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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Feb 8, 2015 13:10:29 GMT -8
This is the place for the writers to discuss potential plot ideas for the RPG. Please keep in mind that these are only suggestions of the players and that a majority of the players must agree to an idea before it goes into effect. If it is a plot that directly involves a character, then the player of that character can decide if it's what they want to happen. Please keep things civil and be respectful of ideas your fellow players may come up with. Remember, this is a fun, stress-free place. Keep things on the topic of plots in this thread so that players don't have to weed through off topic posts. If you have a plot idea that you think will need a lot of discussion, you may create a new thread in the RPG Out of Character Discussions board.
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Post by Storyteller on Feb 8, 2015 14:03:35 GMT -8
I guess our first step should be deciding when we want to set this. Post series? During series? We could always do pre-series too but that would limit our character choice some. Any ideas?
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Post by Zizhun on Feb 8, 2015 14:04:42 GMT -8
I know I picked characters for this that are already dead, but do we want to do more of a sequel for this? I wouldn't mind that, and it might be easier than following the books, since, like Heidi said, we don't have many of the main characters.
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Post by Storyteller on Feb 8, 2015 14:11:49 GMT -8
Looking at our top picks, I think I'm the only one who has a character that is alive post-series! I am more than willing to just create an OC if we want to do a pre-series RP. It'll be very difficult playing Hermione without Harry or Ron anyway!
Actually, if we do pre-series I may just try my hand at Lily Potter!
I'm okay with post-series also but then we could still run into trouble if we don't have a Harry.
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Post by Zizhun on Feb 8, 2015 14:17:05 GMT -8
The only way we could really do post series without Harry is to make the focus on new kids at Hogwarts, because he wouldn't have to be there. Hermione could be teaching a class though, so she could still be in it. That's just an idea, though. Doing pre-series would be awesome, too, especially if you want to be Lily Potter, Storyteller.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Feb 8, 2015 15:10:13 GMT -8
There would definitely be more free reign if it's not set during the time HP and Co. are there unless it's just based on the background characters. You could even go sometime between Lily and Harry to a time where we didn't know of anything that went on. That would mean the only canon characters would be the teachers, really, so that leaves out people who want to play canon characters. Not using the time of Harry, Hermione, and Ron and all the people associated with them might run us into the problem of people coming along wanting to play one of them or their family but if we feel that won't be an issue or that the RPG would benefit better without the people we've already seen throughout seven books and eight movies, then I can just list them in the PLAYERS NEEDED thread under a section stating that those characters do not fit in with the timeline. We only saw a little bit of the timeline when Lily, James, Snape, etc. were students so that could very well be fun to play out. Another idea is to go way, way back to the founders of Hogwarts to a time when the school or Ministry of Magic didn't exist yet or the idea of it was being formed, probably because of chaos starting to arise from unschooled, unorganized use of magic, its effect on the Muggle world, and the threat of the exposure of the existence of the magical world. There's Dumbledore's past, perhaps what he went through when he was Harry's age. It seems like he had a ton of experiences but they only hinted at a couple things. The way he handled the whole thing with Harry and what he was going through made it seem like Dumbledore had gone through something similar. There's also the possibility to go into the future more, past Harry's time to create a new baddie. Honestly though, even if you guys went with the time of Harry going through school, it could work too. We didn't see everything that had happened though the poor kid went through so much. Doesn't mean we aren't good at putting them through more. Technically, I'm not officially a part of this RPG but I'm willing to lend a hand when needed so I'm just throwing ideas out there for everyone in case it helps trigger something you guys might all like to go with.
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Post by Storyteller on Feb 8, 2015 15:24:17 GMT -8
I really like the idea of playing out when Harry's parents were at Hogwart's! Plus people would still be able to play at least one character who was on their initial list (Snape, Lupin, etc). Playing the in between years would be intriguing too- like the time that Voldemort surfaced and killed the Potters. I would love to be able to play Hermione and to leave it open for the current characters but I really think that it would be too hard to keep track of without actually playing out the story lines from the books or getting too AU. If we just make it set in the HP universe, I think we can attract just as much attention (plus, who ever actually wants to play main character?!?! ) I also like the idea of setting far in the future, but once again we kinda bump into the problem of possibly needing more main characters.
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Feb 8, 2015 15:59:08 GMT -8
My first vote would be for the post HP as I have been in a few Marauder era ones but I would be done for that as they are fun and it is fun since the all the Lily, James, Snape et al stuff takes place in the 70's.
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Post by Zizhun on Feb 8, 2015 16:27:36 GMT -8
I like the idea of post HP. Then, we could include the main characters as parents of kids currently at Hogwarts, but if no one wanted to be them we wouldn't have to worry about it. Doing it in the time of James, Lily, Snape, etc. would be fun too, and so would doing the founding of Hogwarts, but I think I like the idea of doing it post HP the best.
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Feb 8, 2015 17:27:13 GMT -8
I mean if we do Post and set it in 2015 that would be 17 years after the Battle of Hogwarts. Or we could have it set in 2018 and work it into a plot where on the 20th anniversary a great evil begins to stir or something.
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Post by Zizhun on Feb 8, 2015 17:30:46 GMT -8
I like the idea of evil stirring on the twentieth anniversary. That sounds really intriguing.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Feb 8, 2015 18:14:25 GMT -8
Oh, that would be interesting! Could even have to do with Voldemort if you guys want. Kinda a fail-safe in case things didn't go his way. Maybe another Horcrux or somesuch but since the seven in the books/movies were all the pieces of his soul, it could be something other significant or maybe just the smallest sliver of soul that wasn't enough to keep him alive if the other seven were destroyed but would take 20 years to grow enough in strength to bring him back... or sits in waiting, growing in strength until someone stumbles across it and triggers something, releasing the spell or power and it takes over that person's body becoming the host for Voldemort. Maybe it's someone who secretly knew about it. A loyal Death Eater who lays in waiting for 20 years to offer up his or her self as the host. Just an idea if you guys want it to be Voldemort again but someone original works too.
