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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Nov 8, 2013 23:51:31 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 Hollywood Heidi on Nov 8, 2013 23:57:58 GMT -8
Okay people, start getting your bios together and get them submitted to the Request to Join Here thread! Please also start discussing where in the story you guys want to start. It doesn't matter where you decide to start as far as characters.
It's an RPG so we have control over adding a canon before they existed in the storyline or even a character that has ceased if you guys want to start later in the storyline. Heck, you guys don't even have to go with any of the existing storylines. Just as long as you keep the spirit of the show, we're good to go.
Please also look over the AVAILABLE CHARACTERS list and let me know if there's anybody I'm missing. Since Jester had listed a non-TV show version canon character, I created a section below the TV canon characters for any characters you think would be great to see cross over to the TV version universe.
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Post by Storyteller on Nov 9, 2013 4:19:34 GMT -8
Where is everyone actually season wise? (Just cause I don't want to spoil anyone accidentally!) We're on season 4 in that States and both Mal and I are up to date on it.
With the characters we have bouncing around, we could easily start between seasons 2 and 3 or during 3 without having to rewrite much beforehand (while making it our "own" version of season 3). We only need a Rick-tator. ;-)
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Nov 9, 2013 4:27:01 GMT -8
I gave up on season 2 because it just turned to crap and every episode was exactly the same and 90% of the characters were annoying. I am gonna use Morrissey for The Guv though, but gonna go my own way a tad and make him more straight up evil.
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Nov 9, 2013 8:51:32 GMT -8
I'd second finding out where we can start without ruining anything for anybody (even though we can branch off from said point) what was the last season they aired for you Ilona?
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 9, 2013 9:43:47 GMT -8
I ended up with complete season 3 recently! They showed up all episodes on Halloween at german tv! I'd like anyway if Merle (just waiting for the ok from Heidi for now as for playing him too) in our rpg was not the "dirty-work-man" of the governor... just because I imagined him as a single fighter in the forest after cutted off his Hand till I finished up with season 3 -__- Oh, and I'd like if Michonne even has her "walker-pets" Would that be ok?
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Nov 9, 2013 10:04:36 GMT -8
Personally I'd vote for starting between two of the season's. preferably between 2 and 3 i guess. so we'd be off the farm but looking for a new home. could be fun. picking that setting would in theory let you bring Merle in as what ever you want him to be. and we could still have a Michonne and Andrea pal up
we'd be down a shane then and we would need the rick-tator lol anybody want him?
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 9, 2013 10:16:29 GMT -8
sounds good especially cause there are a lot of months passed by between season 2 and 3. There is much free to fill that gap of time so. lol I would just Play him when Lori's already dead. I don't like Rick, but I began a bit when he's going insane and sees his dead wife everywhere xD
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Post by Daryl Dixon on Nov 9, 2013 12:51:11 GMT -8
A vote then? All in favor of starting in between season's 2 and 3? Aye! and if so, do we want to stick with the show as of that point? We'd have lost: Shane Walsh Sophia Peletier Dale Horvath Jimmy, Patricia & Otis Amy Harrison Jim Jacqui Ed Peletier
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Nov 9, 2013 13:50:13 GMT -8
If you guys really like one of those characters, you can always tweak the story a little and say that one person didn't die. Like what we did with the Firefly RPG the first time when it was set after Serenity. Waaaaaaaash! *sobs*
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 9, 2013 15:11:32 GMT -8
SHANE! DALEEE! T.T *sobs with Heidi*
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Post by Daryl Dixon on Nov 10, 2013 6:48:45 GMT -8
yup im ok with diverging and keeping peeps around that are on that list, just want to hear everybody's thoughts :-)
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Post by unwrittentales on Nov 10, 2013 7:46:36 GMT -8
Would be fine to start between season 2 and 3. At least we'd have some time until the "official" story continues. Oh, and correct me, but wouldn't it be winter at that time?
No home, no hope, no future ;-)
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Post by Daryl Dixon on Nov 10, 2013 8:08:47 GMT -8
yup they always seem to make the winter months that gap, according to the comics, that doesn't seem to affect the zombies too much
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 10, 2013 9:17:20 GMT -8
I also think we shouldn't let survive too much of the "dead-list", even if it's sad for some characters.. but some of them had to die.. it shows what hell they left behind already, doesn't it? Oh yah, cold winter time would be perfect for our rpg
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Post by Storyteller on Nov 11, 2013 5:41:49 GMT -8
I agree about an inbetween for seasons two and three! It actually also gives us an opportunity- since we don't have a Rick or several other characters, we can always say those characters also became separated from the group during the horde attack on the farm (or we became separated from them? Not sure which group is bigger at this point!) Since this RPG most likely will end up a bit AU (alternate universe) anyway, I don't think there'd be a problem with that. I also agree with Ilona- I think if someone is dead at our starting point, they should stay dead. It's too important to the remaining characters development (Amy's death to Andrea springs to mind) and by keeping our 'past' intact, we all have about the same version of the events that have led us here. But we can have influence on what happens from this point out so (end of season three spoiler) if we want to keep Andrea alive and not have her die at the 'end of season three', then we can do that. Same with Merle. Or we can kill off characters that are still alive on the show, if we wish to do so. An interesting idea that I think came up at some point the first time we tried to launch this RP was having random walker attacks. Obviously, no one can kill your character unless you have given the okay to do so but if we each had a walker alter, we could pop in at random moments and keep up the fighting for your life at inopportune moments feel the show has.
