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    Daryl Dixon

    Absentee
    Here is the format I am using to create the races.

    Notes
    Firstly, we get the text where I from a stream of consciousness and a little bit of thought I came up with some of the key concepts and ideas of the races. This is probably going to be fairly cluttered and it might contradict some of the later stuff. What is written here is secondary, what comes later is what is fact.

    So for example, if I am creating unicorns and in my notes I say unicorns are unable to drink water. Then later in my dot points I say unicorns can only fly if they drink lots of water, unicorns can drink water.

    See the importance? So the notes in the beginning wont all be contradictory, this is just in case it does contradict some of the later stuff.

    Poem
    The notes end when we get to a poem, yes, poem. I might put another one in after the first but there will be a poem written by some dead poet. The poem doesn't mean fact, it could be using metaphors or hyperbole. But poems are fun, there will be a poem. I took care to make them in a fashion that I normally wouldn't make them. For example, in the vampire one I used repetition in 2 instances deliberately and I worded it in a manner that this poet I created would word it. In other words, ya don't like the poem than blame the character XD​
    The facts
    Everything after the poem is facts. Here I've added more stuff that wasn't in the notes and I've organized all the information in the notes, likely to be in the form of dot points. Everything past the poem is what the race is and its relations/abilities/strengths/weaknesses are all here. If something in the notes says otherwise and it has contradicted something here, the notes are wrong and this is right.​
    There may be a picture that will be a guideline on how the race will look.​
    Is anyone confused?​
     

    Skyrimosity

    Well-Known Member
    If you read my RP post previous to me posting this, please know I have edited it.
     

    Daryl Dixon

    Absentee
    I am a little worried that someone marrying someone else was deemed worthy of telling but the conquering of two kingdoms leading to a unification in a supremacy was not worth noting XD
     

    Skyrimosity

    Well-Known Member
    I am a little worried that someone marrying someone else was deemed worthy of telling but the conquering of two kingdoms leading to a unification in a supremacy was not worth noting XD

    Hmmm... perhaps you simply do not understand Royal Gossip? It's okay. It's a simple mistake.



    *tries sneaking out* Oh... what? I'm not trying to edit anything! You're crazy!
     

    Skyrimosity

    Well-Known Member
    Also, Daryl, could you please not use black for dialogue?
     

    Blackdoom59

    BATMAN!
    Daryl by what you told me is it safe to assume vampires actually sacrifice but thing that they're doing something else?
     

    Daryl Dixon

    Absentee
    I'm sorry but I must use black for dialogue now, it is too late to change and I'm running out of colours. On my PC I can see it fine but I do understand it could be hard to see. I'm sorry for this, I'll make sure I don't use it for any other characters than the one it is being used for.

    And Blackdoom mate, you've just given me a brilliant bloody idea.

    No idea if I'm going to use it. When I was talking to you in the group convo I wasn't thinking of vampires, more just exploring options. Vampires have natural magical prowess (do not confuse this for 'vampires are master mages who can kill everything') and I could link this into the blood sucking which they do to live.

    Which isn't exactly a sacrifice but its nearly there. Its like a sacrifice gives you 100 ml of water to fill your drink bottle up but feeding gives you 10ml.

    Then when the drink bottle is full you gain an experience point for magic.

    Get me?

    bad metaphor.
     

    Simus

    An Excellent Site Member
    No, I get the metaphor. Hope that's not a whole liter bottle though. It would take a looong time to fill with feeding...
     

    Daryl Dixon

    Absentee
    I don't know how hardcore you guys are but in Australia we don't carry around Litre bottles ;) Nah but it's just an example anyway, and vampires live a very long time.
     

    Simus

    An Excellent Site Member
    Okay, after doing terrible, terrible things to my one working eye I have finished reading through this OOC thread. You guys have put an amazing amount of effort into this and I must say I'm amazed that Daryl wasn't kicked out of the RP. I haven't seen so much butthurt since reading YouTube comments for the video "Mass Effect 3: Top 10 Reasons Why We Hate The Ending."

    I am now ready to start my kingdom card but first I want to see if I understand this world's geography.

    Vorrindor: Green on the front page map. A wealthy kingdom with a small army and lack of lumber but an abundance of other resources. Many non-human regions and is trying to unite them. I really like the Li'ivil and the Kivikoshi by the way.

