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10+ years of an RP idea, finally finished, on 10.10.2025. Goodnight Raven Squad, you were the best, wildest, most silly near future SOF RP that lived on the guild, and you got a worthy send off :)
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I've RP'd for the best part of over 15 years now here on the Guild, and particularly like military settings, both contemporary, past and near future. I have even dabbled in a little more experimental RPs, as well as created a plethora of 1x1s over my time in the guild. I like creating RPs with a distinct flavour- and often shift between narrative-led RPs to semi-randomised plots. I've been more a GM lately than a player, and don't really lean into fandom- instead, exploring my own universes lifting themes from other source material.
My main interests are military-themed, near-future RPs, with a focus on technology. But I'm beginning to push what that RP idea looks like- taking inspiration from lots of media and focussing on the fun, indulgent side of RP, whilst also exploring the lows and emotional side.
roleplayerguild.com/topics/190121-rav…
Raven Squad is a project over seven years in the making, and focusses on a class-based, eccentric yet half-grounded near future special forces team that acts as a response team where you can't send any special forces team in. It's incredibly dumb, incredibly loose, and yet, has delivered some of my favourite plot points in RPG. A brainless action flick a la John Wick and Kingsman meets a complex thriller with a fun left turn in it, Raven has been the culmination of over a decade of loving special forces RPG, gaming influences and other silliness in a package that has provided players with something quite different to a normal military themed RPG. While at an end, this is an RP that is a signature- it's silly as hell, takes itself barely seriously, and is what peak fun military RPG to me should be.
roleplayerguild.com/topics/192916-del…
Delta Hyper is a love letter to Wipeout, F1's Drive to Survive (Netflix) and contemporary Formula One, with influences from solarpunk, cyberpunk, transhumanism and other posthumanist concepts. An RP that follows pilots in their ups and downs, it's a story that hasn't got me playing an actual character, but framing the camera at each pilot (played by others), and presenting it as if it were a documentary. Lifting elements from TTRPG, this is a Racing RPG like no other and no parallel exists- using dice rolls and randomisation, with a stats-driven system to generate race results, rather than actually RPing the races, players experience the fast-paced, dynamic world of anti-gravity racing. This means that come Qualifying and Race, the results are genuinely a surprise to everyone- and based on decisions made through dilemmas and decisions made between races. Friendships, rivalry, the glamour and even a little political undertone play out in 2094, in a colourful, utopian future that focuses on the fight to take first place.
roleplayerguild.com/topics/196931-tac…
Then there's Tactical Breach Wizards: Fireteam Hex. First use of any set IP as a formal setting, this is an RP that offers a darker mirror to Raven Squad, focussing on the other side of the equation- unlikely heroes in an uncomfortable position. I don't normally do fantasy, but the world, the lore, the feeling of the characters and the ability to write a comedy just was too difficult to pass up. An RP that focuses on a group running away from a variety of threats as wanted mercenary wizards in the middle of a post-revolution, Eastern-Europe adjacent 1990s to present Polavia.
roleplayerguild.com/topics/197399-dis…
Lastly, Dispatch: Heroes of Claremont. This is another IP-adjacent world, albeit drawing on a different setting and a new cast of superheroes. As my "first" proper superhero RP, this combines workplace comedy, a Storyteller-lite system and a fun, diverse, and large cast together in a dynamic, diverse setting.
I'm pretty flexible and try and get back to people on ideas and responses, but sometimes, I may become very busy and it will take some time till I am un-busy. I aim to clear posts within a week!
