so... if we are all from one nation which side are we going to be?

Most likely the good side but id go for this.

Ah ha, you see? Thats where the drama and confusion of war comes into play! Which side IS the good side?

We though We were the good side, and the germans bad, and the Huns thought vice-versa! Everyday they'd sit in there trenches eating bully-beef, muttering about how they were good, and the opposite side was bad.

I want to have sort of "mental states", in which, if you unlucky, your characters mental states could decrease making him less effective, and more prone to accident. Corase, this'd have to be RP'd.

Also, if everyone in a platoon is a sapper or flameThrower man, then I have one statement...

Thats a explosion waiting to happen

I guess you haven't seen this then http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SO5WoLnOOlU

Ah haha, that actually is funny

Okay, that video with the German officers is quite funny.

Anyway...


The pbp game I'm playing is more of a Dwarven mercenary sort of game. My character is a marksman, and he's currently bleeding out in a puddle of mud somewhere in a sniper and machine gun nest infested shanty-town. Of course, when he's not being a prime sniper target, he's pulling off amazing feats of marksmanship - I actually shot up into the ceiling of a house, and the bullet went through 2 floors and into the stomach of another sniper.

But I digress...


Squads can be broken up like this:

Rifleman (a handfull of these guys - they have bolt action rifles, maybe a grenade or two, and maybe personal knowledge of one or two basic spells)
Marksman (One or two of them - they've got scopes on their gun, and possible some Mysticism and Illusion spells, like Detect Life and Night-Eye)
Grenadier (One or two of them - they've got extra grenades and/or heavy weapons, as well as descent Destruction spell knowledge)
Medic (One or two of them - they've got medical supplies and knowledge of basic Restoration spells)
Machine Gunner (One or two of them - they have a Light Machine Gun {the epitome of crappy, but faster than a bolt action rifle} and extra ammo)
Sargeant (Only one - the team leader, he has the weapon of his choice, a whistle, binoculars, flare-gun, and a few spells under his belt)

If you want, I can write up a weapon list.

This isn't going to work because you have too many weapons that are insta kill and you'll have people going like little kids "nuhu i shot you first" and if the owner of the RP sides with one or the other someone will leave. Also the character development could end up being very monotone, people sitting in trenches and getting bombed for 72 hours straight, waiting to charge over to the next trench only to get mowed down. I mean how many times can someone RP their character thinking about their family or how they'll probably die and their fears and what not. Really I can't think of anything in TES that can add to a WW1 scenario or visa versa. Unless of course you do the eastern front and here I am refering to the balkans more so but they don't really teach what happened there in any country west of vienna and no one teaches it accurately west of belgrade.

Revolutionary war might be better, or even mid 1800s. But again you won't get that same feel with the magick there and if you take the magick out you might as well drop the TES aspect all together. If you are looking at TES for national flavor, stop right there. TES does a very simplistic job of expressing different nationalities by comparisant with what we have in the real world.

If you want to try it anyway go ahead, don't take my criticism as a way of me saying "no don't do it" but more as "this is what you need to worry about." When you set up an RP, and this goes for all RPs, you have to ask yourself one thing, if you left the next day would your RP still keep on going? Does it have a story line to carry it through?

what about a mage class? To me it would make some sense to spread a few all round mages throughout the squads, they would be very useful for support, especially in the larger assaults though it would be a dangerous job because they would be the secondary target, right after the seargent.

Also @ immortalblood I don't agree with your post, posts are (generally) in something like a chronological order so whoever posted first would shoot first, also I'm under the impression that everyone is playing as a single squad so, hopefully, nobody will be shooting each other.

As to the other part it seems to be working for Lycan in this other one he's playing so why not?

Oops, forgot about the Battlemage.

Battlemage (One or two of them - Bolt action rifle, but a broad knowledge of Destruction, Alteration, and in some instances, Conjuration.)


Also, keep in mind: Everyone is on the same team. There won't be a "nu-uh, I shot first!" situation because the other guy is an NPC. And as for sitting in the trenches, I for one like this idea. My favorite aspects of RPGs are character developement and combat. This RP will be a good mix of both, since combat will be wild and varied, and player interaction is a must.


Oh wait...


Anybody seen The Lost Batallion? Its about a bunch of American troops cut off in a forest during World War I. Its very good, and would make an excellent RP. The plot is best summarized as such:

-American forces push through a forest
-One batallion gets cut off, and ends up lost in the forest
-The Americans take up position atop a hilltop in the forest, and soon the Germans learn of their position
-A few waves of Germans rush at them, but they are forced back
-A German sniper begins to reak havok amongst the Americans, but finally he is taken down
-German artillery begins to rain down on the Americans
-American counter-artillery accidentally lands on them as well
-The Germans make one more attack, consisting of infantry, smoke/gas shells, and Shock Troops armed with flamethrowers
-Only a handful of Americans are left when reinforcements finally arrive
-The survivors are all given awards, medals, and promotions out the wazzoo

i just happen to have a mdeic sitting around

Although he has never gotten into an rp that lasted :sigh:

Ah okay everyone is on the same side. That was a pretty good movie.

How about an rp where everyone dies, that sounds more like lycan. :tougne:

I don't know I think it should feel more epic than that :shrug:

The more ideas Lycan puts into this , the more I want to join . C'mon , Post it up already

Im thinking of a Khajiit sniper who is alcoholic . Yknow , that DDT stuff , when you dont drink you start shaking . Should make an excellent flawed marksman .

