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Akroma

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New Rotmg - Interest Check
« on: September 12, 2016, 02:49:57 pm »

time for one of those again.

my last attempt to make a somewhat darker, more serious rotmg sadly fell short on people realising what I wanted to do, with people going for sandwiches over funerals, and PNs attempt fell short due to...complete and utter lack of PN.


so this time, I will put the rotmg in a more serious, realistic spin, focusing on the debate currently everywhere in subcultures - super humans vs normal humans. DC, Avengers, X-men, Deus Ex, they are all on that, and I kind What rights do they have for the vigilantism? How can we defend against these guys, if dangerous? Can anyone who was born with the ability to read minds ever be trusted? Should someone who can throw fireballs even be able to do so? Etc. Strict, in some countries downright opressive government controle and a controverse public view, paragons and extremists on both sides, violent protests etc. A whole load of chaos as the law tries to somehow get up to date etc etc.


Players would be part of, or at least have ties to a -at least on the first view- pro-magic, or rather con-opression activist group. Afterall, that was what Maria Ryan, in her first call to the public called for. A safe place for mages, outsiders, that would be unwelcome elsewhere, and be among themselves. Rather than large scale savings of the world on a regular basis, the divide in mankind would play a central role, and dealing with the consequences both small and large scale.


Anyone down for that?
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2016, 03:00:08 pm »

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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2016, 03:01:54 pm »

sure i guess.
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2016, 03:02:05 pm »

so this time, I will put the rotmg in a more serious, realistic spin
I'll pass on this one. I never felt RotMG was supposed to be serious and gritty (having played in almost every RotMG-related game); after all, we may as well play a Magical Burst game if we want a serious magical girl RP, and there are plenty of other games that provide much the same atmosphere with similar systems out there on this forum alone. I always felt that RotMG should be one of the lighter games on the forum; after all, we're not talking about a realistic world, we're talking about magical girls shooting friendship beams, going to high school and saving the day before dinner. Realism, at least in my opinion, should never come as a priority of an RotMG RP, and I always had more fun in the first two and Rise of the Fingerlings precisely because of their utter lack of seriousness, at least at first.

I'll be honest, I wasn't a fan of the apocalyptic or dark turn the last two RotMGs took. They felt too serious, like they weren't really trying to have fun with what is an inherently silly concept (not to say that serious magical girl shows are bad, it's just that reconciling sparkly meguca with gritty topic matter is very damn hard and takes a master to do it) and to be quite honest, forced a dark tone on something that wasn't dark to begin with. They never really felt like they were true successors to RotMG so much as it felt like games with the name plastered on that was otherwise completely different. Not to say that they were bad games, far from it; it's just that forcing the idea of RotMG and seriousness together has, to me, felt rather like forcing a square peg into a round hole and it never really worked without serious cooperation and investment.

Also, I'm not a fan of serious and gritty games on principle. I've felt rather burned out with serious and gritty media lately, to be honest.
TL;DR: If it's a serious RotMG, I'm out.

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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2016, 03:03:40 pm »

yeah, it's basicaly rotmg in name and a few key-events only.
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2016, 03:04:52 pm »

I completely and utterly am excited for this akroma I'll be happy to join you could probably run a my little pony game and I'd play it to be honest so this sounds marvelous!
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2016, 03:06:32 pm »

not until you know, that I know that ponies are so over-bred, even well-groomed ones have about 14 diseases just in the hoof.



Maybe I should now google how many diseases humans have, on average, that they barely notice..
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2016, 03:07:47 pm »

Ohhh fun!
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« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2016, 03:25:07 pm »

ok i need some clarification. Is this rotmg as in Realm of the Mad god or Rise of the Magical girls?
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2016, 03:27:11 pm »

ok i need some clarification. Is this rotmg as in Realm of the Mad god or Rise of the Magical girls?
The latter.

And the premise sounds fine.
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« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2016, 03:34:18 pm »

I completely and utterly am excited for this akroma I'll be happy to join you could probably run a my little pony game and I'd play it to be honest so this sounds marvelous!
the day i see an mlp game on bay12 is the day i decide to kms

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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2016, 03:34:45 pm »

I'd be up for this
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2016, 03:39:56 pm »

I completely and utterly am excited for this akroma I'll be happy to join you could probably run a my little pony game and I'd play it to be honest so this sounds marvelous!
the day i see an mlp game on bay12 is the day i decide to kms
*makes an mlp game*
wat then
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2016, 03:53:18 pm »

I completely and utterly am excited for this akroma I'll be happy to join you could probably run a my little pony game and I'd play it to be honest so this sounds marvelous!
the day i see an mlp game on bay12 is the day i decide to kms
*makes an mlp game*
wat then
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Re: New Rotmg - Interest Check
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2016, 03:54:52 pm »

Well, I agree with Elf Collaborator on the whole realism + magic thing.
But I like the concept of magical girls, so I'm definitely interested.
I may just make an actual magical girl.
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