New RP Ideas

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **on:** March 15, 2012, 03:52:28 AM

Here are some brief descriptions of these ideas. More details will come with questions.

1. Kaiju RP. An RP based around giant monsters like in most of the Japanese monster movies. And each player can create their own giant monster!

2. The Ten Tigers. A martial arts fantasy set around a magical wall, two worlds separated by it, and a legendary team of kung fu felines bound to protect the balance of power.

3. Summoners 2.0. A remake of my Summoners story, set in the modern world.

4. The Rift. A crossover of all of Don Bluth's films.

5. Heroes Forever. An RP where you can play as characters from any American Power Rangers or Japanese Super Sentai series, and you can even create a few of your own!

Kor · **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2012, 11:25:05 AM

I don't know some of those, so I'd have to vote either 1 (kaiju), or the power rangers one. Some of those could be combined since some types of rangers like the mystic force turned into zords, and as I recall the jungle fury rangers unleashed their power animal spirits that are within themselves that work like zords. or the rangers could summon the kaiju, and or have one as a friend. The galaxy rangers and wild force zords were sentient or living, or partially living. Not sure about the japanese versions.
& in 2 of the original timeline godzilla movies 1 had a robot (jet jagua, or however you spell his name) that could grow up to godzilla size, and another movie had a kaiju who slept unless, I think, been a while since I saw it, a person of a certain bloodline had a certain small statue and sang a long song to wake it up.

There are series similar to power rangers like Gatchaman, known in the us under other names, battle of the planets and g force. I think the 2 sequel series, called something like gatchaman fighter, and something else (forgot the other gatchaman series name), were combined & edited to make eagle riders.

Rocky · **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2012, 05:08:09 PM

I vote for 1.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2012, 02:06:12 AM

I know that kaiju movie you're talking about, Kor. That was Godzilla v MechaGodzilla, and the woman had to sing to wake up King Ceasar.

The Japanese Super Sentai series had more sentient zords that have personalities and can talk, either summoned or through the Sentai morphers of some of the teams.

Anyway, Ten Tigers and Summoners 2.0 were original ideas, and The Rift was an original crossover idea of Don Bluth's films, like ADGTH, LBT, Thumbelina, etc.

Kor · **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2012, 11:12:02 AM

The rift one could be a separate rp, though it depends on how many rp's you want to run, 1 or 2, at one time.

As for the Kaiju did you have an intention to focus mainly on them, on the human or human size folks if non humans are around, or about both? Since that could effect the rp.

Not sure if you ever saw an episode but there was a Godzilla cartoon in the late 70's I use to watch as a kid. I have the first season on dvd.

Including would the kaiju, & or zords, have scenes of rp by themselves where they are just hanging out, talking ect. When they are not fighting enemy kaiju or zords. Maybe human friends visiting them sometimes.

I thought the Japanese super sentai zords may be sentient since I've seen some opening and though I don't understand Japanese some brief shots do look like the zords were talking.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2012, 01:52:31 AM

I'm not sure about combining the Kaiju and PR RP's for the time being. The Kaiju story would be similar to how the Godzilla films are done, with plenty of humanoid characters, but we could add a more personal aspect of the monsters, like communication amongst each other, and perhaps with humanoids if they have the ability to do so.

Kor · **Reply #6 on:** March 19, 2012, 02:17:45 AM

Also if the humans have any connection to the Kaiju or not. In the 70's cartoon show the humans can summon Godzilla with a belt device the ship captain wears, or Godzooky can call his uncle himself. Also both seem to be unable to speak English but can understand it. And in the cartoon show Godzooky looks to be around 10-12 feet or so. hard to tell since he usually is hunched over & does not stand up straight usually.

In one of the original timeline movies I think Jetjagua seems to communicate with godzilla using some sort of sign language. And in another movie where Mothra appears it seems the monsters have some sort of language since they have a scene where Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan talk and the twin faries translate for the humans what they are saying. Except for part of what Godzilla said, obviously he cussed or something, based on their comment.

I think one of the 2nd timeline godzilla movies has a woman who is telepathic. I've not seen Son of Godzilla but some clips of it so I'm not sure if Minya interacts with the humans or not. and in the 2nd timeline movie series I've not seen the one with baby godzilla. In his 2nd movie he seems to like humans in the movie I've seen.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #7 on:** March 28, 2012, 02:46:26 AM

For communications between humans & kaiju, I was thinking more along the line of the telepathic woman in the 2nd series of Godzilla movies from 1984 to the mid 90's. She could talk with the kaiju on a limited measure.

Between the kaiju themselves, I'm sure they have a universal language between them and they could talk with each other "normally".

Kor · **Reply #8 on:** March 28, 2012, 05:05:20 PM

That makes sense. Even the 1st series they seem to have a language since the 2 faries do translate what the monsters are saying to the humans present, except for what godzilla says that one time. & in another they do a voice over of godzilla and another monster talking in english.

The only other way is to have someone like godzooky (a very young kaiju) from the godzilla cartoons who, along with the cartoon godzilla, could both understand english, though they humans would usually have godzooky relay a message to him since he could fly, though neither could speak english, just their monster language.

Kor · **Reply #9 on:** April 05, 2012, 11:30:29 AM

Do you want a certain number of folks to be in the rp?

Something else is it may be possible that you could have say just a human character only, & not a kaiju one, and maybe one of each, or perhaps a character who can be in both parts, sort of like jet jagua (or however you spell that) or you pilot a mech so can be in both that way.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2012, 02:47:54 AM

We just need enough to start and continue an RP. Other times we had about three who want to take part in an RP, and it ends up being just one or two actually starting.

