FREEFORM ROLEPLAYING: Community Thread (Please Read)

[Draken]

The Story so Far

Until around the end of 2008, this area of the Giant in the Playground Forum was known as "The Town", by that time, however, there was already a considerable split between the ACRONYM world and the Town proper.

A while later, the split was officialized by the forum administration when the subforum stopped being "The Town" and became the Freeform Roleplaying area.

Shortly after this event, Metropolis and then Bleachitp were created, and in more recent times, Narutoitp was born. And in even more recent times, a number of other freeform settings appeared. Unfortunately a number of these appear to be missing the crucial component that is "player interest".

That is one of the reasons this thread is being created, another reason is to, hopefuly, create a better integration between the players of the different settings, as our subforum is considerably fragmented, currently.

The Purpose

Freeform's purpose is fun. Fun for all of us who play our characters here, telling their stories.

The purpose of this particular thread is conversation and discussion, and to guide newcomers through the various settings here. Most of them have their ground rules listed on the first post of their respective OOC threads, yes, but there are unspoken rules in each of them, facts that a new player will not be readly aware, as well as details of the settings themselves.

Most importantly, every now and then, players have ideas for new settings, but unfortunately a number of them have suffered a stillbirth from lack of interest. This thread should provide an area where these new settings (which, when so discussed, are discussed in the OOCs of particular settings and seen only by a handful of the community, if they are discussed at all), and hopefuly, avoid the death of good ideas to the ravages of lack of interest from the playerbase.

Table of Universes:
{table=head]Name|Tag|Approx. Age|Still active?|Notes
Nexus|[Nexus]|5 yrs|Yes|Includes Acro and Town
- ACRO|{colsp=4}[ACRO]
- Town|{colsp=4}[Town]
Metropolis|[Metro]|2 yrs|No|Superhero universe
Bleach|[BleachITP]|1.5 yrs|No new characters
Bleach Reborn|[BitP:R]|4 mnth|Yes|Reboot of BleachitP
Camp Half-Blood|[CHB]|6 mnth|Yes|
GONE|
Final Fantasy|[FFitP]|Brand New|Yes (setup)
Wheel of Time|
Organized Crime|[OCitp]|1 mnth|Yes|
Eragon/Twilight Lynching|
Dead Plains Drifter|
Pokémon|||No|Now in Structured
Super Robot Wars|[SRWitP]|2 mnth|Yes (setup)|Characters from existing mecha anime/manga/etc. allowed
Naruto|[NarutoITP]|8 mnth|Yes
Supers|
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Universe Directory

For those of you who care, that is just two posts bellow.

FFRP Universe Application Form: (FFRPUAF)

Name of Universe:
Tag:
Description:
Character limitations:
Founding player(s):
Interested players: (to be added during the discussion/recruitment period)
Other notes:
Style:
What makes this different from other FFRPGs?

[Viera Champion]

I'm here to help newcomers who don't quite understand this! Because Captain Planet says, "The power is mine!"

[happyturtle]

Universe Directory:

[BiblioITP] Bibliography ITP

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Name of Universe: Bibliography ITP
Tag: [BiblioITP]
Description: Our world is not what it seems... there is a Veil on the eyes of all humans that, when lifted, reveals a world where are the myths... are true.
Character limitations: Most characters will play as Pages, bound to a single Codex. Each Codex has strengths and weaknesses. Others are Librarians, more like police and with more power.
Founding player(s): Elagune, Jokasti, Prime32, Lix Lorn, Creed
Interested players: Everyone who's read Bibliography.
Other notes: Options are Page/Librarian/Human
Style: Superhero-ish
What makes this different from other FFRPGs? Based on Elagune's webcomic, and mostly in the city of Tiltstone.
Date created: June 2010

[FMAitp] Fullmetal Alchemist ITP

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Name of Universe: Fullmetal Alchemist ITP
Tag: FMAITP
Description: An RP taking place in the FMA Universe
Character limitations: Must fit the setting, and not overpowered.
Founding player(s): Maximum Zersk
Interested players: Uh... a lot of people? To be added?
Other notes: None
Style: Alchemy/Shounen/Storytelling
What makes this different from other FFRPGs? It takes place in the FMA Universe, and is more guided and is less tolerant of silliness than the Nexus is
Date created: 2010