My main interests are military-themed, near-future RPs, with a focus on technology. But I'm beginning to push what that RP idea looks like- taking inspiration from lots of media and focussing on the fun, indulgent side of RP, whilst also exploring the lows and emotional side.
roleplayerguild.com/topics/190121-rav…
Raven Squad is a project over seven years in the making, and focusses on a class-based, eccentric yet half-grounded near future special forces team that acts as a response team where you can't send any special forces team in. It's incredibly dumb, incredibly loose, and yet, has delivered some of my favourite plot points in RPG. A brainless action flick a la John Wick and Kingsman meets a complex thriller with a fun left turn in it, Raven has been the culmination of over a decade of loving special forces RPG, gaming influences and other silliness in a package that has provided players with something quite different to a normal military themed RPG. While at an end, this is an RP that is a signature- it's silly as hell, takes itself barely seriously, and is what peak fun military RPG to me should be.
roleplayerguild.com/topics/192916-del…
Delta Hyper is a love letter to Wipeout, F1's Drive to Survive (Netflix) and contemporary Formula One, with influences from solarpunk, cyberpunk, transhumanism and other posthumanist concepts. An RP that follows pilots in their ups and downs, it's a story that hasn't got me playing an actual character, but framing the camera at each pilot (played by others), and presenting it as if it were a documentary. Lifting elements from TTRPG, this is a Racing RPG like no other and no parallel exists- using dice rolls and randomisation, with a stats-driven system to generate race results, rather than actually RPing the races, players experience the fast-paced, dynamic world of anti-gravity racing. This means that come Qualifying and Race, the results are genuinely a surprise to everyone- and based on decisions made through dilemmas and decisions made between races. Friendships, rivalry, the glamour and even a little political undertone play out in 2094, in a colourful, utopian future that focuses on the fight to take first place.
roleplayerguild.com/topics/196931-tac…
Then there's Tactical Breach Wizards: Fireteam Hex. First use of any set IP as a formal setting, this is an RP that offers a darker mirror to Raven Squad, focussing on the other side of the equation- unlikely heroes in an uncomfortable position. I don't normally do fantasy, but the world, the lore, the feeling of the characters and the ability to write a comedy just was too difficult to pass up. An RP that focuses on a group running away from a variety of threats as wanted mercenary wizards in the middle of a post-revolution, Eastern-Europe adjacent 1990s to present Polavia.
roleplayerguild.com/topics/197399-dis…
Lastly, Dispatch: Heroes of Claremont. This is another IP-adjacent world, albeit drawing on a different setting and a new cast of superheroes. As my "first" proper superhero RP, this combines workplace comedy, a Storyteller-lite system and a fun, diverse, and large cast together in a dynamic, diverse setting.
I'm pretty flexible and try and get back to people on ideas and responses, but sometimes, I may become very busy and it will take some time till I am un-busy. I aim to clear posts within a week!
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YAY, thanks- I'll throw a post in a few days if Skyth doesn't get one up, to kinda set up Mihail's/Anton's situation, as well as the sit-rep on Stratis, relating to what goes down next.
Yep, the server went down on me, but I copied. And refereshed. A lot. Too much it seems. Anyway, we're still on- RPC, you'll be coming in soon, and your characters will have a particular induction.
Damn
Damn
Fucking server...
(Keeping continuity. I'll make it so that we all have one more post to make in theatre, then we'll bring around the two new characters.)
Svetlana looked over, watching as they emerged.
"So, we got a plan for that?" She said, laying down fire on them as they responded with 12.7mm fire that hailed down, even sending Svetlana to a relative hardpoint behind a container, as she heard two incredibly loud explosions. She heard the two suits get torn apart, by what she could only guess was integral explosives. She moved out, the heavily armored Babushka now back into the line of fire, and directing shots downrange, the secondary explosion of one of the heavily armored suits going up as it didn't faze Svetlana to say the least. Cool guys don't look at explosion- and Svetlana took a guess that applied to the other sex too, so she went about her regular buisness, rather than concerning about the fact that it was going up in a hail of flame and shrapnel. The vehicle pool had also gone up, as the armored vehicles inside were pretty much torn to bits too, or at the very least, rendered unusable.
