I'm really getting into writing a lovely Highgarden post. It's genuinely turning out better than I expected it to be, and should be a lovely bit of interlude from KL. I like writing for Highgarden even in other RPs, given the fact that GoT hasn't covered life inside the walls a lot, and I can play around with it a lot.
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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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@Monochromatic Rainbow
Abe's capable of some incredible collabs. You were really good in Echo and so far have been here. Just a pair of fave RPers I know :)
Abe's capable of some incredible collabs. You were really good in Echo and so far have been here. Just a pair of fave RPers I know :)
@Abefroeman@Monochromatic Rainbow
Can't believe you're in the same RP together. The universe should implode, or some shit. So awesome.
Post won't be coming due to 3am last minute report work and depression reasons. Will do after.
Can't believe you're in the same RP together. The universe should implode, or some shit. So awesome.
Post won't be coming due to 3am last minute report work and depression reasons. Will do after.
@Greenie@NecroKnight@Greenie
Depressingly, Ellion isn't who he is because he sticks with one girl. He is who he is because he is completely an asshole. So Merebelle has status. So does he....as the secondborn son of one of the prominent Lord Paramounts in the Seven Kingdoms, and someone who has ability with a blade. He's youthful, arrogant, and while not ignorant, he's very simple in his desires. It's not so much that he doesn't care, or doesn't understand, it's just to him, he just sees lust as provisional, and sure, Merebelle is beautiful and makes him go a little over what he does. But if he was pulled away, and kept away from Merebelle long enough, he wants to keep his image. That of a charming, beautiful Reachman on tour, who smells of roses and attracts both women and a particular few men. One night together is very little to Ellion, two is a little more.
It's sad as hell. Outside, I want to write him as happily merrily ever after. Reality? People, like in the real world, are fucking crap, and have shitty ways of being human. They see boobs, they like. Ellion is just curious, he's done a lot of shit in a very young life, and is used to his actions not really having much consequence because he moves on, only his reputation and talent in arms and tourneys making him known for his bravery, and his looks. His sex life? He knows he has to be careful around the Targaryen Princesses, as well as other women that may lust for him, but chooses Merebelle because she's a challenge. If a YiTish girl rocked up, Ellion would want that, because he likes a bit of a project, something exotic and extraordinary. He's a complete fucking player...so that's why I can't guarantee it, because I always had him as that, really aimless but talented, he's a charmer but he's also complacent and misguided. That's why he would actually get on well with Lysara....oooorr his sister would tell him "Fuck that, she'll kill you" because she'd know (actually, Lysara could work with Alerie if you liked) probably what would happen, and even be a little worried Ellion wouldn't be able to deal with that.
Now the rest of my characters, that's something else. There's a small gaggle of Tyrells that are still open if anyone wants them, back in Highgarden.
Depressingly, Ellion isn't who he is because he sticks with one girl. He is who he is because he is completely an asshole. So Merebelle has status. So does he....as the secondborn son of one of the prominent Lord Paramounts in the Seven Kingdoms, and someone who has ability with a blade. He's youthful, arrogant, and while not ignorant, he's very simple in his desires. It's not so much that he doesn't care, or doesn't understand, it's just to him, he just sees lust as provisional, and sure, Merebelle is beautiful and makes him go a little over what he does. But if he was pulled away, and kept away from Merebelle long enough, he wants to keep his image. That of a charming, beautiful Reachman on tour, who smells of roses and attracts both women and a particular few men. One night together is very little to Ellion, two is a little more.
It's sad as hell. Outside, I want to write him as happily merrily ever after. Reality? People, like in the real world, are fucking crap, and have shitty ways of being human. They see boobs, they like. Ellion is just curious, he's done a lot of shit in a very young life, and is used to his actions not really having much consequence because he moves on, only his reputation and talent in arms and tourneys making him known for his bravery, and his looks. His sex life? He knows he has to be careful around the Targaryen Princesses, as well as other women that may lust for him, but chooses Merebelle because she's a challenge. If a YiTish girl rocked up, Ellion would want that, because he likes a bit of a project, something exotic and extraordinary. He's a complete fucking player...so that's why I can't guarantee it, because I always had him as that, really aimless but talented, he's a charmer but he's also complacent and misguided. That's why he would actually get on well with Lysara....oooorr his sister would tell him "Fuck that, she'll kill you" because she'd know (actually, Lysara could work with Alerie if you liked) probably what would happen, and even be a little worried Ellion wouldn't be able to deal with that.
