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Forum Meta => Archive => General Discussion Archive => Topic started by: Solnath on May 31, 2007, 08:59:14 PM
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To borrow a certain person's signature:
What do we want? A Fantasy Roleplaying sub-forum!
When do we want it? A Fantasy Roleplaying sub-forum!
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VIVA LA HIGH FANTASY
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I play the Dark elves ruler! Demon-summoning, dark-magic-casting freaks FTW!!11
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and no nations just peeps and stories
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I reckon the fantasy gaming would be nicer if it wouldn't be nation-focused, but rather character-focused. You can play the king, but someone else can play the tailor who makes coats in a village in the same country. Also, pretty "high" fantasy, because the niftiest idea for the background of the setting that Ran and I thought up relies on it.
Cold War between Heaven and Hell.
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i concur and think its a grand idea
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bring on the interdemensional spy game
BWHAHAH
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Mmhm, oh yes, this shall be good.
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So I voted for the Fantasy blaah blaah sub-forum thingee. I was about to withdraw my vote when I saw some rambling about dark elves, but maybe I was just hallusinating...
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YOU HAVE A OOTS AVATAR ROCK ON
you can do what evr ya want really in this probly
high magic
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Me wantsie magic and mad royalty and peasants living in squalor.
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Come on, twelve already! :congrats:
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Ooh, maybe I could be the friendly neighborhood cookie baker. Or the crazy old cat lady... now that could offer some interesting RP possibilities... :-P
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What do we want? A Fantasy Roleplaying sub-forum!
When do we want it? A Fantasy Roleplaying sub-forum!
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It's from Tarrowtown's signature after all, what a coincidence.
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16 for yes
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I like it, though if your doing the heaven, hell cold war I may play someone who is part of a third party.
Its always struck me that there would be some humans who's point of view would be screw heaven screw hell how dare you play games with our lives. I thought this when I watched night watch and when I D&D I play neutral mostly (as one of my odder friends put it spoofing gangster rappers "Yo, True neutral for life man" and "you ain't neutral you ain't nothing").
just for the record fantasy role play hell yes
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Okay, so here's a setting Ran and I thought up that offers anything and everything plus a connection between individual storylines. Basically a skeleton to fill out as players please.
Since the dawn of civilisation, mankind has never been alone. On the world humans inhabit, magic is abundant and creatures that put the wildest imaginations to shame roam the earth. As a result of the chaotic tendencies of nature, elves, faeries and even ghosts can be seen everyday. Some parts of the world live in peace and harmony while others are ravaged by constant warfare. What most do not know, however, is the true state of things.
Two centuries have passed since the Supreme God, commonly known as Teratakana, who created all that is and then mysteriously disappeared, returned and placed a lock on travel in and out of those places usually referred to as Heaven and Hell, which had been fighting with each other for millennia. As a result, the conflict ceased and the mortal plane of existence flourished. Dragons, ancient guardians of the mortal realm, were finally able to follow their own ways on earth, some exerting minimal influence and seeking solitude while others claimed dominance of regions.
However, the ban set by Teratakana had many side effects. As a result, the noblest and vilest of souls could not migrate to the heavens or hells they should have after death and were forced to stay on the mortal plane as ghosts and other undead creatures; those demons and angels that were on the mortal plane at the time of the locking down could not return to their homes and roam free if weakened, most hunted by the dragons but some having thrones of their own and waging war against the guardians; also, the other Outside realms, such as the planes of the nine elements or other, unknown ones, were unaffected and travel to and fro them is possible; finally, the magical power the mortals wield, either that stemming from the dragons known as natural magic or the one springing from within the mortals themselves, inherent magic, is potent enough to summon the prisoned angels and demons, though never longer than for a day and a year.
All planes have their own magical streams, but the most powerful ones are those of the dragons and heavens and hells. For this reason some may seek to subjugate these beings through their own magic. Why such calling is possible even with the lock, no one knows. Also, some experts know that although there very well might be certain loopholes to the lock itself, the lords and ladies of the celestial and infernal domains, gods themselves, have in their fear of Teratakana prohibited the use of such circumventions. However, their power is not absolute.