"Yep...nicely done, I felt the heat from that on even my skin. Imran, what's the situation inside?" Svetlana said, as she moved out, taking out a machinegun post as she felt the bullets ping off her suit, an awesome feeling, but one that she felt still adapted to. She kept up the fire, as she knew that she, along with the other heavy, Bjorn, were making more than enough noise out here and really scaring the shit out of the enemies.
Meanwhile inside, and Imran was pushing in, flanking each corner out, as he swept his Mk48.
"Seems clear, you've got most of them on you. Antoine, good work down there. I'll meet you downstairs, we'll get our shit and get out of here. Howard, keep finding what you can in terms of patrols. I think we just destroyed their leverage...and you know, most of their shit. I think our work it almost complete." Imran simply said, the exoskeleton responding very, very sensitively to his finest movements, as he swept the area that the team's inflitrator, Antoine, had already covered. He made his way down a set of stairs, and moving with a certain pace, was keeping an eye out for any enemies. There were dead guys, and they were carrying crates of some sort. He didn't like this at all- he had to have a look, and keeping a head around him, looked over to one. He moved the body over and saw the metal crates- all of which looked very, very well reinforced, and surely, nothing could be breached in this thing. He got back to moving to Antoine, as he kept the Mk48 to hand, looking over at the MP5-armed female that seemed to be like a Ghost.
"Well...this looks tidy, but the grenade could have damaged this shit. Careful next time on that aspect. We've got to get these samples back to the airlock sealant, then leave it to the chemcial warfare team to deal with." Imran simply said, as he walked over to the airlock, looking in, seeing nothing moving within, as he cocked his Mk48.
"Spectre, this is Raven. We've secured the facility, most of it looks like it's cleared, and Black Eagle and Viking are up top with Lasanga turning anything into scattered pieces that's running now. We're looking at a high-grade Artemis raid- we racked up kills of two Class Two Mechanized suits if I saw correctly through Black Eagle's headcam, and a few armored vehicles too that were stashed. AK-12s throughout, a few other interesting weapons too. These guys were armed well, but they've left with nothing."
"Understood, Raven. Extract's coming, Brazilian forces will move in shortly to clean up- Artemis looks like it's escalating whatever it wants to do, things could get busy in the next few days." Imran heard Spectre say, as he looked over to Antoine, picking up two crates himself, as he moved over to where the airlock door was, and a small hatch right by it. Sliding one of the crates in, he guessed that when the system cycled through, it would put the crate on the other side- a transport system of some sorts, perhaps negating the need for actually putting it through the door. When he pulled the hatch down, to even Imran's surprise, it was what happened, and the next crate went through, one of a handful.
"That wasn't too bad. I mean, apart from the fact that we've got enemy mechanized armor suits, and you know, modern Russian weaponry, it's all good..." Imran said, chuckling a little, as he heard a loud explosion go off upstairs, Svetlana quickly answering.
"Sorry, sorry, I hit a oil tank of some sort! It's all good!" She said swiftly, as Imran chuckled, covering Antoine.
"Yeah, I bloody hope so. Let's deal with the last of this and get going, Antoine- Howard, if it moves out there and doesn't seem to look like a friendly Brazillian SF unit, then they're fair game."
Svetlana looked over, watching as they emerged.
"So, we got a plan for that?" She said, laying down fire on them as they responded with 12.7mm fire that hailed down, even sending Svetlana to a relative hardpoint behind a container, as she heard two incredibly loud explosions. She heard the two suits get torn apart, by what she could only guess was integral explosives. She moved out, the heavily armored Babushka now back into the line of fire, and directing shots downrange, the secondary explosion of one of the heavily armored suits going up as it didn't faze Svetlana to say the least. Cool guys don't look at explosion- and Svetlana took a guess that applied to the other sex too, so she went about her regular buisness, rather than concerning about the fact that it was going up in a hail of flame and shrapnel. The vehicle pool had also gone up, as the armored vehicles inside were pretty much torn to bits too, or at the very least, rendered unusable.
