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The Tunnel Snakes.

Tunnel Snakes rule.

BIG IIIIIRON! BIIIG IIIIRON!

Tried to think of more names. Tried combinations with "Survivors" and "Back-Alley" but nothing really struck a chord like Junkyard Dogs did for me. Closest I got was Back-Alley Detonation.

Joke Answer. The Backstreet Boys



Actual Answer:

So as we know the canon duel gangs had some pretty boring names

Team Golem
Team Insect
The Ambulators
The Enforcers
Magician's Four

(including the games)
Team Black and Blue, Team Dirty Works, and Team Non-Securities.
(seen here)

The only really cool one is Magician's four and we can't really do that.

So the gang name should reflect our goal of getting into the inner city if anything.

If the inner city is the heart for stance. A gang name like "heartseeker" for instance. Or Mr Heartland, except not the last one.

If the goal itself just relates to the wall then

Elemental Hero Rampart Busters
Bulwark Breakers

Ideas like that /shrug/

A name should be a goal, afterall. Calling ourselfs junkyard dogs is just admitting that we are where we are. Not where we are going. /shrug/

If the inner city is the heart for stance. A gang name like "heartseeker" for instance. Or Mr Heartland, except not the last one.

If the goal itself just relates to the wall then

Elemental Hero Rampart Busters
Bulwark Breakers

Ideas like that /shrug/

A name should be a goal, afterall. Calling ourselfs junkyard dogs is just admitting that we are where we are. Not where we are going. /shrug/

I thought about it, but if they don't want security breathing down their necks at all points in time, they probably shouldn't be openly flaunting wanting to break in.

@Ammokkx

I mean you literally had the enforcers telling every single duel gang across satellite that "We are going to be the cops when there are no cops."

So painting a target on yourself isn't a new concept in yugioh.

Mr: "Wears his millenium puzzle in full view of everyone."

I mean you literally had the enforcers telling every single duel gang across satellite that "We are going to be the cops when there are no cops."

I refuse to acknowledge dub-isms like that. The most you got was Kiryu shouting "SATISFACTION" at the top of his lungs every chance he got, and the goal wasn't to be cops to begin with. They wanted to dominate all of satellite. If their goal is to be the cops, Kiryu's turn to wanting to take the fight to security stops making any amount of sense. At least in the original you could see him snap from wanting to reach further and further highs. Hence, "Team Satisfaction"

Oh, and he totally murdered that fucking cop. I don't care that even the original retcon'd itself out of that, he was standing tall over a fucking corpse as far as I care.

With people talking about their characters playing Archetypes, wouldn't that have to be when we're already inside the city? My understanding is that we'll have to make do with basically random cards, most of which are rather bad by today's standards.
Already got some really cool stuff for my character, and I'm absolutely ready so scrap it all when everything changes on a whim. :))

@Ammokkx Snap out of it, chances are he was just sent to the shadow realm anyway. There's no such thing as 'death' in Yugioh! c:
(Though I hope our RPG will be more fearless in that regard)

With people talking about their characters playing Archetypes, wouldn't that have to be when we're already inside the city? My understanding is that we'll have to make do with basically random cards, most of which are rather bad by today's standards.

So about that:

I'm not going to be forcing people to play the absolute bottomest of tiered trash, but I did play around with it a bit. I'll be playing the leader of the gang anyway, so I built his deck to be a rough example of the level I'd expect everyone else's to be at. Take this as a sort-of official deck reveal, which I'll give you the Duelingbook link for now.

There's card choices that aren't all that great in there, but I did want to make sure to leave some wriggle room for a functional deck. Take this as the example of what I expect out of everyone; you're allowed a couple of rare/good cards, but try to keep it on the down-low. Yusei had a functioning deck too, after all. I want people to have flexibility when they duel, not just be stuck playing nothing but three copies of House of Adhesive Tape.

In that regard, I'll allow a couple of archetypal cards, but no full-on archetyping right out the gate. If you have, like, 5 or so scrap monsters and a scrap synchro in your deck, I won't get on your ass about it. Just try not to run a full scrap deck.

That's very cool, I'm already super hyped to build my deck. Please tell me once the setting is relatively safe, I'll have to bug you quite a bit when making my character, I'm planning to do some very cool stuff with her (gender reveal whoa), but some of it will need your approval.

