Roleplaying Discussion

[An Ying Hu]

Chaos!!!


Dark eldar!!!

This.

[Mark3000]

Hey guys,

So I'm trying to work out a story and RP based on the Persona games just as a side project. The thing is I've never played them. I've played SMT 4, and Devil Survivor along with Persona Q. Plus I've seen lets plays of Persona 3 and 4 but that's it. I have what feels like a good bases but It feels like somethings missing.

So I was wondering, what from a story or game perspective do you think should be in a Persona RP. I don't want to recreate the games entirely but I want to at least get the feel right.

[Lorielle]

Well if you have to ask me it's just about the personas if you boil it down and about finding your true self. The game could focus in on the parts of persona where you work towards your ultimate persona with some small side slice of life stuff to break up dungeon runs. I'm not honestly sure how you would recreate that for an RP but yeah. Or you could focus on just having a story with lots of really good side characters and going through their stories.

[CondorBoH]

And did you want to go with the 'forced' summoning from Persona 3 or the 'natural' from 4? Eg, putting a gun to your head to force the Persona out rather than simply summoning it.

Also if you're giving everyone a Persona and respective Shadow, it's probably best to let everyone decide their Arcana and then assign a Persona from that Arcana to them/

[Randomizer4]

I'm interested! I'd be cool with a lot but I think I'd be better at playing Eldar/Tau/Imperial than Chaos or Dark Eldar, but everything would be great

[FragranceofMtDew]

Personally, for a Persona RP I think it would best to let players pick their character's own persona. It's supposed to be a reflection of your characters inner self after all. The Shadow's from P4 might be kinda hard to pull off, although now that I'm thinking about it, it could be fun to let players control a Shadow version of their character for a boss fight.

Anyway, from a story perspective, what sets a persona game apart from the rest of the SMT games is that they generally focus on a smaller scale story with a lot of character development. The conflict turns a mundane concept into something almost comically absurd like solving a serial murder by entering a world inside of televisions and such.

As far as gameplay goes, that's a bit trickier. Persona focuses on exploiting enemies weaknesses to win battles but the same could be said of pretty much every game in the SMT series. Assuming none of the player characters would be a wild card (which I think would be for the best as a system for obtaining and fusing personas sounds like an absolute nightmare to run from a GM perspective.) perhaps player's could specialize in two or three types of abilities which would give more freedom without having to worry about party composition. The social link system could still be in to a certain extent, I think it would be interesting to gain experience or certain skills or bonuses based on the character's interactions with others since it still ties into the power of persona being the strength of heart.

[Mashugana]

If you're familiar with WOD, I think the concept of a Wraith/Shadow could be done somewhat similarly to that, like the Shadow is a constant force trying to undermine what you do or stand for while tempting you down the flowery road to Hell, or some such.

[Mark3000]

@Lorielle

That makes sense. I have a basic story, locations to explore and key characters but I haven't worked out the side characters.

@CondorBoH

The summoning is something I've been mulling over too. At first I was thinking of 'forced' Summoning (Like you would put a dagger through your chest to summon your persona.) But ?I don't know If that would go well with the theme of uncovering hidden fetishes and kinks I wanted to go with.

I was actually planing on letting plays choose their Arcana and create their own persona.

@FragranceofMtDew

For the story, I was planning to crib from Persona 4. But instead of a murderer you'd be tracking a serial rapist. You would travel through a different dimensions to rescue the victims and gain clues as to who the real culprit is. This would also be where you confront your shadow and gain your persona.

For Game play, I have the basics down (Stats, combat, effects, weaknesses). I can handle players obtaining Persona's via social links but there won't be any fusing. I also added my own system for special attacks.

[Laughing Hyena]

Anyone go the Pokemon itch again? I know I did for Sun and Moon.

[Nobudi]

Sun and Moon has so much Crap getting past the radar... LOL

Trope Link! Beware!

[Mashugana]

I'd been thinking of jumping back into Pokemon, I haven't played it since the Gold and Silver era. I'm playing Pokemon Go but it's starting to get chilly outside so I might go kinda dormant on it.

