Zitacamron95

Dark Fairytale Circus [MxM]

About Me

• I can write up from 2 to 5 paragraphs, of course I can manage to do more or less depending on what I'm given, but my preferred minimum is 2 paragraphs.
• I like to have a plan for my rps so be prepared to plot things out. I hate running head first into a story.
• I'm working full time so I may get busy from time to time. I should still be available to post at least once a week, but I will probably post way more than just once a week.
• I'm 22 for those that care about the age of the person that rp with.
• I don't mind OOC talk, and would actually love to encourage it! Even if we're just talking about our characters in the rp and planning for what to do next, either way I'd like to keep some kind of communication up.
• I'd like to know your favorite animal, so that I know you've read this section
• I am female but will rp both male and female characters (I'd prefer to play the female in fxm relationships though, as I have had to rp the male counterparts to female characters way too often in the past)
• I enjoy romance in my rps! I'll do MxM, FxF or FxM romances, and of course any other sort of gender pairings as well. So if you want to play a non-binary character, for example, and want them part of the romance, that works for me.
• Please ask me any questions you have!

Partner Preferences

• Please be open to have romance in our rp!
• Be willing to play both genders if it becomes necessary.
• Be able to match my posting length. I set a minimum of 2 paragraphs per present character, but understand the occasional small post.
• So I know you've read this section, as it is the most important section, tell me your favorite color
• Understand that OOC talk is going to a thing so please be cool with OOC chat and keeping up with it
• Please bring some ideas to the table, I don't want to be the only one throwing stuff out there. I want to know you're also really into the plot or pairing too and that you want to participate in this just as much as I do.
• Be willing to play multiple characters.
• If you have any other questions on what I'm asking for, please ask.

The Plot

Come one! Come all! To the Enchanted Circus! A place of dreams and magic!

Here at the Enchanted Circus, you will encounter the wondrous Little Mermaid with a voice so melodious, you won't want her to stop singing. Or perhaps you're more interested in grizzly the Beast, who can lift anything? Or maybe you've come for the beautiful Prince Charming who can transform into anyone he wants? Either way, you will not want to miss out on such a magnificent performance!

Basically the idea of this is to have a circus where all of the performers are based off of fairy tale characters. These performers are also supernatural beings of some sort. Like I imagine the Little Mermaid might actually be some kind of fish monster with a beautiful singing voice. Beast might actually be a beast, for lack of better words. I do also want to play around with the idea that from the outside this Circus is very magical and fun, but on the inside things are a lot darker. Like some performers are vampires, so they have to feed. Maybe the circus actually is involved in luring people away to be eaten or made to do the performers' bidding.

The plot I have in mind right now is a human boy ends up joining the circus as a ticket taker or promoter, either on a dare or as an actual investigator. While on the job, the boy starts falling for the biggest star of the circus, Prince Charming. And we can continue to plot things from there. If someone is interested in playing multiple characters, I'd love to try and add more plot lines exploring some of the other performers.

Any other fairytale ideas are definitely welcome!

My Character Ideas

Name: Sebastian Beauchene
Alias: Prince Charming
Race: Face Stealer
Gender: Male
Age: Looks 25

Powers: Sebastian can look like anyone he has killed and can entrance people that make eye contact with him

Appearance: Typically Sebastian chooses a form where he is average build and height. His hair is a golden blonde, though the cut varies. His eyes are usually a blue-green. His face structure also changes, but always seems to just be gorgeous and fit with whatever image he's trying to pull off.

Bio: Sebastian was the first person to join the circus. He used to just be the ring leader's business partner, but after a while, Sebastian found he was much better at performing than dealing with people. His act is always the same, he dances. His dancing is incredible and over the top. He brings in plenty of pyrotechnics and his dancing ends up being something between actual dancing and an acrobatics routine to music. He's constantly changing his form during the performance and uses it all to keep the audience entranced.

Sebastian's routine became wildly popular and he usues it to get humans after the routine to follow him back to his tent. Mostly, it's used for him to get another pretty face to turn into, but he also uses it for his princess, or dancing partner. His princess is a ghost and needs a physical form to dance, so she uses dead bodies for that. The two are just friends now, though they used to be married.


