Garth

The Elder Scrolls: V - Province Under Chaos

@LetMeDoStuff Here is my sheet for your approval.

Ralof

Ralof

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Full Name
Ralof Steelheart

Age
25

Gender
Male

Race
Nord

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Appearance

Appearance
Ralof is a Nord with brown hair and blue eyes. His is well built from his years working in his father’s blacksmith shop and swing his battleaxe.

Occupation
Grew up working in his father’s blacksmith shop. Now fights with the Stormcloaks.

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Personality
He’s easy going and pretty friendly. He’s loyal to the Stormcloaks and his friends. He left his father’s shop in part to seek adventure and excitement. He hated working at the smithy when there were battles to be fought, glory to be won.

Background
Rolf is the youngest son of Rockmar Steelheart. As the youngest son he job at the blacksmith shop was to haul iron and steel ingots around. He started out working at the smelter. But soon enough began working the steel himself. He worled to build and mend weapons and armor. Like his father and brothers, his muscles grew with the hard work.

He kept hearing stories of the war against the Imperials. Work at the shop has already gotten old and boring. Ralof answered the call to join the Stormcloak. He took his favorite battleaxe and his small back and went to join his Nord bothers.

Positive Traits
* Skilled with Battleaxe. He’s been training for a long time with his battleaxe.
* Strength. Due to working at the blacksmaith shop and training with two handed weapons, he’s very strong, even by Nord standards.
* Smithing. Has skills as a blacksmith and building weapons and jewelry.

Negative Traits
* Can be lazy, left the blacksmith shop because it was boring work.
* Doesn’t like heights.
* Not many ‘wilderness’ skills. Can’s hunt nor stalk.


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Affiliates
The Steelheart Smithy is near Falkreath Hold, where his father and two brothers work. He has met Ulfric be doubts that Ulfric would remember him.
He has fought against the Imperial Legionaries a number of times.
He owes the owner of the Bannered Mare in Whiterun money, so he will avoid that place if he can.

Character Theme
youtube.com/watch?v=97ECZMvbLxg

To The Edge of the World...

"Father, I do not know much. I am just a simple man. I do not remember who said it, but I remember hearing that for evil to win all that has to happen is for good men to do nothing. Surely Justicia wants you to do more than just call her people to repentance." Rockmar swallowed. He didn't want to say what he was about to say, but felt he needed to give Felmer some time.

"Father, can we go upstairs and you can teach me more of Justicia?" Rockmar for the most part did not take tales of the gods and goddesses too seriously. So he figured listening to the old man ramble on about Justicia would be just fine.

The Elder Scrolls: V - A Province under Chaos

If our characters are from Skyrim, then maybe keep the big NPC's canon. It would be safe that we would at least know who they were and a little of their background. But you can make new things happen to them or any plot turn you like. But at least start out canon so that our characters know the history (assuming they would).

The Elder Scrolls: V - A Province under Chaos

@LetMeDoStuffSounds good. Still interested. ;)

The Elder Scrolls: V - A Province under Chaos

I'm interested. It sounds fun. I'm a little confused and not sure if I'm reading it correctly. Will the characters travel alone after their own goals or will they be together, like a party or company and fight in the war? Will the war be the big backdrop for the characters?

@LetMeDoStuff

Is There Such a Thing as a "Good" RP?

Like some have said, I think an RP is 'good' if the players enjoy it. If the players/GM aren't having fun, then it's a 'bad' RP. I'm more used to table top gaming. That can be an 'art form' but in most cases, unless you were there, you will never witness that piece of art. Our written RPs have the benefit for being written, so people can read them after the fact.

I wouldn't compare an RP to a 'play' but I would compare it to 'improve'. In the play, the actors have a script and they know what should be coming and how they should respond. But in an RP or improve, you really have no idea what the person will say or how their character will react. Then you have to come up with your own character's reaction to the changing situation. Since we are playing by post, a player has some time to decide how to reply. We can think about it before replying. Depending on the posting rate, we may have a few minutes to a few days to decide how to reply. But on stage, somebody doing improve has only seconds to reply. Improve is usually comedy. Can you imagine trying to do drama as improve? Well that's what our RP's are...sort of.

What the hell, I'll continue talking. I love to hear myself talk or see my own writing. :)

• Is RPing 'art'?
  It can be. And maybe bits and pieces of an RP are art, but maybe not the whole thing. Again, it's the eye of the beholder. When I write a RP, I'm writing for the other players/GM in the game, not a wider audience.
• If so, is it less 'art' than traditional media - say, The Great Gatsby?
  I don't know. Is painting more or less art than movies? Some RP can be good. But I personally judge a game by if I'm having fun or not.
• If one instinctively looks at one game and considers it 'better' than another, what does that mean, and what is that based on?
  I guess for me it's on technical aspect of the writing. I don't mind spelling or grammar errors, if I can still understand what the player is trying to say. But if it takes me a long time to decode what the player was trying to say, then that's a huge negative for me. But other factors I look at are can I follow the story? Or is it so disjointed from post to post that it seems like nobody is responding to what the others have written. Are the characters believable? And for me, are they likable?
• At what point, if any, can a game be judged? When it's being born, while it's still being played, while it's dead, or never?
  As players we judge RP's all the time. When a new RP starts, we judge it to decide if we want to join or not. Once the game get's going, we judge it if we want to stay in the game, are we having fun? Or do we feel the need to leave the game, for whatever reason. But I guess the basic reason is that the game isn't fun for us. Or there are other things we rather be doing. Yes, I know sometimes people also quit games because of RL issues, but that's another matter.
  
  Other than praise, I don't think anybody really wants feedback on their games. Unless asked, I would never tell a GM or player what they could 'do better'.
• Do the 'Free', 'Casual', and 'Advanced' Tags factor in here? Even if not the sections themselves, which are unregulated, but the principles behind them?
  This is a personal issue for me. But I hate Advanced RP. I don't want to have to read 30 minutes of posts before typing up my post. Just trying to keep up up on what's going on in advanced is something I don't enjoy. Again everybody is different and people like different things. I'm liking the shorter, to the point post. Maybe a few longer posts from time to time and when everybody is making their first one or two posts, introducing their character. But after that, seeing a wall of text that I need to read to before I post just turns me off.

To The Edge of the World...

Rockmar couldn't help but to chuckle at the priest. "Have you seen this village? It is pretty humble and your people do not have much. They are not really living the high material world life style here. What is happening is the beast is causing some of your people to consider leaving the island and return to the mainland. They are in more danger there of falling into the material world life style on the mainland than here. I'm just a simple man. But I think the best way to bring people back to Justicia, if they ever left, would be for a priest of Hers leading, or at least helping out in the fight against the beast. This painting clearly shows the beast is an enemy of Justicia, not an ally nor servant of Hers."

To The Edge of the World...

"Then, Father you come with us and wield it to defend your people. Do you know where it is? If you know where it is, clearly the Goddess left it here to defeat the beast and protect Her people."

To The Edge of the World...

This time she was shown without the scales of justice and sword, but with a great war hammer and battling.. something...

It was difficult to make out exactly what the something was. A dark mass without a well defined shape. However, one thing stood out clearly: red eyes.

@Kelewen

Rockmar licked his lips before asking, "Father, have you ever seen that Warhammer before or know where we might find it?" He pointed to the Warhammer in the painting.

To The Edge of the World...

"I was just wondering of the original pieces had markings the new pieces did not. Father, will you show us the basement. I'm looking for any murals or paintings done by the people who built this church." Rockmar gave him a big smile.