Because mortals change and dragons grow and decline in strength day by day, the potency of the most common magics wanes and waxes noticeably, making new discoveries quite frequent in the art. However, as the world is an enormous place and there are only so many mortals, no one can say certainly what danger and power lurks. Some even rumour of infernal dragons or celestial elements, but whether they exist or not is known to only Teratakana who has now vanished again after locking down the two strongest realms. Whether or not Her lock will remain indefinitely, only She knows.
Key points:
Magic:
-Mortals have inherent magic that their souls generate. They are the only beings with souls and hence, such power.
-All planes have guardians that generate the natural magic there. In the mundane world, they are the dragons, while elsewhere they might be archangels or -demons, raging storms of primal energy or something completely unimaginable like snowflakes.*
Planes:
-No confirmed free routes in and out of the celestial and infernal dimensions, though some are rumoured to exist. All recorded travel happens by summons of mortal magicians or Earthbound angels or demons.
-Planes that have been studied to any real extent (by mortals):
--the heavenly realms
--the infernal realms
--four of the nine elemental planes:
---fire
---water
---air
---earth
--the plane of eternal dusk (home of the dead)
*See the Plane of Eternal Kawaii** for more details
**Eh, why the heck not?
Basically, this is a sandbox environment. Roleplaying can, should and will affect the world, but the emphasis should be on the characters, not in turning the setting to what you want it to be. Maybe what they want it to be, though. So, please, play as you will but think of the others. Everyone's in the same world and who knows who you might just meet. The whole thing is tabula rasa, so get in there and write something on it!
P.S.
It'd be really great if you wouldn't do stuff like playing Teratakana or dismantling the ban. Kinda ruins the setting and Ran and I worked quite a lot on it. Hope you like it!
~Soly
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Yeah quite cool, it might be fun to have a group of humans who have decided that only they should exist and are trying to wipe out all other creatures (well all other sentient creatures).
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I shall be a demonic-panda slayer!
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I'll go for it, although I'm not going to say what my character is until after we start
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i want to play a fairy magical warrior. very small but with a huge attitude.
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I like it! I've not the slightest inkling what I'll be playing as of yet, but I'll come up with something.
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alana go for the elven chick that my fairy could be enamoured with.
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I dunno, I might play a male creature. I played a woman of one type or another in my last 4 or 5 D&D campaigns and I don't it to overlap with my online RPs too much.
Your character can still be enamored with mine if you like, my dear. Feel free. :wb:
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I would like the idea of a more steampunk-setting with flying ships and floating isles in a infinite sky...
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It's a big planet with lots of continents. Who says what's where.
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Who's on first?
(Sorry, couldn't resist... :D :trout:)
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Then,
I would like the idea of a more steampunk-setting with flying ships and floating isles in a infinite sky...
would be my "continent" at the edge of the world...
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or start another thing diffrent from it for steam punk
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That's a viable alternative as well. But wouldn't it be really great to have some kind of a connection between every single RP, ever?
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Yes. Yes, it would.
"Oops, sorry!" my main character said as he bumped into someone else's on the street. Though this was the only contact they ever had, it counts as a connection. ;)
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Grr, I want to get my first protagonist into action. A grizzled leotaur lancer, awesome or awesome?
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C. Super awesome
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That's a viable alternative as well. But wouldn't it be really great to have some kind of a connection between every single RP, ever?
Yeah. But I´ll have to make my technology very expensive and to limit my population strongly...or don´t you think that elsewere masses of demon conjurating warmages on flying destroyers would reign the world elsewere?
Althoug, I´d really like a campaign with some people getting together on such a ship and doing piratery against enemy countries...
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Lots of power = power doesn't have a high value. Law of inflation.
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i woted for cookiees
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lets get this started, i want to make a party of wandering heros
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I'm totally in favor of fantasy RP. It's really the only way I could RP with my nation anyway.
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bring it
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i want it, i call lvl 67 Night Elf rouge! :)
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/me whips out the banstick.
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uh oh
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Mission accomplished. (http://forum.taijitu.org/fantasy-rp/0/)