The Pre-Advertisement Thread

Started by Shak November 26th, 2015 10:05 AM
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Shak

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Seen March 15th, 2023
Posted March 14th, 2023
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So it's never nice as a GM as to write up a whole massive concept and create the OP only to be faltered by a lack of sign-ups when it's all finally up. So I made this thread for all you GMs with risky ideas. In this thread, you can share ideas to see if they generate any excitement amongst us other RPers and whether it's worth making or not. Not only that, but you can also see if you're making your RP at the wrong time. Perhaps people want to join, but feel they have their hands full at the moment.
Of course, that means this thread is for those who want to see what exciting new RP ideas will be popping their head up in the future.
So in short: Post ideas for threads. Like other peoples posts if you are interested in their idea. Hopefully, no more RP OOC threads that never get running in IC. Hopefully

EDIT: Okay, so after being informed that my original explanation was quite vague, I thought I'd come here and expand on this.I had the idea of an RP based on the film "Fight Club", but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would be too popular on PC's RPT. So I was hoping I could get a good idea of who would be interested. The RP will take place in 'The New Fight' club where players are introduced before having their first fight within Fight Club. After that, the action will be broken up with a chapter post, either looking at the characters lives outside of fight club or the process of them moving into the fight club house.
Following that players will be given "Assignments" which they have to fulfil. The tasks may include things like "Fight someone in a lake" or "Fight someone on live TV". The one's I have in mind are much better and more creative, but...no spoilers Y'know? The RP will be heavily chapter based and will eventually build itself into a plot.
Anyways....Would anyone be interested in anything like that?



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Junier

Fake Friends Forever (´・ω・`)

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Seen December 5th, 2019
Posted August 3rd, 2018
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oh cool

I'd say my old contest RP but I'm bringing that back anyway, so here's something more general: An RP where our characters or aspects of our characters are chosen for us. I like taking established characters/character concepts and rolling with them as much as I like creating my own. The "Guess U" RP tournament thingamajig a few months ago is a pretty good example of this. Another idea I've seen is a bunch of players design a character and throw them in a raffle so everyone gets someone else's pre-designed character.

moon

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I still want to make a RP where pokémon team up (maybe 3 is a team) and go on journeys to beat gym leaders (who are also pokémon, as are all the citizens) and try to get strong and evolve and explore etc. Wild pokémon would be species that wouldn't fare well in urban life - sea creatures, four legged monsters, legends... There'd be a theme of racism thrown in, since there'd be individuals from inherently Wild species who would try to adapt to a Modern life, while there also might be some Modern species trying to go back to the nature to live among the Wilds.

I really think it would be fun. I just haven't found a good time to post it, even though I have a draft or two somewhere. Would anyone else like it?
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Ice

Seen October 16th, 2022
Posted February 3rd, 2020
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Another idea I've seen is a bunch of players design a character and throw them in a raffle so everyone gets someone else's pre-designed character.
I kind of wanted to do this as a christmas event. Get people to make SUs, and put them in other people their stockings. Like a roleplay secret santa.

Sonata

Don't let me disappear

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Indiana
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Posted March 25th, 2023
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10.2 Years
I really do want to do a nursing home rp at some point. But I don't know if it would last past the first page since it'd be pretty much the same old stuff every day. Unless you gave your character alzheimers or something...

Ice

Seen October 16th, 2022
Posted February 3rd, 2020
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8.8 Years
I personally want to run an RP about people that got lost on an island unable to be rescued. Just like Lost, but not because I haven't seen it. The island would be filled with magical creatures and locations. I'd add some exploration based gamification goals to it, and while characters would start out normally, they could possibly develop powers and everything. And preferably players would go in wanting their characters to die, haha.

The other thing I like to do is bring my 'old' RP Venice back, about gothic monsters in renaissance era Venice trying to get to the top of political hierarchy. I think there'll be enough interest for this one, as last time it got quite the initial surge, but it didn't really keep attention, I felt.

Mana

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Seen March 25th, 2023
Posted August 18th, 2021
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14.3 Years
If you guys ever need new blood in your roleplay (or just want more people to look in general) you could always use the Buzz Feed thread and let the social media team know :333.

The idea behind Venice was really good idea Ben, worth the revival :).

Junier

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Ayyyy ya'll like the ideaaaaa

Ice, you've got something going with making it a Secret Santa type deal. My question is, if the characters were "stocking stuffers" or sorts, would they simply be free characters for the receivers to use as they wished or would they be characters for something in-particular?

I was also intrigued by Venice when it was still up. I was only intimidated because at the time I was very new and not used to dabbling in things other than Pokemon, but I'd be interested in perhaps joining it if its revived.

Strange

Age 23
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Everywhere at the same time
Seen September 27th, 2017
Posted September 9th, 2017
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So I have an idea to make an rp inspired by Once Upon A Time. The cannon characters would be nonexistent, and all characters would be made by the players. They would create a character for the Storybrooke or "normal" earth world. But also have that person be a character from the Enchated Forest or "Fairy Tale World." They could either make their character an already existing disney/fairytale character (with a unique storbrooke side of course) or an original one related to an already existing one. The story would be character/player driven with little to no gm interference.

Would anyone be interested in this?

Any and all feedback is welcome of course. Feel free to ask questions too.

Sephear

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Posted December 19th, 2022
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12.1 Years
I've gotta say, now that it really has been long enough for me to consider it lost, I've been thinking of rebooting the only Roleplay I ever put up here that lasted further than starting at all: Sekirei: Wings of Fate. In case anyone's heard of Sekirei and is wondering...yup it's based on the setting we were given with the "Sekirei" manga/anime.

For all you wonderful folks who have no idea what in the whofangle I'm talking about, Wings of Fate was (and may be again) a roleplay that took place in Tokyo and revolves around the relationships between 108 beautiful, super-powered people (mostly women if I'm honest) called Sekirei and a select few humans who have the ability to bond with them, called Ashikabi. A Sekirei becomes stronger once they are bonded with an Ashikabi, and their power grows with the love and affection between them. And the Sekirei must fight, until there is only one Ashikabi and their Sekirei left, after which they will be granted their greatest wish.

So, in summation: the roleplay would be centered around the drama that the Sekirei Plan forces upon it's participants, and the bonding of characters with some epic superfights thrown in. And none of the pairs will be controlled by one person. While having multiple characters is perfectly acceptable, each Ashikabi or Sekirei will be paired up with someone ELSE's character(s). So you can expect plenty of romance - awkward and otherwise - tastefully done and within PC's and the RPT's rules, TONS of character interaction, events written up by me and my wonderful Co-GM Geras32, and awesome powers.

If anyone would like a more clear reference than I made here...or if my explanation was just bad here's the original RP if you'd like to take a look: http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=314089

Last time we didn't have many takers at first, and later on most of our members got so busy they couldn't really participate anymore, so hopefully this time we can drum up a bigger cast ^_^
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