rpanons | oh, dreamwidth park is lonely in the dark/all the horny memes have no tag-outs

oh, dreamwidth park is lonely in the dark/all the horny memes have no tag-outs

Rundown:

rpanons is an anonymous community for role-play related topics. This place serves as a forum for game discussions, canon discussions, RP solicitations (ATP, game ads, open memes), and advice. The occasional off topic comment is inevitable, but please keep heated social and political topics to their respective communities. Posting them here will only get them frozen. Subsequent threads made to bypass a freeze will then be deleted.

Rules:

Do not post pornographic or shocking images.
Do not share private entries, plurks, chat logs, etc.
Do not post personal information. This includes but is not limited to full names, addresses, phone numbers and so on.
Do not use this community as your social/political/hatespeech soapbox.
Do not be redundant. One page does not need three or more threads on one topic/theme. Your unfunny, forced memes also fall under this rule.
Do not treat this comm like your personal therapist. Threads about nonfictional suicide, self injury, rape, and abuse will be deleted. There are better resources out there for you.
Do not treat this comm like your personal Plurk or Twitter. Off-topic happens, but it should be open for discussion and not just a play-by-play of your life. No one cares.
Shut up about Tumblr. If it's not a discussion about Tumblr RP it will be deleted.
Do not solicit money, Dreamwidth points, or other currency unless you are offering a good or service in return.

CONCERNS | RESOURCES

ANON HOLIDAY GIFT THREAD

Navigate:

Political topics are banned. Report threads and they will be deleted.

LATEST PAGE | LATEST FLATVIEW PAGE

GAME DISCUSSIONS | CANON DISCUSSIONS | HTML/GRAPHIC HELP | RP COMMISSIONS

ATP/ENABLE ME | GAME ADVERTISEMENTS | PB SUGGESTIONS | USERNAME SUGGESTIONS

GAME IDEAS | CHARACTER ADVICE | RP WITH ME | TEST DRIVES

KINKS YOU WANT TO PLAY | PAIRINGS YOU WANT TO PLAY | RECOMMEND A CANON/CHARACTER | GENERAL DWRP QUESTIONS

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

i am begging someone to please produce a proper sex-friendly game that actually includes sexual options in events

I'd rather simply there was a straight on, admitted sex game. In sex-friendly, it's always a problem knowing who wants to play sex, and who doesn't. Especially worse when few to no players have any freaking kink lists.

Here's an idea for a DnD game since BG3 is on everyone's minds. Let me know if this would be something you’d be interested in.
Villain/Moral Gray only horror jamjar that will change horror types and location from time to time. Some constant body horror, some memloss.

Ravenloft refers to a countless number of pocket planes that are scattered through the realm of darkness known as the Shadowfell. Though the Shadowfell is ruled by the goddess Shar, Ravenloft is controlled by ancient gods known as the Dark Powers. Each of these pocket planes are called a Domain of Dread and are little isolated prisons created to punish a Dark Lord that resides in them. (Think like a repeating Silent Hill, tailored to the sins of the Dark Lord’s past) On the edges of these planes are killing mists, cutting them off from other planes. One of the most well known Domain of Dread would be Barovia, ruled by the vampire lord Strahd von Zarovich in the Curse of Strahd DnD campaign.

Ravenloft was designed for DMs to be able to create their own little horror-based lands and there are a number of premade ones in the campaign sourcebook “Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft.” The game would be pulling from this for settings and development, as well as taking a few ideas from Baldur’s Gate 3.

The Premise:
A Dark Lord that I am still developing has done the impossible: She has claimed some of the Dark Powers’ power for her own. She now controls some of the mists that divide Ravenloft and can call from the infinite planes of existence in the universe. Her first goal is to claim rule over all of Ravenloft. She plans to bring the nightmares of these lands into one and slowly dispel the mists and usurp the Dark Powers that had locked her and so many other Dark Lords in their prison planes. In order to do that, she will need an army. That’s where you come in. You will be called the Enlisted.