"Yep...nicely done, I felt the heat from that on even my skin. Imran, what's the situation inside?" Svetlana said, as she moved out, taking out a machinegun post as she felt the bullets ping off her suit, an awesome feeling, but one that she felt still adapted to. She kept up the fire, as she knew that she, along with the other heavy, Bjorn, were making more than enough noise out here and really scaring the shit out of the enemies.
Meanwhile inside, and Imran was pushing in, flanking each corner out, as he swept his Mk48.
"Seems clear, you've got most of them on you. Antoine, good work down there. I'll meet you downstairs, we'll get our shit and get out of here. Howard, keep finding what you can in terms of patrols. I think we just destroyed their leverage...and you know, most of their shit. I think our work it almost complete." Imran simply said, the exoskeleton responding very, very sensitively to his finest movements, as he swept the area that the team's inflitrator, Antoine, had already covered. He made his way down a set of stairs, and moving with a certain pace, was keeping an eye out for any enemies. There were dead guys, and they were carrying crates of some sort. He didn't like this at all- he had to have a look, and keeping a head around him, looked over to one. He moved the body over and saw the metal crates- all of which looked very, very well reinforced, and surely, nothing could be breached in this thing. He got back to moving to Antoine, as he kept the Mk48 to hand, looking over at the MP5-armed female that seemed to be like a Ghost.
"Well...this looks tidy, but the grenade could have damaged this shit. Careful next time on that aspect. We've got to get these samples back to the airlock sealant, then leave it to the chemcial warfare team to deal with." Imran simply said, as he walked over to the airlock, looking in, seeing nothing moving within, as he cocked his Mk48.
"Spectre, this is Raven. We've secured the facility, most of it looks like it's cleared, and Black Eagle and Viking are up top with Lasanga turning anything into scattered pieces that's running now. We're looking at a high-grade Artemis raid- we racked up kills of two Class Two Mechanized suits if I saw correctly through Black Eagle's headcam, and a few armored vehicles too that were stashed. AK-12s throughout, a few other interesting weapons too. These guys were armed well, but they've left with nothing."
"Understood, Raven. Extract's coming, Brazilian forces will move in shortly to clean up- Artemis looks like it's escalating whatever it wants to do, things could get busy in the next few days." Imran heard Spectre say, as he looked over to Antoine, picking up two crates himself, as he moved over to where the airlock door was, and a small hatch right by it. Sliding one of the crates in, he guessed that when the system cycled through, it would put the crate on the other side- a transport system of some sorts, perhaps negating the need for actually putting it through the door. When he pulled the hatch down, to even Imran's surprise, it was what happened, and the next crate went through, one of a handful.
"That wasn't too bad. I mean, apart from the fact that we've got enemy mechanized armor suits, and you know, modern Russian weaponry, it's all good..." Imran said, chuckling a little, as he heard a loud explosion go off upstairs, Svetlana quickly answering.
"Sorry, sorry, I hit a oil tank of some sort! It's all good!" She said swiftly, as Imran chuckled, covering Antoine.
"Yeah, I bloody hope so. Let's deal with the last of this and get going, Antoine- Howard, if it moves out there and doesn't seem to look like a friendly Brazillian SF unit, then they're fair game."
I'll just get one up tomorrow, and keep it all flowing.
Not a problem man- the only reason I haven't posted is that Nobody has to get a post up- though I might just do one tomorrow if anything/
Lukas Dvorak? Get the fuck out my way, that surname is by no means Polish! :D This is a Pole.
Also, Lukas could be in Jan's unit.
Name: Janusz "Jan" Otrempski
Age: 27
Description:
Janusz is about 6"2, and seems aptly built for a role in the Polish Airborne infantry. He has blue eyes and black shaved hair, as well as a stern moustache and beard, the beard being somewhat trimmed to a significant stubble, while the Moustache is as Pomeranian as it gets. He can usually be seen wearing the dark grey "Moro" camoflage that the Airborne have been recently issued with, and he can be often seen wearing a Green beret as well as his carrier harness for ammunition and the RPG-72.
