King Cosmos

Monster Hunter x RWBY?

How do you imagine a combination between these two going? I'm pretty familiar with RWBY and I've played Monster Hunter: World at least. There are similarities between the two, with the giant transforming weapons and the big monsters, but in a lot of other ways their pretty different; particularly in tone.

In RWBY, humanity has been corralled into a small number of defensible locations by an endless time of soulless creatures whose sole purpose is to kill humans and destroy their creations; the Grimm are drawn to negative emotions and people are terrified of them.

In Monster Hunter, humanity is thriving. The monsters aren't monsters at all, they are just large animals which people gleefully study, hunt and then make hats out of. There are a few that are more intimidating, but even something like an Elder Dragon isn't really treated as a major threat beyond "Hmm, might disrupt the local ecosystem. Better go kill it". I haven't finished Iceborne yet though; maybe the really end game stuff is different.

Basically, what kind of world do you want to make from these two? Which elements are you planning on borrowing and which side does it lean more towards?

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night

It's a chance for our characters to get to know each other a bit as well.

I'm fine with skipping most of the tournament, since that would take a while to RP out for something that really does not matter in the slightest; we can just vote of who wins. But having us duel at least one other player does at least let us point at each other and go "hey, it you, you got a weird cemetery invite as well".

The Hunt, A Modern Fantasy Smorgasbord RP

Morgana Faith

Things were a little livelier now that the full number of their little task force was back together; well, all minus one. Most were excited to be back together and had many stories to tell; Morgana didn’t much need to hear about their battle in Minsk, but given more time she would have liked to hear more about this titan they encountered.

Still, the investigation demanded their attention once more and now that they were back together there was much more information to review. They had a wider view of what this organisation was capable of now, of just how far their influence and resources reached, but a clear picture of who they were and what they were after still alluded them.

“One doesn’t need to be a deity to amass a wealth of obscure knowledge or influence; just time, resources and dedication. In fact, obtaining the latter would be a good method of acquiring the former, so long as you were able to reach out to the right people and the right groups.” Like a coven of witches, or a person or group talented enough to combine several schools of magical theory into a powerful teleportation method. “Just because this Mr X’s organisation has access to a broad range of specialities doesn’t mean they do; aside from the teleportation magic they used to smuggle their weapons, the abominable knife the biker gang had and this titan you encountered in Minsk, nothing they’ve possessed was particularly noteworthy anyway; the Roggenwolf wasn’t even them, just a mishap caused by a man desperate to free himself from their clutches.”

Though they had seemed quite eager to get their hands on said spirit, once it was in play. The armed mercenaries that had attacked them at the gardens had been quite well equipped, though maybe not suitably prepared to deal with someone like Madeleine. It did at least suggest that they had, or thought they had, the ability to subdue the Roggenwolf. “Which is all to say, it may be a little early to jump to the conclusion that Mr X is a deity.”

Which wasn’t to say that they weren’t a deity either. They would have the resources and power necessary to build a network of this size and scope, as well as the time, but there were a number of mortals who could do the same either through sheer talent or determination or simply through generational wealth. The power and influence of someone like her mother for example was much wider than most people realised and she was hardly a god, nor alone in holding that reach.

“I must admit, I’m not able to see much of a larger picture forming here. Between the arms smuggling and the connections to gangs and cults and whoever those trainer soldiers were that came for the spirit, Mr X seems to be gathering quite a personal army for himself.” One that had somehow gone unnoticed until fairly recently, which said more about their influence than even the size of their operation did. “The compulsion placed on the banker who attacked the OMR could have been a way for their organisation to acquire funds, through embezzlement or insider trading, but just having a man on the inside of a large financial institution could be useful by itself. If they have people inside of the OMR itself as well, enough to leak information about a mission in progress, then it paints a picture of someone building up to something.” Morgana waved a hand through the air to indicate just how vague that ‘something’ was at the moment.

“But it all just seems so… scattered. Fragmented. The groups we’ve run into don’t seem to share a common goal or ideology; frankly I can’t see them working together, unless they didn’t know that they were. Even if everything we’ve discovered so far had gone unnoticed and Mr X had unleashed all of this at once, what would that actually achieve? Havoc? Death? Terror? Before they are then taken down by the OMR or the other powers that be, leaving them with… what, exactly?”

What was the goal? What was the objective? What did her mother gain from siding with these people?

What weren’t they seeing?

@Kumbaris@13org

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night

Claire Turner

Domino City was one of the stranger places Claire had stopped off in.

Three years on the road had let her see more of the country than most people ever would; let her spend time in multiple cities from the North of the island all the way down to the South, a bunch of smaller towns and literally everywhere in between. She’d been to enough places to be able to have favourites, to be able to make comparisons and liked to think that she had enough experience to identify the vibe a place gave off within a couple of days of arriving. And Domino City? Something about Domino City was off. The kind of off she usually only felt when she’d spent too long in one place and the nightmares that she was running away from caught up to her. The kind of off that had her checking over her shoulder and keeping a close eye on any shadows she passed. The kind of off that had her keeping a hand on the deck of cards in her pocket, as if the monsters in it might protect her somehow.

Claire didn’t think she was going to be sticking around for too long as a result. She’d finish this little event, which unfortunately didn’t even come with any prize money, stop off at the hotel to check out and then get back on her bike. Honestly, maybe even before then; usually duelling like this calmed her down, as well as giving her a good opportunity to meet new people and get some information about the place she was in. But today? Maybe it was the way the judges seemed to be paying extra close attention to all of the duels or the store owner, or maybe it was that weird lightning storm the night before, but the sense of dread kept building.