Name: Eva Dubois
Alias: Charming's Princess/Sleeping Beauty/Snow White/Rapunzel
Race: Ghost
Gender: Female
Age: Looks 22

Powers: She can possess corpses, otherwise she's an average ghost

Appearance: Her physical body appearance changes with whoever she's possessing. Though the body is always unnaturally pale. Her form as a ghost is hard to actually see. She looks like a feminine figure with long hair.

Bio: Eva used to be a living girl. She fell in love in love with Sebastian when she was living. She decided she didn't want to leave him or grow old and made a deal with another of the circus performers that no longer works there. She's now cursed to haunt the person who possesses her necklace. That happens to be Sebastian, though the two of them are no longer in love. They're more like friends and nothing more.

Monsters and Other Childish Things

Hey, just checking to see if any one is still interested in this.

Monsters and Other Childish Things Check

@rush99999 Yes, sorry. I was just using this because Mae asked a question and figured it'd be more efficient to just make one post answering the question and notifying everyone that all the rules have been posted. But, you are right and now that the OOC is up, post questions and such there.

Monsters and Other Childish Things Check

@Mae Yes relationships can be anything! They do not have to be healthy relationships either, they can be a very horrible obsessions or attachments.

@Duthguy@rush99999
And to Everyone, all of the rules have been typed up! I didn't go into complete depth with Conflicts, so some of that info is missing, because I figured I'd let you know a lot of that stuff anyway. If any of you have any questions about the rules, please let me know and I will do my best to explain it.

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@Duthguy@rush99999I'm going to wait before actually getting the rp going, to see if others might be interested, but the OOC is up and has some of the rules for how to play. Here's a link to the thread https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/171608-monsters-and-other-childish-things/ooc

Monsters and Other Childish Things

General Rules

If others are interested and would like to join in, please let me know, we still have an open slot available! For the character sheet, it is there for you to use, but if you decide on a better format for you, then feel free to do that. As for the actual explanations in the hiders, I wrote down as much as I think everyone would need, but if you have any questions or need clarification on something let me know. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Also, another nice resource in case my explanation is horrible, there is this little cheat sheet. I will be going into more detail than what's explained here, but it may help so here is that as well.

Character Sheet

[h3] General Stuff [/h3]
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Favorite Thing:
Birth Date:
Monster:
Appearance:
Experience Points:

[h3] Stats and Skills [/h3]
[b]FEET (locations 1-2): [/b]
[indent] Skill: PE:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Kicking:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Dodging: [/indent]
[b]GUTS (locations 3-6): [/b]
[indent] Skill: Wind:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Courage:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Wrestling: [/indent]
[b]HANDS (locations 7-8): [/b]
[indent] Skill: Shop:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Punching:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Blocking: [/indent]
[b]BRAINS (location 9): [/b]
[indent] Skill: Out-Think:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Remember:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Notice: [/indent]
[b]FACE (location 10): [/b]
[indent] Skill: Charm:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Putdown:[/indent]
[indent] Skill: Connive: [/indent]

[h3] Relationships [/h3]
*Name*: *Score*
*Name*: *Score*
*Name*: *Score*

Character Creation

• Step 1: Name and Stuff
  
  • Come up with a Name and age (age should be between 4 and 18)
  • Character’s favorite thing
  • A bad thing they did (PM this to me)
  • A good thing they did (PM this to me)
• Step 2: Stats
  
  • You have five stats that each start at 1 point
  • You are then given 10 points to divide between your stats however you want
  • No stat can go over five points
• Step 3: Skills
  
  • Skills start out at 0
  • You are then given 15 points to divide between your skills however you want
  • I will allow you to add other skills besides the ones pre-set, but you must talk to me about the skill first
  • No skill can go over five points
• Step 4: Relationships
  
  • Come up with a few relationships your character would have in their world (parents, siblings, stuffed animals, a favorite tv show, a person they stalk, etc.)
  • You get 6 points to put towards these relationships
  • Once again, you can’t go over five points

Stats and Skills Explained

• Stats
  
  • Feet: Moving your whole body without looking like a dork
  • Guts: How tough and dogged you are. Also the most likely place someone’s going to punch you
  • Hands: Fine dexterity and movement, so you don’t pick your eye instead of your nose
  • Brains: How much of what you see and hear actually gets through to your skull
  • Face: How cool, clever, and sneaky you can be
• Skills
  
