I'm finishing off ideas for an RP that should be ready to go in two to three weeks.
The concept is that around 6-8 players are thrown into a modern day setting. They are currently holed up in their hometown/village far away from any towns or major cities. A few weeks ago three fissures were found in the sea looking as though a giant bear had almost clawed the earth leaving this gash. Anyway, shortly after this, things started happening reports across the globe came in about people changing into monsters, creatures appearing from no-where and people started gaining strange abilities. The village we start in is currently unaffected, but residents are afraid of what is happening.
What this RP will have is that players will be assigned skills/physical attributes according to behaviors and choices given to the individual player throughout the game. The game will follow a semi linear approach which is currently what I'm working on and is delaying this.
To go into details, players will start as equals, shortly in the game though after x happens they begin to gain abilities. These are based on the same magic that has influenced the world. As such, players will have to choose options based on questions that will be sent to them and also will be judged according to how they have responded to situations and events.
What this system will avoid is any ideas of good or evil. Instead the two axis will be beast/human and magic/physical. Yes you might turn into a big bad furry.
This will translate into 36 different character classes and players will "level up" three times. Each level has been given custom abilities.
I'm currently working on a map. (Which I suck at drawing.)and completing several ideas for endings and how we can coherently squirrel down those roots.
The RP will also feature messages being sent to players, (to be kept to themselves) to help them catch the person who is the bad guy in the group. This role has been arranged.
What i'm interested in whether people would be interested in this kind of thing/any co-gm's and particularly thoughts and suggestions.
Thanks for the interest
It?s been two months now, two long months. We're lost, afraid and trapped. Some say we aren?t, some laugh about it, but I know better. This sickness is overbearing, I can?t hold much longer. I?m sorry but I just can?t hold on much longer. I had hoped I could weather the storms of time, but I am no longer they?re master. Now I'm left to their pity and they have left me weaker than a mewling infant, crying for a mother's breast. I'm helpless, left to caw for basic sustenance from those I was sworn to protect. Gods help me.
Every night I am woken, if not from the pain or the worried cries of those who think my time has come, then from more harrowing thoughts. A streaming wheel of media, taking pictures of events set in motion from a time that precedes and surpasses them. Vividly they haunt my dreams.
A television crackles; an image appears that is swiftly changed to a news channel.
This is the news at five with your host William turner today is the 25th of March.
Our main headline today is an ecological disaster that has set a new precedent in world history.
*static*
As we can see three fissures are almost drawn across the Aryth sea. Geologists are citing a change in plate tectonics in a new phenomenon being dub.....
*static*
The government are calling in military forces to search for a group of missing people. Reports suggest as many as several thousand have vanished overnight, some being brutal.......
*static*
Open gunfights have been reported with feral beasts and human sympathisers.....
*static*
The government have declared a state of emergen.....
*static*
Several hordes have taken Bristin, the prime minister and most key government figures are presumed dea....
*static*
This will be our last broadcast, we are fleeing, due to security I cannot say where, if you're out there, survive
The TV shuts off, I turn and I see him once again. Then I wake. I think he knows and if he knows then the others do.
I cannot tell you much, you are not strong enough yet, know this though. At least one of you will be darkened by this blight, you must ignore those voices. Trust only your path, or else all will be lost...
You awake; you are crowded in a hall amongst others. Most are sleeping, your hometown of white oak has a few hundred inhabitants. Most are now crowded around this building taking the handouts of food warmth and shelter. The village wasn't hit by the collapse, many in this area believe what happened. You have seen the drifters, who scream at others from the pavement, plead to be listened to. Mothers wondering the street in shock, usually clutching at a child that isn't there, fathers stealing away to sob for the ones they have lost. They are the lucky ones, they sleep outside. The unlucky ones are the injured, the bloody, and the mothers who now barely care to sleep eat or drink. Only a few days ago this influx of wandering people bayed for their blood, shooting, slashing, and in some cases just strangling these women. Whatever is out there has the same urges we do.