Now the rest of my characters, that's something else. There's a small gaggle of Tyrells that are still open if anyone wants them, back in Highgarden.
@NecroKnight
Who knows. He might stay with her, but I'm writing Ellion as being chivlaric, generally heroic, but a bit of an asshole, and the fact that he's interested in men too might mean he talks to Mychael, and potentially other women. Perhaps unknown to her at all, because he's away, or is very, very good at covering his tracks, that and the fact that his dad might tell him to sharpen up and think about well, looking at one of the Targaryen girls who might have their way with him. To say the least, he won't be honest...but let's play it out a little. Maybe he'll fess up and come back to her even, after being given a chance to see far more.
I mean, Merebelle could just yank his cock off at the end of that conversation, or his head. Not sure which Ellion would find worse.
Fucking hell, I'm a monster. Ah well, at least it means I'm approaching my mood to start writing. I'll do a bit in Highgarden too- if anyone has any NPCs or anybody in Highgarden, now is your shot.
@Monochromatic Rainbow
Gotcha- Garlan's in Highgarden, though if she met Willas or Ellion, possibly as she's a soldier, they'll refer him on.
Who knows. He might stay with her, but I'm writing Ellion as being chivlaric, generally heroic, but a bit of an asshole, and the fact that he's interested in men too might mean he talks to Mychael, and potentially other women. Perhaps unknown to her at all, because he's away, or is very, very good at covering his tracks, that and the fact that his dad might tell him to sharpen up and think about well, looking at one of the Targaryen girls who might have their way with him. To say the least, he won't be honest...but let's play it out a little. Maybe he'll fess up and come back to her even, after being given a chance to see far more.
I mean, Merebelle could just yank his cock off at the end of that conversation, or his head. Not sure which Ellion would find worse.
Fucking hell, I'm a monster. Ah well, at least it means I'm approaching my mood to start writing. I'll do a bit in Highgarden too- if anyone has any NPCs or anybody in Highgarden, now is your shot.
@Monochromatic Rainbow
Gotcha- Garlan's in Highgarden, though if she met Willas or Ellion, possibly as she's a soldier, they'll refer him on.
@Monochromatic Rainbow
The series is so awesome. And yis, I think Garlan might bump into her if she's in Dorne...
The series is so awesome. And yis, I think Garlan might bump into her if she's in Dorne...
@Monochromatic Rainbow
Good to see you here man. Really like your char btw, I think I've seen that series of armours :P
@MrDidact
Thanks for that post- it gives me a lot to work with, and once I have time later tonight, I'm gonna concoct something.
Good to see you here man. Really like your char btw, I think I've seen that series of armours :P
@MrDidact
Thanks for that post- it gives me a lot to work with, and once I have time later tonight, I'm gonna concoct something.
@AtomicNut
Alerie's gonna be outbreasted. Tits. Innuendo.
I'm utterly exhausted, and writing a post is gonna be difficult. I'm tempted to do something a bit more proper soon.
Alerie's gonna be outbreasted. Tits. Innuendo.
I'm utterly exhausted, and writing a post is gonna be difficult. I'm tempted to do something a bit more proper soon.
@MrDidact
I was creatively in a rut, and just have been flat to the wall with typing/writing other stuff. It wasn't great, but it gets things moving, and showcases Ellion a little, he slayed a hell of a beast right there :)
I was creatively in a rut, and just have been flat to the wall with typing/writing other stuff. It wasn't great, but it gets things moving, and showcases Ellion a little, he slayed a hell of a beast right there :)
@NecroKnight
Sweet. I'm a bit busy tonight, but tomorrow I'm free all day, and can really commit to a good collab. My creativity juices are dead atm, my Hydrology ones are online sadly :(
Sweet. I'm a bit busy tonight, but tomorrow I'm free all day, and can really commit to a good collab. My creativity juices are dead atm, my Hydrology ones are online sadly :(
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