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One Piece Interestest and Discussion Thread! Brainstorming Time!

Anyways, healthy conversations aside, would you guys prefer to have an NPC captain or a PC one?

@Jabber

I was going to say something about this but @Zeroth summed up pretty much any points I would've made quite nicely. XD

@Archmage MC...Not even going to consider anything I said? I'm just trying to help. :(

One Piece Interestest and Discussion Thread! Brainstorming Time!

@Archmage MCLet's see now...

Firstly, I don't think television exists in the world. Thus, cartoons don't exist, thus "being a living cartoon character" doesn't make much sense. But even if I'm mistaken, uh...

See the thing about devil fruit powers is that they kind of can easily be summed up in a single sentence, which gives you a good rough idea of what they're capable of. "You're now made of rubber," "you can detach your body parts", "you can turn into lightning", "you can turn into a bull", etc. Nice, simple, give you a good rough idea of what the power can do. "You're a living cartoon character!" doesn't really do that. It could mean anything, and from what I've seen in the past in your case it's anything but simple. That and as it's been pointed out in other RPs (even superhero ones) despite your attempts at "balancing" it, uh... It doesn't sound all that balanced at all. Really, um... When so many people reject it you should probably start taking the hint and maybe try something else for a change? ^^;

Also, it's a pretty cartoonish world to begin with, so it seems a bit redundant really. And... Kind of think your description there is a bit flawed but not going to go there since it's beside the point.

EDIT: And really, um... Honestly, if you like the character so much and the only thing that people object to is the powerset, why not just use her personality without the powers? Could always give her something like the Gum-Gum Fruit to at least gain the intended effect, maybe? Roleplaying's like every other group activity, remember: you need to compromise sometimes. XD

One Piece Interestest and Discussion Thread! Brainstorming Time!

Ah, I love One Piece RPs but they never seem to last long. ^^; Think the best idea would be to start with a small group as the main crew and build up from there. Like, do occassional recruitment drives to introduce new crew members. Just don't go overboard on the amount of PCs, basically. XD

And... Yeah, just have the players be part of one crew, like the Straw Hats, since having everyone all over the place... Really, something like One Piece could maybe work as a sandbox if you put a lot of work into it, but it'd be a lot easier to keep track of everyone if it's more tightly plotted.

Also, start off small in terms of power and work up, since it's more fun and rewarding to gradually gain power than to start off godlike. Basically, no Logias, Mythic Zoans, etc.

DO NOT be anal about powersets or characters. The less restrictive you are on stuff that aren't outright broken, the better things will be. Lots of RPs died after starting due to being too restrictive on character design.

@Archmage MC

Going to be honest: the one I know you're thinking of doesn't make sense in One Piece. ^^;

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

And there we go. ^^; Feel like it's a bit of a ramble, and I suck at ending posts but hey.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Kuroko Rayne: The All-New, All-Different Robin!

Let's be honest: there are far better places for a kid to grow up than Gotham. By all accounts, even after the Batman showed up it was a crime-infested wreck, the saving grace being at least the worst criminals were easier to pick out in a crowd due to how flamboyent and... Let's say "eccentric" they'd became. Sure, the "nicer" cities like Metropolis, Fawcett and Central had their share of costumed lunatics, but compared to the grimy, smokey hive that was Gotham? It could be worse, at least; it could be, say, Hub City or something. But still, the point is Gotham was never exactly a nice place. The Batman had made it marginally safer for the common people, yes, as did his Robins and Batgirls and other assorted crimefighters, but that had just made it a bit harder to sleep easy after reports of his disappearance. Even worse, with the Joker dead (had that really happened? It seemed like nothing could kill the Clown Prince of Crime, but even he was mortal in the end)... You'd have to be blind to not see the immense power vacuum that would open up. The streets of Gotham were even more dangerous with the two seemingly gone.

