Weird Roleplay Ideas You're Afraid To Pitch?

[WardenCelestine]

Not afraid, just concerned.

Zootopia x.x

[ClocktowerEchos]

Inspired from the anime School Live, I'm wondering about something like a school RP x zombies/post apoc. However the entire zombies part would be pretty low key where it would be customary for students to carry weapons around during class and take shifts watching the walls/barriers, the older students taking "field trips" to scavenge and kill zombies while the entire zombies thing is just seen as another part of life that they have to deal with along side more pressing matters like grades and if they should ask so and so out.

[Fabricant451]

Inspired from the anime School Live, I'm wondering about something like a school RP x zombies/post apoc. However the entire zombies part would be pretty low key where it would be customary for students to carry weapons around during class and take shifts watching the walls/barriers, the older students taking "field trips" to scavenge and kill zombies while the entire zombies thing is just seen as another part of life that they have to deal with along side more pressing matters like grades and if they should ask so and so out.

@ClocktowerEchos

Oh my god I've been wanting someone to pull the trigger on a School Live RP for a while now.

[SleepingSilence]

@ClocktowerEchos I don't find that too bizarre honestly, now the anime was good and unique enough, but making an rp of it. I think it would just becoming a post-apocalyptic zombie rp. That's been done plenty of times, everyone likes zombies Even if you made it so the only survivors were kids, possibly solely young girls and tried pushing the limit. I don't think it would take long to get people interested.

[Cyndyr]

One idea I've always considered pitching is some post-apocalypse based RP in which the "world" ended years ago and people are playing as "future versions" of themselves. Of course there is a myriad of problems with this one - people wouldn't want to share any personal information, we don't all live in the same area, etc.

It'd be a fun idea though.

[ClocktowerEchos]

What if there was an RP

About us RPing characters

Who were RPing as their own characters?

RP-CEPTION

-inception music here-

[SleepingSilence]

@ClocktowerEchos I swear that something like that has actually been tired, it was a slice of life about RP'ers having the toughest D&D campaign they've ever had. I wasn't in it, but it looked like it was a clusterfuck. xP

[Polybius]

Not afraid, just not sure how to do it:

A fantasy world where all of the magic is cast using verbal commands. Pretty plain and simple. The source of magic? Ancient nano-technology built into the planet (which is itself artificial) that uses verbal commands. Think an entire world that functions like the Enterprise. The world would be littered with 'ruins' of that same ancient civilization-technology still intact. Doors would open, lights turn on. Hell, you could have armies of nanobots roaming the atmosphere looking for someone to heal with the proper commands. Satellites in orbit could rain down fireballs and death at but a word. A global neural-net of information could be accessed and data transferred, recorded etc. It would really depend on the way the characters and world were written around it. The descriptions from those ignorant characters points of view etc.

[PandaBrady]

So, a pitch that I want to do is a little... Odd. I just don't see the forums having enough interest in this or keeping it long enough. I would like to set up my own Original Mech RPs (I have plenty) that will eventually all converge into its own version of Super Robot Wars/Taisen. But to do this, I'd have to do, 20+ stand alone RPs make it to the end, and then gather everyone back up for it. I'd need a Co-GM.

Also had an experimental one that's like a JRPG but revolves around music.

[Zorogami]

Not afraid, just not sure how to do it:

A fantasy world where all of the magic is cast using verbal commands. Pretty plain and simple. The source of magic? Ancient nano-technology built into the planet (which is itself artificial) that uses verbal commands. Think an entire world that functions like the Enterprise. The world would be littered with 'ruins' of that same ancient civilization-technology still intact. Doors would open, lights turn on. Hell, you could have armies of nanobots roaming the atmosphere looking for someone to heal with the proper commands. Satellites in orbit could rain down fireballs and death at but a word. A global neural-net of information could be accessed and data transferred, recorded etc. It would really depend on the way the characters and world were written around it. The descriptions from those ignorant characters points of view etc.

@Polybius

This sounds incredibly interesting but hard to manage, i would love to see an attempt at it though

[Shorticus]

Also had an experimental one that's like a JRPG but revolves around music.

@PandaBrady

This one I wanna hear about. Care to say more?

[SleepingSilence]

@Polybius So an RP version of In Verbis Virtus? ;3

[PandaBrady]

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This one I wanna hear about. Care to say more?

@Shorticus

Yeah, the setting was Fantasia, a world within our dreams, close enough that when we sleep we appear as phantoms there, and gain inspiration from their surroundings and sounds. In this world weapons and instruments are one thing, as Music reacts as magic. This means that a battle of the bands is a little more accurate. An Orchestral Duel is two armies clashing. The world is divided into different countries based on their style of music. A teenage boy, an up and coming composer, in our world is struck with a fever that places him into a coma. Now he lives in this world, though it may be on the brink of destruction with the release of an ancient evil that threatens to silence music forever.

Of course if this were an actual interest I'd put more into it.

[Seravee]

I'm a history nut, so I have this huge historical fiction piece all planned out in my head. A core of five or so adventurers who visit actual historic moments - Titanic, Pompeii, you name it. They're trying to track down a professor, the inventor of the machine. He's convinced he can improve the world by changing history, but he only makes things worse. Our adventurers are working for a mysterious third party, who won't say how they got the machine - they just give orders. And at one point, the US government gets involved. I actually wrote a bit of it for my NaNoWriMo novel a few years back.

