MrSmileySmile

Weird Roleplay Ideas You're Afraid To Pitch?

I mostly post in a different forum, mostly, but I'm trying to figure out a good system to do a little RP set about an X-Com 2 campaign.

The part I'm having trouble with is figuring out how to handle the battles and decisions about how to spend different resources.

Right now I'm favoring an idea where everyone makes a few characters and gives them rather rudimentary backstories. It's fitting to the setting and makes it easier to deal with character death IMO. The nature of the game means a lot of characters would die, so I think it would be interesting to see players RPing their surviving characters dealing with being involved in a long war that takes the lives of many of their friends.

So everyone makes a few characters. Someone, possibly me, puts together a squad of 4-6 characters and then I play through the mission and make a post out of the mission results. Basically turning every mission into a post. Perhaps rotating the battle write ups between any posters who'd like to participate, in which case I would send them a summary of what happened. Who missed a lot of shots, who made really clutch shots, who died, who was wounded, who panicked, etc...and they could then create that mission post.

Resource expenditures is really what I think would be problematic. Money spent today can't be spent tomorrow, so I'd just have to hope that everyone was considerate of one another, although being too frugal could cause problems too...

I don't know. I think if it worked out properly it could be pretty cool, but I'm rather stuck with it. There's also the issue of people being willing to participate in an RP where any of their characters can die at any time and it wouldn't necessarily be anyone's fault. I think that's a huge part of the atmosphere but...

Also, BadJuJu, I really like your idea and I can see where you're coming from in regard to the stereotypes. H.P. Lovecraft was pretty bad that way, but even knowing that it was a different time reading those parts of his stories is pretty cringe inducing. I think you'd be better off either leaving those characters out or turning them into something different.

Perhaps instead of being little more than comic relief they're more involved in the expedition. Something more akin to sherpas than what you described. They know the area, they know the dangers, they'll help you out for a price but if you're simply to stupid to leave they just might leave you to your fate.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Additional Info,

I was a co-GM. Responded to his IC post, the one I described, in the OOC post with essentially "No, that's not going to happen."

Probably could have handled that a bit more subtly.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Was involved in an RP on another forum.

Had someone CC/Meta Game in order to prevent me from Meta Gaming, which is a hilarious excuse in my opinion.

Here's what happened, bear in mind his character had already threatened to kill everyone in the RP and attempted to assassinate one of two characters in command, and several characters had pointed out that they did not trust him.

He posted that he, in the same room as every character in the RP but without anyone (save one character who he decided was cool with it) noticing, pulled his gun out, stripped the magazine, ejected the round from the chamber, pointed it at my character, and pulled the trigger. Then he put the gun away with a smirk and gave a speech.

When I pointed out that he had CC'd everyone in the room in doing that, most of them implicitly, my character and the unnamed character who noticed but did nothing about it explicitly, he explained that he did it to prevent me from interrupting his actions, which would have been meta-gaming.

Ultimately I wish I'd just let it come to pass to see what came of it, but I pointed it out and it caused a big scene. He deleted the post replacing it with a jibe about how he did nothing because no one had a sense of humor. Thread nearly died after that but it's still plugging on.

What do you guys think? Should I have kept my mouth shut? I think probably I should have.

Edit: Said "the primary mission giver" when a better description would have been "one of two characters in command"

A House of Cards (Fallout, Post-New Vegas Setting)

I'd like to start this as a second shot at what I thought was a great idea. This was attempted on another forum but fell apart due to several writers god-modding their factions.

The setting would be New Vegas in the years following the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.

House, is a brilliant inventor who kept Las Vegas safe when the world plunged into what would become "The Great War" and bring about the death of the vast majority of mankind. New Vegas is the reinvented Las Vegas, ran by House and several tribes he allowed to populate the area. Together they turned New Vegas into a powerhouse of the post-apocalyptic world by utilizing the power provided by the Hoover Dam. That same Dam however drew the attention of other powers and would be powers of the area. There was first one Battle for Hoover Dam, long ago, and recently a second.

The New California Republic and Caesar's Legion both sought to take the Hoover Dam and thus establish their control over the area. The New California Republic is a vaguely imperialistic group coming from the West. Their land holdings are significant and though they lack advanced weaponry their numbers and training have allowed them victory over better equipped foes, The Brotherhood of Steel, and those with superior numbers, Caesar's Legion. Caesar's Legion is a society of tribal and raider groups headed by a man influenced by what he knows of the ancient Roman empire. Though initially they lacked heavy firepower their warlike nature leads them to become more and more powerful as they stretch their borders ever Westward, toward New Vegas and the NCR beyond.

House, Mr. House if you please, with the assistance of a courier referred to widely as The Courier, utilized an army of mechanized units (Securitrons) to defeat both of these threats and drive them from the area. He now seeks to strengthen New Vegas against any possible new or familiar powers and to reward or punish the factions of the Mojave according to who they supported in that Second Battle for Hoover Dam.

Those who sided with the NCR/Legion would likely face more repercussions from House, and whichever of the two they sided against. Those who remained neutral wouldn't have the support of any faction but also wouldn't draw the ire of any, while those who sided with House would be rewarded by him but viewed as traitors by the others, at least at first.

This seems a much healthier atmosphere than the other forum these days (unfortunately) so I would very much like to give it a shot here. Any input is very much welcomed.