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Role Play => Role Play Discussion => Topic started by: Raptor on December 12, 2007, 10:26:40 PM
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Alright, I've come up with an RPG idea that is basicly Athropomorphized Dinosaurs. The Dinosaurs have the heads, feet, and tails of their non-anthro counterparts, but they have bodies exactly like human ones. Except scaly. Now, the setting is exactly like earth today. There's also numerous underground crime syndicates, and there are many Assasins who hide their work from public. Some Assasins, like my characters, will only kill corrupt Police Dinosaurs, crime bosses, or murderers. There are others who will kill anyone, as long as they get paid. Now, there's an underground cult movement made up of various differant species, who's kiddnapping and murdering other Dinosaurs, especialy Dromeosaurs, in a bid to summon their deity called "The Watcher". The Assasins are worried, as are the police, and just about everyone else. Now, just to make sure everyone understands, the Dinos do not have humanoid faces. They are just like normal Dinosaur faces. I've had confusion with this kind of thing before. There will be some magic stuff introduced later on, but in the beginning, no magic will be allowed.
So, whaddya guys think?
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What sorts of roles and such would the players have?
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Well, any they wanted. They could be shopkeepers by day, vigilantes at night. They could be evil, or good. Really, they can be anything as long as it's not innapropriate or implausible.
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Is it more of a superhero rp then, pulp, regular folks tossed into odd circumstances sort, or something else?
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Well, I guess it's kinda a combo between pulp and modern fantasy.
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It's good you put in some limits, no magic to start off. You also have to put in limits, at least for players once it does appear.
As for pulp is it the type where characters can have one minor power, or where most are more like a pair of fists. Can they have gadgets or one gadget each? And how physically built. The pc's need a power level limit so everyone is working on the same sheet, so to speak. You have to decide also if you want folks to pm or post their character concepts here so you can ask them to adjust it or offer suggestions.
Sounds like it may be an interesting rp.
Reminds me of a book I read a while ago, Anonymous Rex.
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Ah, in that case, it's got guns and stuff, but those are the major weapons. Gadgets.. they have to be modern day tech, though. After magic stuff does get introduced, power levels will basicly be: You're not immortal. While you can summon small amounts of an element, and even alter enviroments slightly, you can't survive a fall from hundreds of feet. You could soften the blow from a, say, fifty-foot fall, and it would be enough for you to survive. Later on, depending on how you focus your abilities, you may be able to levitate for short periods, and put up invisible barriers. Well, how the characters are physicly built would be basicly and human body shape. Strength depends on the species. Characters will be posted.
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Sounds interesting. I'd suggest if you may want to either pause the rp for the holidays or start after them. Though we can certain ask you questions, post characters, make adjustments ect. Sounds sorta similar to a cliffhanger campaign a friend of mine ran, wow, must be 10 years ago. Though his was set in 1939 and pc's could have no magic, since magic in his was an evil thing.
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I may wait until after the Holidays to start it, but for now, you can start posting characters with this sheet:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Species:
Occupation:
Apperance:
Personality:
My characters are:
Name: Jerek Anderson(Aka: Mr. A)
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Species: Dienonychus
Occupation: Vigilante
Apperance: Jerek has the sharp teeth and claws of the rest of his species, and a slender figure, due to his species' affinity for speed. He is light brown with dark brown splotches on his tail. He wears a dark red shirt, black pants, and a black coat with a flared collar.
Personality: Jerek is sarcastic, and ever the joker. He likes his nickname Mr. A, and cares very much for his sister, Miss A. He truley despises the cultists. He often weilds two pistols.
Name: Jaina Anderson(Aka: Miss A)
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Species: Dienonychus
Occupation: Vigilante
Apperance: Jaina is considered quite attractive. She is slimmer, and, obviously, much more femine then her brother. She is dark brown with light brown blotches on her tail. Jaina also wears a dark red shirt(but it ends an inch above her hips), black pants, and a black trenchcoat.
Personality: Jaina is firey-tempered, and often uses her looks to her advantage, fooling criminals into thinking she is unable to harm them. She cares for her brother very much, and often jumps into situations without thinking. Jaina weilds two knieves and a pistol.