But it never really works as a roleplay. My dream is to have a solid, active team who visits these events, and other writers who sporadically write people from that time period to make the interactions with the locals more realistic. But finding that dream team has proven impossible.

[PandaBrady]

I'm a history nut, so I have this huge historical fiction piece all planned out in my head. A core of five or so adventurers who visit actual historic moments - Titanic, Pompeii, you name it. They're trying to track down a professor, the inventor of the machine. He's convinced he can improve the world by changing history, but he only makes things worse. Our adventurers are working for a mysterious third party, who won't say how they got the machine - they just give orders. And at one point, the US government gets involved. I actually wrote a bit of it for my NaNoWriMo novel a few years back.

But it never really works as a roleplay. My dream is to have a solid, active team who visits these events, and other writers who sporadically write people from that time period to make the interactions with the locals more realistic. But finding that dream team has proven impossible.

@Seravee

Sounds similar to where in time is Carmen San Diego with bits of Time Nolan.

[Terminal]

A roleplay set in the Myst franchise where Writers hire out Agents to go and cause shenanigans in each others' ages.

Complicated since the mechanics and rules behind writing ages are rather arcane even by Advanced standards. Complicated further by the fact that I am one of the few people in the universe who even knows what Myst is.

[Ermine]

Might as well say it here, though I doubt people would be interested (and honestly, it would be hard to work with, since it would require so much coordination AND involve replaying the same scenes AND have very little direct interaction between players (though there could be, and WOULD be if the pairings or groups or whatever either met at the same place at the same time or I didn't have people play multiple characters to avoid it), with changes, but...). This is copypasta with some edits from Skype.

[5:47:54 AM] *** Alice kind of wants to run an RP where the characters only know what's going on now, with several time skips in BOTH directions revealing what started the chain of events AND how it ends. Sort of like the first Siren game (one of my favorite horror games). Basically, I'd have my own character and GM posts, with GM posts setting times and which people are involved in scenes (with multiple simultaneous scenes). They would be replaying scenes (which I know will be a hard sell), but there will be changes based on scenes that happened earlier...
So...time travel, but not? There would be characters who would be paired up (I'd ideally want 6 or 8 people), though it wouldn't have to be romantic pairings (could be like "teacherxstudent" and "parentxchild", even "copxsuspect just trying to get to the prison through the shitstorm".
I'd have to come up with a simple skeleton for the plot to follow, and advance what happened. I'd have a timeline in the first (or second, actually) OOC post, with summaries of ALL ACTIONS TAKEN.

Actually, a single person playing the pairings, individuals, or groups would be best, so it's a smaller overall group. Downside is there'd be NO DIRECT INTERACTION between players... ***
[5:52:20 AM] Alice: I'd have to come up with a map with distinct regions, though a small enough one that they'd be in the same places at DIFFERENT times, but large enough that they wouldn't all be in the same location at the SAME time. Because I don't want that to happen if I can avoid it. But I guess I could have it happen, and people could even switch off characters if they wanted.

Or I could just write a friggin book with chapters in the eyes of the people involved, and when. ><
[5:54:40 AM] Alice: If I do it as RP, I'd make sure everyone knew that there's a high probability that they'd die from the very beginning, and continue to throw harder and harder challenges at them. That would make it a harder sell, but I kind of want to throw puzzles at people~
I'd probably set it in a small town, but unsure exactly where.

I could have it set in a more urban setting (or even a LESS urban setting, like in a forest, but where's the fun in that?), even.
I know it's a hard sell, as I said MANY times, and I don't have anything completely decided yet. I mean...I'd prefer dark fantasy/cosmic horror, but that's not necessary.

[Cyndyr]

I'm a history nut, so I have this huge historical fiction piece all planned out in my head. A core of five or so adventurers who visit actual historic moments - Titanic, Pompeii, you name it. They're trying to track down a professor, the inventor of the machine. He's convinced he can improve the world by changing history, but he only makes things worse. Our adventurers are working for a mysterious third party, who won't say how they got the machine - they just give orders. And at one point, the US government gets involved. I actually wrote a bit of it for my NaNoWriMo novel a few years back.

But it never really works as a roleplay. My dream is to have a solid, active team who visits these events, and other writers who sporadically write people from that time period to make the interactions with the locals more realistic. But finding that dream team has proven impossible.

@Seravee

I have never seen a RP that I needed. Until now.

[NuttsnBolts]

A roleplay set in the Myst franchise where Writers hire out Agents to go and cause shenanigans in each others' ages.

Complicated since the mechanics and rules behind writing ages are rather arcane even by Advanced standards. Complicated further by the fact that I am one of the few people in the universe who even knows what Myst is.

@Terminal

Played Myst. Got confused off Riven, never played the others.

What makes it difficult as well is that the universe went from fairly understandable with the original game, to highly complex in the later ones (Just looked up and didn't realise there was 5 games... I only knew of 3). There would also have to be a mystery or something to drive the story as it would just feel like it's missing something in the mix without one. :/

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Again... Still would love to make that racing one I mentioned earlier in this thread, but I know I'm not the best at GMing alone, nor believe that it would be easy to manage without metagaming and powerplaying.

[Ermine]

@Terminal@NuttsnBolts I didn't even realize there were more than Myst and Riven. O_o
I remember Myst when it was new~
I sucked so bad at it so bad...
Played it around the same time as...a game I can't remember the name of now. <.<