)You are a student (or perhaps a professor) at LDS. Your life is pretty normal for the most part. Just like anyone, you strive to be the best at what you do. That may range from simply being the best of your course, or being the best in the school. You attend one of the seven LDS Summoning Courses: Tribute Summon, Special Summon (), Fusion Summon, Ritual Summon, Synchro Summon, Xyz Summon, or Pendulum Summon.
Ladies and gentlemen! (as Yuya Sakaki would say) I present to you, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Summon Masters Roleplay, where all forms of Summoning run amok! Firstly, let's lay down some ground rules.
Firstly, understand that we will be scripting our Duels. If using a Random Number Generator would make you more comfortable, then feel free. We will also be incorporating Action Duels into this RP. Now for some ground rules.
1) Don't power-play all the time. We understand that it's fun to obliterate our opponents in a single turn sometimes, but try to contain yourself. There will be consequences for those who overdo the unrealistic power-play strategies.
2) As this takes place in an anime setting, we will be using the anime-based 4000 LP counter rather than 8000. This also helps with not having overwhelming walls-of-text for a single Duel.
3) Follow your Yu-Gi-Oh! Rule Guide! With this said, understand that there are some new rules that came into play toward the end of ZEXAL and the beginning of ARC-V. For example: The player who has the first turn skips his/her draw phase, and two Field Spell Cards can be in play at the same time.
4) You may attend ONE (and ONLY ONE) Summon Course for the moment. That means that said course will be your major form of Summoning. This does not bar Tribute Summoning from players who focus on another form, or the Generic (or Basic) Special Summoning, but please try not to use an overwhelming amount of other forms.
5) We will follow the most recent TCG Advanced Format Forbidden & Limited Lists. However, I will allow each character to have ONE Forbidden Card each, and only ONE copy of that card.
6) Please stay away from using cards that were painfully rare or unique in the anime. I won't argue with someone using a Blue-Eyes, but things like Signer Dragons, Egyptian Gods, and Numbers are difficult to duplicate. If possible, please refrain from using them, as this is in the anime setting.
7) Anime-Exclusive and Manga-Exclusive cards will be available within reason. If I state one as unfair, then I will place it where appropriate on our personal Limited/Forbidden List. That said, some of them will have modified effects to make them fair.
8) During Action Duels, the Action Cards received will be RANDOMIZED. There is no exception. The reason is that there are detrimental Action Trap Cards that no one would grab if it weren't randomized. A list of Action Cards with Random Number Values can be found below.
9) RPGuild rules still apply. No exceptions.
10) Keep things rated PG (at MOST PG-13, but preferably PG). Yu-Gi-Oh! IS NOT something that should be for mature audiences.
11) Have Fun! If you're playing an unfair deck that's not fun for anyone (*coughpropheciescough*), then why play? Please do this for entertainment, not for a 100% imaginary win-record.
Now to slap down a Character Template. I'm going to leave this pretty open as far as how players want to design them, but here are the fields I need in each. (If there's something you want to add, please do so)
- Name
- Age
- Grade (6-9; If you are a teacher, don't include this)
- Course Attended/Taught
- Appearance (if you don't use a picture, please use a decent amount of description)
- Personality
- Deck List
- Other Details
Notice I did not include "History". You're a bunch of Middle School kids. Chances are you probably haven't done anything worthy of note (unless you're like Reiji Akaba and have become the CEO of a large corporation at age 16; but if that's the case, what're you doing attending school? lol). Thus the "Other Details" section. (If you want to be a professor, I would prefer no more than a 1:4 or 1:5 Professor:Student ratio)
Our current lineup is as-follows:
Tribute Summon: 1 Student
Special Summon: 1 Student
Ritual Summon: 1 Student
Fusion Summon: 2 Students
Synchro Summon: 2 Students
Xyz Summon: 1 Professor; 1 Student
Pendulum Summon: 0 Students (Needs Characters)
Please make your characters in such a way that it balances the classes. I will keep this updated for what is open and what is closed. If you want to reserve a spot, feel free. And if you wish to make more than one character, I will not forbid it.
One last thing: As this is a Yu-Gi-Oh! RP, its pace is going to be quite slow, as much of the time is spent Dueling other players, which requires collaboration (on sites like titanpad, sync.in, or Google Docs), which in turn requires both players to have simultaneous free time. Patience is a MUST for this RP. But I do ask that during periods of wait that players please check in with us every now and then. We aren't strict on whether the OOC stays on-topic, as long as we know that people are still with us. Besides, why RP together if we don't want to hang out and get to know each other, right?