[GDU] Global Defense Unit

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Name of Universe: Global Defense Unit
Tag: GDU
Description: A group called the GDU protects it's native country of each unit from dangers, and on occasion, the world
Character limitations: Set list of gadgets. Must be human. Must be a GDU member.
Founding player(s): Maxios, The Antagonist, Instinct
Interested players: The antagonist, instinct
Other notes:
Style: Action/Spy/James Bond/Thriller
What makes this different from other FFRPGs?: It's action packed, and filled with encounters with badguys and adventures
Date created: Aug 2010

[HP] Hogwarts ITP

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Name of Universe : Hogwarts ITP
Tag : [HP]
Description : An RP set in the Harry Potter Universe, specifically Hogwarts.
Character Limitations : Have to fit the setting, no Voldemorts or characters with major items.
Founding Player(s) : Gimliggamer
Other Notes : None
Style : Magic. Duh.
What Makes this different from other FFRPG's? See above. Blarg
Date Created: July 2010

[Lynch:_] Lynching Games (Twilight, Eragon)

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Name of Universe: Twilight Lynching Games
Tag: No Tags
Description: A free form/structured hybrid in which you play as established fictional characters from a variety of settings and to battle with the characters of the Twilight series of Novels/Movies as well as other PCs.
Character limitations: Depends on the particular game but usually only restricted by desired power level and plausibility of them existing in modern times. Also, we keep things limited to established fiction characters.
Founding player(s): Cracklord, Industrious, Doliest, Darkblade
Interested players: Kuroimaken
Other notes: Each thread represents one game with the thread's creator as the GM who plays the canon Twilight characters and other NPCs.
Style: It's basically a sandbox game with direction.

Name of Universe: Eragon Lynching Games
Tag: No Tags
Description: A free form/structured hybrid in which you play as established fictional characters from a variety of settings and to battle with the characters of the Inheritance Cycle series of Novels as well as other PCs.
Character limitations: Depends on the particular game but usually only restricted by desired power level and plausibility of them existing in Fantasy setting.
Founding player(s): Cracklord, Industrious, Doliest, Darkblade
Interested players:
Other notes: Each thread represents one game with the thread's creator as the GM who plays the canon Inheritance Cycle characters and other NPCs/
Style:

Date created: ~2009

[Nexus] The Nexus aka Town aka Acronymia

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Name of Universe: The Nexus aka Town aka Acronymia
Tag: [Nexus]
Description: A nexus of realities where all cosmologies are true. At the same bar, there could be a DnD barbarian, a 24th century shadowrunner, a Jedi, a cthuloid monstrosity, and a perfectly mundane baker's apprentice.
Character limitations: No limitations except for the forum rules.
Founding player(s): Town was founded around the dual between players Mortia, and Lykan. Then evolved with the addition of Sneaks Milk Bar. Then kept growing and changing.
Interested players: lots
Other notes: There's no pre-approval process, but if you come and say hi in the Nexus OOC thread, people will try and help your character get settled in.
Style: Comedic, dark, angsty, romantic, apocalyptic. All over the place, really.
What makes this different from other FFRPGs? This is the oldest and most established universe, the one the subforum was created for. It's also the most chaotic and anarchic as there is no overarching plot, consistent rules, or guiding hand. The advantage of this is that you can play any character you like. The disadvantage is that your character may not work quite as expected when they are taken out of their home universe and left to deal with people from different cosmologies. If you value order and consistency, it may not be for you, but for sheer chaotic roleplaying fun, Nexus is clearly the best choice. </biased opinion >
Date created: ~2005

[Myth] Mythos

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Name of Universe:
Tag: (Myth)
Description: A fantasy universe
Character limitations: Characters only have 4 races to choose from.
Founding player(s): Maxios
Interested players: Creed (to be added during the discussion/recruitment period)
Other notes: Is set in the Kingdom of Kroso.
Style: Action/Swashbuckling/Fantasy/Comedy
What makes this different from other FFRPGs? It's set in a fantasy universe filled with loot, monsters, and heroes. Plus, it has warrior liches!
Date created: July 2010

[RvB] Red vs. Blue

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Name of Universe: Red vs. Blue
Tag: RvB
Description: A group of Red and Blues in an endless civil war.
Character limitations: Player must be Red, Blue, or from Command.
Founding player(s): Pally Elendro
Interested players: Moff Chumley, iElf
Other notes: The people are SPARTAN IIs.
Style: Uh... Action/Comedy
What makes this different from other FFRPGs? This one contains more arrogance among people.
Date created: June 2010

