ATTENTION PIRATE LOVERS

[Capntastic]

Brodzky Zero: *I JUST HADS IDEA*
Brodzky Zero: *An idea you may like.*
Ganon fro: DO TELL.
Brodzky Zero: *An RP. Involving piracy and a way to have naval battles using Spanish Main ship stats.*
Ganon fro: ....Go on.
Brodzky Zero: *There'd be a known 'world' map, and trade routes and stuff, and you'd roleplay a captain who has a minor fleet.*
Brodzky Zero: *You could ally yourself with, or fight against other players.*
Brodzky Zero: *We could set up battle maps (Battles could be over disputed territories [treasure islands], and have a way to use L and S distances.*
Brodzky Zero: *The main hurdle would be to find a way to get people who don't have Spanish Main an idea of how to play.*
Brodzky Zero: *:D? :D??*
Ganon fro: ...We could defer to the Spanish Main site, for them to understand.
Brodzky Zero: *:Nod:*
Ganon fro: But it definitely does sound interesting.
Brodzky Zero: *Aye.*
Ganon fro: Yar.
Brodzky Zero: *We could even find a way to use Crew.*
Brodzky Zero: *I love the idea of Crew :D*
Brodzky Zero: *We'd have to change the rules a bit, of course.*
Ganon fro: Well yeah.
Ganon fro: I just don't know how we'd actually rp the battles out.
Brodzky Zero: *Have a coordinate system?*
Ganon fro: ...That would be the easiest way, yes.
Brodzky Zero: *Also, should we do this, would it be 'real world'?*
Brodzky Zero: *Or semi-fantastical, ala Captain Shard's tale? :D*
Brodzky Zero: *With fictional countries and a not-Earth locality?*
Brodzky Zero: *Just imagine a totally rad ongoing RP with a map that has all the countries and island fortresses and such on it, along with treasure marks and such.*
Ganon fro: ...Well, either way, it'd totally rock if it got going.
Brodzky Zero: *:nods:*
Ganon fro: And if the crew was rp'd by other people, captains could retire and raise them to captain hoods and such
Brodzky Zero: *Possibly.*
Brodzky Zero: *Crew could be in charge of ships that the captain is not on.*
Brodzky Zero: *And could mutiny or something.*
Ganon fro: True...
Brodzky Zero: *I would be glad to make the map of Terra Cognita, circa A.D. 1600~*
Brodzky Zero: *Fictional countries and stuff, but it'd be REAL, for the sake of the game.*
Ganon fro: This sounds much more like a seperate RPing thing than any Gaera thing I've heard of.
Ganon fro: Right right
Brodzky Zero: *Wasn't thinking of having it be Gaeran.*
Brodzky Zero: *It could be, but magic and dragons and stuff would just banjax things up :(*(
Brodzky Zero: *You could use GOLDS and MATERIALS and a HIDDEN PIRATE BAY to make more ships.*
Ganon fro: ...Now that sounds much more interesting.
Brodzky Zero: *Each captain would have his own materials and stuff.*
Brodzky Zero: *And you'd need crew.*
Brodzky Zero: *And there'd be pirate hunters and stuff, probably led by a tyrannical authority figure with a dark secret or something.*
Ganon fro: And if it gets popular, people could totally have rivalries, states forming and protecting themselves against pirate and other countries invading...
Brodzky Zero: *Yes :D*
Brodzky Zero: *I'm gonna post this chat up on the forums when we're done.*
Brodzky Zero: *Along with some rules about Spanish Main.*
Ganon fro: This definitely sounds like an awesome idea!
Brodzky Zero: *YES*
Brodzky Zero: *Howsabout, most of the game is set around a fictional continent, pretty far out from the reaches of England and Spain and such.*
Ganon fro: Right.
Brodzky Zero: *But they've still got colonies there.*
Ganon fro: I know! It's set on an island like Record of Lodoss War, which is totally autonomous, but seperate from the rest of the world!
Ganon fro: Well, continent island.
Brodzky Zero: *Never seen it :(*
Brodzky Zero: *:nod:*
Ganon fro: There are like 5 countries on the island.
Brodzky Zero: *I was thinking like, several large islands, with many smaller ones all throughout.*
Ganon fro: Well, I was thinking there is one large one, with a very distict hold on an archepelago and the islands bicker and fight amongst each other, but when it comes to the large country, they try to put things aside, since the islands are natives and the large country is a colony of some real country

And that's what we've got so far. Interested? Post to let us know. I've got a lot of ideas, and I'd love to see this take off. Make suggestions, ask questions and stuff.

[Dan]

Sexy

[Jak Snide]

This could be righteous, if I have the time. I imagine running it via board would take foreever. Unless you beat people into posting on time.

[NebulaQueen]

I concur with Dan and Jak. I'd be totally game for this! <p>

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[Besyanteo]

I would try it, but I can't honestly garuntee to stick with it. :-/ I'll go hunt up informaiton on the Spanish Main game stuffs later and then post someting more definite.

Edit: It looks kind of interesting, and I see how it could be RPed. Like I said before, I'd try it. Maybe you can start shooting more specifics our way soon? <p>

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<div style="text-align:center"></div></p>Edited by: Besyanteo&nbsp; at: 11/25/05 19:28

[Capntastic]

MAYBE YOU CAN SHUT UP AND BE PATIENT WHILE MY HANGOVER WEARS OFF AND I CAN COME UP WITH SOME ROOTIN' TOOTIN' RADICAL IDEAS!

[Seethe347]

It seems to me that unless mutinies are sufficiently common, someone is eventually going to wind up taking over the whole map. I'm not going to complain about that. It would be a realistic eventuality. Instead, I propose that whenever someone does pull that off, he or she should be deemed the winner and a new game should be started. That would give the players something to actually work toward, like ascension in KoL, so that they're not just running around and fighting each other aimlessly. Also, each game could have its own objectives such as taking over the whole map, achieving hegemony, or just collecting the most treasure.

In the alternative, we could just, you know, go through the game one time and treat it like any other RP when it's over. But if we do that, we would pretty much have to run it via board because of the vast expanse of information that would have to be involved and that each player would have to be aware of, especially if we are going to create any kind of in-depth storyline in the process.

[Capntastic]

Wrong! Given the fact that there's not just the PC pirates working against/with each other, there's gonna be some Colonies and such to deal with, as well as fortresses and stuff. Sure they'll have power over a few ports, but pirates aren't too tough on land when there's an entire army waiting to lock you up.

[Seethe347]

Oh, I took it that some people were actually going to be playing the colonies.

... But this mistake has given me an idea of my own, which I need to get to work on right away.

Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=seethe347>Seethe347</A] at: 11/26/05 5:31

[Capntastic]

You can play a colony if you want, I guess.

[The Great Nevareh]

How about lawful Privateers? <p>[---------------------------]
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[Capntastic]

No. I will not allow that, ever. Especially for you, my comrade >: