Dark Souls RP: The Occult War

[Templar Knight]

Hey folks, this is the first Advanced RP I've ever attempted, so try not to judge me too harshly on its potentially crappy quality.

I've only recently in the past few months gotten into the Dark Souls Universe, and I think its a truly amazing game, and having both played a substantial amount of the game myself and seen the lore videos of Vaativyda and Epicnamebro, I feel there are opportunities to make a good RP off of the Universe of the first game. I say the first game, because honestly with what I have seen of the second one, I haven't found it as compelling in terms of the story compared to the first.

What did I have in mind? Making a story off of the period in the Dark Souls Lore I'm deciding to call The Occult War. For those who don't know, this is the period in time at the height of the Age of Fire where a bunch of Humans attempted to steal the Lord's Soul of Gravelord Nito for their own devices, and they crafted special Occult weapons to wound and perhaps even kill the Gods to try and help accomplish this goal. Many high ranking members of the Church of the Way of White were possibly involved in this event, including perhaps even Bishop Havel, The Rock, a close friend and battle companion of Lord Gwyn.

The RP would basically try to make a story out of this event, showing the response of the Lords and their allies versus the Occultists and their supporters. Since this event is not strictly defined as to what specifically happened in regards to the Dark Souls Canon, other than the fact that it failed; I intend to make this fairly creative in regards to how it started and what happened as it progressed. We'd probably all play as humans, with our alliances falling wherever we choose, with the Lords, the Occultists, or themselves.

Anyone interested? I'm looking for more than a few players and one or two Co-GMs who know the original Dark Souls Lore pretty well and have run or participated in advanced RPs before to help me design a proper setup and story.

[Nevis]

I'm not sure how much support you'll get with this; I've put forth a Dark Souls rp myself several times and there were never enough (and consistent enough)) people for it to work out. That said, I can help and probably co-gm; I'm REALLY familiar with this game. I've been involved in the Souls Series (now Fextralife) forums for several years and am very intimately familiar with this game, and I have run a game in the Advanced section of this forum before (though it got cut off when the site went down).

I note that the different occult factions weren't necessarily connected, though; with how the lore is stated, there very well may have been multiple, entirely disjointed groups that just made similar moves at similar times-like how Rome was assaulted on multiple fronts from all over the empire, though it was not an intentional collaborative effort.

Also-I'm in agreement (and am actually much more strong in my opinion than you seem to be) regarding Dark 1 being a better game than Dark 2.

I was actually about to run a Dark Souls rp on Fextralife, actually (by request, even-everyone has stopped posting, though. If you're interested in looking at it, read http://www.fextralife.com/forums/t28449/nodiatus-dark-souls-roleplay/the first post[/ur]-the rest was all mechanics (it was going to be a tabletop-ish game; I can easily drop that, though).

[Templar Knight]

@Nevis In regards to the fine details of the backstory to the Occult groups, we can work that out as we go, though I'll greatly appreciate the help as a Co-GM, or simply as an assistant in running this.

I also don't think we'll go so far as to list precise stats like in-game, people's classes and personal histories will determine their specialities and skills (unless we truly want to go that detailed, but I personally don't feel up to doing that on my first Advanced.).

[Lionheart]

I have a tentative interest, after all Dark Souls. Though we'll have to see how my scheduling works out.

Also, heya Nevis! Good to see you again.

[Nevis]

Lionheart! :D

Also, I think I didn't make myself clear enough-by showing you that, I was not at all suggesting we use those mechanics-I was just showing you that it's entirely possible to make a Dark Souls rp after the events of 1 without it being within the area of Dark 2. I find D2 to be a major disappointment on most levels.

As for classes-I actually very much enjoyed that Dark placed extremely little importance on classes. Classes are one of my hands-down least favorite game mechanics in any type of game. If you did want to, I can run that almost entirely, though-I was making that myself, and I've years of experience with d&d (though that system hasn't been tested yet).

You should also limit the 'work it out as we go' as much as possible; having at least a basic idea with the details vague so as to be filled in almost always works better. And, if I'm co-gming or assisting, I can help with that.

[Templar Knight]

Nevis said
Lionheart! :DAlso, I think I didn't make myself clear enough-by showing you that, I was not at all suggesting we use those mechanics-I was just showing you that it's entirely possible to make a Dark Souls rp after the events of 1 without it being within the area of Dark 2. I find D2 to be a major disappointment on levels.As for classes-I actually very much enjoyed that Dark placed extremely little importance on classes. Classes are one of my hands-down least favorite game mechanics in any type of game. If you did want to, I can run that almost entirely, though-I was making that myself, and I've years of experience with d&d (though that system hasn't been tested yet).You should also limit the 'work it out as we go' as much as possible; having at least a basic idea with the details vague so as to be filled in almost always works better. And, if I'm co-gming or assisting, I can help with that.

Of course, I wasn't planning jumping in with no clue about where the plot would go, rather that we can work it out as we're getting this set up. I do have exams going on right now so its not like I can start this up tomorrow, but we can hash out the details on how this RP will work and iron out a story arc perhaps.

[Nevis]

Right. Then, unless you're alright with sharing the secrets out in the open for everyone to see, pm what you have/are looking to discuss with me.

[Templar Knight]

Bump, Nevis and I have sorted out a fair amount of the groundwork for this RP's plot, if there is any interest in it, we can get started.

[Lionheart]

Naturally I'm in, but we probably need more then just us 3.

[Peik]

I'm interested.

[Templar Knight]

Bump, one last time to see if we have anyone else who is interested.

[Nevis]

Alright. I also do a bit on the Fextralife forums and you may find some people there; they're a bit iffy on advertising, though. As there's no money involved, it may be okay, though.

[Doom Snail]

If you guys ever feel motivated to have a go at this RP again or anything of the nature, I would absolutely love to RP in the Souls universe.
I know this thread is ancient history, but just a thought and an offer.