[WoR] War of the Ring

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Name of Universe: War of the Ring
Tag: [WoR]
Description: A universe based of Tolkien's Middle Earth legendarium, in which characters from different fictional sources, and history as well, are summoned by the Valar and Morgoth, to fight for either good or evil in the War of the Ring.
Character limitations: All characters must be pre-repeating firearms and appropriate to the setting (For example: Roman legionaries and Narnians are okay, US Marines and Gundam pilots are not)
Founding player(s): Executor, Cracklord
Interested players: Executor, Creed, Keveak, Darkblade, doliest, Falgorn, more to be added
Style: It's basically a sandbox game with direction, in the style of Cracklord's Lynching freeforms.
Other Notes: N/A
What makes this different from other FFRPGs? Having characters, both historical and fictional, participating in the famous War of the Ring from the Lord of the Rings novels and movies. Also, would be the first freeform Lord of the Rings roleplay universe I am aware of.
Date created: June 2010

[WoT] Wheel of Time itp

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Name of the Universe: Wheel of Time itP
Tag: [WoT]
Description: A universe based off of both the plot and the world of the late Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. All characters from the novels, including main characters, do not exist in this universe, and most will be replaced by player made characters
Character Limitations: None
Founding Player: Kurama
Interested Players: Horngeek, Kid Kris, Cracklord
Other Notes: Each thread will represent the main areas of the Three (or four?) main groups.
Style:?
What Makes this Different: It has a directed plot, yet with the possibility of many subplots branching off of it.
Date created: June 2010

[Haruki-kun]

I'm here to help newcomers who don't quite understand this!

I'm here for the food! *munch*

Seriously, though, may I suggest adding a "PLEASE READ" sign to the thread title? Sorta like the WW Central Thread.

And maybe even request a mod to sticky it.

[Neknoh]

¤waves back at Happy Turtle with a big anime wig¤ .... erm... ¤hides wig behind back¤

A very good innitiative I must say, I myself am trying to start up my second RP, the first one had people interested, but not that big a player base still, and, unfortunately, school brutally dragged me away from the forums. Trust me, I flailed and screamed all that I could, but it fell on my own deaf ears as I sheepishly trodded into the horror that is university full time studies

And now, as said, I am back, but this time, I can't seem to find players at all.

The short version of the world I hope to start off:

Dark, Medieval, European inspired Fantasy, no Elves or Dwarfs or Orcs, not as us fantasy lovers know them at least. A world of spirits and fae that exist inside of a heavy fog that descends upon the land each night, and a world you venture into when sleeping, but venturing too far could cause you to lose your way and not find yourself getting back to your body are both worlds existing within this place.

Ravens

However, since it's not up and running and merely gathering people at the moment, I guess it'll have to wait before it can be thrown up onto the list of excellent RP's that Draken's got in his post.


Furthermore, if anyone need help brainstorming a new world of their own, just toss me a PM or say something here, I'm basically bursting with ideas for most settings, and have been active in the creation of two full factions AND a movie plot and realisation in Bleach ItP, and I've still got more to give (Ravens and Starlight are two completely separate RP worlds for instance).

[ApeofLight]

Good idea Draken. A place for all the settings to come together seems like a good idea to me(even the OOC one here). Yeah, there truly is a split among the different settings and its good idea to bring them all together in one place.

You have the full support of apeoflight on your side. Also I can help people as well.

[Draken]

Mind you Ape, the idea is not for the settings to come together, but the players of the Freeform Roleplaying Section.

Discussions about conjunctions of the settings themselves have been carried time and time again in the OOCs of the different settings themselves, mainly regarding the rather tenuous ACRO/Town split, more often than not, these have similar ends and the vigent status quo is pretty much kept.

[Ashen Lilies]

So, in the interest of keeping this on the first page, I'm going to poke the waters a bit and ask how you guys feel about a sci-fi RP. I have a detailed setting ready (ish), but for now I'm just going to say it's on a large colony ship (pop ~2 million) full of refugees of various races*, fleeing from the ruins of the GENERIC FEDERATION^TM, which was destroyed by the EVIL HIVEMIND^TM**. There is also a defense fleet too, mostly consisting of human and gray ships, since they had the largest space fleets. Most locations will be on the colony ship, with space available for restaurants, shops, churches, black market gun stores etc etc. There are also 'outside' areas, in the form of the various bio domes that pepper the outside of the ship. The ship is divided into four parts: The White Sector (public space), The Green Sector (vast hydroponics gardens, for food and oxygen), The Yellow Sector (important machinery, including life support, engines and generators. Access is restricted) and the Blue Sector (Comms, piloting and other things vital to ship's functioning. Access is also restricted).
...
Aaaand that's all I can think of putting down right now. There's more, but not for now. So yeah.

