Hello, I have been searching for a nation-based roleplay forum for some time and a few months ago I stumbled across roleplayersguild.com Out of interest, I stuck around to spectate this sub forum in order to get the basic idea of the type of writing people use, the interests in type of Roleplays and most importantly the Roleplayer base. Perhaps I am rushing in as I got the impression the amount of Roleplayers active in this type of Roleplay is somewhat scarce at this moment and from the on-going Roleplays I have realized it's also kind of slow-paced and mainly focused on sci-fi or fantasy story lines. So I've decided to come here and ask if there would be people interested in a historical medieval Roleplay revolving around the year 1400AD (haven't yet decided the exact date). If the interest is high enough by the end of two weeks from today I will be ready to start accepting requests. In my personal experience and taste I would like the total number of Roleplayers to be between 5-10 in total, me included, in order to be able to keep track of everything and not make a mess in both OOC and the IC. Another reason would be social life and some people may not be able to read all the new posts in time which would stall the pace etc. Bottom line is, I would be in charge of a lot of things and keeping track of everything is of utmost importance. **CONCEPT** Now, back to the Roleplay. The idea may be somewhat different to what you are accustomed to here. I don't know if this idea has been used before but I have been blessed with an brainchild that might be a game changer. Basically, instead of ruling different countries, the Roleplayers would instead govern royal houses within the same realm, of which I would be the king. This would make the game quite interesting as most of political scene on the world scale would be out of control for most of the Roleplayers which would, in my opinion, bring some lore to the Roleplay because the story would unfold unpredictably. This brings me to events. I will include a lengthy list of events that I will work on which will randomly happen based on actions of the players in different situations, including some unrelated historical events that could also potentially spice things up a bit. Important note: although the story is based on history (i.e. use of map of medieval Europe), the kingdom we will be playing as will be ahistorical in the sense that I will most likely make Austria or another HRE larger state in the east be split in to several smaller monarchies, which would in turn change the original course of history. Roleplayer's tasks would be, to say it bluntly, struggle for power within the country. Plotting, alliances among noble houses (domestic and foreign), economic and military development as well as advancing in the social hierarchy within the monarchy are perhaps the core of the Roleplay. But of course, as any other kingdom, this one too will be at war with outside powers and so the Roleplayers will have the chance to fight together against outside powers. This brings us to another side of the game which is PvE Roleplay and changes that come with it, such are border changes, population changes, military numbers etc. which may in turn shift the balance of power in our own kingdom. The main goal for a noble house is to overthrow the king (me) and become the new ruler, though this is strictly to give the Roleplay some sort of direction and I'd urge you to keep the Roleplay going for as long as it can if it's fun for everyone. I have more plans, of course, this is just summary of the basic idea with as much detail as I can share without giving out everything I have thought out. I'd hope to see enough people interested in this little project that I have been harboring for some time so I can finally put it into motion. If interest is high enough I could of course use some help with research, planning and game mechanics. An artist would be very welcome as well for the coat of arms and such. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, Xilaw

I would throw my interest in here. I am also happy to help organize bits (PM me if you want some help) and I think this should be interesting.

@gowia First of, thank you for taking your time to review my idea. As far as help goes, I will take you up on that offer in case more people show interest. For the meantime, if you have free time and wish to contribute then perhaps thinking about potential events that could be interesting would be appreciated. I will be expecting those in the inbox. I am currently busy with exams so I might be slow on replying for the meantime so bare with me :)

Thats alright, I have run a number of successful NRPs in the past however normally it was RPer disappearance that has lead to a death. I shall think of events in my spare time however I too have exams.

This sounds interesting, though could you allow outside city-states? Just fancied being Venice or something, though I wouldn't mind taking part if these are not included.

Interested. A few friends of mine did something somewhat similar to the 'royal houses at war' thing a while back [here on RPGuild](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/37990/posts/ooc) and it didn't go well because of laziness. I'm sure this RP will go much better, though.

