RPG Anyone?

[Agasha Taeshik]

Anyone interested in a, completely separate, RPG game, where you "roll up" a character (limited to the 4e Core book), and have stats and such?

I am an ancient in GMing, and have run quite a few online forum-based games. But this would in no way relate to your EmeraldEmpire character, it would be a completely different game requiring character-approval.

I realize that the primary crowd here either hasn't touched L5R outside this game, or only tried the CCG. So, if there's a lack of interest, that's ok. It will require at LEAST 6 players (of which at least HALF would need to actually know the game so we don't bog down too much with explaining mechanics), and no more than 8 (well, if there's THAT much interest, I would do 2 games in the same world where they could at some point interact).

There would only be 3 basic rules.

1) You would HAVE to post at least once every 24 hours, even if you're doing nothing (you would just roleplaying-ly state that you're doing nothing).
2) You must write with grammatical correctness and in a verbose manner.
3) No inner-party fighting (so no 'evil' characters intent on infiltrating and destroying the party sort of character concepts)

If there's interest, please post here, don't PM me. This lets everyone see that there either is, or a lack of, interest in the idea. You may post a character concept, clan, etc, if you want, but that's not a requisite yet. Mostly just want to see if there's interest.

[Toku Hirotomo]

I am up for this, if there is enough people interested. I have a few ideas of what to roll, but normally I act as a reaction to the story and the other players. I don’t like leaving gaping holes in a party’s competency. I’ve played all three major roles and am up to doing any of them. I’ve also been playing the RPG for quite awhile now (1st ed.) and I’m a gold mine of info on character creation if anyone needs help.

[Bayushi Senshi]

I'm not 100% on this yet, but I think I'd at the very least like to make a unicorn character, I don't know if I'll have the time to really join in any major rp effort. I do want to bounce ideas off of other rpers for character concepts.

[Akodo Tomatsu]

How many people are you going to allow, and how story driven will it be? Feel free to PM me with the answers if you don't want to clutter your thread up.

[Agasha Taeshik]

My stories always conform to the party. If you're not diverse, the game becomes specialized. If you're all Shugenja, the story will be much more arcane in nature, etc, etc. It's best that you play something you love, your fav clan, your fav class, and your favorite build of it. I'll fit my stories around those character without effort.

[Bayushi Sasori]

I am very interested. I should be able to commit to most days, but weekends may be an issue.

[Hiruma Koji]

Sounds fun! Especially if there's two groups in the world

[Akodo Tomatsu]

Ok so it is more like a regular table top game, gotcha. I'll consider if I can meet your post every 24 hours requirement. Is there a particular length you would want the "I'm not doing anything in RP" posts as that will influence whether I can participate or not.

Also what restrictions are you placing on character creation? Are you allowing Ronin? Imperials and minor clans?

[Agasha Taeshik]

Akodo Tomatsu, looked past the rest of the group, he honestly had no idea what to do and didn't want to make that as painfully obvious as it actually was. If he just looked forward and pretended he knew what he was doing, maybe nobody would notice.

As long as it's part of telling a story, it's ok. In the end, roleplaying, especially online, is about telling stories. Games that die quickly, and most do, are because people want to comment with as little as "i attack him rolled 10 and hit him" causing everyone to sort of lose interest.

The main problem with online gaming is that both the GM and the players have to be super descriptive, and take a LOT of leeway on things. If we wait in turns of initiative (etc) to perform an action, you end up with 1 person posting a day, and a fight lasting a year with absolutely no chance of every gaining experience before the game is dead. I will tell whole stories per day, and hope to see similar writing. My posts will always entail re-telling the story you told from your eyes into the story seen by onlookers (and try to never actually call any of your actions out as not happening). Of course, if you post something that describes you slaughtering 50 Undead Samurai in a single turn, my reply post may contradict it a bit, as I show that you honestly felt your blade slice through them all, and believe them all dead, just before the bewildered look hits your face from the blade protruding through you from the back side, held by one of your victims.

I promise, I'm a fantastic storyteller on forums, I've done it for over a decade and can hold games together that seem nearly impossible to do, not only because I am extremely verbose, but because I master the ability to reword a person's PoV into another PoV that doesn't contradict the one, but fits the rolls on the table.

Anyhoots, character creation. L5R 4e core book. If it's not in there under the character creation chapter, you can't do it. If it is, you can. While I don't have my 4e book with me, I'm pretty sure Miya, Minors, and all sorts of others are all in there.

However, when I tell a story, I tend to keep things exciting by using a lot of combat, and in L5R, one of the best ways to do that is with the Tainted sort of invasion. I think (not set in stone until I get some character concepts, but might help you in deciding) that in this game, Crab lands are being over-run, and the empire is greatly in danger of entering a Thousand Years of Darkness scenario. This allows cross-clans to work well together out of a matter of simple survival, and diminishes courtly affairs, which while fun, can bog down a forum game even more than combat. If however I see that there's a large percentage of courtly like characters, I will adapt my story to make courtly endeavors more prevalent in the game. But... if you want a fun game, I suggest being ready for combat. As a Shugenja, I will strongly recommend that players go for Innate Spells so as to be less dependent on Scrolls.

[Toku Hirotomo]

Bushi huh? I have to dig then. Too many ideas.

[Agasha Taeshik]

Ok, seems we have enough interest for a game. Please now, send me via a private message (do not post it on here because I don't want your choice to influence others, please), your character concept, and your character goal (OOC Goals). This is done a couple of ways. 1st, a story that will let me know how verbose you are. And 2nd, a 40xp Character sheet, and what your character would look like at Rank 9 in his school.

If you have no idea what I just said, dont' worry. Just send me the story and if you know, your favorite clan/character (or if you don't know your favorite clan/character, what you imagine your character should be able to do, and I can let you know what clan/character best suits that image)

[Agasha Taeshik]

2 Character concepts turned in so far.

[Agasha Taeshik]

Ok, as Toku Kempashi is the only one that has shown any real interest in this idea, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the idea is a dud.

Next topic....

[Toku Hirotomo]

Sigh, oh well.

[Akodo Tomatsu]

Sorry Taeshik, I would love to play, but I just don't have to time, need to keep up with my school work, during the summer I'd love to play.