And the slighty revamped story is:
2007. The world is much as it is today. Save with one, major differance. The planet is populated with anthropomorphic Dinosaurs. They live like we do, though some can only eat meat, and some can only eat plants. There is also crime. Massive underground crime sydicates run rampant in large cities. This has spawned numerous vigilantes and assasins. A new crime syndicate has appeared on the horizon. Called The Eyes, they are believed to be a cult dedicated to an ancient deity known to them as "The Watcher". They practice sacrifice, kiddnapping vigilantes, assasins, cops, and civilians alike. A number of vigilantes have banded together to stop this, and many assasins have been hired by the Cult. But threw it all, something is very wrong. Graffiti of the Watcher, made by cultists, seems to be moving when looked out at from the corner of the eye.
Could the Watcher be real?
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Seems very interesting. Are there certain character types you want? I assume all the tech and such for the pc's starting out is limited to what is common place in today's world. Nintendo ds, pocket tv, pda, but no cosmic rods, or other odd pure superhero things.
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Right. No crazy tech. As for certain character types, they have to be able to interact with the main storyline, and that's basicly it. Well, you can't be, say, the President or something.
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It's a very fascinating idea, Raptor. And I'm sure you could do something promising with it B)
anthropomorphisms always makes for interesting characters. In this case this RP idea brings to mind a mythical (thought to be real) alien race known as Reptilians.
I may join later if that's okay.I'd like to see how well it goes before throwing in my part
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Thanks, Aves. I hope to see you there after it starts.
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Name: Andrew Threehorn
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Species: Triceratops
Occupation: Royal Navy : Rank Captain
Apperance: Usually seen in the Royal Navy officer uniform and specailly designed with a Triceratops badge on the right top part of the jacket marking him being the first to be a Captain for the British Royal Navy. Shoes matching the colour of the uniform and hat. Scales colour, front and underside of tail creamy white with black scales and a creamy white patch on one eye.
Personality: Strong minded and fair minded but has a temper. He also would risk his own life for his fellow crew members on the ship his assigned to.
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Nice way to fit your character in, Threehorn. If the British navy's getting invovled, you know something bad's gonna happen. Or will he be on vacation in this RP?
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How about a chemist type of character, maybe a Troodon. Not sure if he'd be a vigilante or not. Who likes playing video games as one of his or her hobbies. Not sure if it would fit better if the char owned his own company, worked for someone, or something else.
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Any of those would fit, as long as he got out on the streets every once in a while.
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Any time of day when he / or she, should be going around the streets?
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When's it gonna start? I think I'm gonna join.
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I think he mentioned he may wait till after the holidays, but you can post characters now.
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Any time of day when he / or she, should be going around the streets?
Really, any, as long as it's in the less pleasent areas of the cities.
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Maybe goes jogging there, and or on the way home from kung fu class, or work. Any preference as to gender?
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Any gender you want.
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Here is the char I am thinking of doing. I decided to do a female again since I assume most characters would be male and why not have another female character in a group of males since they can have adventures as well as males can. :yes
Name: Marsa Darkwood
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Species: Troodon
Occupation: Chemist / business person (part owner in father's chemical company)
Appearance: The typical appearance for at Troodon, large eyes, a claw on the feet like Deinonychus have, greenish brown skin, red stripes on back. Usually wears bluish clothes. Sometimes sunglasses at daytime. Has a shirt with many pockets and pants too. She has the build of someone who keeps fit.
Personality: laid back, fairly even emotionally, curious, careful, courageous when needed, likes playing video games and reading science magazines,
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Alright, that'll work great. If it goes like I think it's going to, Jaina and your char may end up being to only female chars. but then again, it might not end up like that.
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Guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Yeah. I would like if there was like, half female chars and half male chars, so it would get balanced out, and ther would be more diversty. But it's up to the RPers, ultimatly.
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That is why I often play female characters, to bring things closer to even, though I don't think more should play females, if one wants to fine, if one is only comfortable with males that is ok also. When I first started rping I would only rp male characters.
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I've only recently started playing female RP characters. Also, I'm thinking of starting the RPG earlier, like perhaps today or tomarrow. I've had other RPGs started near the Holidays, and they've worked out fine.
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We may have to pause the rp from somewhere in the dec 2? to jan ? since it seems only a few members will be on here during that 1-2 week time. If you do start it before January ??.
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I'll pause it for Christmas and New Year, sure.
Edit: It's up.
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Ok. Hope you don't mind my putting in she knows kung fu, she'd be not to useful in combats that may appear. Not sure if you would prefer her being a vigilante. I thought of that then thought why not let her be a regular person who could become a part time vigilante perhaps through the rp. If she goes that route and decides to do that.
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Okay, that'll be fine. Also, the Eyes are looking for something called the Key. It will not be good is they find it. The nature of the Key is unknown. It could be living, it could be inanimate, in could even be a Saurian.