    The Patriarchy: Yellow on the front page map. Anti-mage, xenophobic kingdom. Strong army, weak navy, an abundance of resources but threatened with war.

    The Mercer Supremacy: A bad knock-off of Daryl's kingdom in We Are Legion led by a carbon copy of his RP character from the failed RP Rising at Dusk. :)P) A region of three small kingdoms, the middle and strongest bearing the region's namesake and ruled by Alex. Currently in open war with the other two and trying to unify, or conquer, the area.

    Sondheim: A kingdom ruled by a Broadway playwrite and populated by Jehovah's Witnesses. A more tribal kingdom of villages and towns ruled by Nomad War-Blade, the only member of his clan. Others have been adopted into the clan as advisers and successors. A strong navy and army and relatively self-sufficient. Recovering from a long and bloody rebellion against the ruling Scar-Bearers. Almost total belief in the god Jehova, whom they believe unified the continent at some point.

    Charawyn: Blue area on a map somewhere in this thread. Northern part of southern continent. A kingdom of men and Guardians. Stable but running out of lumber. Has a huge sacred forest in the eastern reaches populated by Guardians.

    Lotharine: Red on a map somewhere in this thread. Southern part of the southern continent. A stable kingdom with a modest army and the best navy in the world.

    I really do apologize if I got anything mixed up. This stuff really runs together after 15 pages of text walls. Half of which were written by Daryl :p

    As for what I'm thinking, my kingdom wouldn't be a kingdom at all. It would be a fleet. A fleet of humans driven from their home hundred of years ago and who now travel the seas looking for a new home. They've been all over the world and are known as the world's largest fleet but aren't looked highly upon since they're nomads. What I do NOT want to do is completely rip off the Quarians and the Migrant Fleet from Mass Effect. I just want to take the basic idea and fit it into this world in a creative and entertaining way.
     

    Skyrimosity

    Well-Known Member
    Well, if you expect a large fleet to be roaming the seas, I would recommend trying to keep good relations with Lotharine.

    Because I may say many things about King Romain but I'll never accuse him of being a great individual.
     

    Blackdoom59

    BATMAN!
    I actually had this idea of nomads in We are legion, wanted to make a dothraki-like kingdom. Good luck to ya
     

    Blitzz

    A Friendly Brit
    Sounds like a very unique idea :p I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Seeing as how they'd be your main food source (here's assuming anyway), you could if you wanted contribute sea life and sea birds to the bestiary if you wanted to.
     

    Simus

    An Excellent Site Member
    I'll probably do that. Along with a race of Atronachs that may or may not be my Geth analogue.
     

    Daryl Dixon

    Absentee
    Cannot explain the amount of respect I just lost for you Simus. No, not for your 'surprised Daryl wasn't kicked out' because I'm surprised as well. To be honest, I almost quit. Saying why will make people cut so I'm just not going to.

    How can I have a knock off of something that was mine in the first place? And I don't think it's a bad knock off, I think my kingdom in this RP is better than the one I made in We Are Legion. I guess you could say... My KC in We Are Legion was a ..... Prototype ;)

    That KC wasn't even finished yet you want to call this one a bad knock off :') and I wasn't butthurt, if anything everyone else was butthurt because I wanted to do something they didn't want me to do. But who cares, if I had been kicked out it would have shown that having ideas people don't like gets you excluded completely which definitely would have made them very Nazi like. No, Blitzz and Black were a lot more tolerant than that and eventually led me to just conforming. Then you want to get on a high horse and disrespect me over an argument in an RP you're only just learning about.

    And there's nothing wrong with reusing characters. You would know all about that since Jess and Alice are in so much of your fiction. I don't see an error in this but you want to speak about it with me like I'm doing something wrong.

    Failed RP? Just because it died does not make it a fail. You never been in an RP that died before? The only reason your fallout RP isn't dead is because of me and Wolf nagging at you till you breathed some life into it. So if you're going to speak to me like these things are bad you're just being a hypocrite. No, I'm not mad at you at all, I just feel betrayed. You can laugh all you want, I don't care, but now I think of you as a joke just as you think of me. Stop acting like everyone else is above me, or that someone else's say is valued more or less, because that is what you're insinuating. Like I am the worst one here.
     

