:55 GMT -5
I'll be prepping a chara
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Post by Spellca on Aug 27, 2010 19:17:02 GMT -5
Mine is done and I PMed to him.
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Post by Spellca on Aug 27, 2010 19:21:38 GMT -5
Double post, for the win!
Anyway, I was instructed by Ty to post my biography here as an example to others who may not know how to go about this. Please note, I am an author by trade and therefore my works tend to be more drawn out then require...
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Name: Gaius Septimus
Age: Appears 36, actually about 600
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 210 lbs
Race: Vampire
Powers: As a well-aged vampire, Gaius has enhanced strength, agility, speed and reaction time, as well as, accelerated healing from minor wounds and can survive wounds that would be considered mortal to most races in due time. But, he cannot regenerate his limbs. Gaius is also a self-trained master of black magic and a grand manipulator of the black arts.
Abilities: Aside from his vampirism perks and his mystical powers, Gaius is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter and swordsman. Also, Gaius is a historical scholar knowing much about the past, so much so, he tends to predict outcomes to events based on similar circumstances in the past. Finally, he is a conservative taskmaster who plays life like a chess game slowly and calculates each move as if it was his last.
Weapons: Gaius is armed with a long-handed long sword he has owned prior to him being turned. He has had to repair, strengthen and refurbish it as years have passed to keep it as a keen, sharpened weapon.
Equipment: Gaius tends to carry three scrolls, a small black book and a small brown book. The scrolls are ancient texts on black magic that Gaius reads to refresh his knowledge of old, powerful techniques. The black book is a more contemporary book of mystical techniques, again used as a source of reference. The brown book is a personal journal where Gaius notes his plans, ambitions and so forth to reflect back upon in due time when plotting his next move.
Likes: Gaius tends to enjoy a solitary existence or manipulating others as pawns. That is what he gets his enjoyment out of, mainly due to how he deals with losing a tight knit family when he was turned.
Dislikes: Gaius dislikes company, large groups, those who rival his power and werewolves.
History:
Gaius was born to the Septimus family, a family of noble people who had a good grasp on an ancient cities parliament over 600 years ago. He was the second-oldest son, but soon became the heir to the family legacy after his oldest brother Davus overdosed on a herbal drug created by a local apothecary. Gaius enjoyed the tight knit nature of his family and the other noble families at large – he enjoyed the food, the wealth and the other luxuries including some of the finest women in the lands.
At the age of 30, he left his family’s guarded estate to start fresh with his new wife after becoming governor of a nearby village due to his father’s connections. Within the next six years, he started a family made up of two children a son Sextus (6 years of age) and a daughter Anya (4 years of age). A late summer night, Gaius returned from a meeting of local nobles and village leaders – the son of a duke from the southern lands was going to replace Gaius as governor in the coming month. Gaius found his family slaughtered and werewolves still standing over the carcasses of this beloved. Gaius held his own but was brutally wounded at the end with the four wolf pack being reduced to one wounded pup that ran off shortly after.
Gaius laid there for two days, bleeding and seemingly dying when a pale man walked into his house as if nothing was afoot. He was the first visitor to come in the days, most villagers believed Gaius was a werewolf after seeing a wounded pup run away and left the house to itself until the duke’s son arrived. The visitor was a vampire by the name of Sinn who gave Gaius a choice – Death by the bite of a night-walker or immortality by the same means. Gaius accepted the later in hopes of vengeance; something he has yet to receive in 600 years of life. Two-hundred years after that night, Gaius crossed paths with his maker again but only when his maker attempted to kill him. You see, Sinn had become cursed by unknown means and now had a thirst for blood of fellow vampires – a crime both punishable by death in vampire covens. Gaius fought with his superior of hours until he was able to ensnare the elder in a spike pit. But Sinn refused to release Gaius’ right arm from his grasp – with no choice, Gaius drew long sword and brought it down on his upper right arm releasing the limb from his body and sending it (along with his maker) to a spike-lined grave.
Gaius fled to a nearby town and, under the cover of darkness, he took to the blacksmith’s smith and forced the man to forge him individual parts of a complex arm-unit similar to the arm of a suit of armor. Gaius worked with the blacksmith for hours to piece together a replacement to his arm that looked like something the smith had never seen. The unit was connected to his arm by literally nailing a base-plate to the remnants of Gaius’ right arm and then it was welded to that plate. Gaius etched for age-old runes onto parts of the armor and enchanted it with black magic until he manipulated like his old arm. But the mystical power source also turned that mechanical limb into a nexus from where Gaius can utilize his dark arts more affectively.
Since then Gaius has wandered and moved from location to location in search of finally killing the clan of werewolves responsible for his pain knowing their kind is as immortal as himself…
Appearance:
Gaius is a pale 6’3”, 210 lb vampire with short black hair, yellow eyes with remnants of blue left in the pupils and a somewhat long facial structure. He has the body structure of a human looking 36 years of age but regardless of muscle structure he is still capable of pumping out that vampire-level strength, agility etc.
In terms of clothing, Gaius wears an old-style black dress suit with a white undershirt with no tie. Now and then, he throws a dark grey hooded cloak over himself so that his movements at night become more like a shadow from the corner of people’s sight rather then a humanoid darting in the darkness.
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Post by Dhaos on Aug 27, 2010 19:30:55 GMT -5
For the record guys, Just so you know. We will need a "fake" main villain to keep people occupied for this next week. Not anything grand, but enough to keep it interesting but not overly complex.
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Post by Tyreaus on Aug 27, 2010 19:34:19 GMT -5
For the record guys, Just so you know. We will need a "fake" main villain to keep people occupied for this next week. Not anything grand, but enough to keep it interesting but not overly complex. Something to sort of introduce the whole "Hey there's a bad guy" concept, I suppose? (as opposed to people loitering about)
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Post by Dhaos on Aug 27, 2010 19:39:55 GMT -5
Yeah. Pretty much. Heh.
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Post by Spellca on Aug 27, 2010 20:24:02 GMT -5
Anyone else have characters done or will have them done anytime soon?
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