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Military RPs- a Cause for Debate

And the distance between the RP and its point of deviation (1914) is about long enough new contexts can be written in over top of what'd be the more widely known historical contexts, even if we've already written in some lore that'd be known to a single character (but we got a comprehensive brief on each nation's contributions that we decided to keep from PoW past).

Military RPs- a Cause for Debate

All this non-consensus about theater and doctrine and all of that has me thinking: You can cut the complexities if you just drop the idea of doing a nonfiction RP. Even if you don't want an RP where you need to a Wikipedia professor to talk about fire arms and armor classifications you still would need to be considerably knowledgeable about the operation at hand. More than just simply having a vague idea, or you yourself won't work it as well as it should. It'd be the history/lore equivalent of trying to hold a pistol like a rifle.



This back and forth with tl;dr posts really has me believe more that what's needed more is less a historical exploration of the Boer Wars (which I'm sure not many people know about) or Operation Desert Storm which most anyone here wouldn't even be old enough to remember seeing on the news, let alone the presidency of Bush Senior.

These are all fantastic and well and good but to approach them with any sort of scope or context without having to grapple with the technical specifications of the M16 just keeps it too complicated. And then you got the politics associated with it too. Someone's bound to get mad if you pick and interpret the wrong war the wrong way. But if you want to do away with realism and have something approachable I'm going to say: go fiction.

And on that note I'm going to keep up saying it: consider Precipice as what it is beyond a NRP. We got a growing potential for conflict with immense possibility for it being explored at someone's home or on the front. The only serious commitment to have a broad knowing of the world is simply coordination with one or all; long enough to know what's what (which shouldn't be hard, all complexities in it aside) and keeping to date and to speed with the rest of us so you don't fall behind; we do have a constant progression of time (and the more people active the longer I can stretch it if we want to be more detailed).

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Laggia said
Implying that things were going good until you came and complained about Op chars. It's a crossover and the GM accepted us. . . And now you have brought your goons in as it seems wonderful just bring so much joy into this lovely roleplay.

The funny thing is I never asked them to come. They came on their own volition.

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Post in PoW.

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u wot goatboi?

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Laggia said
Well everything was fine until you showed up just saying. . .

Implying?

A Kind question

Mongols did burn down the House of Wisdom. The Baghdad school did however find a home in Cordoba. The Basra school probably got dissolved, followed their Bahgdad rivals, or incorporated themselves into Sufi theological schools.

Military RPs- a Cause for Debate

That's another thing I can't help but say we got in PoW. Though all the same the current major conflict is shifting to a part of the world that not many people will find familiar enough to write: that being Africa. The time of conflict in North America drew itself to a close in that universe, though I suppose there's still room for a character to be made that's reflective on that period and the gassing of Seattle.

Which is probably one of the few things about North America in 2012 we didn't re-write on the move over here. So this is still a valid exploration.

Anyone ever formally ended an RP?

Yea, but I don't think we even finished that.

Military RPs- a Cause for Debate

TheEvanCat said
We should have a Kebab removal RP.

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