Background:
Born in Gdansk, Poland in January 1956, Janusz Otrempski was born to a soldiering father, Zbyszek, who fought in the Russian-supported Berling Army in the Second World War, and a teacher, Anna, for a mother, bringing Janusz up as Zbyszek tried to adjust to life working in the shipyards of Gdansk. Janusz envied his father's military service, and wished to follow in his footsteps, and following his conscription in the Polish Navy, he requested a transfer into the Airborne, following exemplary service aboard a "Krogulec"-Class minesweeper operating in joint-operations with the Soviets in the Baltic. Suprisingly, this was accepted, and he was moved to Krakow with the 6th Airborne Brigade, being trained and eventually moved up to Eastern Germany in 1982. He has recently received a promotion to Sierżant, and has been assigned as a squad leader of a large squad of airborne infantry- himself and his men being well trained for operations of rapid advancement. While ambitious, he knows his ground, and that himself and his men are going to need more than just steel to win a war- and that they are merely a small cog in a large machine. He isn't entirely a supporter of any political ideology that Poland is under- he just wants to do his job for his country, be it Socialist, a People's Republic or as everyone in the Western world labels, Communist. He's just there to do a job, and that's stop the west from making gains where it should not.
Unit: Polish 6th Airborne Brigade
---"Druzyna Mlotek"- Squad "Hammer"
-Squad Lead/Fireteam "Czerwone (Red)" Leader- Janusz Otrempski
-Fireteam "Bialy (White)" Leader- Michal Jakubowski
-12 man squad, armed as a Airborne Weapons Squad (having a focus on mixed light AT/AA as well as AP roles, not a Rifle Squad only focused on Anti-Personnel)
-Predominantly armed with the AKM and AKMS across most of the team- other weaponry in the unit includes:
-1x RPG-7 and 2x RPG-72 "Komar" AT Launchers
-1x 9K32 Strzała-2 AA Launcher
2x AKM w/ wz.1974 Pallad 40x47mm UGL
-2x PKM MMG
-2x SWD Marksman Rifles
-Attached to 2x Polish People's Army Mi-24W (V variant) Aircraft, Fireteams Bialy and Czerwone roll seperately in both as passengers when required to move via air.
-A Polish Air Force An-12 is used for airlifts in static-line operations.
Hammer is a rapid-deployment Airborne Unit that works ahead of many other land-based units. They are thrown in as the first to fight once special forces have dealt with the majority of Anti-Aircraft, and are expected to seize targets that regular land-based units may not be fast enough to take. Though weak in number, the two gunships support the unit when required, and give it a force multiplier in carrying out operations, though the whole unit cannot survive without reinforcement or they will be forced to cede whatever ground they have gained. They are shock troops to say the least, but without the groundpounders to back that up, they won't last long.
Role: Squad Leader
Equipment:
wz. AKMS, Assault Rifle (Folding Metal Stock, 7.62x39mm
RPG-76 "Komar" (Mosquito) Single-Shot AT Launcher
Makarov PM Pistol
Rank: Sierżant (Sergeant)
Misc.
-Speaks Polish, Kashubian (welcome to niche), German and poor English.
-Is into Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, despite it being "Western"- though most would agree in his unit that compared to some Polish music, it is far better.
-Trained in parachute insertions and urban combat, along with the rest of his team- though it takes a different style than most Western methods.
(Also, some, but not all of these names are meant to have an L with a line through it to make a "W" sort of sound, so you try pronouncing them like they are there...you're going to have a bad time.)
Also, Lukas could be in Jan's unit.
