I feel like posting, but again, the North/Ironborn haven't been heard from for a long time. Plus it'll be a lot of work, so at the very least, I'll be ready to do collabs when people want to start that. PM me links to titanpads.
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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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There is Drogon, if I remember. I'll need to find that post, but as I vaguely remember, he is fucking huge.
It is also why there is about 1,000 men sitting in front of that gate. It's incredible power that dragons have...no sane man would say it isn't.
It is also why there is about 1,000 men sitting in front of that gate. It's incredible power that dragons have...no sane man would say it isn't.
It's the moment you realize Danerys Targaryen's title when read aloud takes up half a minute of speech, that you may have TOO many titles to your name. But yep, I'll take it on.
As far as I know, GoT is one of the few mediums where Magic is genuinely fucking mindblowing. Most of the acts of the Red God, mindblowing. That is what magic is meant to be, it's meant to be...fucking, magical. You know, like you couldn't literally do it for real with any resource you have, hence it has to be magic, and the people who do it aren't just some Mage, they're fucking legends in their own right in some way for being able to perform it. An Arthur C. Clarke quote comes to mind in relevance to this, but still, it's an incredibly feared and scary thing to see, because in a world that is for the most part, much like Medieval England, plus dragons and other crazy stuff, you have that factor in.
Holy shitballs. Well, whoever masters that first is going to have some mindbending power. If you're not a Targaryen, you better have a great understanding of a fucking book and copious mental capacity to wield such power. Well, Gris might have SOME reason to live, but what I mentioned earlier is still in force, for ignorance's sake...
And yay, Co-GM. Valar Dohaeris, mo'fuckers.
And yay, Co-GM. Valar Dohaeris, mo'fuckers.
Magic? Wait, like...not the old-school shit of the First Men? Possibly? Or just dragons, Red God, and so on?
@bloonewb
In the words of the great, mostly dead philosopher 2Pac, if I were Garland.........I don't give a fuck. *breaks into 90s Gangsta Rap*
To be honest, from my own viewpoint on the outside of this, Gris isn't going to be liked by his own people, Dorne, the Reach, and in turn, maybe even Rhaenyra as a result of that influence, a bit of Rule 5 coming into play here- it might be a situation he can't do. He'd be a great maester, but as a Lord, he's seen as mad, or extremely easy to manipulate...which could just be his sister anyway for day-to-day affairs. A Lord isn't the priority for intervention, it's only an alliance of military, political and other uses that Garland wants, not Gris...so if he can, he will get rid of him, forcibly or with some mercy, and actually, is very likely to be the latter. This isn't the end of you playing if it were to occur- actually, it means that other characters around Gris suddenly become far more important, far more manipulative, and dare we speak the word, the most outrightly shitty act of Kinslaying can begin to unravel themselves as Gris is seen as incompetent at running a Kingdom. There is a lot on the plate- it's just realizing that Gris is already in the deep shit for being who he is, and from an external perspective, it'd be difficult to climb out of that without outright giving into the Red God or sucking it and seeing. Garland WILL be in deep shit when, not if, he makes an error, and knowing that this is GoT, he is going to, and someone is going to take his head.
Garland will want an equivalent that actually has a gregarious and proactive lord, to match his own nature if he wants to not worry about measly revolts. It's terrifying shit, but to be honest, it's to be expected. Garland doesn't care for knowledge, anyway, he cares for being a chivalrous motherfucker, women, falcons*, wine, tourneys, and his work as a Lord Hand and being a fucking husk inbetween all these to run his own Kingdom. An ally is there not for knowledge, in his view- he wants a Kingdom that loyally follows the Crown, HIS instated crown, and even if Gris did say yes, is Garland going to want to constantly fight rebellions indirectly supported by Dorne, rather than the Crakehalls?
*It hasn't been shown a lot, but due to Garland being a fucking husk in writing letters to people, he hasn't done any falconry in the Rosewood. Tangent here- I hope the Rosewood is a nice way of explaining why there's a wood about the quarter of the size of the Kingswood outside the eastern side of Highgarden.
Also, I just realized on that death list, Garland's dignity is on there. I fucking ROFL'd.