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Post by Zizhun on Feb 9, 2015 16:05:05 GMT -8
That's a good idea. Do we want it to be Voldemort, or someone else?
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Post by Storyteller on Feb 9, 2015 16:17:12 GMT -8
I think both could be fun but I'm a little intrigued by someone new. Maybe someone following in Voldemort's footsteps. That way, we also aren't constrained by canon on how Voldemort operates and we could really create the conflict from the bottom up!
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Post by Zizhun on Feb 9, 2015 16:32:28 GMT -8
I agree, I like the idea of it being someone new. Maybe they could even be a kid or teacher at Hogwarts, but no one knows they are the bad guy for a while.
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Feb 9, 2015 17:32:49 GMT -8
One of my characters is going to be a death eater so there is always something to be done.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Feb 9, 2015 20:14:51 GMT -8
Nice! It looks like everyone is in agreement that this will take place in the future and leaning toward an original baddie. That being said, I think we can start creating profiles to submit!
In case people really want to play one of the canon characters, how far in the future? I want to put a note in the Characters Needed thread of a guestimate as to how many years later, how old Harry Potter and his friends would be, and if the teachers they had would still be around at Hogwarts. That way, we know if it's possible for people to play the grown-up version of the kids or if they can play the children or grandchildren of the kids.
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Feb 9, 2015 20:32:28 GMT -8
20 years. 2018 is the year. Harry and the students of the time would be mid-late thirties, I believe Harry is born in 1980 making him 38 at the time we are looking at.
I think doing the children/grandchildren route is fine. We could always go a lil AU and say some of them survived if anyone is desperate to play someone like Snape.
I have also mixed up my bio form adding a few more Wizarding things, use it if you like change it if you think its too much, ya know whatevs.
Name: Age: House & Year: Appearance: Personality: Strengths: Weaknesses: Wand: (What size is it and what is it made from) Dementors Kiss: (Worst memory bought up by Dementors) Amortentia: (Favorite smells smelt during a love potion) Mirror of Erised: (Most hopeful/happy vision of ones future) Boggart: (Ones greatest fear a Boogart would take the shape of) Expecto Patronum: (Animal form cast during the spell)
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Post by Lady Lee-o on Feb 9, 2015 20:41:44 GMT -8
Oh sweet baby jesus, HP RPG. XD lol must resist the urge.
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Feb 9, 2015 20:55:30 GMT -8
Thanks, Jester! Everyone cool with making it 20 years? 2018? As far as the profile, that's very detailed! I'm not sure everyone will have the answers to each of those, at least maybe not right off the bat. Might take a little time for people to form their character in order to come up with the nitty gritties but I do like those options. I added them under the Background/History section as suggestions of what people can include but aren't a requirement.
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Feb 10, 2015 11:45:07 GMT -8
Yeah I'm okay with it... *sob* bye bye mad-eye lol gotta come up with a new front runner
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Feb 10, 2015 12:00:33 GMT -8
Aw, you can always create a Mad-Eye Moody-esque character or maybe even someone is a relative.
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Feb 10, 2015 12:31:04 GMT -8
lol I could but its okay, I'll have to move on. I really liked what he could do with that eye hehe can't recreate that without riping him off sadly
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Post by Lady Lee-o on Feb 10, 2015 13:32:17 GMT -8
I'm debating on professor McGonagall lol
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Feb 10, 2015 14:57:39 GMT -8
one of us.
one of us.
one of us.
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Post by Lady Lee-o on Feb 10, 2015 18:25:33 GMT -8
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Feb 10, 2015 20:22:15 GMT -8
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Post by Zizhun on Feb 10, 2015 20:36:16 GMT -8
I have an idea for two characters who are identical twins. I wanted to play one of them, but I'd need someone to play the other. Is anyone interested? If so, then I can tell you what I was thinking about them.
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Feb 11, 2015 7:06:13 GMT -8
I'll hear ya out! Fire away :-) I was thinking of making an OC first while I muse over which canon i could pick up if any.
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Feb 11, 2015 11:17:54 GMT -8
Okay Amelia and I where talking over lunch and had a thought. Please feel free to weigh in.
She wanted to create an OC set of siblings that where from a muggle family. Both have powers with no history in the family before them whatsoever. We added on that thinking we could have a baddie amongst the staff at the school who takes a particular liking to these children and how they might have inherited their abilities. If he could crack that one, he would have the ability to recruit muggles into his own little army. Not hard to temp people and buy their loyalty with promises of power. Sort of the anti voldemort. I imagined him very charming, charismatic. probably the schools liaison to muggle family's thinking of enrolling their children for the first time (would put him in the perfect position to screen new "subjects").
as to how this actually happened to Amelia's characters... Not sure yet but we could have something to play with there on a grand scale. maybe some new prophecy or magical item influencing a population. or just an anomaly to be harnessed. whatever we wanted. :-)
and as to why this villian was in the school to begin with, maybe with the castle's dark past he was hoping to unearth some residual dark energies that might not have faded away. Tom Riddle loved that school so much perhaps even though he is dead, this new person was hoping to leach his powers somehow and effectively "become" him. Making Voldemort no longer an individual but a Title to be taken.
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