*Current (major) Races: Grays (with tall and short (and elder brain) subspecies, had a tendency to mutilate cattle, and give people hallucinations for the lulz, until the human race found out, and brutally slaughtered most of them), Eldrin (advanced 'precursor' race, was the major power in the Federation), Myrmidons (Big people race. Probably Lizard People), [Name Pending] (Little, Green(ish), but not necessarily Men, and more likely women, since they have a vaguely hive-like society. Consists of Workers, Soldiers, Drones, Experts, Nursers and the Queen), Humans (thirteen legged eldritch abominations with seven eyes, blue skin and a giant fanged maw ) and whatever else you want to throw in. Except Space Elves. Space Elves suck.

**Is either a super insect genetic engineering hivemind, a robot hivemind, a cyborg hivemind, or an insect-cyborg hivemind. Assimilation is optional.

[Innis Cabal]

I'd like to reply to the above that there is currently a sci-fi setting of the Mecha genre just starting, if any are interested in joining that.


OOC thread is here

[Ashen Lilies]

Oh, right. I'd like to add to the above in that the style of play will be more like ACRO, Town or Metropolis, in that it won't be as structured as CoT, or the AnimeITPs. It's basically: You're stuck on a ship, hurtling rapidly away from the ruins of the Federation, 100 years after it was destroyed. Also, you can't settle down on a planet haven't been able to settle down on a planet, otherwise the bugs will come and eat you because the bugs came and ate everyone who tried. Have fun. Or something.

I keep looking at my setting and either thinking: 'This needs more camp', or 'this needs more GRIMDARK'. .~.

[Bergett]

Oh I'm sure if you toss in a couple GENERIC GOVERNMENT BLACK OPS PROJECTStm concerning doing something morally illegal to fight back at said Hive mind to make it grimmer.

[Lord Magtok]

Are you done yet, Kermag?

The former bar wench tapped her foot impatiently against the rubble. Said foot was carefully wrapped in a ragged leather boot at the moment, magically enchanted to fair better against the sheep (Called as such because they were once believed to have been brought about by Shepherd) and whatever rough terrain they found themselves in, but even magic can only go so far nowadays. They were late enough as is, and that stupid half-breed bucket of bolts was slowing them down even further with its selectivity. Just pick some random guns and come back later if you want to be that picky, for gods' sakes.

The armory has been successfully emptied, masters.

KR-MAG, or Kerr, Kermag, and Kermit, as he was called by the others, was a rather peculiar experiment with, as one might guess, K-CORP robots and MagCorp technology. Whether he was made by a desperate Magtok from scavenged K-Corp materials before the infamous cyborg became one of them, or constructed of spare MagCave parts assimilated into the crimson robot empire before its eventual collapse was a mystery nobody really cared enough to think about, including KR-MAG himself.

Okay, let's hurry. The sun's dropping, and sheep's going to be right in our path to the caravan around...6:47 if we don't hurry.

It's truly a miracle that smurf's survived as long as she has. Given all the people she lost even before the Sheep came and her relative inexperience with firearms (compared to the other survivors, anyways), one would expect the flock would've infected her in seconds once they reached Gersemi's Isle. Instead, it only empowered her, driving her to achieve miracles for her fellow survivors time and time again with her mystical gift.

Some time later, they finally made it to the caravan. There'd been a brief scuffle with some sheep along the way, but with some well-placed headshots and KR-Mag's bite immunity, they managed to get by. The caravan however, was not how they'd left it. There was blood on the MagMobiles, somebody's arm bouncing off the turret of an ISF hovertank, and the whole place smelled of death. The three paled at the site of this devastation, and quietly began to back away.

Oh gods...Melody, why didn't you-

I-I didn't think they'd...oh gods, we have to get out of here n-

Sensors detecting enemy signatures numbering in...triple digits! Suggestion: Retre-

SHRIEEEE!

As one might expect, Melody, Yasmin, and the rest of Caravan Evans was lost to the Sheep. KR-MAG, given his non-organic form's immunity to infection, was simply bludgeoned and clawed at by the beasts, and managed to last long enough to transmit the fall of Evans to ISF radio before getting scavenged by raiders for parts. Life went on in the Acro wasteland like it always did, and war...war never changes.

Anyways, this is the rough idea several people including Vespe, Kaela, and others thought up before in chat but never gave a try I had for a darker, post-apocalypse Acro, where the bad guys succeeded in one of their many attempts to ruin the world, and where even the mighty superpowers of Acro are challenged by the sheer, overwhelming numbers of zombies Sheep trying to eat and/or turn them. It's called-

Acropocalypse Now

Anyone interested?