EDIT:
From my knowledge, technology doesn't really move on a lot in the Seven Kingdoms. I've set it that the Tyrell Retinues are an idea basically directly pinched from the Mid to Late Medieval Era, something like Henry V or Henry VI would have had in their armies, alongside vassal forces. The trade, and the whole idea of The Reach in this time, all of it, is like what Southern France would have looked like in that sort of period of the mid 1300s/early 1400s, it's becoming a real powerhouse, it's taking on a hell of a lot of progress but actually, the tech for gunpowder, and all the associated Renaissance, is just simply not there. There's no Ancient texts to kick it off, for a start, and if there was any tech progresses, I would imagine it is very, very slow compared to our world. This is Westeros after all- and there is a tad more focus on the mysteries, such as raising people from the dead, and so on and so on.
In the words of the great, mostly dead philosopher 2Pac, if I were Garland.........I don't give a fuck. *breaks into 90s Gangsta Rap*
To be honest, from my own viewpoint on the outside of this, Gris isn't going to be liked by his own people, Dorne, the Reach, and in turn, maybe even Rhaenyra as a result of that influence, a bit of Rule 5 coming into play here- it might be a situation he can't do. He'd be a great maester, but as a Lord, he's seen as mad, or extremely easy to manipulate...which could just be his sister anyway for day-to-day affairs. A Lord isn't the priority for intervention, it's only an alliance of military, political and other uses that Garland wants, not Gris...so if he can, he will get rid of him, forcibly or with some mercy, and actually, is very likely to be the latter. This isn't the end of you playing if it were to occur- actually, it means that other characters around Gris suddenly become far more important, far more manipulative, and dare we speak the word, the most outrightly shitty act of Kinslaying can begin to unravel themselves as Gris is seen as incompetent at running a Kingdom. There is a lot on the plate- it's just realizing that Gris is already in the deep shit for being who he is, and from an external perspective, it'd be difficult to climb out of that without outright giving into the Red God or sucking it and seeing. Garland WILL be in deep shit when, not if, he makes an error, and knowing that this is GoT, he is going to, and someone is going to take his head.
Garland will want an equivalent that actually has a gregarious and proactive lord, to match his own nature if he wants to not worry about measly revolts. It's terrifying shit, but to be honest, it's to be expected. Garland doesn't care for knowledge, anyway, he cares for being a chivalrous motherfucker, women, falcons*, wine, tourneys, and his work as a Lord Hand and being a fucking husk inbetween all these to run his own Kingdom. An ally is there not for knowledge, in his view- he wants a Kingdom that loyally follows the Crown, HIS instated crown, and even if Gris did say yes, is Garland going to want to constantly fight rebellions indirectly supported by Dorne, rather than the Crakehalls?
*It hasn't been shown a lot, but due to Garland being a fucking husk in writing letters to people, he hasn't done any falconry in the Rosewood. Tangent here- I hope the Rosewood is a nice way of explaining why there's a wood about the quarter of the size of the Kingswood outside the eastern side of Highgarden.
Also, I just realized on that death list, Garland's dignity is on there. I fucking ROFL'd.
EDIT:
From my knowledge, technology doesn't really move on a lot in the Seven Kingdoms. I've set it that the Tyrell Retinues are an idea basically directly pinched from the Mid to Late Medieval Era, something like Henry V or Henry VI would have had in their armies, alongside vassal forces. The trade, and the whole idea of The Reach in this time, all of it, is like what Southern France would have looked like in that sort of period of the mid 1300s/early 1400s, it's becoming a real powerhouse, it's taking on a hell of a lot of progress but actually, the tech for gunpowder, and all the associated Renaissance, is just simply not there. There's no Ancient texts to kick it off, for a start, and if there was any tech progresses, I would imagine it is very, very slow compared to our world. This is Westeros after all- and there is a tad more focus on the mysteries, such as raising people from the dead, and so on and so on.
@agentmanatee
Acknowledged. 38,000 sieging a city filled with 13,500, with two dragons and some fucking high walls. Let it last. Come at me, bro. :D
@bloonewb
The Stormlands are going to get messy, my good friend. It's an interesting point, and it'll be interesting to see what comes of it.
@Abefroeman
Oh, and what was mentioned at the end of the post, as everyone else has seen, is an interesting point. Not really been talked about, but this is exactly why succession crises occur.
Acknowledged. 38,000 sieging a city filled with 13,500, with two dragons and some fucking high walls. Let it last. Come at me, bro. :D
@bloonewb
The Stormlands are going to get messy, my good friend. It's an interesting point, and it'll be interesting to see what comes of it.
@Abefroeman
Oh, and what was mentioned at the end of the post, as everyone else has seen, is an interesting point. Not really been talked about, but this is exactly why succession crises occur.
