Silent Esper said
Yeah, I wouldn't mind some people playing as races such as that, from experimentation or otherwise, but I'd like to stick to undead characters for the most part. I feel like if there were a ton of characters playing as non-canon races it wouldn't fit the whole Dark Souls atmosphere. I'm not trying to restrict creativity, but there's roleplays where numerous races work and there's ones where they don't, and I don't think they'd work in a world such as this. I'm gonna get to work on an opening and the such soon, and get some more ideas to start off with. If anyone wants to throw some more ideas in, please feel free! :)

Well, technically they could be undead elves, orcs, dwarves, and etc. Remember that all humans are affected by the darksign and become undead. So if you consider Elves and Dwarves as demi-humans, then they would eventually turn hollow as well.

Don't forget that the Berenike Knights from the first Dark Souls went hollow, and they were 12-foot tall giants. Humans come in many species in the Dark Souls world, so you could easily make a case for other demihuman races turning undead as well so long as they can manifest the Dark Soul.

Silent Esper said
I'll try and get an outline of the thread done by tonight, but I won't have computer access for some hours. Also, what do you guys say when it comes to worldbuilding around Lordran? The roleplay would be at least a few hundred years after the chosen undead became the dark lord in our little alternate storyline, so that will give ys enough leeway to create what we want for the most part. With the abyss spreading and the darkness setting in, a large amount of land and creatures will be corrupted. We also need to find a way for our characters to actually get there in the first place. I have most of the pieces together, so hopefully we can get an OOC started up soon

It's possible that you could have it be that undead keep getting sent to Lordran because they haven't found out that the Chosen Undead has already linked the fires and reached an ending (light or dark ending). So they just keep sending undead there. The various characters could meet up in the asylum (which we could easily interpret to be 4-5 times large than the one we see in the game for the sake of the RP)

Will the characters grow during the rp? Don't get me wrong...I don't mean a full level system, just some advancement.

Interested!

Though as for the setting what would that be? I know you talked about after the fact, but have you ever throguht about during all of it? In Dark Souls 1 we NEVER got to see any of the cool stuff that happened in the lore. Like the war of the demons Etc. Why dont we set it during those events and have a impact on Dark Souls one as a whole? Heck we may even stop the entire thing IF we are good enough. Fighting Demons and the like.

Stop what exactly? You can't brake the cicle. Sooner or later the fire always fades for one reason or another. That being said let's do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imQhUpJfJe8

Kokurokoki said
Well, technically they could be undead elves, orcs, dwarves, and etc. Remember that all humans are affected by the darksign and become undead. So if you consider Elves and Dwarves as demi-humans, then they would eventually turn hollow as well.Don't forget that the Berenike Knights from the first Dark Souls went hollow, and they were 12-foot tall giants. Humans come in many species in the Dark Souls world, so you could easily make a case for other demihuman races turning undead as well so long as they can manifest the Dark Soul.

It's possible that you could have it be that undead keep getting sent to Lordran because they haven't found out that the Chosen Undead has already linked the fires and reached an ending (light or dark ending). So they just keep sending undead there. The various characters could meet up in the asylum (which we could easily interpret to be 4-5 times large than the one we see in the game for the sake of the RP)

Yeah, I know it's possible to create demi-human elves/dwarves, but I just really don't think characters like that would fit into the Dark Souls world. I know it could work, but I'd really prefer to swerve away from custom races such as that.

Yeah, I'm finalizing a little concept right now. Unless you guys are against it, I think I'm going to go off of the ending of Dark Souls 1 where the Chosen Undead became the dark lord. It'll be set at least a few hundred years later, and the abyss will be running rampant across the world. Undead will be far more common, hollows for the most part. We'll probably have something like you said where the humans still send undead to the asylum, and we could probably start up there for the most part. And yeah, most areas will be extended. We'll probably be in what used to be Lordran, though it will be completely different by now, and it'll be scaled a bit larger too. I'd still like to keep to the more dungeon-like feel though, so there will be a lot of action for sure.

Regendorf said
Will the characters grow during the rp? Don't get me wrong...I don't mean a full level system, just some advancement.

Though there won't be any levels or anything of the such, you're free to advance your character however your wish, provided they've actually trained to advance. I've been thinking of how we're going to work souls into the roleplay, and I've been playing around with souls perhaps transferring a small wisp of the former owner's memory to the person who takes it in. Per se an undead was an expert bowman before going hollow, if you killed him and took on his soul perhaps you'd be a bit more familiar with the workings of a bow, how to hold it and the such, a bit of shooting. You'd never be able to learn a skill this way, it would just provide a bit of help if one wanted to learn the skill, or needed to use it in an emergency. This is just a concept I have going, still working on it.

Kitsune said
Interested!Though as for the setting what would that be? I know you talked about after the fact, but have you ever throguht about during all of it? In Dark Souls 1 we NEVER got to see any of the cool stuff that happened in the lore. Like the war of the demons Etc. Why dont we set it during those events and have a impact on Dark Souls one as a whole? Heck we may even stop the entire thing IF we are good enough. Fighting Demons and the like.