You?re here because of the mayor, the one you saw in the dream. He is the one who took these people in and has kept order in the town. He sent scouts to find supplies and survivors. None have returned. Yesterday he called you here, he said you could survive. He said that to the others as well though. A pleasantry probably, with so many people he may as well send you out to die with the rest. You look around and see people sleeping around you. It?s you last night here, there is little or no food to go around, only the sick and the infirm will stay, including the mayor, probably trying to save his own ass. Tommorow you will be forced to leave, you will be sent out to try and get to Talrane, small groups in as many directions as possible.
A pity you can?t just stay, the last group that tried that.... well it didn?t go so well. So you roll back over and fall asleep, it may be the last time you get a chance. Besides, may as well get beauty sleep, those sheep your flocked with might as well see you at your best before your sent off to the slaughter.
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The concept is that around 6-8 players are thrown into a modern day setting. They are currently holed up in their hometown/village far away from any towns or major cities. A few weeks ago three fissures were found in the sea looking as though a giant bear had almost clawed the earth leaving this gash. Anyway, shortly after this, things started happening reports across the globe came in about people changing into monsters, creatures appearing from no-where and people started gaining strange abilities. The village we start in is currently unaffected, but residents are afraid of what is happening.
What this RP will have is that players will be assigned skills/physical attributes according to behaviors and choices given to the individual player throughout the game. The game will follow a semi linear approach which is currently what I'm working on and is delaying this.
To go into details, players will start as equals, shortly in the game though after x happens they begin to gain abilities. These are based on the same magic that has influenced the world. As such, players will have to choose options based on questions that will be sent to them and also will be judged according to how they have responded to situations and events.
What this system will avoid is any ideas of good or evil. Instead the two axis will be beast/human and magic/physical. Yes you might turn into a big bad furry.
This will translate into 36 different character classes and players will "level up" three times. Each level has been given custom abilities.
I'm currently working on a map. (Which I suck at drawing.)and completing several ideas for endings and how we can coherently squirrel down those roots.
The RP will also feature messages being sent to players, (to be kept to themselves) to help them catch the person who is the bad guy in the group. This role has been arranged.
What i'm interested in whether people would be interested in this kind of thing/any co-gm's and particularly thoughts and suggestions.
Thanks for the interest
It?s been two months now, two long months. We're lost, afraid and trapped. Some say we aren?t, some laugh about it, but I know better. This sickness is overbearing, I can?t hold much longer. I?m sorry but I just can?t hold on much longer. I had hoped I could weather the storms of time, but I am no longer they?re master. Now I'm left to their pity and they have left me weaker than a mewling infant, crying for a mother's breast. I'm helpless, left to caw for basic sustenance from those I was sworn to protect. Gods help me.
Every night I am woken, if not from the pain or the worried cries of those who think my time has come, then from more harrowing thoughts. A streaming wheel of media, taking pictures of events set in motion from a time that precedes and surpasses them. Vividly they haunt my dreams.
A television crackles; an image appears that is swiftly changed to a news channel.
This is the news at five with your host William turner today is the 25th of March.
Our main headline today is an ecological disaster that has set a new precedent in world history.
*static*
As we can see three fissures are almost drawn across the Aryth sea. Geologists are citing a change in plate tectonics in a new phenomenon being dub.....
*static*
The government are calling in military forces to search for a group of missing people. Reports suggest as many as several thousand have vanished overnight, some being brutal.......
*static*
Open gunfights have been reported with feral beasts and human sympathisers.....
*static*
The government have declared a state of emergen.....
*static*
Several hordes have taken Bristin, the prime minister and most key government figures are presumed dea....
*static*
This will be our last broadcast, we are fleeing, due to security I cannot say where, if you're out there, survive
The TV shuts off, I turn and I see him once again. Then I wake. I think he knows and if he knows then the others do.
I cannot tell you much, you are not strong enough yet, know this though. At least one of you will be darkened by this blight, you must ignore those voices. Trust only your path, or else all will be lost...
You awake; you are crowded in a hall amongst others. Most are sleeping, your hometown of white oak has a few hundred inhabitants. Most are now crowded around this building taking the handouts of food warmth and shelter. The village wasn't hit by the collapse, many in this area believe what happened. You have seen the drifters, who scream at others from the pavement, plead to be listened to. Mothers wondering the street in shock, usually clutching at a child that isn't there, fathers stealing away to sob for the ones they have lost. They are the lucky ones, they sleep outside. The unlucky ones are the injured, the bloody, and the mothers who now barely care to sleep eat or drink. Only a few days ago this influx of wandering people bayed for their blood, shooting, slashing, and in some cases just strangling these women. Whatever is out there has the same urges we do.