When we get to the city eventually though, we can actually get a working archetype going right? I mean our Decks will still have to be interesting, and not as streamlined as any ideal meta build would be, but going for a Darklord-Deck in the end would be possible right? (I intend to use those at a rather late point)

That's very cool, I'm already super hyped to build my deck. Please tell me once the setting is relatively safe, I'll have to bug you quite a bit when making my character, I'm planning to do some very cool stuff with her (gender reveal whoa), but some of it will need your approval.

When we get to the city eventually though, we can actually get a working archetype going right? I mean our Decks will still have to be interesting, and not as streamlined as any ideal meta build would be, but going for a Darklord-Deck in the end would be possible right? (I intend to use those at a rather late point)

Depends on my mood once we get there. I'd need to see what you're doing with it at that point in time rather than make a judgement call right this second.

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Depends on my mood once we get there. I'd need to see what you're doing with it at that point in time rather than make a judgement call right this second.

I'm not sure which part of my post you're referring to. If it's the former, then I'll have to say that I will need to ask you before I make the character. If it's the latter, then well... we'll see.
In any case, it's no big deal, and I won't jump at you if something I think of doesn't work.

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I'm not sure which part of my post you're referring to. If it's the former, then I'll have to say that I will need to ask you before I make the character. If it's the latter, then well... we'll see.
In any case, it's no big deal, and I won't jump at you if something I think of doesn't work.

Second part. Forgot about the first part pretty much right after I read it.

I like to think I'm pretty lenient on what I allow, but no gimmicks for the sake of gimmicks. Had a guy in a YGO RP I co-GM'd who had these three characters all within the same sheet (admittedly, in an RP where everyone played 1 main and 4 side characters):

-Fat girl who specifically set out to become the greatest female duelist
-Timid uwu trap guy with gender issues
-A girl who's personality literally boiled down to "agressively lesbian" and thirsted for the first one mentioned here

Add to that a foreigner who didn't hablo the local language quite right, and I felt more like this sheet threw in checkboxes to tick in character variety rather than actually make anything interesting that stood on its own two feet. It also felt weirdly out of place in a Yugioh setting, which mostly came down to these larger-than-life personalities playing a really passionate card game with one another. Any one of the above elements in a vacuum is fine, but the fact so many were stacked atop one-another sent off so many red flags that even Russia at its communist peak would've been proud.

I'll accept anything that's written well enough and done with good intentions, though. Charak would know all about playing aggressively lesbian characters in YGO RPs I GM.

Well, my plan isn't really about doing anything unusual with the character's ethnicity, personality or a gimmick of sort. It's just that some of what her intentions are will have to be weaved into the actual story a little bit, but I'd rather not go into detail too much (can add me on discord if you want to vanquish my hopes and dreams on the spot), because it'll spoil the whole thing.

@Ammokkx

If you call me out again, I'll have to duel you on top of a blimp.

No safety railing this time.

we should have dark signers

Tribute summons only

Duelist kingdom rules

Capsule chess monsters

Alright, time for Ammokkx' before-the-sleep checklist:

-Name of the central city is "The Core" and the name of the outer city is "The Collar." Two tentative names for districts in the Collar are "Clockwork" and "Ancillary."

-Name of the gang isn't settled on yet. My current idea was to go with Junkyard dogs, but others may still have a better idea to toss out. Charak's Bulwark Breakers and Rampart Busters are also two options people can go for if they want to, as is anything mentioned before Junkyard dogs if there's support for it.

Seems like we're getting close to a definitive setting more-or-less. Don't think there's much more to think about other than character backstories as well as asking any immediately relevant questions about the Core.

Oh yeah, Speed World or Speed World II? Might be a quick but relevant question to ask.

If anyone else has something they think we need to talk about, feel free to bring it up. I'll read it when I get up from my eternal slumber.

we can be the stray dogs because were gonna stray from the norm and also from the boundaries of the collar.

dab.

I'll vote Speed World. Speed World II is more dynamic, but Speed World II seems more like a tournament/we do this for fun thing. Speed World is the one that comes with the 1000 LP = -1 Speed Counter thing, which would make more sense in this particular part of the world if turbo dueling is between gangs and/or cops.

Speaking of Archetypes, Whats every staking a claim in.

I have chosen Heroes (Specifically E. Heros) For a reason.

Non-archetype. But my deck might splash Thunder Dragons and Batterymen. So I might develop the deck into fitting one of those eventually idk Ammokkx told me not to think about it for now.

I just know my S I G N A T U R E M O N S T E R and faceclaim and vague character concept

@Grey@1Charak2

Kind of want to something based on rebellion. Still not sure what prime monster to have, but I know I want to have the forbidden cards (forbidden chalice, forbidden lance, etc, etc)