Across the table from her, her opponent asked her something that she didn’t hear and she missed an opportunity to activate a trap card when she should have. Her opponent missed lethal anyway, but it was enough for Claire to decide to focus on the duel instead of her worries.

“I activate the effect of my Siverd in the Pendulum zone to destroy my Metalfoes Combination, to set Parametalfoes Fusion from my deck. Then I activate Metalfoes Counter in response to summon a Metalfoes from my deck and chain the graveyard effect of Combination to add a Metalfoes to my hand.”

From there the rest of the duel was fairly quick, with Claire summoning two Fusion monsters to bounce their strongest monster with Mithrilium and then Pendulum summoning and attacking for a huge amount of damage with Orichalc’s piercing ability.

Beside her the judge watching their match, an attractive blonde woman with the name tag ‘Valentine’ made a note of her win and moved on to the next pair.That was the first round dealt with at least.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night

Are duel disks still a thing or are the duels taking place at tables?

@Double

Duel disks are a thing, but they aren't common; pretty sure they are only used by the magic duelists. Duel Monsters is a niche hobby in this setting, not an all-consuming juggernaut like the show, so this should just be a regular store tournament with games at tables.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night

If duelbook or similar simulators have a written play by play that could be referenced after the fact for writing purposes, that might help, but still seems like more effort than my proposed system, particularly since my method can function even if you only have time to go through a single turn.

@RickyG85

They have replays you can go back to for reference.

My system does have a slight stumbling block of "what if you go through a whole turn only for the other player to have a response to everything before they can even take their own turn", but at that point it's a matter of coordination between the players, making both ideas kind of a hassle in the same ways that matter, so maybe just roleplaying it is the better (or at least simpler) option?

@RickyG85

You have to collaborate on duels. There's no other way to go about it in a game that allows responses.

Whether that's a fully roleplayed/scripted duel or a write-up of a duel in a simulator should just be left up to the individuals involved. Just do whatever works best for the scene.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night

I've never seen Arc-V so idk on that front

@Kero

Master Rule 3, Pendulum era kind of decks. Not literally, you can use Links, but personally I aimed for the power level of a deck that would be casual in that format, with room to grow.

Pure Metalfoes with no staples, that I can add other Pend stuff to.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night

You have your deck list; number each individual card.
pull up google; there's a random number generator tool.
Set the parameters for random numbers from 1 to whatever the total number of your cards is (minimum range 1-40).

@RickyG85

If you've built your deck in a simulator, then the deck builder might also have a shuffle option that will randomise your deck for you. I know Dueling Nexus does, not sure about others.

Im just trying to figure out if I should go balls to the wall and run a gamba deck or just run sky strikers...

gamba is so tempting.......

@Kero

The suggested power level was Arc-V, if you're undecided.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Akeno

Earlier that day Akeno had asked one of the other runts, another reincarnated human like herself, whether they should return to the camp at all. It hadn’t been a serious query really, she hadn’t seriously been planning on running into the forest with no plan, Akeno had just wanted to see what the other Orc would say; but the idea hadn’t come from nowhere. It had crossed her mind if staying the Orc tribe, who they knew nothing about both in term of who they were individuals and what they were like as a culture, might not be more dangerous than taking their chances.

Those thoughts came up again now, as she listened to the way Shamar describe, rather solemnly, the kind of people she was now expected to share a camp with. It was… discouraged that they steal from each other or kill each other, unless they could get away with it. From the sounds of it, everyone was going to try and get away with it.

She was expected to protect her own possessions or else they would be taken; the feeling she got from Shamar was that if she didn’t do a good enough job most would see it as her own fault if she was robbed. Shelter would be respected, most of the time, but she had no shelter and no idea how to get one. Build it herself was the most likely answer, but she had no carpentry skills to speak of and no materials or tools even if she did. Even making a tent was beyond her means in both categories as well.

Which all meant that she was basically back where she had started earlier, only with aching hands and something worth stealing on her back.

Akeno turned away from Shamar’s hut and walked back towards the centre of camp. Might as well see if anything had changed while she was gone.

@Zeroth

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night

Besides, you're focused primarily on her Extra deck when her main deck also has lots of quick-effect hand Traps and negates. Either way she'll be the top duelist among us at the start so... *shrug*

@Double

To be fair I only just noticed the 3 copies of Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler. I just saw the OG Noble Knights and moved on.

I'm not so concerned about power levels so much as I am concerned with everyone having an out to every thing. I fully expect Aile to be the strongest and Tobias to be the weakest, but having someone summon a monster that is literally unbeatable for their opponent isn't great from an RP stand point. It's not about always losing, it's about how a person loses and having duels be engaging and fun.

I don't mean to single out Randomguy here, or complain about their character being too strong; like I said, Accesscode by themselves is fine. It's specifically about not having people end up in a situation where there's nothing that they can do. I've been in Yu-Gi-Oh RPs where one person having a monster that couldn't be targeted, or even just a monster that cannot be destroyed by battle, ended up breaking things because everyone else built their decks in such a way that they couldn't do anything at that point. So you either need to remove that problem card, or have everyone else add a way to beat that card.

Balancing Yu-Gi-Oh RPs is weird.