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| Topic Started: Apr 1 2011, 02:31 AM (1,596 Views) | |
| Sedulius | Apr 1 2011, 02:31 AM Post #1 |
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Yeah. So seriously discussing doing a new Star Wars RP (or continuing the last one)... Who's up for it? I know E is. I am. Others? Old NS Star Wars forum: http://s1.zetaboards.com/NS_StarWars/index/ |
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| Telosan | Apr 1 2011, 10:13 AM Post #2 |
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I'd like to give it a shot again. I'm reusing all my old stuff on that forum though, because it took an ungodly amount of time to get it together only to have it sit there, never used. |
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| Sedulius | Apr 1 2011, 05:05 PM Post #3 |
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Well, my only thought was what canon is being incorporated into the game is restricting it. Setting it in a timeline far into the future remedies that. It makes for a completely different environment. It allows us to essentially make up whatever we wish. It allows us to create civilizations from the bottom up. That said, it still allows you to use the Corellian Confederation. On another note, looks like Wookieepedia has gone 3D for their April Fools. |
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| Aelius | Apr 1 2011, 11:50 PM Post #4 |
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I'd be up for this, how would it work? |
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| Sedulius | Apr 2 2011, 04:49 PM Post #5 |
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Well, pretty much, the rules are the same as here, except it's not based upon a nationstate in the nationstates game. You just make a faction as you want it, and play fair. Eventually a set of rules will be written, but for the time being it is hardly necessary, as members of this community understand what is expected. That said, as I have stated, I would like to make some changes to what we had before. I want to have many more character based RPs than are here in NSWR (after all, characters are what drive the story in Star Wars, factions are just a backdrop). If we had enough people, we could even do quest like RPs with an overseeing Game Master. Of course, I do not want to neglect faction RP. We need factions for the settings, so I encourage everyone to make a faction. I will be the Mandalorians, who will now have a large empire, though not anywhere near galactic proportions. I hope to see a true Sith Empire in the game, as well as a Republic defended by the Jedi Order. I think we need a thousand or two thousand years to have passed since the fall of the Galactic Empire for everything to be fleshed out just like we like it (I was actually originally thinking 5000 ABY, but it really doesn't matter what millennium ABY it is so long as it is far from anything in the Expanded Universe). Canon can essentially be swept aside. It allows for anything canon to be referenced, but for nothing canon to be the current norm. I want to break away from the typical one faction dominating the galaxy and others trying to wrest control from it. I want a game of several factions all wrestling each other, playing games of imperial diplomacy and cold war. This makes the game much more suitable for several players. Of course, you can play how you want. If you just want to be one race on one planet, or two, or whatever, go right ahead. If you want to be the Republic, be my guest. If you want to be the Sith, be my guest. The can even be more than one Sith faction fighting for control of the Sith. But what I really want to see is well developed characters and stories. Who is the Sith Emperor (if there is one)? What are the characteristics of the Dark Lords? How did the current Sith Empire come to be? I will write a very loose backstory to explain things over the past millennia to give a guideline, but more or less you choose your own path. Just beware the Mandalorians. Hunting Jedi and Sith is our past-time! |
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| New Harumf | Apr 2 2011, 05:57 PM Post #6 |
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I still want to be Ewoks with plenty of left-over stuff from the wars to play with, those devilish little furries! |
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| Sedulius | Apr 2 2011, 07:31 PM Post #7 |
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Well hell, if it's set a thousand or two thousand years later, we may have an Ewok death fleet on our hands. :lol: |
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| East Anarx | Apr 2 2011, 10:52 PM Post #8 |
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Mmm, I like this far future scenario idea. |
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| Aelius | Apr 2 2011, 11:35 PM Post #9 |
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I want to have an order of Gray Jedi within my faction, whatever I decide to do with it. I haven't really decided how specific I'd like to be. It would kind of depend on what systems I'm given to start with. Perhaps some sort of mercantile-based Republic-esque society. |
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| Quaon | Apr 2 2011, 11:41 PM Post #10 |
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Probably not actually going to play this, but - A dictatorial Jedi Kingdom, where the Jedi elite have basically created an empire more oppressive than any Sith one. |
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| Telosan | Apr 3 2011, 08:34 PM Post #11 |
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Ah, I was considering doing something with a Force-sensitive organization of some sort, but I don't want to overpopulate the place with Jedi, Sith, and look-alike groups. |
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| Sedulius | Apr 3 2011, 11:41 PM Post #12 |
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I'd like to at least see the Jedi and the Sith. If no one takes them, I'll probably abandon the Mandalorians in favor of having a Sith Empire or Republic with Jedi around. EDIT: That said, we only NEED one or the other. If the Jedi are dominant the Sith can be in hiding, and visa-versa. I'd just rather see neither dominant and at equal strength, with other factions around that have similar strength. EDIT2: That said, I think it's important that everyone state what they wish faction (and sub-factions) they wish to be. That will give us a clear cut view of how to set things up. Provided everyone is fine with it being set at, say, 2000 years after the movies, you can be whatever you want. Edited by Sedulius, Apr 3 2011, 11:44 PM.