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 11, 2013 10:03:58 GMT -8
I like the idea about the walker alter, so that everyone could bring in one! It's more lively and also more like the apocalypse world it is in the Show. So Hands up for having Walkers around? xD
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 11, 2013 10:08:22 GMT -8
By the way: in german Version of the Show they call them "Beisser", which would be translated with "biters". I used this calling in the Michonne Bio... does they call them that way in english? Or is it always just "walker"? Just curious being
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Post by unwrittentales on Nov 11, 2013 11:27:49 GMT -8
ooc: My "walker" alter would be Chuck Norris ;-) damn it... a roundhouse kicking zombie would be unbeatable.. Great idea, which would create more unexpected situation in the game!
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Nov 11, 2013 16:08:51 GMT -8
Biters, Walkers, Bio Hazards, Undead, Living Dead... A zombies a zombie a zombie no matter what they are called so it doesn't matter too much.
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Post by Storyteller on Nov 11, 2013 17:26:35 GMT -8
They've called them walkers, biters, geeks and a myriad of other names (other than zombie ;-) ). I think walker is the most common in the English version but all are acceptable.
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Nov 11, 2013 17:34:28 GMT -8
really depends who your talking about. The governor called them biters. rick's called them walkers from day one since morgan told him about them. the rest of his group started with geeks then switched to walkers as well. nobody's used zombie on the show as of yet. but that can change depending on our own choices i suppose. yes im a dork sometimes lol
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Post by The Jester Of Tortuga on Nov 11, 2013 17:56:59 GMT -8
The above two posts...
True romance right there!
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Nov 11, 2013 18:17:24 GMT -8
I love the walker idea though, lol everybody should have a name for theirs like they give em on the talking dead. ie "bloated well" walker, "eye popping" walker, or "look out below" walker
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Nov 11, 2013 18:59:10 GMT -8
Actually, I can give access to an Alter to multiple people so we only need to create one Walker attack (or whatever you want to call the Alter). I'd definitely recommend this because there is a limit to the number of Alters you can create. I'm not sure what the limit is but I haven't hit it yet. I think they said maybe around 12-15 depending on how much info I put into each Alter? They also created an Alter Extension Plugin which I also have so probably 24-30 in total. Another thing though, I think only mods should have access to these kind of event Alters because it is on the side of godmoding so probably Amelia since she's a Global Mod and Mal/Kevin since he's a mod for Walking Dead. All players are more than welcome to request a walker attack in Potential Plots whenever they feel the RP would benefit from it. What do you guys think?
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Post by DarkSideCookie on Nov 12, 2013 10:45:37 GMT -8
As for the zombie names... I was just interested how they're calling them in english version, cause in german one they don't use seperate names each character.. they all just call them "biters", like I said. But they never call them Zombies yet too. As for the walker alters maybe it really seems the best only the mods are "playing" them. It could run out of control if everybody is able to and use them too often or without arranging with the other walker Players, so that we're full of walker attacks. Uhmm.. hope to made my Explanation clear. ^^' Anyway I don't want to waste one of my alters for it either, as Heidi mentioned they're limited. I don't know who I want to Play in a rpg someday, so there should left some free then So what's with Rick, Lory etc. for now? Should we say, that they left the Group for a while, till we maybe get some members here to Play them?
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Nov 12, 2013 12:42:21 GMT -8
hmm well if nobody has rick on their list I guess I'll play him (if we get someone who want him later on, I'll pass him over!) i just think it would be weird to not have him. he is the main character. shane was on my list but I can't play him after season 2 so I'll switch up for now
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Post by Storyteller on Nov 12, 2013 18:05:35 GMT -8
I actually don't think that it would get out of control for everyone to have use of walker attacks. The idea of it is that if everyone can do it once in a while, they will remain random but they won't ever really get out of hand because the players aren't "allowed" to kill someone else's character without their permission. As for interrupting moments- that's kinda what walkers do on the show anyway . I would agree that if it is a big, plot changing kind of attack then a moderator should control it but I wouldn't mind everyone being able to do little encounters. It would also keep some of the spontaneity alive for Kevin and I because we wouldn't always have to be in charge of it. But I don't expect something like this to be used for all walker encounters . Like, if there's a Lee post and he wants to have a run in with some walkers, I don't think a separate post by a walker alter is really necessary. They don't have any form of rational thought (or probably any thought at all other than a drive to eat) so their posts would be mostly something like- A lone walker stumbles down the embankment. It used to be a man, possibly a grocer by the tattered green apron loosely hanging around its neck. It did not yet sense the warm, living beings nearby as it slowly dragged its rotting flesh through the twigs and leaves carpeting the forest.
It then gives the player several options- whether to engage the walker, to sneak away to a safe place or to stay quiet and hope it passes by. I think it really just adds a fun element of suspense for all the players. But if everyone wants, we can think of some more rules regarding it or just limit it to Kevin and myself making them. Or eliminate it entirely even.
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Post by Medieval Kevin on Nov 12, 2013 18:57:56 GMT -8
i do think if we all had that limited access to the walkers it would keep everyone else on their toes, or more than a bit on edge which is part of the fun :-) the more people who can do it, the less time people have of getting bored lol
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Post by Hollywood Heidi on Nov 12, 2013 19:11:30 GMT -8
Okay, I think I can give it a group access so I'll assign it to The Walking Dead RPG. Someone just needs to reply to the Alter thread with the links for pics and info.
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