[quote=@Queen Raidne] 1. Everyone roleplays a school trying to compete for government grants. [/quote] [hider] [img]https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/7/1/927905__safe_twilight+sparkle_applejack_equestria+girls_animated_screencap_cute_spoiler-colon-friendship+games_friendship+games_human+twilight.gif[/img] [/hider] Had to be done. [quote]2. Alternate history RP's. What if the cold war went hot? What if Genghis Khan conquered Europe? What if the Song Dynasty never fell? What if [i]Australia never existed[/i]?[/quote] My general advice on alt-history is that you better be damn good to represent it. And I don't mean a good writer, but you know the history, the characters, events, cultures, and so on. And to not just simply blandly say, "And then X-happened" since for a good alt-history we should know where the point of deviance is. And to know that one should really know what was the major driving factor that makes that point of deviance so special. For the Mongols for instance: there's a lot more to them than they just thrashed so-and-so's army in battle and had a clear shot to Rome. However on the Cold War there's easily a lot of places it can go hot. But the Cold War being the Cold War any instance of it getting hot would most certainly mean nuclear apocalypse. So then we'd be playing non Sci-Fi Fallout. [quote]3. Everyone roleplays a colonial settlement in the New World.[/quote] I actually tried this once: it didn't turn out. But a colonial RP has a lot of promise of being a great local-area politics RP. There's a lot more in the topic than trading or fighting duh dayumn heathun injuns. Actual raids by colonies against colonies was a regular occurrence, load up all the good old boys into a small boat, scoot over to the Dutch colony down the coast, hit it and take its rum and women, and head back home. Major European wars turned into excuses to just conduct more insane raids than the usual. And the homeland in Europe would consider this sort of shit too trivial to really do much about it. [quote]4. It is an unprecedented economic meltdown. Nations are scrambling to secure their future. Civil unrest is high. People are desperate for answers, any answers.[/quote] I dunno how this'd fit in NRP so much as anywhere else. [quote]5. I dunno, somehow people RP organs in a body or something; I keep wanting to develop this idea but never do.[/quote] Same as above. [quote]6. The next space race - to Mars - is finally happening. Nobody cares, because somebody just detonated a nuclear device in Seoul. Naturally, people point fingers at North Korea, but the regime (for once) denies it.[/quote] Meh [quote]7. It is the crusades, or a crusade-like alternate world equivalent.[/quote] See the point about alt history. If fantasy, then you can get away with some leeway. But I feel this'd just be a rather cut and dry medieval soft-fantasy RP. [quote]8. Literally the world right now. Just RP the world, right now.[/quote] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1cFWQVorKg[/youtube] And don't forget racist Hungary. [quote]9. Competing news agencies in a large city.[/quote] I dunno, sounds like another for anywhere but NRP. [quote] 10. Competing television networks. 11. Everyone controls a section of RPGuild in a weird, meta RP 12. Packs of animals? I dunno.[/quote] [quote]I dunno, sounds like another for anywhere but NRP.[/quote] [quote] 13. Competing magic schools. [/quote] [hider] [img]https://derpicdn.net/img/2015/7/16/938273/large.png[/img] [/hider] I had to do it again. [quote]14. Factions get pulled from fandoms onto Earth. Or some other world.[/quote] I swear I literally played something like this several times when I decided to do casual shit so I could not think hard for a few days. [quote]15. Marvel Comics NRP. 16. Spy agencies. Encourage flavors, like: James Bond, Get Smart, Acme, etc. 17. Military units in a war? 18. Bars/Restaurants strugling to survive a suddenly-oppressive government post-revolution. 19. "Okay, everyone plays a forest, right, and it's all fine, but, like, these forests are being threatened by... loggers. Yeah. And the loggers are normal dudes, but, like, they've got. Um. To outrun these guerrillas, so they're cutting down a lot of trees." -courtesy of my friend Paul 20. Everyone plays a drug cartel. 21. Cops & Criminal Gangs [/quote] [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/forums/4-casual-roleplay]>>Casual[/url] [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/forums/5-advanced-roleplay]>>Advanced[/url] And there's my thoughts, some with more sarcasm than others.