  • Feet
    
    • Dodging: Getting out of the way
    • Kicking: Putting the sneaker where it’ll do the most good
    • PE: Running, jumping, climbing trees
  • Guts
    
    • Courage: Standing up to bullies and eldritch horrors from beyond space and time
    • Wind: Health, breath, and fitness
    • Wrestling: Grabbing hold and squeezing and not letting go till the other guy says you’re the boss of him
  • Hands
    
    • Blocking: Using a thing to stop a thing from hitting you in the thing
    • Punching: Socking ‘em in the chops
    • Shop: Working with your hands
  • Brains
    
    • Notice: Spotting the forest and the trees, and the squirrels and the Bigfoots too
    • Out-Think: Solving problems with your smarts
    • Remember: Book learning and keeping up with details
  • Face
    
    • Charm: Winning friends and influencing teachers
    • Connive: Lying, tricking, and other vitally deceptive kid skills
    • Putdown: Ragging on the other guy’s mom

Rolling Explained

• When you roll, you’ll normally be asked to roll a stat + skill roll which will be known as your dice pool
  
  • EX: If you have 4 points in Brains and 3 in Notice and you want to check a room for something suspicious, you would roll 4d10 for Brains plus 3d10 for Notice for a total of 7d10
• You may also add relationship points to your dice pool, if you can argue that the relationship would affect the skill or stat.
  
  • EX: If you have a test at school and your mom has been helping you study for this test, you may add those relationship dice into the dice pool
• You can never roll more than 10 dice at a time
• To succeed in a roll, you are looking for matching numbers
• The number of dice that match is called the width
  
  • The width indicates speed and damage
• The number on the die of the matching dice is called the height
  
  • The height indicates quality and accuracy
• If you roll more than one match, you only get to choose to use one of those, so if you are trying to do something fast and accuracy doesn’t matter than go for the widest roll. If you are trying to do something accurately and speed doesn’t play a large part, then go for the highest roll.
• EX: If you happen to roll a dice pool of 10 dice and you get 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 6, 5 then you have two sets to choose from four 3s or two 1s. Say you choose the 3s for your matching set, so you have a width of 4 and a height of 3.

Relationships Explained

• If you decide to roll with relationships in your dice pool and still manage to fail, then the relationship takes a shock
• Each shock reduces your relationship by one die
• Those dice can be gotten back through spending quality time with the person or thing you have a relationship with
• Quality time will require a stat + skill dice roll to be successful and it is going to be difficult to gain dice back
• You can’t use the same stat + skill roll twice in a row during quality time
• Relationships that are shocked down to zero dice is in crisis
• To knock a relationship out of crisis will require quality time as well, but will have a much more difficult roll
• Each failed roll during quality time when a relationship is in crisis will knock a die off that relationship permanently (Until character advancement happens)

Character Advancement Explained

• You will be awarded with experience points at the end of every chapter and for good roleplaying
• Unlike most games where these points will eventually level you up, you may spend these points right away to buff up your character
• 1 exp will buy you a skill point in any skill
• 2 exp will buy you a relationship point
• 3 exp will buy you a stat die in any stat
• 5 exp will buy your monster a new die or a new quality or extra

Monster Sheet

[h3] General Stuff [/h3]
Name:
Favorite Thing:
Appearance:
Personality:
Hiding Ability:

[h3] Stats [/h3]
[b]*Location Name*[/b] (location(s) *location range*): *dice pool*
[indent]Qualities:[/indent]
[indent]Extras:[/indent]
[b]*Location Name*[/b] (location(s) *location range*): *dice pool*
[indent]Qualities:[/indent]
[indent]Extras:[/indent]
[b]*Location Name*[/b] (location(s) *location range*): *dice pool*
[indent]Qualities:[/indent]
[indent]Extras:[/indent]
[b]*Location Name*[/b] (location(s) *location range*): *dice pool*
[indent]Qualities:[/indent]
[indent]Extras:[/indent]