The only limit in the kaiju RP is one kaiju or sentient mech per player, no limits on smaller characters, human and/or alien. We don't want to have too many monsters stomping around.

OR, we keep the limit to one custom giant character, and maybe use other kaiju that already exist in movies and TV. Still no limits on smaller characters, or custom vehicles.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #11 on:** April 22, 2012, 02:29:31 AM

So far, we have 3 for the kaiju RP, and 1 for Ten Tigers.

brekclub85 · **Reply #12 on:** April 22, 2012, 03:23:42 AM

I vote for the Ten Tigers

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #13 on:** April 23, 2012, 03:18:41 AM

Okie dokie.

The realm of the Ten Tigers is set with two lands, one of humans, the other of sentient beasts, barred by a magical hidden wall. The World of Men is normally broken into warring kingdoms, and the World of the True People are separated into conflicting clans. The wall has a very small number of passageways through, but no one knows where they are, except for a chosen number of ten feline warriors to keep the two worlds separated. The beasts already know of the wall, and only the bordering kingdoms are aware of it. For both worlds, martial arts is an integral part of everyday life.

In the current times, some of the beast clans are wanting to invade the human lands, and a few of the bordering human kingdoms are trying to seek out the wall itself. Although the current generation of Ten Tigers were supposed to keep the balance, there was turmoil amongst them, and even a few abandoned them, leaving the balance in jeopardy, and not just between the worlds, but also a long forgotten prophecy of a darker third world rising through the surface world and blanket it in darkness.

For the player characters, we each get to create a member of the Ten Tigers, any kind of feline, unless we have less than 5 players, then we can have two of such characters. No limits on other characters, except for that third world I was talking about, which we'll keep on the back burner for the time being. The Ten Tigers are masters of martial arts, and are the only few that can use a type of magic, called Kung Chi. They can use up to three styles of martial arts, and one type of magic, such as one element, shape-shifting, telepathy, spirit walking. Other characters have no magic powers, and can only be proficient of up to two combat styles. The martial arts can be of ANY kind from ANY country, from Japan to Brazil and everything in between. Human characters are more of your own creation, your own kingdom and background. Beast characters are mainly from Clans of a different species, and are usually adept to fighting styles suited to their species, but not restricted.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #14 on:** May 18, 2012, 01:47:42 AM

Back to the kaiju RP. I got a revelation from watching clips from a series called Ultra Galaxy, one of the Ultraman generations. However, rather than the common concept of an Ultraman battling monsters, some human characters could summon one up to 2 or 3 kaiju with a device.

If this makes for a good idea, we could add more monsters per player, and use the device as a method of communications between human and kaiju.

YouTube is a good place to see clips from the show.

Kor · **Reply #15 on:** May 18, 2012, 02:15:49 AM

Sounds similar to the 70's godzilla cartoon, where the captain of the Calica had a small device he kept on his belt that he use to press the button on top to call Godzilla, or Godzooky could call for him also with a special yell. Though the Wikipeida entry on the series is wrong about Godzooky being unable to fly, he can fly just fine, but can't always land very well.

In fact when the Calico wants to go to full speed which they rise mainly out of the water except for the 2 wing things on the bottom of the ship, no idea what they are called, they have to have Godzooky fly above the ship since his added weight prevents them from going at that speed.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #16 on:** May 24, 2012, 07:03:46 PM

Those are called hydrofoils. The US Navy only had about four of the military versions that are already decommissioned in the '90s.

As for communications, it can go both ways between kaiju and their "handlers." A good example is the Japanese Super Sentai version of Power Rangers Dino Thunder, which the Rangers could talk regularly with their Zords on their Morphers. It's more common on other Super Sentai series, but so far you never see that in the American Power Rangers.

Kor · **Reply #17 on:** May 24, 2012, 07:49:53 PM

All I can think of was in 2 power ranger series. In Lost Galaxy, one of the female rangers, I think the yellow one, who was a female tarzan type, could understand what the galaxy zords said, though the other rangers could not. And in Wild Force the red ranger's zord could mentally talk to him, and I think he could mentally understand the other zords.

In the 70's godzilla cartoon, Godzilla and Godzooky seem to be able to understand english perfectly well, though are unable to speak english. The kid who hangs out with Godzooky, forgot his name, can often understand what Godzooky is saying, though not always i think. I'd have to watch an episode. I have season 1 on dvd, which all that was released.

In Godzilla vs Mothra the 2 faries seemed perfectly able to understand the monster language, but could not speak it, and in another movie it seems Jetjagua could speak to godzilla in some sort of sign language.

Though we could do your suggestions, or have some sort of translation devices, or a variety of methods.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #18 on:** May 25, 2012, 11:48:56 PM

In terms of communications among monsters, there will be a kind of universal language that only they understand, and few non-kaiju could somehow interpret, but not completely. In communications between kaiju and humanoids, it's limited severely. The options of such communications include telepathy (from the 2nd Godzilla movie series), special devices (from Super Sentai & Ultra Galaxy, and this can work only between the user and the kaiju he's/she's talking to), and mind-control (more one-sided, as it's the basis of controlling the kaiju's will).

For characters, we'll have three main types of characters: humans, aliens, and kaiju (from Earth and space).

If it's OK with everyone, we can go ahead and start a new discussion thread focusing on the kaiju-RP. Okie dokie?

Kor · **Reply #19 on:** May 25, 2012, 11:55:53 PM

Sure, it's ok with me. We'd have to decide certain things folks may wonder about.