You know what I kinda miss though? Digimon.

[Laughing Hyena]

Speaking of Pokemon, anyone mind giving me a second opinion on a premise I am writing up? Im in the midst of making a Team for an RP called Team Splicer. Basically they are a criminal organization doing illegal experiments on both people and pokemon in order to line their pockets via trading exotic pets and make a forced jump in evolution as their ultimate goal. To keep with the usual creed of changing the world or resetting the world. I was thinking o placing this team in Unva or Kalos region. If in Unova it gives Team Plasma another chance to be involved in the story as an opposing force.

Too much and keep the experimental pokemorph slave trading angle? Or perhaps to use a more established team (like Team Cipher) for such a rather different setup?

[CondorBoH]

This might not be the place to advertise this, but would anyone be willing to join me on a weekly/time whatever tabletop game called Nechronica?

It's kind of super fucked up, but the combat system is solid and the mechanics allow for some interesting storytelling since Communication is literally a skill that needs to be used if you don't want your character to lose it.
Basic outline:
The world is dead. A world war pushed humanity to the brink of collapse. Then the Necromancer(s) showed up and pushed it over the edge. Now all that's left is the hordes of walking dead and... you.
A Doll. A patchwork corpse returned to sentience, given back a heart and emotions by the Necromancer so they can toy with you. Your body will break dozens of times over, but you can put yourself back together with the parts of your enemies. Best not to get attached to that one arm. The only way to truly die is to be 100% annihilated or to be Heart Broken. Madness mechanics, ho! Fight through the remains of a dead world, desperately searching for your forgotten memories and trying to survive. You have your siblings, the other Dolls and your 'treasure' to keep you sane. But how long will that last?
FIND OUT NEXT TIME!

I plan to host a game as practice in a few weeks, maybe early next year (all things considering). I'll also be re-writing some of the translated rule book, as the author of this game is the same as Maid RPG, some of his... tastes persist in it as mechanical necessities. Plus some re-wording can help people understand the mechanics and nerfing that one skill that lets you make potentially 14 attacks a turn.
So... yeah.
That.

[porne]

Hey, I've decided I'd like to give group RP a shot if anyone I hang with is interested. I trend toward futa and preg fetishwise, but I'm fairly broad in genre.

[exalted]

Had an idea last night (so yeah much drinking happened before this idea), but would anyone be interested in a Bloodbowl (Warhammer Fantasy football) themed RP?

[MelissaB]

Also had this idea once but couldn't get it to work, got something in mind for it to?

[exalted]

The idea I had was essentially that the PC would be part of the one team, an Old World "All Stars" for lack of a better word made up of players from all races.

RP would be split between games and off time for PCs to run do what they want (hijinks in whatever city the team is playing in etc).

Games would focus around the usual BB mechanics but allow players to commit a host of lewd actions on the pitch as well. (saw this comic for inspiration: http://www.hentai-foundry.com/pictures/ ... 2/page/all)

[MelissaB]

well i'd be game

[Reaperbones]

So I kind of have an idea for a survival esque rp, even have the mechanics for it figured out, but I really don't have the time for managing an rp lol.

[CondorBoH]

Lorielle gave me an idea, from the private games.
A game set in the Fate universe, ish. Players choose to play as a Magi or a Servant and will be matched accordingly. Magi will get (if not specified) a random class and then I'll give them a Servant as an NPC.
So a player could specify they want a Caster. So I randomly choose one of the casters and say, they get Gilgamesh (caster version). Their character may not explicitly know it's Gil, especially since his Caster version isn't a douchebag, and will have to discover it as they go and make the servant stronger.

Players will compete against both each other and NPCs. A defeated NPC/Player is essentially added to the winning party's harem instead of killed.
Or something, still working on that. Any ideas/Interested parties? Consdiering the setting it'll be a PvP game, but if you lose you're still in the game and have a chance of coming back through backstabs and other stuff.
Or sex.
Or backstab sex. Backsex, if you will.