The desire to join an RP instead of run one, but the lack of anything being advertised or open that fits my interests
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2 mos ago
Why are people posting 1x1 'looking for' threads in the main section, when there's a whole section for 1x1 RP's?
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3 mos ago
It'd be nice to be able to *play* an RP I'm interested in for once, rather than having to *run* one all the time. Of course, doesn't help that I'm picky about what I enjoy.
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3 mos ago
Hmmmmm... PM inviting me to an RP on Discord by a user who just joined the site and has no posts? Doesn't sound iffy at all, no sir.
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I've been roleplaying in one form or another since the late '90's. I've played as many tabletop games as I have online ones, and the quality of both has varied wildly. I have an active imagination, and I love immersive, descriptive roleplaying. My genres of choice are sci-fi, and modern-day (with a sci-fi twist). I like RP's that mix reality with fiction, and throw an unusual and exciting twist into an otherwise normal setting - something like Stargate SG-1 would be an example, or Battle: Los Angeles. An almost recognizable world, but with some sci-fi twists. I'm a fan of military and action-based RP's that do this especially, and they are easily my favourite - though I rarely see any that appeal to me enough - all the military RP's are too 'plain', and anything else modern day is usually fantasy or fandom. Or *shudder* school RPs...
I have a lot of fandoms; Transformers, Macross, MLP: FiM, Fallout, Battletech, Ace Combat, and others to varying degrees. But I don't often join fandom RPs because the ones I'm into don't come up, or I am very picky about my RPs and their plots and feel.
I don't play in free, as I find the short posts and bad spelling and grammar infuriating. I like a lot of depth, story, setting and character to my RPs, so am usually found in Casual and sometimes Advanced. Though, usually running my own RPs.
I'm 43 years old, and live in the UK, so I may not be on all the time. I also like playing non-human characters, especially anthro ones, robots or synthetics, or some hybrid of both.
Outside of my RP tastes and hobby; I read a lot of books, play wargames and TTRPGs, make model aircraft and vehicles, and am also a brony and furry. I have been running a large local furmeet group for the last 10 years and have been involved in running a very successful UK MLP convention.
Cool, it'll be good to have another player. Look forward to seeing your sheet!
And the character sheet will answer your question - it says standard-issue sidearms only. TBH, you won't be using it enough for it to be an issue. It's mainly a hold-over from earlier RP's I've run where I had to deal with players that made me head-desk with the ludicrous amounts of/types of personal ordnance their fighter pilots were toting around, despite the fact the game had little-to-no ground-based combat whatsoever.
"Sup?... any new interesting discoveries going on?"
Silver looked up as the green pegasus he'd spotted earlier came up to the table, a friendly expression on his face. "Oh!" he said with a slight surprise, and then nodded a hello, dabbing around his muzzle with a napkin before smiling. "Morning. Um, well, guess you noticed my cartography corps bags?" he said with a nod toward the saddlebags around his middle. "As for discoveries; well, that's what I'm here to find out. Apparently there were some strange reports from the Everfree Forest are - shocking, I know - and yours truly got assigned to go and try and make some kind of sense of it by taking some measurements, maps and photos, and making some notes on what might have changed out there." He shrugged, but the smile stayed on his face. "I know it's a dangerous place, and quite unpredictable, but we try and keep as good maps as we can to keep everypony as safe as possible" he glanced around and then leaned over the table. "And between you and me, I like the excitement of going somewhere a little dangerous and mysterious myself, too" He grinned and sat back. "Name's Silverwind by the way. Nice to meet you! What brings you to Ponyville?" he asked in reply as he sat back. "This is my first time visiting. It's an uh... interesting place," he replied with a raised eyebrow, as he looked back toward where Discord could still be seen.
@Pilatus If you want your WSO to be an NPC that's fine, you can always keep most control over them and sketch out their personality, appearance, etc through RP as we go along. They don't necessarily need to be as fully fleshed out as a full character if you don't want. I might take control of them once in a while just to help move things along or point something out, just as the GM - and that might come in handy.
@Slypheed Cecilia looks fine; her personality and bio look great to me so far, but fair enough if you want to change them later too. Please feel free to add her to the characters tab. Since that's everyone who was interested with a character posted, I'll get to work on the introductory IC post to get us moving - hopefully up within a few hours, end of the day at the latest.
BTW, I know it's a two seater. I'll make an addendum for the WSO.
He looks great otherwise though, and I'm eager to RP with your character too. We have a good spread of personalities and genders so far too, as well as an interesting mix of aircraft to boot.
<Snipped quote by Silverwind Blade> "Why doesn't it have more rockets?" (was expecting, like, 40... just like BM-21)
"It has enough."
Do your lads nick-name them the same as ours? A friend of mine had a brother in the Royal Artillery and they apparently called the MLRS 'grid squre removal service...! I like that one, made me chuckle.
There's mostly naval stuff around these parts, Portsmouth is one of the places on the South Coat of England the RN calls home, which is why we have all the tourist attractions around here mixed in with operational stuff. Not to mention everyone and their grandmothers' dog has a connection to something to do with the navy one way or the other. It's good in some ways, but it tends to be a bit like running the gauntlet if you're on a night out to the pub. I probably don't see as much as you, as I suppose it's a bit easier to get up-close-and-personal to the land stuff, but it's still cool to see stuff when it comes around, and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't one of the attractions for moving to the this area compared to where I used to live, which had absolutely zero interesting features. The only good thing there is the airsoft site in a disused shopping mall.