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| New Harumf | Apr 4 2011, 08:11 AM Post #13 |
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You know what I want - Ewoks!! |
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| Aelius | Apr 4 2011, 11:57 AM Post #14 |
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How many systems are we each getting? Is there a map of the galaxy yet? |
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| Sedulius | Apr 4 2011, 01:47 PM Post #15 |
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We used to use this one: http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3171/gmapblackmk4.jpg Might as well keep using it. How many systems you get is at the discretion of the mapmaker (which was me), which is why I want to see how many people are getting involved and what factions/subfactions they want to be. Once I know that, I'll have a good idea on how planets should be assigned. Right now all I can assign for sure is home systems. That said, Telo probably wanted to keep his original amount of systems, so everyone will at least have as many as him (so like between ten and twenty systems each, unless you want less). |
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| New Harumf | Apr 4 2011, 02:22 PM Post #16 |
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Oh, for the record, there will be three seperate factions of Ewoks: 1. Good Ewoks - on the home planet 2. Jedi Ewoks - roaming 3. Bad Ewoks - on a Death Star |
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| Telosan | Apr 4 2011, 04:58 PM Post #17 |
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I thought I was the mapmaker? Eh, it doesn't matter. A larger version of the map may be needed as well, since it's kind of difficult to see. I started with 8 planets, but expanded and conquered a planet that had no population, no natural life, and no atmosphere. So, essentially, I conquered a rock. It seems like I have more, because when doing my faction description, I listed the planets in the systems, i.e, the Corellian system has 4 or 5 inhabitable planets in it. Also, if we skip ahead 2,000 years, wouldn't all this technology we're using (Star Destroyers) be obsolete? Or are we just going to say that the technology, somehow, hasn't changed in that time? |
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| East Anarx | Apr 4 2011, 05:57 PM Post #18 |
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It seems like it would be obsolete, but you could still use them, nice antiques. I'm going to roleplay a migratory culture. We're far enough in the future that a huge, diverse community of self-sustaining spacesteaders without a single planet to call their own travels between the stars and peacefully trades. Space gypsies. I suppose I'll still RP the Independent Commonwealth though, but I'd like it if it was invaded and perhaps conquered by some nefarious faction. |
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| Sedulius | Apr 4 2011, 06:01 PM Post #19 |
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Telo, you were the mapmaker at first, but eventually I assumed that responsibility. You'll get all your systems. If we skip 2000 years ahead, they'll still be using more or less the same technology. Look at the Old Republic set 4000-3000 years before the movies. They pretty much have the same tech. Star Wars doesn't have anywhere to advance without getting too silly. |
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| Telosan | Apr 4 2011, 06:46 PM Post #20 |
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Just say that your planets were razed during a war with (enter faction here) or devastated by a rogue (enter maniac here). You can migrate around your destroyed system(s). There's plenty of space, so its not like you'd be bored orbiting the same star or two since they're all essentially the same. |
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| East Anarx | Apr 4 2011, 06:57 PM Post #21 |
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Naw, that'd be lazy. Who wants to conquer the Wookiees? Let's have a war. |
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| Sedulius | Apr 4 2011, 08:58 PM Post #22 |
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Wookiees are some serious BMFs. E, you aren't playing particularly powerful factions, and you have unique ideas, so I'd say it's perfectly fine for you to be both. It's not like we'll have that many players anyways. I'm going Sith if no one claims them. Otherwise I'm Mando. |
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| Aelius | Apr 5 2011, 01:03 AM Post #23 |
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I wouldn't mind playing Sith, but I think I'd rather be a little less heavy on outright Force users with my faction. I'd like to have something somewhat similar to Onderon from KOTOR II. What I could do, however, is have some of my gray Jedi branch off to join outright Jedi orders or form new Sith factions. At any rate, someone should be a Sith Empire. Sed should be the Mandalorians, they'd be useful in that universe. To the forum as a whole, though: if you know any Star Wars fans who might be interested in Star Wars RPing, you should refer them to this. |
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| Al Araam | Apr 5 2011, 02:12 AM Post #24 |
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Evil Ewoks on the Death Star. Do it. |
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| East Anarx | Apr 5 2011, 09:09 AM Post #25 |
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Seconded. Also, NH, would your Evil Ewoks want to invade the Independent Commonwealth? |
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