So maybe that's why she was doing this. As soon as she'd heard about the Joker's death... Somehow it hadn't given her the solace she'd thought it would. Her father's murderer was dead, finally receiving whatever justice he'd deserved for the countless atrocities he'd committed, and yet she couldn't think about how glad she was because of this; all she could focus on was... Well, what would happen now. Yes, maybe she hadn't thought this through well enough, and maybe she was just being an impetuous child, and maybe, just maybe she was just trying to play hero to live up to her idols despite lacking... Well, superpowers, for one thing, but still...

Really, she was glad her mother had been working nightshifts so much lately. If she'd found out what she was doing, the punishment she'd receive would be far worse than anything the street gangs she'd been fighting could dish out. Yes, she'd catch hell if she was found out, but that still didn't stop her from putting on the costume as soon as she heard the car leaving the driveway. After some last minute adjustments in front of the mirror, she opened the window and deftly lept out into the streets, a streak of primary colours amidst the black.

This had been her evening routine for the past week, really. Even before the two most feared men in Gotham had vanished, Kuroko Rayne had been sneaking out at night, but her efforts were redoubled when it happened. The fact that it didn't take long for her to run into trouble only confirmed her fears in her mind, as not long after entering downtown she spotted a group of thugs in lurid makeup threatening a defenceless couple. And even though she knew she should wait for an opening, she couldn't help it. She couldn't just sit back and watch them do this... Acting purely on instinct, she lept out of the shadows and floored one of the creeps with a well aimed kick.

"Have no fear!" Kuroko took a moment to strike a pose, the thugs momentarily too confused by this random intrusion to react, whilst the couple seemed to decide this was the perfect opportunity to run. "Robin is here!"

"Ain't never heard of no Robin wearing a training bra, but hey," the lead clown stepped up, flicking open a knife as he advanced on the luridly-dressed wannabe superheroine. "Ever since the Bat iced the Joker, I've been dying to carve up his little turkey!"

"..."Little turkey"? I... Geez, with the Joker gone you're having to write your own material, aren't you?" Ducking from side to side as he swiped at her with the knife, Kuroko couldn't help but wonder if word of her had actually spread at all. After all, the Robin name was vacant... She thought, at least. The old one was now Red Robin, right? So there was room for a new Robin, right? "Hell, it's probably cut off your allowance, too! Were you trying to get money for Faygo from those two? ...Come to think of it, what the hell is Faygo anyw-"

Oh, there I go, running my mouth again. "Robin" was still new to this, after all. She always thought the feeble banter phase of the fight was pretty important, but she hadn't gotten it down just yet. After all, if she had, she wouldn't have shut up for a moment just to dodge the other two thuggalos. Aw man, I almost forgot there was more than one!

She could totally take all three though. Well, maybe. It wasn't the worst fight she'd been in over the past couple of days, after all. And really, it didn't take that long. Despite their overconfidence, they were just a bunch of untrained thugs, and whilst she was no Batman (and really, not much of a match for the previous Robins either), she could easily handle them. After a few minutes, her only concern was how to get that white facepaint off her gloves.

"Hah! That's what you get for messing with the all-new, all-different Robin!" Rubbing her hands eagerly, she took a moment to savour her victory before speeding off through an alley. After all, the night was young, and there was plenty more crime to fight! And the more she fought, the more word would spread about her! Soon, all of Gotham would know there's a new Robin in town, and she meant business!

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Razor Bat, master of the hard sell.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Oh god the Corinthian whyyyyyyyy. D:

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

...Man, there should totally be a Gotham-based character called "The Lurker". I have no idea what they'd even be since this is a random thought I'm having when I'm surprisingly sleepy for 8:35pm but there totally should.

Weird Roleplay Ideas You're Afraid To Pitch?

I'd also like to try a Super Robot RP where the players would have robots like Gigantor and Mazinger to use.

@PandaBrady

Hello you mentioned a mecha RP that's actually super robots rather than the real robots that seem to make up every mecha RP I've seen? Hang on, where did I put that gif... Oh right, here we go:

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

...I'm trying to think of how our other Robin would react to Eddie, but all I can really think of is...

"Oh god this is worse than algebra what the hell."