That's a great idea and it would provide some really nice roleplay, but I'd like to stick more to the undead, the lord souls, and the first flame for this roleplay. I'd like to portray the hopelessness of the curse and the futility of continuing the cycle.

Like I said guys, I have almost everything down inside my head now, just need to work on some final points. I'll try and get an opening post created by tonight, and the OOC will most likely be up by tomorrow, tonight even if I'm able to. Thanks for all the interest, I'm glad to see other fans of Dark Souls out there! :D

/Sees Dark Souls in Casual Interest check.

/Laughs.

Sho Minazuki said
/Sees Dark Souls in Casual Interest check./Laughs.

What's wrong with that? .-.

Edit: I just got it

Sho Minazuki said
/Sees Dark Souls in Casual Interest check./Laughs.

omg take my like...

Silent Esper said
Yeah, I know it's possible to create demi-human elves/dwarves, but I just really don't think characters like that would fit into the Dark Souls world. I know it could work, but I'd really prefer to swerve away from custom races such as that.

I mean it's not too difficult. Based on where your plot is going, these demi-human races could easily be as a result of the abyssal mutation. But that's cool if you want to keep it strictly to human and giants too.

Silent Esper said
Yeah, I'm finalizing a little concept right now. Unless you guys are against it, I think I'm going to go off of the ending of Dark Souls 1 where the Chosen Undead became the dark lord. It'll be set at least a few hundred years later, and the abyss will be running rampant across the world. Undead will be far more common, hollows for the most part. We'll probably have something like you said where the humans still send undead to the asylum, and we could probably start up there for the most part. And yeah, most areas will be extended. We'll probably be in what used to be Lordran, though it will be completely different by now, and it'll be scaled a bit larger too. I'd still like to keep to the more dungeon-like feel though, so there will be a lot of action for sure.

It's also entirely possible that you could toss in the return of the Lord Souls as well. Each cycle of dark is always accompanied by an age of light, so the story could be set during the very beginning of this new age where Undead battle against the abyss using the power of the new lord souls.

Kokurokoki said
It's also entirely possible that you could toss in the return of the Lord Souls as well. Each cycle of dark is always accompanied by an age of light, so the story could be set during the very beginning of this new age where Undead battle against the abyss using the power of the new lord souls.

I actually was planning on having the lord souls involved, too. They would be in new bodies by now, and would be fading, but still there. I'm planning on our characters obtaining them after some epic boss fights.

Bam, got an OOC up! Tell me how it is, and if there's anything that needs to be added/changed. Feel free to throw up an app if you'd like, mine will be done by tomorrow! :3

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/57496/posts/ooc

One thing. I feel like its a huge waste to include stuff like history and personality. This is Dark osuls right? All of that should come from item discriptions. I plan to have that for everything I use, magic included.

experta said
One thing. I feel like its a huge waste to include stuff like history and personality. This is Dark osuls right? All of that should come from item discriptions. I plan to have that for everything I use, magic included.

You're right, I didn't even think about that! That's a great idea, and I'll change the app to fit that. Thanks.

Another idea though, perhaps we could do an alternate ending of Dark Souls 1? From the events of Dark Souls 2, it pretty much makes it known that the Chosen Undead kindled the first flame, but what if he didn't? I'm not an expert in Dark Souls lore, but what do you all think about this? Perhaps the first flame went out, and the world was thrust into the Age of Dark. The Age of Dark setting in would cause abyss to spread across the world, and possibly all humans to become undead, though I'm not sure how that works exactly. I was thinking that maybe the only sources of hope left would be the lord souls/soul shards, the ones from Gwyn, The Witch of Izalith, Gravelord Nito, and the Furtive Pygmy. This would only be a legend to the remnants of the living humans/undeads, but I was thinking that our characters would be attempting to find these souls.

Then there would be an Age of Dark that would eventually end, we already know this from Dark Souls 2

Remember the dull ember from DS2?

It pretty much implies there can never be true dark, because the flame will always eventually reignite

One thing. I feel like its a huge waste to include stuff like history and personality. This is Dark osuls right? All of that should come from item discriptions. I plan to have that for everything I use, magic included.

Your character's personalities and histories are not told via descriptions in items that's absurd, this is a roleplay not a video game

There's no reason you can't have either in your CS, just because we the players know the history and personality of a character doesn't mean other characters do

There's a big difference between OOC and IC

Hunter of Shadows said
Then there would be an Age of Dark that would eventually end, we already know this from Dark Souls 2Remember the dull ember from DS2?It pretty much implies there can never be true dark, because the flame will always eventually reigniteYour character's personalities and histories are not told via descriptions in items that's absurd, this is a roleplay not a video gameThere's no reason you can't have either in your CS, just because we the players know the history and personality of a character doesn't mean other characters doThere's a big difference between OOC and IC

Well, there isn't complete dark as of yet, it just seems that way. The lord souls are still intact, which would still be a source of fire, and we'll be retrieving those.

And yeah, I guess you're right about the app. I'm going to change it and add history back in alongside items.

I'll get some screenshots of my character... :D

Are we getting our armor right off the bat in the RP or do we have to improvise until he get them?