WH40k Ork RP

[Guy0fV4lor]

I've been trying to find some people interested in doing a WH40k Ork RP, haven't had much luck in other places, is there anyone here who might wanna give it a shot??

*Anyone willing to be the GM too? I'm not very good at it...*

[Rebirth]

If this gets interest I'll join up, might be the GM too If everyone agrees.

[Skwint]

I am certainly interested.

[Ollumhammersong]

As apprehensive as I am at the idea of an ork rp. I am curious to see if it catches on. For now i'll say i'm tentatively interested

[Guy0fV4lor]

How many people you guys reckon we should have before trying to get this campaign off the ground?

[Guy0fV4lor]

@Ollumhammersong what about it has you apprehensive?

[Ollumhammersong]

having seen ork rps come and go in the past I know that they are a much tougher kind of game to keep going in the long term.

[Guy0fV4lor]

@Ollumhammersong There have been others? How many have you seen come and go?

[Ollumhammersong]

you've only been on the site for a short while I imagine. But ya, there have been several attempts in the past. overall i'de say a half dozen.

The main problem with them is orcs are more one dimensional than other character options for 40k. So everyone ends up playing more or less the same personality. The randomly violent comic relief. the usual pattern is that it starts off fairly entertaining but dies quickly as most people are doing the same things just describing it in slightly different ways.

[Guy0fV4lor]

@Ollumhammersong Hmmmmm, did they ever go into galactic warfare?

[Ollumhammersong]

Some tried but that alone doesn't solve the afformentioned issue. Everyone is basically the same person.

[Guy0fV4lor]

@Ollumhammersong hmmmm, I'm sure we can find a way around that somehow

[Ollumhammersong]

By all means, feel free to give it a try, as I said. I will watch this to see if it goes anywhere. But I'm not throwing my hat in just yet.

I retain my misgivings based on previous experiences but as always, I could be pleasantly surprised

[Skwint]

The only orks that really develop unique personalities are warbosses, from Ghazgkhull taking a bolt round to the head and becoming Prophet of da Waagh, to Nazdreg who was a good tactician and spoke fluent gothic, to Snagrod who liked to set entire worlds on fire for shits and giggles.

We can't all be warbosses though, unless we were lesser bosses all part of the same massive Waagh. I'm not sure how that would work though, and that's sorta entering the realm of a nation rp if we all had our own armies.

Other than that, there's always the oddboyz.

[Guy0fV4lor]

@Skwint yeah I was thinking most of us would be oddboys anyway, so we could have kind of a flushed out squad setup. (I really wanna play as a wierdboy)

Besides, I feel like being Oddboyz would make for a more dynamic RP

[Vulkan 707]

I am very interested, and actually did a tabletop roleplay of orks with my buds a few years back.

I agree to some extent of how everyone starts to play the same character at first, but gradually it changed because of ork 'classes.' As long as everyone is playing different types of orks (Mek boy, Painboy, Freebooter, fereal ork, Nob, etc.) and makes up their own individual goals, then the rp could work.

Another thing I'll say is that we played with Deathwatch core rules, and had the orks "working" for a inquisitor (Example: The orks are sent to some Imperial planet under the sway of the Tau, the inquisitor sends the orks to start trouble and disarray before the imperial forces show up to squash the rebellion). So the group is not with a giant ork Waaaagh, but a small group, under the heel of the inquisition, though as you can expect shenanigans to start happening very quick.

The skies the limit for orks though, there are so many clans, and types of orks that everyone can easily play a ork with it's own distinct personality. Just need to know the lore more or less!

It's not impossible is all I am saying, and I am more than willing to Gm. Let me know!

PS: It's ork, with a K!

[Guy0fV4lor]

@Vulkan 707 What I had in mind was more like following the story of a bunch of Orks starting from the bottom (of Ork society), working their way up through to achieve their goals. That way our characters would be more free to develop in their own ways.

[Vulkan 707]

@Guy0fV4lor Sounds good man, if this starts up lock me in as a mekboy working his way to big Mek.

[Guy0fV4lor]

@Vulkan 707 gotcha I might not be gm though, other than that, I think, we might have enough people to at least make the thread