Land Rovers are a lot more common here. I cycle past a nice ex-military one that evidently belongs to a collector most days I cycle to work. It's still got the old markings and has the radio antenna bases still installed. I'll get a pic one day. There also a Humber Pig that just sits in someone's drive in my home city too. I think because Portsmouth is a military town, there's quite a lot of stuff like that locally. One of the old defensive forts here was scheduled to become a museum, and they got to the point of bringing in a bunch of vehicles to exhibit, but never opened the museum. Now it's a park and ride for the local hospital, with a Chieftan tank out front, and apparently some more vehicles inside.
Ask them if you can put a shark-toothed smiley-face on her.
Bit of a long way to go back and ask ;) But maybe they'll do something like that if they refurbish them sometime in the future. Either way, it was something different to see. The whole museum was good, actually. Had a lot of unusual stuff for a museum over here, and things I hadn't seen before. A lot of the museums here only have ex-RAF, Army or RN aircraft. Seeing some foreign things was a nice change.
@Foster Yuri is looing good so far! Bulgarian is a nice choice. It's a refreshing to change to DA COMRADE RUSSIA, but still getting to use a lot of the same stuff. And woo, get to play with different culture and such too.
I hadn't heard of the specific MLD variant of the MiG-23 before, it sounds like a good one.
I saw a sad-looking MiG-23 and an accompanying sad-looking MiG-27 at a museum in autumn last year. Admittedly, they only looked sad as they probably needed a bit of TLC from being on display outdoors in T'North of England and its' weather. The fact it was tremendously cold, windy and overcast also didn't help. That makes most things look sad by comparison.
I've been roleplaying in one form or another since the late '90's. I've played as many tabletop games as I have online ones, and the quality of both has varied wildly.
I have an active imagination, and I love immersive, descriptive roleplaying. My genres of choice are sci-fi, and modern-day (with a sci-fi twist). I like RP's that mix reality with fiction, and throw an unusual and exciting twist into an otherwise normal setting - something like Stargate SG-1 would be an example, or Battle: Los Angeles. An almost recognizable world, but with some sci-fi twists.
I'm a fan of military and action-based RP's that do this especially, and they are easily my favourite - though I rarely see any that appeal to me enough - all the military RP's are too 'plain', and anything else modern day is usually fantasy or fandom. Or *shudder* [i]school[/i] RPs...
I have a lot of fandoms; Transformers, Macross, MLP: FiM, Fallout, Battletech, Ace Combat, and others to varying degrees. But I don't often join fandom RPs because the ones I'm into don't come up, or I am very picky about my RPs and their plots and feel.
I don't play in free, as I find the short posts and bad spelling and grammar infuriating. I like a lot of depth, story, setting and character to my RPs, so am usually found in Casual and sometimes Advanced. Though, usually running my own RPs.
I'm 43 years old, and live in the UK, so I may not be on all the time.
I also like playing non-human characters, especially anthro ones, robots or synthetics, or some hybrid of both.
Outside of my RP tastes and hobby; I read a lot of books, play wargames and TTRPGs, make model aircraft and vehicles, and am also a brony and furry. I have been running a large local furmeet group for the last 10 years and have been involved in running a very successful UK MLP convention.
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I've been roleplaying in one form or another since the late '90's. I've played as many tabletop games as I have online ones, and the quality of both has varied wildly.<br>I have an active imagination, and I love immersive, descriptive roleplaying. My genres of choice are sci-fi, and modern-day (with a sci-fi twist). I like RP's that mix reality with fiction, and throw an unusual and exciting twist into an otherwise normal setting - something like Stargate SG-1 would be an example, or Battle: Los Angeles. An almost recognizable world, but with some sci-fi twists. <br>I'm a fan of military and action-based RP's that do this especially, and they are easily my favourite - though I rarely see any that appeal to me enough - all the military RP's are too 'plain', and anything else modern day is usually fantasy or fandom. Or *shudder* <span class="bb-i">school</span> RPs...<br><br>I have a lot of fandoms; Transformers, Macross, MLP: FiM, Fallout, Battletech, Ace Combat, and others to varying degrees. But I don't often join fandom RPs because the ones I'm into don't come up, or I am very picky about my RPs and their plots and feel.<br><br>I don't play in free, as I find the short posts and bad spelling and grammar infuriating. I like a lot of depth, story, setting and character to my RPs, so am usually found in Casual and sometimes Advanced. Though, usually running my own RPs.<br><br>I'm 43 years old, and live in the UK, so I may not be on all the time. <br>I also like playing non-human characters, especially anthro ones, robots or synthetics, or some hybrid of both. <br><br>Outside of my RP tastes and hobby; I read a lot of books, play wargames and TTRPGs, make model aircraft and vehicles, and am also a brony and furry. I have been running a large local furmeet group for the last 10 years and have been involved in running a very successful UK MLP convention. </div>
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