Monster Creation

• Step 1: Name and Stuff
  
  • Figure out what your monster looks like (reference pictures can be helpful for this process)
  • Figure out its personality
  • Now that your monster has an appearance and personality give them a name
  • Give your monster a favorite thing
  • All Monsters have the ability to hide in plain sight. How does your monster hide?
• Step 2: Locations
  
  • Think about your monster’s appearance and label the important bits of anatomy
  • These important bits of anatomy will be known as locations and you need at least 4 of them and no more than 10 of them
  • Give each location a creative name
  • Now you have to number the locations, but it’s a bit more complicated than just numbering them (If anyone needs help with this, please let me know and I will help you out.)
  • Your monster needs to have their locations numbered from 1-10, much like your character has locations listed on their sheet. Basically each location is going to have a range of numbers associated with it.
• Step 3: Stats
  
  • Now that you have your locations figured out, you will focus on the dice pool for each location
  • Each number associated to a location will have 5 dice or points
    
    • EX: If a monster has a hit location with the range of numbers 3-6 associated with it, then the dice pool for that monster will be 15
• Step 4: Qualities and Extras
  
  • After you have figured out the dice pool, you will be able to add one quality to each location (look at the monster quality section for what qualities are)
  • If you want to add an extra quality to a location, it’ll cost you a die from that location’s dice pool
  • After you have figured out qualities, take a look at the extras section. These cost 1 die per extra or per level of the extra to apply to that location.
  • NOTE: You can only roll 10 dice for any given action, so if you have more than 10 dice in a location, it’d be smart to spend those dice on qualities and extras

Monster Qualities

• Attacks: This location attacks, inflicting w-1 damage
• Defends: The monster can use this location to defend
• Useful: The monster can use this location to do something useful. You get to make up what that useful ability is, this quality doesn’t usually cause damage. (It’s like from one of the monsters on the cheat sheet, the ability to swallow something and puke it back up whole)

Monster Extras

• Area: Each level of area gives your monster attack an area die of damage and a five foot radius of effect per Area die. Anyone caught in the blast rolls the area dice and the number on each die indicates a location hit for 1 shock damage.
• Awesome: Taken once allows you to set one of the monster’s dice before rolling. Taken twice lets you change one die to any value after rolling. (You can only put two points in this per location)
• Burn: At the end of every round the target takes an extra point of damage until the monster makes a successful action or the human rolls a successful Guts + Courage with a height of 6.
• Gnarly: Each level adds 1 point of damage dealt by this location.
• Sharing: Allows the kid to use a hit location’s ability even when the monster is hiding. (only need 1 point in sharing)
• Spray: Allows you to use multiple sets of matching dice (only need 1 point in spray in that hit location)
• Tough: Each point of tough, knock one point off any damage it suffers
• Wicked Fast: Each point adds a point to the speed during the order phase

Hit Locations Explained

• Each stat on a human, or location on a monster, links to a hit location.
• The height of your roll will indicate what location you hit when you are trying to do damage
  
  • EX: If someone attacks you and gets matching 1s then they will do damage to your feet
• When a location is hit you will reduce the dice or points in that stat or location by the width of the attack roll - 1
  
  • EX: If that person attacking your feet rolled three 1s then you will reduce your feet stat by 2
• If a stat is reduced to zero dice, then any remaining damage rolls up or down into an adjacent hit location

Damage Types

• Shock Damage: Temporary Damage that can be healed quickly
• Scar Damage: Make you bleed or breaks bones, either way it’s permanent and takes a lot of effort to heal
• Physical Damage: Damage done to your character or your monster physically
• Emotional Damage: Damage done to your character emotionally (done using the putdown skill)

Conflicts Explained

• Phase 1: Declare
  
  • Everybody says what they want to do in order of lowest Brains + Out-Think pool to highest (Your monster and you go at the same time)
• Phase 2: Roll
  
  • Roll, identify matches, choose which set to use (Tell GM what set you’re using)
• Phase 3: Resolve
  
  • GM will write out what happens for that round of battle

Extra Info That’s Important

• When your character takes emotional damage your monster will take equal damage in the same hit location
• When a monster’s hit location hits 0, your character’s corresponding hit location will go down to 0
• Dodging or defending an attack roll against you requires you to get the height or higher to the attack roll and a width equal to or greater
• If your width is equal or greater but your height is not, you can choose to take the damage in an adjacent hit location
• To find out what’s going on with the other monster, your character can make a Brains + Notice roll to identify useful information about the monster after a round of battle or being around the monster 1 minute outside of battle while it is not hidden.

