Well, some of you may remember my planning of a world war 1 themed TES RP. Me, wit hthe help of Lycan would have created it.

though 3 things happened. 1. Lycan dissapeared/internet down? Maybe we'll never know, he's mysterious that way..

2. My internet failed completly for about half a month, or 2 weeks for you literal types out there.

3. Lost the .txt file containing all the info when we installed our ($89)500gb internal harddrive to the pc about a month ago.

So now im blind, and Lycan, need your help. I think this RP has serious possibilities.

I dont have much time right now, so I'll be back later but basically, here was the main context of the RP;

it's the 6th Era, and the ruler/headhauncho/heir to the throne of (Austrian related provine in Tamriel placed here) has just been assassinated while driving by a sandwhich shop. In the months to follow, Tamriel is throwninto political turmoil as war breaks out. Young men and mer are sent to fight in dirty, smelly rat filled trenches for there nations. Magic is now mostly used for medical purposes, and fire arms have been invented

I believe we were goign to use actual firearms used in the real war like Lee Enfields and Kar98's.

I beleive we were also going to distribute the ranks to the players, rather then them choosing it.

Agh, have to go Lycan, if you see this, please try and refresh my memory. Never was good at remembering stuff. Now then, I have to go drive about. Never goona get 24 hours of practice driving for my drivers license in June sitting around here, wot?

(tee hee)

I... must... shoot... this... down...



Anyway, I wanna see how this turns out. Oddly enough, I am not hot for an RP of trench warfare...

How nice of you!

Wheres Lycan

Sweet idea! Tell me if it gets going. I'll sign up.

Lol, bosmer firing artillery.

I only remember some disucssion on the forum about the nasty ways magic could be comined with WWI technology :

* night vision and/or life detection scopes/goggles
* silenced guns (or maybe even grenades - nasty)
* daedra-summoning enchanted bullets
* necromancy-enhanced grenade/bullet : after it has killed the ennemy, it raise it as a zombie to continue the mayhem
* demoralization spells

And probably a lot of other nasty ideas....

Fang are you a mod now? What has happened since I left? Lucky bugger you.

Where is Lycan!

I've waited ages for you to start this, looking forward to finally joining

:wave: Right here...

Ok, great! We have to remember what the main ideas were, lal of it. The political anologies, and the anologies we were using for countries so we'd have a more accurate portrayal of the Central powers and such not, the weapons, and how we were going to let the players RP.

If they all RP over different parts of the war, there is really no interaction. I think we were going to make it so they were all one one slab of the front, and from there they could be their snipers, machine gunner, normal everyday rifle man, artillary man, medic/stretcher bearer,and even a pilot.

The thought that we were limiting the use of magic is also hanging around in the crevices of my mind. Curse my forgetfulness! How come i remember the names of everyone on "This Hour has 22 Minutes" but not this? Agh Well then.

BTW How's University going? Im eagerly waiting the end of my first semester in grade 10 to come, so I can do history in second semester

I've been playing a pbp DnD game lately set during WWI lately, actually. I think I know just how we can pull this off...

Basically, the players will be a squad. They'll be taking part in a battle which will involve them doing a few trench charges before finally moving into a bombed out village. After playing in that other pbp game, I can honestly say this will work.

Now, we if I recall correctly...

England - Skyrim
America - Summerset Isles
France - Cyrodil
Germany - Morrowind
Italy - Elsywer
Austria - Argonia

I know I'm forgetting a few countries from both realities, but we can tweak it a bit better later on.

Weapons will be bolt-action rifles and whatnot. If you're lucky, you might have a crappy French-made machine gun which is prone to jamming. Grenades and stuff will be provided at the beginning - after that, you're on your own. Tanks can be commandeered, but you'll have to actually get the tank first... good luck with that.

Oh, magic and potions and stuff is still in use. While it is mostly used for healing, some countries, such as Morrowind, give all of their soldiers basic Destruction spell training and whatnot. So if it gets down to an Imperial with a knife and a Dunmer with his bare hands, my money would be on the Dunmer.