You?re here because of the mayor, the one you saw in the dream. He is the one who took these people in and has kept order in the town. He sent scouts to find supplies and survivors. None have returned. Yesterday he called you here, he said you could survive. He said that to the others as well though. A pleasantry probably, with so many people he may as well send you out to die with the rest. You look around and see people sleeping around you. It?s you last night here, there is little or no food to go around, only the sick and the infirm will stay, including the mayor, probably trying to save his own ass. Tommorow you will be forced to leave, you will be sent out to try and get to Talrane, small groups in as many directions as possible.
A pity you can?t just stay, the last group that tried that.... well it didn?t go so well. So you roll back over and fall asleep, it may be the last time you get a chance. Besides, may as well get beauty sleep, those sheep your flocked with might as well see you at your best before your sent off to the slaughter.
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Name:
Age:
Gender: Male or Female
Looks: (Draw, pitcure, or describe)
Personality: (optional)
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Name:
Age:
Gender: Male or Female
Looks: (Draw, pitcure, or describe)
Personality: (optional)
Bio:
Other Info:
Respond with one response or the other to these questions. If in doubt pick whichever feel best of the two options.
1) You're surrounded, a friend is hurt and you are forced to engage. They have a machine gun and would be best placed at the front where they can open fire with a clear view of the enemies advance you. However by doing so they are more likely to be killed, as the enemies will eventually make up ground and you will find it difficult to cover them while they fall back. What do you do?
a) Leave them where they are and attack on your own, leaving them to take clear shots only.
b) Take them forward where they will be most effective, despite their injury.
2) Which do you prefer? (Yeah this one is a bit of a cop out on my part)
a) Chess
b) Sports
3) One of your team mates formulates a plan, it requires someone to think on their feet and act as a distraction and someone to cover the team with a sniper.
a) You're the Sniper, you know when to open fire
b) You're the distraction, they don?t know this but MacGyver is a TV show based on you
4) You screwed up, the plans gone bad. Your team are pinned under fire you have two options
a) Ditch, get out, regroup, plan.
b) Run with it, no plan is perfect and now is the time to get innovative.
5) You don?t trust John, there?s something wrong, you just can?t say what.
a) Be wary of him, but keep going.
b) Stop and confront him, you trust your instinct on this.
6) Your in a plaza, you want to find out where a local gang is hiding. How do you achieve this?
a) Ask questions.
b) Search and observe.
7) Ignore the yes/no bit for this one. Tell me about the person your hunting. Where do you find them, how do you find them and what do you notice?
1) You're surrounded, a friend is hurt and you are forced to engage. They have a machine gun and would be best placed at the front where they can open fire with a clear view of the enemies advance you. However by doing so they are more likely to be killed, as the enemies will eventually make up ground and you will find it difficult to cover them while they fall back. What do you do?
a) Leave them where they are and attack on your own, leaving them to take clear shots only.
b) Take them forward where they will be most effective, despite their injury.
2) Which do you prefer? (Yeah this one is a bit of a cop out on my part)
a) Chess
b) Sports
3) One of your team mates formulates a plan, it requires someone to think on their feet and act as a distraction and someone to cover the team with a sniper.
a) You're the Sniper, you know when to open fire
b) You're the distraction, they don?t know this but MacGyver is a TV show based on you
4) You screwed up, the plans gone bad. Your team are pinned under fire you have two options
a) Ditch, get out, regroup, plan.
b) Run with it, no plan is perfect and now is the time to get innovative.
5) You don?t trust John, there?s something wrong, you just can?t say what.
a) Be wary of him, but keep going.
b) Stop and confront him, you trust your instinct on this.
6) Your in a plaza, you want to find out where a local gang is hiding. How do you achieve this?
a) Ask questions.
b) Search and observe.
7) Ignore the yes/no bit for this one. Tell me about the person your hunting. Where do you find them, how do you find them and what do you notice?