It will be up to you to follow her orders, go into these other domains, and cause as much havoc as you can. Those who do their worst will be rewarded. They may gain new forms, new weapons, new powers depending on their evil deeds that they do in Her name.

Network:
When your character is enlisted and brought to Her domain, one of their eyes will be replaced with a tainted sending stone that can be connected to by others with the same stone. (Not how actual sending stones are, but we are taking some liberties here) She will be able to know where each of her soldiers are at all times, and it gives Her direct access into their minds. They will not be able to escape Her voice and are a constant reminder that you are Hers as long as you are here.

Characters can set boundaries with how far others can probe when in range of other enlisted characters. You could choose to let them experience any of your senses in any combination, or share memories.

There is a ‘channel’ that characters can tune into by focusing their thoughts, containing the thoughts of other enlisted as long as they are in the same domain. These would be voice only posts, or you could do POV only ‘video’ posts. There would be no text-only posts through this means of communication.

Plot:
After there are enough enlisted, She will open the mists and connect her domain to the first neighboring domain and everyone will be sent to go and raze the land and create havoc. This feeds Her powers. Once enough damage is done, the enlisted will face the Dark Lord of that land and She will give them a choice: join Her cause and rise against the Dark Powers, or die one last final time. Since each domain is a different flavor of horror, it would give a lot of variety to the game.

The enlisted can choose to just revel in her charge to destroy and pillage, they can seek to rise in Her ranks, try to rebel against Her rule, or try to go home. There are a few ways to cross the mists, though there’s no guarantee you’ll end up back where you came from.

She will give targets and missions for characters to do that will gain rewards. If it’s a hit, multiple characters can kill the same hit, handwaving any need to coordinate weekly plots with other players or call dibs. It’s a nightmare plane of violence, so there’s flexibility.

There will be horror events as well. Nightmares, hallucinations, other body horror, like other classic torture horror games in DWRP. There will also be opportunities to find havens of light to engage in some lighter rp.

Memloss:
She feeds on chaos and violence, so those who do not comply will be met with the loss of something precious. The first of those things will be a precious memory. It starts with a name, then a moment, then a year. After the fourth time, the character will not remember anything other than Her and Her domain.
She will bestow this same punishment for those who die a shameful death. An example would be dying while protecting another, retreating, hiding, or doing something that isn’t an act of violence or chaos, such as falling down a chasm.

These memories aren’t lost forever, they are turned into gems that they can earn back by doing their duty well and completing other horrible acts. Enlisted are fully aware that the memories have been taken from them. The process is painful.

Rewards:
She will reward those who do her work by giving them better weapons, powers, or new monstrous forms. She might even gift the memory gems of others to worthy enlisted for them to do with it as they please. (with player consent of course)

Other thoughts:
That’s the bare bones of it for right now. I don’t plan on incorporating dice in any way. I think trying to translate characters from other IPs into DnD stats would be too difficult. I would still like to develop some sort of stat system to at least give people a DnD flavored idea of a character’s power. I’d like to make some sort of template ‘character sheet’ to also outline memories lost, rewards gained, items held, so on so on.

The game would focus on bringing in villains and morally gray characters and see how far they’d be willing to sink if there were no consequences to their actions. OCs would be welcomed as well as canon evil versions of good people.

I think after a few rounds, maybe before their first siege, She might bring in a new category of characters called Fodder, who are unpowered good characters for Her enlisted to harm since Her domain is likely low on survivors and She still needs to eat from the violence and chaos. They might get just two revives before they are gone for good since She wouldn’t want to spend too much energy on them. The only way they could get more than that would be for them to begin to commit horrible acts as well.

I’m still fleshing Her and Her domain out, but I will update as I work it out. Let me know your thoughts and questions!

About the only thing that made me wince here is characters immediately losing an eye.

Everything else sounds very interesting and would check a game like this out!

I'd strongly recommend dropping the morally gray/evil characters only angle. Villain-only games have been attempted in the past, and they've all run up against the issue that it just isn't very fun to play a villain without any non-NPC good guys around. A pivot to focusing on evil characters + the corruption/downfall of non-evil characters might work out better.