Btw I got this idea first.....steal it and I will use my epic Irish spell Summon leprechauns :swear:

Well we do need a weapon list, also, Lost Battalion is awesome, i have it on my pc meh bro got it for me.

Also regarding the above, i notice you said the weapons all seem to be "1-hit" weapons. What do you mean by this? Do you expect me to make this liek a video game? Your not goona get hit in the leg and lose 25% of your health, your goona get hit in the leg, have the knee blown apart from the bullet, and as your falling, have a mortor shell land right behind you and blow up, sending mud flying, as well as you, into a small dirty puddle, where you'll sit there with a nearly blown off leg, and a back riddled with shrapnel, wonderng wether it'd be better to die, or call of for a stretcher bearer.

Also, i too like character development and such. I've been lookign for a World War 2 or Vietnam roleplay that'll have just as much of the R&R as the combat, which will be what this is. When your not shooting at a random stragler in no-mans land, you'll be sitting in a dugout playing cards, or out on watch in the middle of the night. Suddenly, the wind blows! on the other side of No-mans land, you here the rattling of cans. A flare flies up from the enemies trenches, and a small firefight ensues between all the men on guard. While this is going on, you take a cautious peek over no-mans land and notice the enemies barbed-wire has cans strung about it, so anybody that so much as moves the barbwire, will cause the cans to clang together and make sounds...

Yes, little things like this will also be there, as well as the locals. During war, no villages and such were empty. The locals were stil about, they would hide in the cellars and basemants, only coming up to get food or to yell at soldiers for tramping about there lawn. Romance may also be invovled. It wasn't unlikly for a soldier to fall in love with a local. Just make sure you arn't a femal in an occupied country dating a German! OR a german female in russian occupied country. Not a good mix whatsoever.

Lycan, what do you prefer for the battle? Paschendeale or Vimy Ridge? Or the Somme? We need to make an anological battle for the RP to take part in. I kinda want a Paschendale related RP, for the coming of the movie. Vimy I just want cause Canada was in it...quote from hitler; "Of all the World War 1 monuments, this is the only one worth destroying" cause, well, he was at Vimy was he not when the Canadians attacked? Hm.

Anyways, what do you prefer?

I quite like the Somme aspect . The whole attack was a massive botch job with morale in the British ranks fallen considerably as the soldiers knew that the minute they went "Over the top" they would be torn to shred's by German machinegun .

It would make quite a interesting moral dilemma if the initial battle was an unwinnable one that the characters had to cope with , rather than in most RP's where everyone wins every battle regardless

Looking great atm , I myself was toying with a vietnam-esque RP set in black marsh but I didn't want it to seem too much like your idea so thats on the shelf for now

Sorry Fubb, in regards to the battles themselves, I'm a bit low on info when it comes to World War I. I can tell you about the air war, the naval war, and the way the ground war worked, but I don't know much about specific battles themselves.

Sad, isn't it?



Also, a Black Marsh/Vietnam RP would be awesome!

Paschendale (i had to copy that from your post fubb, I can't spell ) I think it would be a good one to do though, the weather eroded everything so it would be much more dangerous to be a soldier, even in the trenches and it'd be the first rp i've seen where people's main enemy was the weather

Quick question Fubb , when do you think you will have this up by? Im not going to lie....Im looking forward to this one .

Btw I wiki'ed "Pashendale" and upon reflection , think they that battle would make a great premise for the RP . Seriously , this photo is so http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Chateau_Wood_Ypres_1917.jpg . If you can capture that sort of atmosphere , this one will be a winner

*looks at the photo Atomic linked*

Pashendale. Hands down.


Although, Vimy Ridge sounds pretty good. Thats the ones where everyone but the Canadians retreated, right?

I've been there (vimy ridge), there's a great allied bunker system that we went through on part of the line... pointless I know but still

Well, sort of. Its the one where for 2 years the british and french failed to capture it, and the Canadians captured it in just 4 days :\

and @ Atomic: Vietnam esque RP? Im down with that! :gun: GET TO DA CHOPPA!

Ok then, Paschendale it is! though the RP is still udner contruction. I still need to create a backfround story, and decide which side the RPers will be on and such not. Not tonight though, I have youth group

Since this is not the real world you could merge battles etc. Anyways us Candians throw our vote in for vimmy ridge.

Dude i Canadian

I would like both, but yes, they want Paschendale! So, yep. Though 4 days of furious fighting would be pretty fun and dramatic.

Throw in some Vimmy ridge thing than, not even the whole battle

What a pity they don't teach us Yanks much about you guys in school. I'd never even heard much about WWI in High School, since America didn't do much until the end of it. Needless to say, I was annoyed when I discovered how much I was missing... Particularly the whole "Canada rocked the Germans" thing, which contradicts the general concensus most Americans have that Canada is a bunch of pansies.

Dude in my history class: Canada has never done anything...

Me: Canada helped win World War I. If is wasn't for them, you'd be speaking German right now.

Dude: ..... Yeah, well-

Me: And lets not forget the fact that they invaded Normany, too.

Dude: .......... I hate you.

Me: And I'm sure the Canadians hate you, too.