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Something special? I guess the vigilantes would know all about that.
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I am so sorry for the late reply...got caught up doing college work! >.<
But anyway...here is my first character...
Name: Hunter
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Species: Alimon (If ya want more info on this species, then you may wanna talk to DH...she may be willing to shed some light on any questions you have)
Occupation: Ex-marine/School teacher
Apperance: Mostly forest green with a lighter green underbelly, her nose and face in contrast is a sky blue. She wears a traditional lab coat during school hours and wears a scarf to keep her neck warm. She is also trained in the chinese art of Tai-chi, and will use it only if provoked!
Personality: Kind hearted, but at times highly stubborn, and prone to emotional outburst. While she is somewhat outgoing and friendly, when someone is in danger she will act first and ask questions later...provided the person lives through the confrontation.
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Another female, and player, that sounds nice.
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Meet Sieg!
Name: Sieg Warheit
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Species: Deinonychus
Occupation: Ex-cult member, now fights the cultists
Appearance: Sieg has Red hair, a unique trait amongst his kind. He wears a black shirt with black pants and a white belt with cross buckle. He has a grey, ragged long coat with the Watcher's symbol on the back, and the sleeves torn off. He wears plate armor on his left arm, which starts just below the shoulder and ends above the wrist. On his right arm, he wears a red glove and a set of wrappings over his wrist. Black boots cut to allow access to his claws complete the outfit.
Personality: Sieg is a nice person at heart, but he has been bertayed many times before, so he tends to not trust anyone very easily. The one thing that breaks his calm demeanor is any of the cultists of the Watcher. The strange longsword he uses is a relic of an ancient sect that was called the Knights of the Dark Glyphs. It's name is "Flame of Azrael"
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Name: Killer
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Species: Pteranodon
Occupation: Assassin
Apperance: Tall, dark and Mysterious with a scare running down his back from a botched assassination attempt, he is also odd-eyed having one yellow and the other one crystal blue.
Personality: Mysterious, anti-social and most importantly utterly psychotic!
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Name: Gene Vond(callsign Bloodhound)
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Species: Raptor
Occupation: USAF F-35 pilot/Flight instructer Rank Major
Apperance: Tall,scar across left side of the face from a fierce AntiAircraftArtillery burst near his the cockpit of his plane,brown eyes,wears a jet black flight suit while not piloting his plane he wears a brown leather flight jacket or a black trench coat,black pants and a baseball cap with his plane on it.
Personality: Adventerous,can be cold at heart sometimes but is usually kind,stubborn,some what crazy,fiercly loyal Also when not flying his F-35 he carries several weapons,loves watching SCi-FI movies and TV shows,loves playing flightsims and FPS's.
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Wow, 3 more people, this is rp is filling out nicely it looks like. Lots of meat eaters, not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Well, carnivores rock. That's probably why there's alot of 'em.
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Plus they have some extra built in weapons plant eaters often do not have. :)
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Yeah. Your example, if Jerek and Jaina were weaponless, and surrounded by Cultists with swords, all they'd have to do is kick. Or bite.
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True. A thing many folks overlook. :yes
Looks like everyone is having fun. I'll wait till my char fits into a scene or do a second character who is a vigilante and drop the first one.
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I don't know, but I've noticed a lack of cool villains so far. So here's a good one
Name: Victor Delacroix (De-la-kwah)
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Species: Velociraptor
Occupation: High-ranked cultist
Data: Delacroix is a cold-hearted man who will stop at nothing to obtain his goal. He hold a deep grudge against Sieg for murdering a woman named 'Siela'. His weapon is a black double-edged longsword.
And a female OC
Name: Arcia
Gender: Female
Species: Struthiomimus
Age: 19
Occupation: Maiden of a local temple
Data: Arcia is headstrong and impulsive, but tempers this with a reasonable streak that allows her to keep Sieg in check. Her weapons of choice are twin elaborately-forged silver pistols, as well as her martial art.
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I'm wondering if I should drop my first char and do a vigilante char, or just drop the first char since it seems the rp is pretty full up.
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Edit to Sieg's look: He's gonna get a new coat, sword, and necklace.
Coat: Black with a red lining, bears his personal Knight's crest, and a hood
Sword: Curved, single-edged sword, with seven spurs along it's length on alternating sides.
Necklace:?
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Alright, the Watcher may end up getting released, but Jaina will not be killed. How does this happen? Wait 'n see.