Name: Janusz "Jan" Otrempski
Age: 27
Description:
Janusz is about 6"2, and seems aptly built for a role in the Polish Airborne infantry. He has blue eyes and black shaved hair, as well as a stern moustache and beard, the beard being somewhat trimmed to a significant stubble, while the Moustache is as Pomeranian as it gets. He can usually be seen wearing the dark grey "Moro" camoflage that the Airborne have been recently issued with, and he can be often seen wearing a Green beret as well as his carrier harness for ammunition and the RPG-72.
Background:
Born in Gdansk, Poland in January 1956, Janusz Otrempski was born to a soldiering father, Zbyszek, who fought in the Russian-supported Berling Army in the Second World War, and a teacher, Anna, for a mother, bringing Janusz up as Zbyszek tried to adjust to life working in the shipyards of Gdansk. Janusz envied his father's military service, and wished to follow in his footsteps, and following his conscription in the Polish Navy, he requested a transfer into the Airborne, following exemplary service aboard a "Krogulec"-Class minesweeper operating in joint-operations with the Soviets in the Baltic. Suprisingly, this was accepted, and he was moved to Krakow with the 6th Airborne Brigade, being trained and eventually moved up to Eastern Germany in 1982. He has recently received a promotion to Sierżant, and has been assigned as a squad leader of a large squad of airborne infantry- himself and his men being well trained for operations of rapid advancement. While ambitious, he knows his ground, and that himself and his men are going to need more than just steel to win a war- and that they are merely a small cog in a large machine. He isn't entirely a supporter of any political ideology that Poland is under- he just wants to do his job for his country, be it Socialist, a People's Republic or as everyone in the Western world labels, Communist. He's just there to do a job, and that's stop the west from making gains where it should not.
Unit: Polish 6th Airborne Brigade
---"Druzyna Mlotek"- Squad "Hammer"
-Squad Lead/Fireteam "Czerwone (Red)" Leader- Janusz Otrempski
-Fireteam "Bialy (White)" Leader- Michal Jakubowski
-12 man squad, armed as a Airborne Weapons Squad (having a focus on mixed light AT/AA as well as AP roles, not a Rifle Squad only focused on Anti-Personnel)
-Predominantly armed with the AKM and AKMS across most of the team- other weaponry in the unit includes:
-1x RPG-7 and 2x RPG-72 "Komar" AT Launchers
-1x 9K32 Strzała-2 AA Launcher
2x AKM w/ wz.1974 Pallad 40x47mm UGL
-2x PKM MMG
-2x SWD Marksman Rifles
-Attached to 2x Polish People's Army Mi-24W (V variant) Aircraft, Fireteams Bialy and Czerwone roll seperately in both as passengers when required to move via air.
-A Polish Air Force An-12 is used for airlifts in static-line operations.
Hammer is a rapid-deployment Airborne Unit that works ahead of many other land-based units. They are thrown in as the first to fight once special forces have dealt with the majority of Anti-Aircraft, and are expected to seize targets that regular land-based units may not be fast enough to take. Though weak in number, the two gunships support the unit when required, and give it a force multiplier in carrying out operations, though the whole unit cannot survive without reinforcement or they will be forced to cede whatever ground they have gained. They are shock troops to say the least, but without the groundpounders to back that up, they won't last long.
Role: Squad Leader
Equipment:
wz. AKMS, Assault Rifle (Folding Metal Stock, 7.62x39mm
RPG-76 "Komar" (Mosquito) Single-Shot AT Launcher
Makarov PM Pistol
Rank: Sierżant (Sergeant)
Misc.
-Speaks Polish, Kashubian (welcome to niche), German and poor English.
-Is into Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, despite it being "Western"- though most would agree in his unit that compared to some Polish music, it is far better.
-Trained in parachute insertions and urban combat, along with the rest of his team- though it takes a different style than most Western methods.
(Also, some, but not all of these names are meant to have an L with a line through it to make a "W" sort of sound, so you try pronouncing them like they are there...you're going to have a bad time.)
Also, double post, because the site is fucking up for me.
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