For this, I'd expect the players to be on the side of the Imperials, although a few non-Imperial characters would be understandable. (Expatriots were common... My Great-Grandather was a German immigrant, and he fought for America. Heck, he was a spy! )


Well Fubb, what do you think? You like my touch-up, or should I shut up and go back to Fallout 3?

Here's my view. In my opinion, it might work better than Lycan's, but that's just what I think.

No harsh feelings, Lycan.

Daggerfall, and corresponding possessions in a united High Rock. - England
Sentinel, and surrounding regions in a united Hammerfell - France
Skyrim, united under one king or other - Germany
Colovia - Austria
Nibenay - Serbia, Montenegro et al.
Aldmeri Dominion - Russia (think of the Isles as a floating Petrograd, Moskva et al. and Valenwood as a forested Ukraine)
Northern Elsweyr - Ottoman Empire
Southern Elsweyr - Italy
Black Marsh - the Far-East or the Pacific

Yeah but we're just gonna be using the basic stuff... The Pacific forces only sent a few thousand troops at the most. Heck, Columbia only sent 5 mules, IIRC... So the way I see it, we should only use the European nations, rather than screw around with petty details.

I might be interested in this. Not going to lie, I'd prefer WWII (M1= my fav gun of all time), but I could do this.

You can go back to FO3 whenever you like it is a great game

No, that looks great, cause now we have the main forces that fought in the war. We could have a Russia, if we want just to add some more political backdrop to the RP.

(Also, whats this php DnD Italia game im hearing about...?)

Coarse Marn, while your idea's arn't exaclty bad, they add a little confusion (for me atleast. Thats not saying much though ) though, we do need a russia...I love russia....If only Ireland participated i nthe war, then we could have an ireland to...



Sorry, I like ww2 history, but everygame, and movie, is pretty much about WW2. We need more ww1 games and movies...

So then., Lets decide on classes shall we? If everyoens in a squad, the flying corps can be scrapped, though we may still have a thing stuch as an Anti-Tank rifle man, a rifle man, or medic. Those sort of things.

riflemen (could be alight and heavy gunner as well)
explosive engineers...
Snipers
Medics
Engineers/repairmen/etc (fixing vehicles and tanks etc)
Drivers
Atrillery
Tactitians/leaders

you need to start this next tuesday, with this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NtSqZcT_4

its perfect timing for this roleplay

well, depending on the number of players, it could be grouped into squads, platoons, or even companys. The members of a squad would most likely be the following: Light Mortar crew (2 people), 8 Riflemen, 1 Sergeant, and 1 solider with the flamethrower/automatic gun/support weapon. And a radio operator to.

they had flamethrowers?

Yup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_during_World_War_I#Flame_throwers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WW_1#Technology - Second to last paragraph in the technology section.

Guns and Magic, what a good mix.

I will definitely join this. I want to be a sniper.

Sapper here

A Flamethrower guy, or a sapper, or a flame throwing sapper!

Id be interested in joining

be sure to balance out the WWI weapons and trench warfare with a hefty dose of magical abilities and a decent plot providing reasons for the war and such....should scare off all the newie roleplayer's who want to join to make big explosions >_>

If they did, the minute they peak over the paraqett into no-mans-land, they'll become close friends with a sniper.

Dont worry, the background story will most likly be heavily related to that of how WW1 really started, just anologised up.

Sorry, I've pretty much been at meh church all day doing stuff, so wasn't able to get online =\

Now where is that Lycan. Anyways.

If we have only a few people, then we'd only have 1 squad, if we have around 10+, we may make em' a platoon, with NPC characters. I'd doubt we'd have anymore. I would be hoping that the setting would be about 10 days before a "Big Push" into some sort of Vimmy Ridge or Paschendeale (plz excuse spelling errors. Its late and im lazy ) and it would be a sort of "Quiet before the storm" sort of deal, wit your action sequences here n' there

Sounds awesome . I can't wait to be the wise talking smart-ass soldier that eventually gets his come-uppance ( Based off my dude in The Cave.........he got decapitated /tear )