vancexentan — Roleplayer Guild

The year is 2015 the next holy grail war was about to start once more with the church, and mage association preparing to take on new masters, and heroic spirits they were naively blinded by the fact that there were still people out there who were willing to exploit the grail. Many years have past since the Fuyuki Grail War, and with the loss of the greater grail more smaller grail wars had been propping up all over. A small faction in Poland known as the Grey Family have summoned several servants in violation of the Grail War's rules. It's their intent with this current move is unknown but the Grey Family were known as mage supremacists who believe that magi should rule the world not the common people, and it is speculated they wish to use the servants, and the grail in order to win over the world to their way of thinking. They have held fast in a castle forming battle strategies as the mage association prepares itself to deal with the threat. While standard grail wars were done by a servant to servant basis fighting in singles combat until one group remains 

Scouts sent to deal with threat were met with swift brutal retaliation and as such the only way to deal with this threat is to summon more servants to combat the 'Red' Faction. Met with fierce resistance initially the mages association has finally come to a conclusion that the threat in question must be dealt with. As such they had sent calls to several different magi be it allies of the Association, or mercenaries. The church has also proclaimed it's support for the Mage Associations 'Black' Faction as the brutality of Red has proven both disgusting, and an insult to the rules of the grail war. Hoping to wipe out the enemy faction the mages are gathering in London to summon their servants. The clocktower magi in London seek to assist the mages in their attempts at destroying Red Faction before they arrive in Poland in order to defeat enemy summoners. Ruler has said to have already arrived in Poland to await what is to happen. However there is more than just a grail war looming over the heads of the magi for when they fight in Poland something doesn't seem quite right even more so than usual. With dark clouds in the horizon will Black Faction be able to overcome the Red Faction's power?

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Hello everyone this is a typemoon roleplay based somewhat heavily off Fate/Apocrypha but it is not a complete rip off it. There will be no characters like Sieg entering the midst, there will be plenty of differences compared to the anime/book, and other changes may be implemented. None of the canon characters/servants will be involved minus perhaps the servants who are allowed within power limits (characters like Gilgamesh (Archer/Adult), and Heracles/Hercules (god hand like abilities are too strong to allow into the roleplay. Because you can't hurt them without a B+ or A ranked Noble Phantasms, and you have to do it multiple times in Herc's case). To make clear servants with high stats are allowed characters with broke abilities aren't.

Gawain - His noble phantasm theoretically gives him an unlimited boost in the sun as long as he's in it. While this can be circumvented at night he is an absolute nightmare to handle in the day, and afternoon. I'd rather avoid the headache entirely. Remember just because a servant is weak in fate/grand order, or low rarity does not mean in universe they aren't ridiculously strong. Take Nobunaga who quite a few people would argue could hard counter Gilgamesh. 

Jack The Ripper - Jack's phantasm is not an all encompassing instant kill but if you are female, and if it is night time its rather easy to get off if it is night. On top of that memory erasure is a bitch in a roleplay setting. How am I as gm suppose to deal with a character who memory wipes upon leaving somewhere? More over toxic cloud that hurts masters? Hard to play around.

King Hassan - Unlike Jack Hassan is literally the embodiment of the meme 'Teleports behind you "nothing personal bro"'. He's the OG Hassan for a reason. To give you an idea Hassan fought Gawain to a stand still in the sun possibly he could have killed him outright.

Kiyohime - Her stats are shit but she turns into a dragon. How many servants do you know of that routinely are capable of fighting dragons that aren't named Siegfried, or Gilgamesh?

Paracelsus - His noble phantasm is a bit ridiculous, and I'd like to avoid a man who can brew immortality potions.

Perseus - Flying servants are at a distinct advantage in combat. Especially ones with a ridiculous amount of NP's. Simply put being high in the air puts you at risk of simply pegging servants who are in return unable to hurt you because they can't reach you. Leaving Archer/caster as the only standard servant capable of hitting you consistently.

Karna - He's pretty much the Grand class Lancer. He's almost untouchable in power his phantasm is anti-god for crying out loud. A look at his statistics should show you why he's strong.

Merlin - He's THE mage. He's not Solomon (hello cloud of Excalibur level blasts) but he's damn real as a threat in any circumstance. When you think of western magi you think of merlin, and his stats/phantasm reflect that. 

Other servants are subjected to bans, or nerfs it highly depends on a case by case basis.

I'd like people to keep in mind that I can allow nerfs to allow some characters like Lancer Cu Chulainn in as he has an instant kill move that hits a person's heart I can't let that sort of move fly. Yes this takes away from some servants but here is my counter point: What's the point of a powerful opponent when you just fling your nigh unblockable time space bending spear through their heart? If you're unsure, or need help picking/making a servant you may ask me and I will do what I can to help. This is a roleplay after all I need to make sure things are at least relatively fair.

I know no one likes nerfs but this is a rp. The point is to tell a story. Fate, and its universes are rather unbalanced and I am ATTEMPTING to bring some sort of balance into it.