    Daryl Dixon

    Absentee
    But what I came here to tell the rest of you is that I am in the midst of two straight weeks of exams, then I have a camp, then I have holidays. I will still be creating what I've been assigned to but it may be a little slower than anticipated. If anyone has suggestions for the werewolves, let me know, we could create them together or you could just tell me things you'd like to see. Preferably open ended things. The vampires however are pretty much done.

    Also, google chrome appears to be sporadically failing to work then working again. I don't know if this will be an issue but it might because if it stops working I'll lose all my work on the vampires as it's saved in browser. If it's still there I'll create a backup though.
     

    Simus

    An Excellent Site Member
    Cannot explain the amount of respect I just lost for you Simus. No, not for your 'surprised Daryl wasn't kicked out' because I'm surprised as well. To be honest, I almost quit. Saying why will make people cut so I'm just not going to.

    How can I have a knock off of something that was mine in the first place? And I don't think it's a bad knock off, I think my kingdom in this RP is better than the one I made in We Are Legion. I guess you could say... My KC in We Are Legion was a ..... Prototype ;)

    That KC wasn't even finished yet you want to call this one a bad knock off :') and I wasn't butthurt, if anything everyone else was butthurt because I wanted to do something they didn't want me to do. But who cares, if I had been kicked out it would have shown that having ideas people don't like gets you excluded completely which definitely would have made them very Nazi like. No, Blitzz and Black were a lot more tolerant than that and eventually led me to just conforming. Then you want to get on a high horse and disrespect me over an argument in an RP you're only just learning about.

    And there's nothing wrong with reusing characters. You would know all about that since Jess and Alice are in so much of your fiction. I don't see an error in this but you want to speak about it with me like I'm doing something wrong.

    Failed RP? Just because it died does not make it a fail. You never been in an RP that died before? The only reason your fallout RP isn't dead is because of me and Wolf nagging at you till you breathed some life into it. So if you're going to speak to me like these things are bad you're just being a hypocrite. No, I'm not mad at you at all, I just feel betrayed. You can laugh all you want, I don't care, but now I think of you as a joke just as you think of me. Stop acting like everyone else is above me, or that someone else's say is valued more or less, because that is what you're insinuating. Like I am the worst one here.

    Daryl, there isn't a thing funny about the argument you guys had or about your thoughts here. The only reason I ever thought it was funny was because I wasn't involved and the fight was a month ago. Your idea was rejected and you were deeply hurt by that. That's a terrible feeling. Then I go and crack a joke about it in the hopes that it's just old drama a can all laugh about. I ended up dredging it up for you and making you hurt all over again. That wasn't my intention and I'm sorry. I was insensitive and I'm sorry that I hurt you. I'm sorry you feel betrayed and that you feel you've lost some respect for me but please understand. My goal was to be funny, not malicious. I don't want to start a fight with you. If it makes you feel better I will remove my comment.

    As for who cares? You do. You care a great deal and I belittled that. You should be mad at me. I was an insensitive jerk.

    Again Daryl, I'm sorry.
     

    Daryl Dixon

    Absentee
    It didn't look like you were trying to be funny with me, only about me. Removing/editing anything is a waste of time and it won't change anything, so don't worry about it. I do thank you for not retaliating in an angry way though, I wasn't too sure on what would happen. I expected you to mock me or make a joke out of me again. The old argument doesn't make anything hurt for me, what I was annoyed/hurt by was being laughed at and mocked when it was so unnecessary. Especially since I already feel like everyone thinks and feels less of me because of the argument I had with Black and Blitzz and these are two RPers I think used to like me somewhat.

    I'm glad this didn't start a fight, I just had to say something when I know somebody is mocking me. Sorry I didn't take this one lying down, but at least no fight started.
     

    Simus

    An Excellent Site Member
    You have nothing to be sorry about and it makes me sad that you're so hard on yourself. You guys had a fight on the internet. Literally everybody, their mother and their cat has had a fight on the internet, myself included. It's over and done with. No one thinks less of you for it because you eventually let it go. That's what adults do, they let things go.

    That's why I didn't retaliate when you attacked me back there. It would have led to nothing but a stupid argument that neither of us would win. Besides, the shot you called me on was spot on :D

    In a lighter note, I'm 5 hours into my KC and it's still not done! That's how epic it is!
     

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