Oh, it's gonna be big. But it's going to be a sucker-punch big, and trust me, if the Crakehall scouts know everything, you're going to realize the moment information became a curse, not a benefit. It is inevitable, after all- and Garland isn't getting captured anytime soon, neither is Gerald or Lord Lorch. Unless, you opt for it. It'll be interesting to see just how far the Rose will present it's beauty to be able to deliver one hell of a fucking prick.
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STATUS: 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 :) 9 mos ago
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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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The word's going to have already gotten out, so if Garland writes a response, like "Yeah, cool, I'm coming back with a force" and it gets shot down, it's not a problem. INTO is not a problem, not massively, when you think about it. The scouts will see Garland's movements, but he'll have known. Rumors never keep pace as they want. Oh, he'll want to be as bright as ever, because he's bringing a guest with him...and shall we say, there's a way that Alerie will already have made perfect advantage, she isn't dumb to the fact that Garland's only taking a small force.
Depends how it works out. Remember, there's another 13,500 inside, and two dragons. And who said there was going to be an epic battle? You'd be surprised at the way events can turn out. Alerie only needs to do a few things, and the whole of the Reach is going to want blood too.
I don't think it was on the Yunkish attack (s)- it wasn't just on Crakehall Keep, mind you. You could have been moving for siege- my post will have Garland departing Hightower, with roughly a 10,000 strong vassal force gathered on the way, unaware of what is going on at King's Landing.
Shame to hear Kingfisher- I was just going to holler at you about a collab, you weren't behind on the events within Highgarden, just not particularly drawn into it. No probs- all the best.
It's on Rain I think- I will post in a couple of days if nothing comes of it. It's shitty, but I know there are people waiting- and that the core group are still in, it's just that my last post was an awful lot of filler to let Rain do a whole lot of boom.
Whenever that may be...is that like, four/six hours from now in GMT? I think so, yeah.
Hmmm...Blue, you up for a collab? It's a big one, and I want to weave Daenys into it.
@kingkonrad Meanwhile, we Irish glare at you pansy ass englishmen, swear angrily into our pints, and plot our next Rebellion. Good stuffs.
Funny how everyone hates the English, amiright?
There is no equivalent of Ireland in GoT, not unless that was the Iron Islands, which I doubt. Wales could be the Vale, the Riverlands could be East Anglia/Central England, The Reach as the South-West/South East/Southern France, the Stormlands as perhaps...well, all of England is rainy, alright! The Westerlands is difficult- a strange mixture, I honestly wouldn't know how to describe that, a mixture of bits of France, Dorne as Spain for sure, The North as...t'up North, and the Kings beyond the Wall as Scotland. The Iron Islanders are also Northeners, Braavos is definitely Holland, Pentos/Volantis/others are likely to be sort of southern European kingdoms of sorts. I am more confident on some than others.
Two things that makes me shit and giggle in GoT- in the Reach there is Sommerset, which is...the fucking county I kind of live in (North Somerset) then there's Cider Hall. There is a region of The Reach, called Cider Hall. Cider, fucking, Hall. A drink that can be found extremely easily in Bristol, and it's the name of a castle, I belive? See, if The Reach isn't the South-West of England, I don't know what it is.
<Snipped quote by Dawnscroll>
:0 What the HELL??!! Why the hate? I ain't no Lannister! I'ma gelp ya win the north! And kill the Greyjoys! AND SHE IS 10!!
(lel, nice to have you back :))
This is so unlike Game of Thrones. Lannisters working with the North? Tyrells who are not neutral in everything going on around them?
@Dawnscroll
You go right ahead. Us Tyrells are too "Southern" for your Northern blood, and when we do weddings, we throw money at it like someone at a strip club on payday. Plus I'm going to imagine that we're not really interested in each others' affairs, being Wardens of the opposite end of the Kingdoms. The Reach is probably still known for being pretty blatantly honest and chivalrous, just caught up in the wrong end of things. How wrong that is under all that....
The funniest thing is, you have to be English to get half of this North/South hate. Northerners actually don't like Southeners in reality, for the exact same reasons the North doesn't like the South in GoT. Minus the Medieval stuff. The South are full of niceness, flowers, people with complicated politics, the North, honesty, honor, and if I don't like you, I'll punch you in the face.
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