@Apoalo
This in itself is interesting. Because Garland already risks one very big war with the Crakehalls, to risk another one for something else completely, is basically madness to his vassals, and while actually, it COULD work, saying it's what he'd risk and what he would actually go right ahead with are two different things. Get a Reach-Stormlands Alliance brewing, you could really muster up some serious political force, combined with a Dayne on the council, and this is nirvana for Garland- if he can do that without pissing people off, then he has things under control, and he would laugh in the face of Crakehall's rhetoric, while bringing all the key friendly players into the council, sans Crakehalls. It is political bloc-ing at it's finest.
But there are problems, and the main one is the fact that Garland doesn't know what the fuck is going on in some ways, and he does in others. House Tarly would tell him to march right the fuck in, Belgrave Tarly** being great for such a campaign, while other vassals would be opposed on his council, and tell Garland to focus only on the narrower picture for his OWN realm. It's a fucking hard decision to make, and Garland actually quite likes Eleina, respects her despite being a part of a religion that occasionally burns people like roman candles....so what he does has to be as politically and diplomatically manipulated as possible, if he wants to make it work. This is Game of Thrones though, so the best laid plans can always go to shit.
Considering that most likely, Garland knows Gris is madly obsessed with Science* to not care about his realm, while his sister actually looks a little more competent, and I would assume, be a perfect woman to listen to the Lord Hand's advice whilst guarding the South-East from Dorne. So, in typical Tyrell fashion, they're going to do something far more political. If not, raise the banners, send in the Reachmen, maybe less in the nick of time.
** I haven't introduced him yet, but he is the latest incarnation in the pretty militaristic Tarly line that happens to enjoy being pretty damn fuck-off with a Valryian Steel sword. Masterful general, soldier, not a PC character but a character who happens to enjoy the fruits of conflict more than the fruits of the Reach.
*Which actually, would anyone be randomly willing to throw up there that Yi Ti has this shit he speaks of right now? Maybe? Possibly?
@Major Ursa
Ellion may or may not receive a letter at some point from Garland. It may involve travel to King's Landing. And if he arrives with about a dozen falcons hoisting him up with rope, then fuck it, that beats what will happen in Abe's next post. :D
This in itself is interesting. Because Garland already risks one very big war with the Crakehalls, to risk another one for something else completely, is basically madness to his vassals, and while actually, it COULD work, saying it's what he'd risk and what he would actually go right ahead with are two different things. Get a Reach-Stormlands Alliance brewing, you could really muster up some serious political force, combined with a Dayne on the council, and this is nirvana for Garland- if he can do that without pissing people off, then he has things under control, and he would laugh in the face of Crakehall's rhetoric, while bringing all the key friendly players into the council, sans Crakehalls. It is political bloc-ing at it's finest.
But there are problems, and the main one is the fact that Garland doesn't know what the fuck is going on in some ways, and he does in others. House Tarly would tell him to march right the fuck in, Belgrave Tarly** being great for such a campaign, while other vassals would be opposed on his council, and tell Garland to focus only on the narrower picture for his OWN realm. It's a fucking hard decision to make, and Garland actually quite likes Eleina, respects her despite being a part of a religion that occasionally burns people like roman candles....so what he does has to be as politically and diplomatically manipulated as possible, if he wants to make it work. This is Game of Thrones though, so the best laid plans can always go to shit.
Considering that most likely, Garland knows Gris is madly obsessed with Science* to not care about his realm, while his sister actually looks a little more competent, and I would assume, be a perfect woman to listen to the Lord Hand's advice whilst guarding the South-East from Dorne. So, in typical Tyrell fashion, they're going to do something far more political. If not, raise the banners, send in the Reachmen, maybe less in the nick of time.
** I haven't introduced him yet, but he is the latest incarnation in the pretty militaristic Tarly line that happens to enjoy being pretty damn fuck-off with a Valryian Steel sword. Masterful general, soldier, not a PC character but a character who happens to enjoy the fruits of conflict more than the fruits of the Reach.
*Which actually, would anyone be randomly willing to throw up there that Yi Ti has this shit he speaks of right now? Maybe? Possibly?
@Major Ursa
Ellion may or may not receive a letter at some point from Garland. It may involve travel to King's Landing. And if he arrives with about a dozen falcons hoisting him up with rope, then fuck it, that beats what will happen in Abe's next post. :D
*hums Game of Thrones theme again*
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