Campaign Introduction

Road trips. The quintessential American family vacation. Pile in the car with mom, dad and siblings, sing songs and play I Spy as you travel to some regional wonder, the park (theme or national), the lake, the beach, or distant family members. You might remember these as times of pure happiness, shining jewels of bliss in the treasure trove of your childhood memories. Or you might remember being bricked up by luggage, a backseat Amontillado, the doldrums of the vast lengths of highway you crossed, the tedium of being dragged to historical monuments that you couldn't care less about and the irritation of your parents who don't appreciate your lack of enthusiasm or the endless war of attrition between your siblings, trading each precious bit of patience and sanity in exchange for as much frustration and hurt feelings you could inflict on them. Is it coming back to you now? Sleeping with your face pressed against the car window? The hours of silence after everyone's run out of things to say? The lightheaded feeling when you first get out of the car?

This campaign is an homage to this most venerated of familial traditions. Only instead of trying to accurately simulate the road trip, the most existential of all vacation types, this will have monsters. Giddy, sanity rending monsters, eager to cut you open from your seatbelt strait jacket and free you from the slightly different kind of road trip. A long twisting odyssey through the murky subconscious of children's entertainment, both old and new. Talking animals plotting rebellion and mass executions in a quaint New England farm. A trip to the land of Oz to find a new ruler to unite the kingdom. Deluded heroes in matching spandex uniforms who fight villains conjured b their own dark emotions. A perfectly plastic theme park that offers everything except escape. Sprites that lure children to a parentless paradise where the dark beasts lurk and no one ever goes home. So, get packed and get some sleep. We're leaving at dawn.

Monsters and Other Childish Things Check

Hey, guys!

So, I'm not sure if anyone knows of this table top, but it's really fun. I came across it recently and have introduced my real life D&D group to it. I love it a lot and am kind of obsessed and I thought it might be fun to do one online as well. So, I will say that nobody needs to know what this game actually is I will give everyone a quick overview of the rules if people are actually interested in doing this campaign.

To actually summerize what this table top is, it is a game where the players play as kids and these kids have monsters. The player will have complete control over the kid, but the monster will be controlled by both the GM and the player. It runs a little different from a D&D game. It uses a different rolling system, called the One-Roll Engine. For those that aren't familiar with the system it just uses a pool of d10s and it has you rolling for matched numbers rather than just high numbers. For those that want to know how the actual guide defines itself, I pasted a section from the book and it is in the spoiler below.

What's This All About

"Monsters and Other Childish Things is a roleplaying game about kids and the people who matter to them most—their friends, family and loved ones. And their horrifying pet monsters.

Monsters is about kids because childhood is full of the most extraordinary conflicts, changes, awakenings and realizations. It’s a time when people live stories, when the wall hasn’t come down so hard between fantasy and reality; a time when finding a weird green egg in your basement seems like a real possibility. And the thing that hatches? It’s just so cute. And ugly. It’s too cugly to abandon.

Childhood is a time when relationships matter in a powerful and primal way. The body remembers being utterly helpless, a babe in arms, totally dependent on love for survival. The racing monkey brain might seek independence, but it also craves contact. Because relationships are so vital, conflict really matters. The stakes are high, every day. And that’s without a giant prehuman psychic insect clinging to the ceiling and whispering suggestions about what to get your mom for her birthday while you’re trying to shop."

Now, that you know what the overall game is going to be like, I will now talk about what the campaign is. I'm going to start off with a pre made campaign. It's called Road Trip. Your characters will be going on a road trip to save the world from a cult that is trying to bring about the end of the world. If this goes well, I wouldn't mind making up my own campaigns and continuing with the group if that is something anyone wants to do.

For what I'm looking in a group, I'd like to keep it small, only 2-4 players will be accepted. If I get a higher interest, I can make exceptions, but that might mean those players won't play as a kid and will instead play as someone else's monster. I'd like people that can post once a week at least. If anyone has any other questions, please feel free to ask!

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