@Iluvatar you'd be secluded from everything else since most of the Roleplay would focus on internal politics. Most external coverage would come from bordering lands while some important battles and events from rest of the known world would just be mentioned. @Chapatrap I will check out how their RP went when I find some more time. Perhaps I can see a pattern of negligence and attempt to make my RP avoid similar faith. Advice is always welcome. Anyway, I won't require anyone to post more than I myself can manage. Hopefully people will be able to post once per day or two. I've thought about having one day last two months and every six days I would make a sort of report on the kingdom's standings in military, economy, population, etc. so 3-5 posts between the reports is quite enough, I believe. Even 1-2 posts I will tolerate if there's a writer's blockade or if the RPer is busy elsewhere. But I expect those that are able to reply as soon as they can in order to not stall the RP. I appreciate the interest, that's three people already in first three hours. Very good news, indeed :)

Interesting idea

> @Chapatrap I will check out how their RP went when I find some more time. Perhaps I can see a pattern of negligence and attempt to make my RP avoid similar faith. Advice is always welcome. Fate* But the RP died in part because we put too much reliance on one person to post to move it forward. And when he did not deliver - despite our on-site and off-site demands - it died. We relied too much on a guy who had too much ADHD to commit for long. The fun-bit: he really wanted to see this RP came up and was heavily involved in the planning process. But bailed out and started complaining about the usual faire when it comes to him writing.

> > @Chapatrap I will check out how their RP went when I find some more time. Perhaps I can see a pattern of negligence and attempt to make my RP avoid similar faith. Advice is always welcome. > > Fate* > Eh, malapropism. > But the RP died in part because we put too much reliance on one person to post to move it forward. And when he did not deliver - despite our on-site and off-site demands - it died. We relied too much on a guy who had too much ADHD to commit for long. > > The fun-bit: he really wanted to see this RP came up and was heavily involved in the planning process. But bailed out and started complaining about the usual faire when it comes to him writing. > > > > I see. Well if it comes to that, where I no longer am able to Roleplay for whatever the reason, I am willing to pass on my role to whomever is willing to take on the challenge. I will give all the information to that person.

If this is still going on, I'm in.

> @Iluvatar you'd be secluded from everything else since most of the Roleplay would focus on internal politics. Most external coverage would come from bordering lands while some important battles and events from rest of the known world would just be mentioned. Okay then, that's fine anyway. Is this is set in the Holy Roman Empire?

@rush99999 of course. @Iluvatar Yes, most likely I will split up Austria and make several duchies out of it like Franconia, Tyrol, Carniola, etc. while also keeping duchy of Austria as a successor with the area around Vienna and our realm would be in the north of the historical duchy of Austria bordering the new duchy of Austria to the south, Bohemia to the north, Franconia to the west, and possibly Hungary to the east. But this is subject to change, of course. I've also considered splitting up Bavaria or maybe even Brandenburg. Suggestions are welcome.

> @rush99999 of course. > > @Iluvatar Yes, most likely I will split up Austria and make several duchies out of it like Franconia, Tyrol, Carniola, etc. while also keeping duchy of Austria as a successor with the area around Vienna and our realm would be in the north of the historical duchy of Austria bordering the new duchy of Austria to the south, Bohemia to the north, Franconia to the west, and possibly Hungary to the east. But this is subject to change, of course. I've also considered splitting up Bavaria or maybe even Brandenburg. Suggestions are welcome. Excellent. Looking forward to it.

Surely we have enough people by now?

> Surely we have enough people by now? I think the interest is satisfying for a start, however I'm currently busy with exams so I have to postpone the RP for a week or two either way. I have an important exam on Wednesday and another one on 26th, after that I should be able to do a great deal with organizing and writing by the time those two weeks are up. Stay tuned and pitch in if you have any ideas. I will gladly consider implementing them so PM me if you think of anything interesting.


Lol, I am sorry, I didn't expect this many people showing interest this fast. Now, I am all ears as far as ideas go, but until I get some free time I don't dare to go too deep into it. I am, however, researching for future reference in the meantime so I'm not entirely unemployed.

Very well - I can wait :)

 Here's a map of what I've been working on. Basically, I've outlined our kingdom with a black line and also outlined the historical Austria in 1400AD with dotted lines. Our kingdom is the purple one, the brown one west of it should be duchy of Franconia, the green big one to the south is Austria that survived, tiny brown one under Austria is duchy of Carniola, lime green one west of Carniola is county of Gorizia, yellow above it is duchy of Salzburg and the farthest to the left colored in red is duchy of Tyrol. Note: I made a mistake that I just realized. Salzburg was never part of Austria until 19th century. PS: This is just the first step and it looks a bit bland so I will work on that and give a more detailed look of our kingdom. I have a full map including northern Africa, Asia Minor and parts of Russia as well to fill out and I'm using Euroatlas' 1400AD map as a reference.