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I've noticed there have been alot of ooc threads on cool ideas for RPGs. There might already be one and I've jsut missed it but I thought that it would be neat to have a thread (obviously this one) where we can jsut pour all the ideas into.
People can give opinions and suggestions and stuff.

So what ideas do you guys have?
 

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I have one that I have been pondering for a while... It would be a near future kinda thing, ten or twenty maybe. The players would join as members of a revolutionary group and try to depose the new communist/dicatorship governenment in order to establish their own. I figure after that one, the leader of the revolution becomes the country's new leader and the thread would end. Then another one would start, ten years into the future. That country improved drastically under the new benevolent dictatorship, and became a world superpower. It would begin a militaristic expansion campaign and start conquering and persuading countries to join their new Empire, and the players in this new thread would join as either soldiers in the new, advanced army of this country, insurgents of countries occupied by them, or soldiers/ civilians of other countries.

Its a rough outline, and it may sound a bit cliched, but I would like to know what you guys think.
 
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I started a rpg up a long time ago that was called arena of the wicked and started cool and then went south. It didn't really go the way I was hoping. Here is a cool outline idea though that I would love to join in on. Hopefully the Game Master can control the idea better than I did.

Anybody who joins up the thing starts out with a story of how the became a slave to whatever entity(fantasy genre) The slaves are used as amusement in the arena and the story builds upon itself as the slaves begin to get to know each other and build trust with each other. They begin to fight in the arena against different creatures, but instead of every man for themselves, they fight together to survive. Finally, the arena begins to die down because they have never lost and so they decide to bring inevitable death to this team and we see how it turns out.

Any thoughts. Anyone want to run this type of story. Let me know so I can join.
 
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Flames said:
I started a rpg up a long time ago that was called arena of the wicked and started cool and then went south. It didn't really go the way I was hoping. Here is a cool outline idea though that I would love to join in on. Hopefully the Game Master can control the idea better than I did.

Anybody who joins up the thing starts out with a story of how the became a slave to whatever entity(fantasy genre) The slaves are used as amusement in the arena and the story builds upon itself as the slaves begin to get to know each other and build trust with each other. They begin to fight in the arena against different creatures, but instead of every man for themselves, they fight together to survive. Finally, the arena begins to die down because they have never lost and so they decide to bring inevitable death to this team and we see how it turns out.

Any thoughts. Anyone want to run this type of story. Let me know so I can join.
First of, whoa, it's Flames! I haven't seen you in ages! Last time we were playing Age of Mortals, Time of Dragons together. I really liked that story and had wished that it had gone better. Your idea sounds like it could be really fun, and I would be honored to write with you again. :) Maybe I should make it... The thing I worry about is that everybody would just jump in there and want to kill each other, forgetting any semblance of a plot.

A western is a great idea! I remember at one point I was trying to think up a game (I've never acutally have the courage to start my own) and that came to mind. It would definately be a fun world to play in! *pulls out a cigar and starts banging out a melody on an old out of tune piano in a saloon*

Another idea was a lot like Dinotopia only the island was a haven for fantasy creatures instead of dinosaurs. (If you don't know the book, a ship wrecks near this uncharted island and the two survivors end up on this island that has dinosaurs still living on it, and the people's whole society is based off of them. It's pretty cool, though fairly evolutionist.)

I think a really cool Legend of Zelda RPG would be fun. There is one now, but it's just following the storyline of Ocarina of Time. I had an idea, but I think it might be too complicated to be made into an RPG.

One thing that often stops me from actually making a game is that I almost always end up asking myself, "Why don't you just write that out yourself not as a game?" Perhaps some of you have gotten some ideas from this. I'm also afraid that if I start a game it will turn into something I won't like and then I'll be stuck in it.

God bless, and let's make something fun! ^_^
 
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Vulgivagus ,

Yeah, I have been hiding out somewhere... It's been quite awhile since I've been on here writing. For the most part, I haven't found a story in a while that I want to jump into. It was very awesome writing with you in the past and hopefully we can pull something together and write again, but i am like you. Why don't I just write my own short story or even a bit longer and then it turns out the way I have in my mind... I do enjoy writing with others, but I really like people I write with to have a good understanding of plot, the genre of world (Fantasy, Scifi, ect...), and decent story building skills. I just hate when a great storyline goes south. So the moral to this post is: Vulgivagus, if you want to create a story, I will jump in it. Just send me a PM when you are ready.
 
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Your polite terminology has hurt me, Vulgarius... asuming you are refering to me and not someone else from Dragons/Mortals... but it makes me feel imporant when people talk about me and I'm not around, so... ha ha! I proved you wrong and have co-gmed the Consi and the Consi wars! (Ack, Ember, Ack, Lumloria...) How is that for plot development?

While there have been several post-apocalypse threads, correct me if I'm wrong, but there has never been a thread about people in little spaceships. Why not? Little spaceships are cool. But not like the Lucas ones, cuz' lasers are <|24o. Everyone knows spaceships would use machine guns. The problem, of course, is that people in spaceships are either stuck on a big spaceship or can't talk to each other.

I'd like a thread based on Celtic/Norse mythology, not with their gods or anything but just the same sort of universe and feel. No stinky elves allowed.
 
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