You may be a servant, or a master though I encourage you to play both in order to more easily weave the roleplay together. You may have a pick of any of the classes not already chosen. Remember if a partner leaves this roleplay I'm controlling all the NPC's, plus a set of my own I can't likely hold onto more characters.

I intend to play a pair. I will wait to see who we need before picking my classes. If anyone wants to know my preference it goes Saber, Lancer, Rider however I will play the other classes if need be.

 Magic in this rp will go by a DnD system of things were you can only cast one spell so many times before you need to let it cooldown usually for a long rest period. For example "I use fireball!" "3/4 uses left for the day". The alternative is a long, and tedious custom system that I'd need to develop just to measure the arbitrary limits of the Nasuverse magic. There will be no arbitrary mana limit per say meaning there is no actual stat system just a general jest of how much magic your character has ranked on the E-A scale. A being master mages, and natural prodigies like Rin. 

Servants MUST be from existing legends, or fairy tales. Modern servants aren't allowed the most I'll allow is someone like George Washington, or a already canon modern servant like Billy the Kid. The characters may not be from other fictional works such as Guts from Berserk. The cut off is roughly around the Spanish american war, to world war 1. I will judge characters on a stage by stage basis.

In the event that we don't get enough people for this roleplay the left over spots will be NPC Magi from the church, or mage association.

Enemy magic will be mostly nonstandard. They will be using a lot of illusionist, curse, and trick based magics as that is their family's specialty. Keep that in mind this means there will be a lot of mind fuckery, and mockery. They will intentionally play dirty, and keep themselves out of most if not all combat that they can. That also means the servants will be the main enemies. Masters will have their chance to shine however. With that being said we will have some of our own to counteract some of their stuff but if you're on your own with no experience against mind trick magic expect to get mind fucked. This includes very ancient magics from their caster just because clairvoyance may give you an out to the standard magecraft of the enemy faction masters DOES NOT mean that you'll out the enemey's caster for reasons that will be made apparent later due to the nature of enemy caster. Simple, and to the point he is using magic that is far far different from the standard modern magecraft, and predates many of the servants.

Some NPC characters (that are on our side) will be biased in this roleplay. Pre-existing affiliations will make them gang up on a player character should they (the player) chose to insult, or deride them in some way. Don't expect everyone to be nice to you this won't happen as they won't be nice when talking to my own characters.

I may need to make my servant a higher tier than some others. Not Grand Lancer tier, or what have you but for reasons I'll explain below. This is not to put my characters in the spot light. As Gm if someone drops out I need someone who can pull their weight. I routinely down play my characters (IE putting Saber Lancelot in a forest where Knight of Owner is nigh useless, and not giving him guns before hand) in order to make sure I don't power play, and make everyone seem small. There will not be a grail battle royal at the end of this rp. If you want to know what is I will let you know but it will likely not be pvp. This is assuming that players chose characters are weaker than expected, or lacking in some area. 

Chances are you will need to play both master, and servant. I cannot help this. The number of people who show interest is in direct correlation to who is avaible for what spot.

Players will need to have 50 posts on site to join this rp. There were no less than THREE troll accounts that tried to derail my former rp. That one died due to lack of player posting which seems to happen often enough on this site.

If you don't ask I won't tell you what you need to know regarding what your characters may already know about specific things. For example an Executor should know generally what is going on but if you don't ask...well I guess your character's church head was pretty lazy. If you feel the need to know something ask I don't mind questions.

ALTERS, AND EXTRA CLASSES ARE BANNED UNLESS REQUESTED, AND TALKED THROUGH. ALL CLASSES WILL BE STANDARD. THE GRAIL IN THIS WAS NOT PLANNED TO BE SPITTING OUT CORRUPTED SERVANTS.

Saber is an important class be it a tank, damage dealer, or leader character. if you want saber I expect you to commit to this, and be ready to play a strong character. It is also considered to be one of the top classes in the holy grail wars.

Any other questions you have may go below. If you're interested say so below.

Adam growled as he dropped the treasure to his feet, and pulled his knives out. He didn't even really bother to look in the direction of the Shade Pirates trash talking him as he contemplated how, and why this couldn't have been as easy as it should've been. Turning around and preparing himself for a war Adam finally looked at his new enemies. "As much as I'd like to claim that I have a crew I'm just a member of someone else's crew at the moment. Though if we're being completely honest I think they're a moron. Them, and whoever buried this dumb fucking treasure on a cliff, in a swamp. Where I come from pirates have don't do dumb stuff like this." Adam said dropping his facade for the moment. "Are you the one who's been doing that dusk shadow stuff with the devil fruit? If not you're not exactly in for a good time. I'll be willing to cut you a deal though I'll give you half this treasure if you let us leave. That seems a fair enough bargain. As for my vibe...if you really want I'll get serious. But I tend to get a bit stab happy when that happens." Adam said as he gripped his weapon tightly. "And yes I am very much aware of how much of an angst ridden little teenager with daddy issues that I sound like. I just don't care you're not exactly that high up on my hit list. I bet my sister can take you, and all she knows how to do is shoot a gun really well."

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