[Draken]

Right now, in the GMT -4 Area (where I am), it is currently 23:40 of the 31st day of December of 2009. Within 20 minutes it will be the 1st of January of 2010.

I would like to give all who I play with in ACROnym, Bleachitp and Narutoitp, along with everyone else I don't play with, a Happy New Year!

[Kaelaroth]

I quit.

Metropolis is for those who play in it, as it's always been. Any characters in it who I play are now NPCs, save for the baby Benjamin, who chokes itself to death as it sleeps, donating his power to his brother, if his brother's player wants it.

What few ACRONYM characters I have left erase themselves from reality. The Taverna can be updated by those who want to. As a last gift to you guys, I'm erasing its upper floors. You can get your smut elsewhere. HT and Rebonack have updating-rights for it, but please avoid heavy editing to it. Let it die, if you want, but respect what I built, mm?

As said, in the first line, I quit FFRP.
Cheerio!

[Ashen Lilies]

Cheerio, then.

[Reinholdt]

Sorry to see you go. So long Kaela.

[Maximum Zersk]

Well, I have an idea. What about one based in a Steampunk/Clockpunk world? Is there an FFRP based on that already?

'Cause if not... called it!

[Gimliggamer]

Is anyone up for a Brutal Legend FFRP?

[Ashen Lilies]

Well, I have an idea. What about one based in a Steampunk/Clockpunk world? Is there an FFRP based on that already?

'Cause if not... called it!

Not particularly, but it's easy enough to have a steampunk character in Acro or Town.

[Purple Rose]

Not particularly, but it's easy enough to have a steam punk character in Acro or Town.

*cough cough*

[Ashen Lilies]

What?

[Zarah]

While we're on the subject of garnering interest, would anyone be up for a Pirates of the Caribbean-esque historical fantasy FFRPG based in the 17th/18th century?

I really shouldn't be stretching myself out any thinner, but hey, I liked the idea.

[Purple Rose]

What?

I just started with a steampunk character and shop in inside.

[Boo]

@Zarah: I'd prefer it to be described as a fantasy-based Pyrate RP, but it seems like it could work. Ship battles could be hard (although I can't help but imagine threads shooting at other threads and how much fun that could be).

All I would ask is that you please don't run it like Bleach itP. Let players run their own course, man their own sails, and guide themselves to the treasure of role-play! Okay, that sounded better in my head.


@FFRP Section: Are we getting overcrowded? I know that the Twighlight/Eragon lynching RP's aren't growing that much, but we are getting more and more RP's by the month.

We have Acro, Town, Metropolis, Bleach, Naruto, Twighlight, Mecha-things, Eragon, ...and... others. I can't remember all of them. There's also Neknoh's Ravens and the above concepts in this thread. In fact, Neknoh's world is probably being choked out by all the universes... Either that or the massive wall of text. A good read, it was.

Note that I'm not saying we are currently overcrowded, but we are getting there. Any thoughts on what to do?

[Jacklu]

*readies the blasting caps*

Huh? Oh, these? Nothing... [sinister]Nothing at all.[/sinister]

[happyturtle]

Note that I'm not saying we are currently overcrowded, but we are getting there. Any thoughts on what to do?

Nothing, is my vote. I think there are a few of the threads here that might fit better in Structured, but other than that, I don't see any reason why any new setting that has participants shouldn't exist.

[Boo]

I don't remember saying we should be rid of them or ban new ones (or anything in that context).

[happyturtle]

I assumed, based on the fact that the two options I see are nothing or restrict new settings in some way.

If other people can think of other options, please speak up.

[Boo]

That second part would be rather narrow-minded and cruel of me to suggest.

Maybe just enforcing the "setting name in front of thread title" rule would be enough...

[Zarah]

@Zarah: I'd prefer it to be described as a fantasy-based Pyrate RP, but it seems like it could work. Ship battles could be hard (although I can't help but imagine threads shooting at other threads and how much fun that could be).

All I would ask is that you please don't run it like Bleach itP. Let players run their own course, man their own sails, and guide themselves to the treasure of role-play! Okay, that sounded better in my head.

I've more or less moved on from that idea, unfortunately. Anyone is free to pick it up themselves if there's enough interest though.

I have been working on another more original setting lately, but I have no idea when it'll ever see the light of day. The best way I can describe it is pretty much "Heroes meets Left 4 Dead meets Fallout meets Half-Life 2."