@CaptainManbeard

As awesome as it sounds to have those skills. I am beginning to think that's a little op boss.

Being able to feel out a mechanical and magilock with wand work and a lock picking kit sure. But I feel like having an in depth knowledge of goblin mechanical locks would be abit overboard for a 38 year old wizard. Maybe someone in then 80s who has had time and has stolen siblin, dearven and gnomish lock text sure.

But I'm trying to make my guy have a little experience not tons of experience. He still has some room to grow.

Personally feel like if he's got knowledge on how to crack a gringos safe he's been working way way way longer then I want to portray, you know?

Well, you said he's got 9-12 years experience, so if he's been cracking magical safes that long without dying, he has to have gathered at least some knowledge on all different types of locks and safes. Otherwise he would have touched a safe that turned out to be a portkey right into a monster's lair ages ago XD. After all, magical criminals would likely go to great lengths to protect their Dragots (US magical currency). And a 38 year old wizard is capable of MUCH, even kids can do some powerful magic in the books, movies, and games lol. Voldemort was able to create his first Horcrux at only 16 years old. And of course plenty of young people fought in the Battle of Hogwarts at the end of Deathly Hallows.

@CaptainManbeard

I suppose a compromise is, he's got some knowledge of Goblin locks. Not fantastically quite yet maybe? Say enough to work at it.

But those Goblin locks are going to take a little longer to work through let's say. He still has to carefully step his way through it, Every Goblin lock is a learning experience. But with every Gobby lock he learns something new or gets to hone what he knows and gets better everytime.

I mean 38 is plenty of time to learn true. But it's still lots of time to learn and get better.

As for lots of students fighting during the BAttle of Hogwarts. You know the real implications right? Lots of Firsties fought...without any combat spell knowledge. Alot of them would have died because they didn't know how to cast anything more then MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE an Expelliarmus. 3rd year and up they have more experience with casting Reducto, and other combat spells. The 3rds and up would have had more likely chances to survive. But alot of 1sts and 2nds. Not so sure. So alot of those Firsties and Seconds? May have died during the BoH...

Makes ya think huh?

@CaptainManbeard

I suppose a compromise is, he's got some knowledge of Goblin locks. Not fantastically quite yet maybe? Say enough to work at it.

But those Goblin locks are going to take a little longer to work through let's say. He still has to carefully step his way through it, Every Goblin lock is a learning experience. But with every Gobby lock he learns something new or gets to hone what he knows and gets better everytime.

I mean 38 is plenty of time to learn true. But it's still lots of time to learn and get better.

As for lots of students fighting during the BAttle of Hogwarts. You know the real implications right? Lots of Firsties fought...without any combat spell knowledge. Alot of them would have died because they didn't know how to cast anything more then MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE an Expelliarmus. 3rd year and up they have more experience with casting Reducto, and other combat spells. The 3rds and up would have had more likely chances to survive. But alot of 1sts and 2nds. Not so sure. So alot of those Firsties and Seconds? May have died during the BoH...

Makes ya think huh?

Well, Harry did have those private DA classes he taught in 5th year, and some of that knowledge may have been passed down. Plus the entire school year leading up to the BoH, dark wizards were influencing Hogwarts classes, they even taught them Dark Arts and forced students to cast Unforgivable Curses against each other. But even before that, they had Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, and we can take a look at Harry and Draco's duel in 2nd year to get an idea.



As for your character, we can see how it all plays out once we get the RP going, but your character should be prepared for much more than simple safecracking, given that they'll be going up against fellow magical criminals and dark wizards who play dirty XD.

I'm so excited for this RP you guys don't even know! :D

@CaptainManbeard When can we expect a base CS? I mean I have the basics but I would like to flush out my character. :)

I'm so excited for this RP you guys don't even know! :D

@CaptainManbeard When can we expect a base CS? I mean I have the basics but I would like to flush out my character. :)

I was going up upload it with the intro post but was waiting till we figured out exact how our characters get together. But to give you an idea, the CS will be very similar to the ones from my Power Rangers RP here, but replace Ranger Powers with Magical Specialties: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/192732-power-rangers-dragon-morphers/char

And here is a list of spells in the Wizarding World, but don't worry about listing which ones they know, we'll just pull from this list during actual play as needed: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spells

Sorry all, been trying to come up with a good intro that gets all our characters together, been having some brain farts LOL. Starlance's character is just starting out and Belial's character has 9-12 years experience but only officially joined up with the Family a few years ago, right? Is he Made yet or no? WhiteAngel, did you have an idea how experienced your monster collector character is? Is she just beginning as an Associate or is she already a Made Member? If none of your characters are Made yet, and if Belail is okay saying his character is only just now officially joining the Family as an Associate after working 9-12 years as an independent agent, then my character could be an Acting Capo who is put in charge of the new recruits. That would be four people on our mini crew, but we could also play extra characters to bolster the numbers up.

So, assuming we go that route, here is my idea starting out: The Blood Pack are a low-level street gang of criminal Animagi who all turn into creatures you would normally see in New York City, like rats and birds and other little critters. Normally they know to stay out of the Family's way and just target No-Majes for pickpocking and petty theft. But now it's been discovered that they opened up their own speakeasy in Central Park, which is a huge no-no - the Family has made it clear to all the smaller gangs that they control all magical alcohol coming in and out of the city. So the Boss promotes my character to Acting Capo and gives him some new recruits and sends them off to wreak a little havoc in the speakeasy. They think the Blood Pack is small fish and it's mostly just supposed to be an easy mission to test us out as a potential crew. But after we ransack the place and throw a few Unforgivable Curses around, we find a coin in the pocket of the gang leader with a black raven sigil on it - the sigil of the Corvonero Family from Boston. Why would a lowly street gang have a Corvonero coin? From here we begin to unravel the mystery, come up against other street gangs, before eventually stumbling into an all out gang war between the two Families. What do you think?

Belial's character has 9-12 years experience but only officially joined up with the Family a few years ago, right? Is he Made yet or no?

Let's say 9 years then to be safe. And he's been a freelancer all this time. Why would he be Made? If he just joined? He's been a Freelancer Associate of the Family for all these years. A contractor. Someone the family went too when they needed him. He wouldn't be made at any point I think.

Personally love the idea so far.

Sorry all, got caught up in the Throne and Liberty Open Beta with some friends and lost track of time. The Beta period ends tomorrow and we're trying to get as far as possible before the servers close, but after that, getting caught up on RP stuff will be my top priority.

@CaptainManbeard

Honestly?

I feel this. It's new expansion season for FF14 right now so it's hard to do.much more then play that and watch movies in my downntime

I get this. Really.

Sorry this took so long. Thread is up: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/192915-wizard-mafia-harry-potter-organized-crime-rp/ooc

@CaptainManbeard

Honestly?

I feel this. It's new expansion season for FF14 right now so it's hard to do.much more then play that and watch movies in my downntime

I get this. Really.

I am like waaaaaay behind on FFXIV. Despite buying all the expansions up to Endwalker, I'm still in between A Realm Reborn and Heavensward as far as story completion goes LOL. I did come back briefly last year though for the Moonfire Faire so I could get the Power Rangers suit and the Phoenix mount XD. Check out this cool video some players did set to the Power Rangers theme song XD: