Welcome ladies and gentlemen to New Domino City. Home of the Kaiba Dome and many other wondrous places. Now having become a hub for the Duel Monsters world we thought we would bring back an old school feel to our tournament seasons. Enter the Battle City Tournament. Seto Kaiba held this tournament long ago to determine a new king of games only to have the current King of Games Yugi Muto to win title once again. Now Kaiba Corp. has sponsored another Battle City tournament to include the new rules. Rumor has it the the Rare Hunters are on the Rise as well. Will you take on the challenge?

Just a quick little something I dreamed up My thoughts would be us starting the RP with everyone awaiting the Start of the tournament to be announced by the great great granddaughter of Maximillion Pegasus, Cecelia Pegasus, Named after the lost love of her great great grandfather she now owns and runs Industrial Illusions but seems a bit off.

If yall are interested or have any questions feel free to ask.

Hm... I'm interested, will probably join. This is basically a more modernized version of the Battle City arc, right? So wager cards are also mandated, correct?
Also, given the way that the arc played out in canon, does that mean that it's going to be single-elimination? It's going to be a bit hard to sustain the RP in that case (as when a character is out... Well, they're out).

That aside, are there any restrictions placed on the decks to run? I assume that it'll use the most recent TCG banlist (aka no Super Poly, Snatch Steal at 1, etc;), but is there anything other than that to be aware of? OCG-exclusives available? A merged banlist? Custom cards/archetypes?

I'm probably just a tad neurotic here, but I have a ton of possible decks and it helps to narrow it down if/when this gets off the ground.

I'm quite interested myself. Would be nice to see the crap Konami refuses to ben/keep banned off the list, but I'm more interested in whether or not custom archetypes are allowed.

Might be interested if I can figure out what to use. ...Which is admittedly my main problem when it comes to Yugioh RPs but um yeah. ^^;

At least with decks it'll probably be Dark Magicians or Charmers, but we'll see.

RolePlayerRoxas said
Would be nice to see the crap Konami refuses to ben/keep banned off the list

*coughcoughstratoscough*

Anyhow, it might prove a bit more sustainable if it's round robin at the start instead of single-elimination; gives characters more time to interact with one another rather than just lose and have their character be more or less moral support to whoever's left. But that's up to the GM's discretion.

I have like... Bujins, BA, Qlis, Madolche, Nekroz, maybe Denko Dolls if I can figure out how to run them without super poly...

Actually maybe a custom banlist might be helpful too. Vanity's is in like every deck and though I do admit it's an amazing floodgate it gets irritating at times.

I highly doubt we'll be using meta decks. I'd assume we want to have fun duelling, after all.

Well, of course. Most of the meta decks are just plain abusive.

>stares at Qlis

Hm... Personally, I'd like to test out Geargias with gear at 3. Since Auger came out I've really been wanting to test the deck out in its prime state.

Infernities too. I never got a chance to test it before Archfiend was hit a few lists back.

Well, I'm interested.

Sounds interesting.

How are duels going to be handled, by the way? Are they going to be played out with an RNG or written with whatever draws people think would be the most helpful/dramatic at the time?

Well, we do have simulators like devPro and DN, so we'd probably use that and proxy whatever assuming we're using custom archetypes and such (in the case of DN).

Lets us get a bit more into deck building (as we're already kinda hoping for that lol).

That might work, although it'd probably need to mean playing through the duel and writing down everything that happened so you can post it a bit at a time, so people could actually react to things.

YGO RP? I'm In.
But yeah, PKMN is pointing out pretty much the same stuff I'm worrying about.
Although what Tachi said might be how things are going to play out once the RP is in the green.

I figure I should probably say I would prefer actually playing the duels out, but I'm not sure about using things like that for it (especially if we've got custom/anime cards to keep track of). I've been in a couple of YGO RPs where a third party (the GM or one of the other players) just PMed people their draws when necessary. It's slower, but makes those sorts of things easier to keep track of.

Anyway, as far as deck building goes I'm in favour of ignoring everything released since Zexal a custom banlist hitting some of the more ridiculous decks and bringing back some things that aren't really broken anymore could be fun.

I always keep track of duels as a play-by-play in simulators. DevPro I can record replays and on DN I write down the plays if necessary. It makes things a bit more fun and closes things out a bit faster (I mean, some people run things like Ojamas and Exodia and Chain Burn and it just isn't fun to go against in a play-by-play in that scenario).

Custom banlist I'd argue would be nice, seeing as how some things got hit that really don't need to have been and vice versa. Stratos and Trish off the list would be cool.

im in...

I'd much rather not use the Pros or DN, personally.

As for a custom banlist, it would be awesome, although agreeing on a lot of stuff may be difficult. For example, before Shadow Mist and a slew of Masked HERO stuff became available, I would have been perfectly fine with a Limited Stratos, but now it feels like he'd allow HEROs to destroy everything effortlessly if he were to be used at the moment.

Which I am perfectly fine with but still.

I'm okay if we're going to be using Pros (Which something I've only heard of until now) or DN (Now this, I have tried.) but if we're going to agree upon ourselves not to use them, then I am okay.

As for the custom banlist feature, I am A-Okay with this, I mean with the current meta the TCG has right now...

Well, in the end what we need is confirmation from Keyblade, who's kinda just disappeared as of late.

As for the issue of dueling, I'd argue to use it on a case-by-case basis. People can probably opt to use whatever they wish and I'm certain agreements could be reached easily.

Also, Stratos at 1 won't really be that oppressive imo. You can go into the wind masked hero (kamikaze, iirc?) and the backfield hate can be done just as well by someone like, say, Acid. Otherwise, he's another searcher in a deck of searchers and can just make an easy r4 with bubbleman otherwise.

Depending on how people are likely to build their decks, I might or might not mind Stratos at 1. If people build fun, themed decks? Maybe, although I still don't really like the idea of decks full of "search whatever you want whenever you want". If people try to build "competitive" OTK decks? He can stay gone.

...Although if people are building for that, my opinion's irrelevant, since I'd be leaving. ^^;

I'll tell you right now that kind of deck isn't on my agenda. OTKs are really unfulfilling to me and just don't seem fun to run. I mean, it's good theorycrafting practice and all to make them, but playing them actively as a main deck? No thanks. It's why nobody likes exodia or chain burn. Basically playing solitaire with yourself.

(Also isn't very good RP post material.)

It's like watching someone do the same thing over and over again. Nobody wants to watch a loop like that play out; it's boring.

If the custom banlist thing doesn't end up being a reality, I may just end up playing Geargiakuris in this RP, even with Gear at 1. At least it's not as crippling as the Archfiend hit was to Infernities.

If I get Archfiend to 3 here though I've already got a character idea in mind. Woo!