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Saki has just informed me that you are allowed to make your own side rps. However, that is currently under develop on how we plan to do this. I'll get back to you on it. Until then, place your ideas here. biggrin This is going to be awesome!

Just to give some direction, what themes are the Crew interested in? Action, Comedy, Horror? Steampunk? Highschool? Apocalypse?

Well there isn't much input so I'll add my own.

I'm mostly interested in Adventure, Action, Comedy, Slice-of-life, Drama though that doesn't mean I can't do Romance, Horror, and even some gore.

The themes most interested in are Apocalypse (especially zombies), Good ol' Dn'D/ LoTR, World War II era, Exploration but what really matters to me is the layout of RP of how its executed, managed and organized, basically comes down to me as either free-form (text-based) and Dice/tabletop/mechanical (involves some stat number crunch)

I am highly interested in an 'old school but new twist' setting. One example of such is playing in a zombie apocalypse but playing the role as the undead than your basic survivor where the ultimate goal is to overtake the city, I haven't panned out much this RP game though.

Here's another setting I had in mind.

"Pollution, disease and wars plague humanity and the resources of the world slowly dwindling. Humans relied on robots as their last hope. Eventually, the humans disappear and only exist as 'conceptual beings' like a god. The robots of the new generation now roam the earth and continue to exist not only for themselves but for the care of the planet Earth, as intended by their creators in order to restore it. However, the robots often wonder and question about the origin of their being and whether humans exist and thus begins a journey not only rediscovering their past, but saving the human race, if they can find and prove their existence.

That is only half the battle, how do you suppose the humans can survive in the world already dominated by machines?

RPers take on the role of the AI robots, far more advanced in intelligence and capability. They begin a journey of rediscovery of not only their origins, but saving the humans that have long been lost to time.
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Yeah I kinda understand about the difficulty of the 2nd, for one it's revolutionary type of RP and generally most of us are taught to act a 3-dimensional character; robots will not have this luxury generally speaking and we'll most likely be logic based which is why am not aiming to find humans anytime soon and focus more on world-building but leave clues to where the existence of humans will be. It would help make you wonder what the actual state the humans are too. I sometimes wonder if there is a need for a '3rd faction' like possibly mutants or some such for the robots to combat for those more interested in action-based events.

Actually if you mean the zombie RP, then no you don't need to think too much of the science, the start of such themes never gave a clear explanation or origins anyway to matter. Basically, the dead come back, and start eating people's brains like cannibals and the only way to stop them is a generic shoot-to-the-head or total overkill of the corpse.

What I need to pan most is to make a structure of how the Zombie players manage their resources very similar to sense of a Strategy game hybrid. Creating hordes, managing them, develop specialize units, tactics, make decisive calls and who doesn't like the prospect of making their army stronger?

And that is where the difference lie between an average zombie (NPCs) and our Players but I think understand your concern, you want more introspect to being what its like being dead in about I think the same sense as "Warm Bodies" and develop a story there.

Unfortunately, that's not how I (only) invision the RP I set in. It's not so much as trying too hard to be unique because lets face it, people/players do like stereotypes no matter how much quirky we try to make them. Besides, the bulk of the game requires also more end from the GM so its not something to be taken lightly for the staff aside from the stat number crunch but at least keeps them into the activity than "post then forget, then post tomorrow".

The RP actually was intended for an online chat system in mind because it is so easy to fall into inactivity in forum posting (though the later allows more time to planning whereas the former relies alot on improvising) since the apocalypse starts with the players as 'Ground Zero'.

I also considered the plausibility of player drops too but haven't find ways to counter this problem easily

On the other hand, maybe we're overthinking too much and looking at the wrong angle. A theme is only a premise, and it's worth is almost nothing without the activity of its players and staff, like thinking only the gift wrapping; it's pretty but does it make the contents inside as pretty?

Furthermore, if we're taking this only as a side RP as a means to pass the inactive time until the original players come back to answer or else start all over again, then I don't see why we can't start a simple adventure theme thread based on a classic Dungeons and Dragons theme. Sure, it's a little overused, but we get some laughs and thrills in it than staring into a guild that does nothing. I don't even think it would need DM approval if that can be helped like the most main RPs.

I don't like Tavern threads though they hardly really go anywhere. XD