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Post by Cantiliahantan on Mar 1, 2011 20:49:50 GMT -5
So? What yall think?
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NPLXIV
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Post by NPLXIV on Mar 2, 2011 16:27:55 GMT -5
i dont get it
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Post by Cantiliahantan on Mar 2, 2011 16:34:03 GMT -5
you are supposed to vote on the theme of the rpg!
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Post by seattile on Mar 2, 2011 18:48:04 GMT -5
A past RP I like it, as I like anything to do with the past especially a one in the medieval time period or the Dark Ages. I'm so tempted to say some facts about the medieval time period or the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages begined once the Western Roman Empire fell, the last emperor was Romulus Augustus, who was just a boy. The Hundred Years War, which was fought between England and France and was actually 116 years long and England won more battles but the French won the war because of a farm girl, named Joan "Of Arc".
Opps I gave into my temptations.
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Post by Kardas on Mar 2, 2011 18:49:05 GMT -5
Discussion, please! Why should we do this? Convince people!
Now, to contribute to this discussion: I have considered doing an RP set in the past, but I preferred a science fiction one as that idea was more developed. A third RP is fine with me, but managing it all is a hassle. Second, this may conflict with some histories. At some points in time here my nation is simply a bunch of squabbling warlords, and Gonzdara has said something similar as well. Now, before I give my thoughts on the eras, we could bring in magic and whatnot, and convert this idea into a Fantasy RP. Thoughts?
Onto the eras: Roman/Classical would be kind of cool. I do like Macedon and Alexander the Great heaps (in Rome Total War moreso), so expect a heavy influence from them. Dark ages/medieval is also doable, and I'd prefer Medieval over Dark Ages simply because it's a bit more storied. A Viking influence on my nation is possible (see the CIW's history for more on this, the CIW was a large piracy hub during those times and the Renaissance) Napoleon- A rich historic time period, but I'm not as interested in RPing for this time period. WW1- No. Just no. Three RPs with gunz and tanks is too much for me.
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Post by Cantiliahantan on Mar 2, 2011 18:49:36 GMT -5
yep (i am a huge history buff!) so vote! i put a lot of Options in there
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Post by Cantiliahantan on Mar 2, 2011 18:50:52 GMT -5
Classical means like After Medieval i typed in the wrong thing!
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Post by seattile on Mar 3, 2011 0:22:55 GMT -5
I guess I agree with Kardas as most past based RPG's would conflict with my nation's history (which reminds me I need to work on it) unless it was a fantasy RPG. If we did a medieval or fantasy RPG, I would most likely have my nation be repesentived by the nation that used to rule Seattile in the MT RPG so it wouldn't conflict with my nation's history. But Kardas is right about time constrants, I can barly keep up with two RPG's as it is. But I really don't care about my problems. But over all I think the medieval RPG would work best, even more if it was a medieval fantasy, where it maybe wouldn't conflict with our nation's history as much.
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Post by Teutonic on Mar 3, 2011 2:04:24 GMT -5
It's a very nice idea, but as has been said already, it would be fairly hard to roleplay several warring provinces, thouh I suppose we could set it in an alternate setting, which may potentially work. Personally I prefer the Classical/ancient history idea. I haven't written history for that far back, and it's a brilliant era rife with culture, and politics. However, the time frame will force certain constraints on. Armies won't just be able to materialise half way across the world, and warswill be very much localised. It'd be impossible to maintain an army far overseas in this era, without huge amounts of logistics. For the 17th/18th century setting, I'm skeptical again. History conspires against us, and the world war 1 setting would be rather dull-just the MT setting but with a antiquated twist.
In regard to the fantasy RP, It might work, but magic could be problematic. If we don't get the magic system right, then it'll end up being governeed by the "It's magic, I don't have to explain how I just eradicated your entire army" clause. I think if handled carefully, it could work, but may be somewhat fragile. I doubt I'd be able to actually commit myself though, I'd end up spending my evenings writing replies to the RPs, instead of getting on with my work, so I'll abstain from a vote.
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Post by Cantiliahantan on Mar 4, 2011 0:11:06 GMT -5
i agree we could make a map of the real world and set it up were the people who want the rp get Certain real country like in the roman time period one person would have the eastern another the western or a Example before the empire split there could be a vote on who would be the romans since that person would have to be semi fair cause rome is the biggest player so we could make a real historical tyoe deal?
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Post by Kardas on Mar 4, 2011 4:22:11 GMT -5
First off, I won't vote because I can't pick between medieval fantasy and Roman times. Additionally, the Real Life idea is nice, as it reminds me of Rome Total War and conveniently allows us around the need to tweak histories. Second, entire-army eradication spells shall be classified as god-modding unless there is a good explanation given or there is a significant drawback (for example, Canti's Death Star is allowed because it's so huge that it's hard to make another, and takes a long time to fire).
As for the Roman thing, we could follow the Rome Total War approach and: - set it when Rome's still rising as a power - split it among ruling families (which leaves a great possibility for civil war) - combine some other lands to counter Roman strength- for example, Macedon and the Seleucid empire.
Last, Asia's also a nice place for an RP- China, the Mongols, Korea, Japan. Good or should we stick with this more Eurocentric approach?
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Post by gonzdara on Mar 4, 2011 7:02:52 GMT -5
Id be up for a RL RPG. Thats my favorite so far, why not add it to the poll Canti? Ive always loved the French, French History, and I speak French, so France would be a fun nation for me to RP
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Post by Teutonic on Mar 4, 2011 15:41:34 GMT -5
The real life thing might work, and I can actually see it working well, apart from a couple of things, and I'll use the Roman era as an example. Since the idea of differant family groups, a la Rome: Total War is being used, the question of how the actual roman politics would fit in is the big question. How would one include the cursus honourum, for example. This is just my classical historian rebelling, but still. Also, would we not be bound to real leaders and real personalities? Let's face it, the roman republic holds trumps in just about everything aside from possibly the Phoenetians, and the Greeks, who actually god mode in real life, with Archimedes...My point is that the only real Roman competitors would eb The Carthaginian Republic and Greece, which I still rage at for innacurate representation in rome...Anyway, if it were to work, history may have to be bent a little.
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Post by Cantiliahantan on Mar 4, 2011 16:05:47 GMT -5
Well there were three ruling Familys (rome total war kind of makes it stand out more than it really did) and the senate or SPQR (the Q stands for O but roman O was a Q) and ill just have roman be RL ok? And three Roman Fams Plus the Senate wich would be to make it simple Comprised of the Diffrent Familys and it would have a combined army(Bassically a roman U.N) and the army only can be used if all votes are for it and thaen Carthage Gaul Greece Parthia and we can put a Mystery Factor And Some one can be China who almost made it that far
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Post by Teutonic on Mar 4, 2011 16:14:34 GMT -5
Not really what Rome makes out. Rome TW just uses the three familes of famous generals to make things easier. Realisicly, you'd have several others (though off the top of my head I can only name the Claudians, and incidentally, the romans did have an O, the q is simply there as a tense ending for "Populusque" in "senatus Populusque Romanus"-whoever said studieng latin was useless?). As for china, adding them would be a little pointless. Afterall, if we have China, we'd have to have all the factions in the Warring States period, or the begining of the first dynasty (Qin?) which never made it to modern chinas borders, let alone India. If we're keeping it historical, let's keep it accurate. think this could work though. I'm just somewhat concerned about the bounds of actual history-certain constraints would have to be followed as that nation.
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