RP Thread

If I were to start a "game" were people could all come together to RP whenever they wanted, would you participate? If so, what would you like it about? Mutant academy? Fantasy? Wild west? Cyberpunk? Steampunk? Etc. Would you want to build the world as well as tell a story with the Gamer's Plane community? Tell me your thoughts.

That's an interesting idea. A strictly RP driven style game of sorts. I would love to see something like that happen.

Some of the best fun I've had on GP have been extended stretches of purely RP! It takes some pretty awesome roleplayers to pull that off though. Luckily, we have plenty of those in this community! :-)

it could be like a steampunk version of Cheers!

Like one giant game? I'm interested how would this work? Lol

The Tavern.

A place where people pop in and out. It would be great if you RP'd based on your favored system. So it's almost like a Diner at the end of the Universe sort of thing where you see people from the fantasy world mixing with Star Wars and Shadowrunners.

YES!!!

the barbarian walks in and everyone shouts "Crognar!"

It's actually sort of possible at this point since you could allow Character Sheets from any game into your game. Of course there would be almost no way to hash together all the rules so it would by default have to be only RP.

I can easily make a forum for just freeform RP, or we can create a game that doesn't take players, where it's forums allow anyone to post (I kinda like the second).

It would be helpful to have avatars for characters tho, to keep track of who's who.

Yeah, could a game that doesn't take players also allow avatars to RP? It would be nice to have some sort of consistent character that comes and goes in the tavern.

I mean, is it all just RP? is there going to be some plot? wouldn't it get confusing if huge numbers of people join in and posts get lost in the shuffle?

I think we are describing a chat room. Lol.

I could see too many people flooding the thread.

yeah, if it gets too big, it would have to be a real time java environment or something

Ah, but its an "In Character" chat room. I think this idea is amazing! Avatars are a must though. And I think it should be a game, so that people can start new threads for side conversations and stuff. Oh, its gonna be some fun chaos in there!

I love the idea of characters leaving the tavern and coming back later to show off random things they acquired in their latest adventure.

Like there are super epic things happening, but we never see them, just the aftermath when they show up to the tavern.

but there actually isn't an adventure so we can make up the most outlandish things

"oh, Martin? yeah, we need to call him Mary now since he got a hold of that belt of gender change... poor guy"

I was thinking of making a "game" where there is like a 9999 player limit, use a custom character sheets for background, and even a section of character backgrounds if you would like if you would like other people to know more of your character. Maybe if say it was a modern day setting, have threads for different locations.

Example:

Thread- St. Charles Library

Jason Rutledge enters.

Looking around, he realizes Barbara isnt here.

Jason leaves.

Oh this sounds kinda amazing.

I'd love for a Tiefling Warlock to start getting all chummy with an Android bounty hunter or Ussuran sailor.

So many cross-setting shenanigans...

I want to see a D&D dwarf and a shadowrun dwarf get into a drinking contest

Yah, sounds like a custom game may be best for this. I could theoretically add code to automatically accept any players who join this game, and any characters they submit.

so in other words, this will work like a neighborhood in RIFTS

And you know there was a book I heard about that had a whole bunch of short stories, but they were all related because of the tavern. It was like a multidimensional tavern where these different fantasy worlds could walk through this tavern door and they were all in the same building. When they left, they all went to their respective worlds. Think of a bag of holding but the pocket dimension its connected to is connected to other openings. So this could be a fun idea for everyone to come in chat and go back to their respective worlds.

would be cool if we were to in character RP some of our favorite characters from the games we're in. kind of like a cross dimensional meet and greet

I wrote a blog post once about mashing systems together with no regard for stuff. Essentially, it could be up to the GM to adjudicate based upon respective probabilities of the systems in opposition. You would need a GM with a head for probability distributions and an understanding of the systems.

Multiple systems may be overly ambitious. What if we started off with one thread for D&D 5e since that seems to be the predominant system at the moment? I understand it is RP only, but done rolling may be necessary in order to add a random element to encounters/interactions.

This is sounding more and more awesome every time I read more on this idea. I'm totally in when it happens.

Honestly it doesn't sound like we'd actually need a system for this, just the ability to have a forum in which any character sheet was allowed. Then you just post silliness from any of your characters. I can't imagine trying to workout "GAMEPLAY" would be much fun (but I could always be wrong).

well, what are we going to do when there's a bar fight?

We'll use the oldest system.

Rock-Paper-Scissors.

For sci-fi universe character's it's Rock, Datapad, Vibro-Knife.

For fantasy it is Rock, Parchment, Dagger.

for star wars, it's both!

We roll d3's 1 is rock, 2 is paper, 3 is scissors. (Or the appropriate equivalent.)

7th Sea: Cannonball, Parchment, Rapier.
Numenera: Ancient super-powered technology that's shaped like a rock, Ancient super-powered technology that kind of functions like paper, Ancient super-powered technology that cuts things as an afterthought.

We could do this all day.

dudes.. maybe THIS is the mega RP thread and we've been RPing all along......?

You mean that you're RPing as people who are interested in opening up an RP thread?

How do I know PhantomNimbus hasn't been my character all along!? *existential crisis*

O_o

Inception RPG: Dream shaped like a rock, Dream shaped like paper, Dream shaped like scissors, Top that never stops spinning

or maybe we've wasted all this time looking to roleplay with others, when the roleplaying was really inside us all along...

I am Roleplay. *stands up inspirationally*

#Brooding vampire in dark clothing enters the room, finds an uninhabited corner and glowers at the room.#

you know how be a real jerk? roleplay a character from Human Occupied Landfill

Moof enters, finds a seat in the back and chomps on popcorn loudly.

Phantom walks in carrying far too many RPG corebooks and sits down at a table to study his ancient texts.

What have I allowed to be created? *shuts off the Gamers' Plane server*

Finally the goals of the anti-GP Illuminati have been reached!

If there is ever a conspiracy to shut down GP (without valid arguments), I think I'll consider that a life goal achieved.

you may get a lot of angry emails from wives