Otherwise I like the proposal a lot! Ravenloft is such a cool setting and I think it'll do well as a DWRP game.

Piggybacking on this point: I'm not seeing a convincing reason for the "really" rebellious/evil/amoral guys to take instructions from the Dark Lord who enlisted them. For example, would Lex Luthor be satisfied to see her defeat Superman for him, or would he rather stay in his original universe to do it himself? I am simplifying this a lot and it is dependent on character choice and game suitability, but from the perspective of a player with some villainous characters I'm not finding any distinctive difference between this and other "you can do anything if you support the mighty NPCs, NPCs give you benefits" settings.

I’m sorry if I’m misunderstanding your point. The characters don’t have a choice. They are taken against their will, and if they don’t do as she says, she punishes them. They can do as she says, fight against her, or try to find a way out of Ravenloft.

It might be of use to you to include a character suitability section in the app, a one- or two-liner for the applicant to describe which of these options the character is inclined to, and the reason why they were selected.

I doubt we get as many of such cases these days, but having such a section could pre-empt those "but my character could just warp portal back home" "but my character is specialer than your OC/NPC and punishment doesn't work" "but my character has the bullshit ability to kill everyone" types. On the flip side someone could app Farmer Thanos with the eventual goal to let him gain/regain powers to become a huge threat if that is the direction the player wants to take.

That said, I'm completely canon blind so it could be that I am viewing this through the lens of typical DWRP mechanics than the tabletop style you had in mind.

as a fellow ravenloft scholar, i think this is a simple case of "not all games are for every character"

the setting is as OP describes, it both draws in people who are susceptible to corruption and works to corrupt those it draws in. if youre not willing to compromise on or at least toy with that point as a player, the setting is just not for you, simply put

Also, I don't think DWRP has nearly as many instances of players trying to break or ignore the setting as AYRT seems to fear. These days you usually only see the old holdouts of 'constant tea parties in horror games' and 'people refusing to play out sex in sex games', and even those issues aren't as severe as they used to be.

Good point. The mists often bring in good or corruptible characters into Ravenloft, so some could be Her pull, but some are pulled by the mist. I’ll toy with balance and what that will mean for caps as I develop it. Thank you!

This!

And, just speaking from the perspective of someone who's played Ravenloft tabletop campaigns, one of the most fun things about Ravenloft is the fact that even things done with the absolute best intentions can have horrific consequences and send a character careening off on the path of corruption, because the setting is designed to twist things and people.

I've always wanted a game based around some kind of cosmic gacha game that summons the characters and assigns them a rarity based on their powers.

i really don't have it fleshed out, it just sounded fun.

i would app to this game, anon. i also think it sounds like fun

there's a lot of shenanigans you can do with a gacha lottery mechanic!! could have an event where characters have to roll for their regular clothes (or for that cute SSR outfit...), an ez excuse for something like The Beach Episode trope

Not strictly a game, but I'm gauging interest in a sandbox comm. It doesn't seem to be a thing we have anymore. Nothing elaborate, just a place to put up a post as a starter or open posts with settings. Probably a weekly/monthly event post. A tag system for 'verses. Simple stuff. To make life easier for everyone, pre-ban anyone already banned from bakerstreet/fortanon.

Not sure if memes have entirely superseded this kind of play or if other people are craving it the way I am.

omg anon i have wanted this so bad i was putting together one of my own. i have never enjoyed or been good at bakerstreet type "individual meme" posts, i miss dressingrooms and sandboxes.

yes please!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

oh, dreamwidth park is lonely in the dark/all the horny memes have no tag-outs

GAME IDEAS

Re: GAME IDEAS

Re: GAME IDEAS

Ravenloft Game

Re: Ravenloft Game

Re: Ravenloft Game

Re: Ravenloft Game

OP

ayrt

da

dda

OP

Re: Ravenloft Game

Re: GAME IDEAS

Re: GAME IDEAS

Re: GAME IDEAS

Re: GAME IDEAS

Re: GAME IDEAS