Channelknight Fadran

I grew up LDS, but am currently agnostic.

House Vitres is pretty decent at it, but I don't want to claim the "best war House" spot

House Vitres And the Synopsis:

do tell

I imma do a thing. let’s migrate our Houses to this here thread! (Mat, good on you). Please spoiler box them, like so: But because reading through everyone’s massively complex Houses would take ages just to get through, let alone comprehend, I propose we all fill out this here House Synopsis Sheet to keep better track of things: I might update it now and again based on what stuff we need

https://forms.gle/5jUHVHEVpLohvfX2A

I was considering this, but returned to the issue of preventing stats and numbers. I think encrypting information would be up to each individual RPer as is.

So far they'd pointed an old revolver at him, brandished a broomstick, and hurled a sword into his face. i see. well, if you fools are foolish enough to support 7/11, then i shall just have to destroy you as well! Vaglohan proceeded to focus his energy, condensing it around his form into a bright red aura - then powered up to his second form: Managerial Interference, Counter-Karen. He stood to a massive height, taller than the electrical pylons, a suit of ebony-black lava pouring down his body to form pinstripes and a perfectly-linted necktie. In his left hand was a large briefcase, haphazardly closed, with the edges of several building-sized pages poking out the ends; in his right was a great battleaxe of molten lead, constanly convulsing and shifting in its form. tremble; fear me and my splendour, o mortals! Falchion did not tremble, but instead turned to Aeolia. "If you're going to keep throwing my swords into that lava monster's mouth, then you don't get any!"

Here's a form for collecting opinions on some ideas I had. It is by no means final in regards to anything: https://forms.gle/RG6ZUugoXbJvpot3A

I wish there was a way we could realistically implement full-on spying, but perhaps it's for the best that the Shard can't accommodate such a system

Intelligence is secondary to experience. When you've written as much D&D homebrew as we have, you'll understand I should think less officially than the Panem districts, but certainly some Houses would be more wealthy in some areas than others. For my own House Vitres, I'm thinking they'll specialize in mining and refining some kind of energy crystal that starships run on, but it wouldn't be like "Vitres controls the trade."

Either way we just have to do the honor system.

I like that accountability system. Perhaps we should put it behind several spoiler boxes just in case though

I'm going to brainstorm some potential RP-Loop structures: We have a direct Timescale between IRL and in-game time (For example, 3 days irl = 1 month in-RP). We could set the turnover to an official hour and timezone so that we do it automatically, so the RP would remain moving forwards without getting bogged down by smaller hijinks. We could also skip certain days or prolong certain periods based on peoples' regular Shard activity (for example, a lot of folks here are less active during the weekend). If we need an announcer for turnovers then I could pick up this role (I don't have a life lol) If someone's been inactive for awhile, it'd be common courtesy to politely ignore their House for the time being. We could set up a "Default Action" system for when someone doesn't post during a cycle (like "House Fadran retracts his forces to defend their home planet" or something), or we could just politely remember that everyone on the Shard has a life outside of it and shouldn't be punished for that. Like in ye olde Conquer the World... With AI, we have a direct-ish "Resource point" system. Basically, we'd all start with a net-zero(ish) sum of advantages and disadvantages - to increase this "score" (I do want to avoid using numbers, btw), you would have to complete campaigns against other Houses or into unclaimed zones. The outcomes of these conflicts would, of course, be determined by RP: hopefully we'd all be capable of honoring the storyline and other peoples' perspectives and whatnot, but if not then we can always just turn to consulting with outsiders as to who "won" the confrontation. It would be the equivalent of writing a 1v1 combat sequence in a regular RP, but instead of determining the flow of a battle we'd be determining the flow of p o l i t i c a l i n t r i g u e. We could do that "stress" system thing that I proposed earlier, where you can intentionally drain your own House's resources to basically "Flashback" your way into countering something. I'm more attached to this idea conceptually than I am in terms of this RP specifically, so if it seems too jank then that's all good by me. Communication between Houses in-RP would limited to the Shard, either on the thread itself or via PM. For this it's more about the principle than anything else. There are currently 16 members in the PM, but only 10 Houses on the doc. I propose we migrate any developed Houses to this thread to get an "official" roster of RPers, then allow any stragglers a day or two to complete theirs. Once we've got a closed list of members, we'd each randomly select another member to be in a Secret Alliance with (read: PM) - in order to make sure we don't have too many locked-out RPers or a massive loop of every member, we could probably run the numbers on this a few times to see what kinds of groups are most common. Performing ANY action would require posting in the RP Thread Proper: none of this "gwehehehe actually my house has been hoarding death stars the whole time" stuff. No action goes unnoticed, which means that with everything you do, at least part of it is projected for everyone else to see. This doesn't mean you have to post "House Fadran starts stockpiling weapons to invade House Matrim, planning to take the secret back route through his planetary defenses" or anything - you can keep your secrets, but you'd have to at least say something among the lines of "A rumor has spread that House Fadran has been manufacturing a lot of weapons recently..." and leave everyone else to sus out why this is the case. Again: honor system, guys.

“Um… we don’t actually serve pina flavor here.”

i am VAGLOHAN, Devourer of Souls. Wielder of the mighty Grapebane! i am the mighty leader of Hainki Insurance Firm, and the foolish owner of this chain has rejected by kind offer for demonic protection and turned instead to my disgusting brother - so i am now the sworn enemy of all 7/11 and their allies! TREMBLE IN FEAR.

"Hey!" It was the teenager working the shift that yelled. "THE TIP JAR! NOOOOO!"

The demon was thinking to himself privately, but unfortunately kept his mic on during it. o thank craig they hast come to their senses - i wast beginning to dread a dead meat So he summoned an explosion of fire and stone to completely liquify the block.

not yet I don't, but I'll be brainstorming

(which was my fault, btw. Burnout sucks) What we could do to avoid any GM stagnation or whatever is to have an official "engine" that keeps the timeline going. Something like a basic action and timescale system. We want to avoid any of this "turn-based" crap, but if there's going to be rules at all then we also want a way to make sure people can't just constantly post their House doing things. Again: honor system. Just presumably with a couple extra rules to follow so we all stay on track.

There's an interesting mechanic I was thinking of implementing. @The Bookwyrm, there happens to be this TTRPG called Blades in the Dark - I've never played it, but have taken great interest in one of its primary mechanics. It's an espionage RPG that has a "stress" mechanic, where you take on Stress Points when you fail actions to make them succeed - too many Stress Points will seriously tax your character, but are necessary to succeed on each of your missions. In addition to letting you reroll dice and such, it has a unique "flashback" feature that allows you to say that you character had already accounted for a specific action in the past: for example, if you were suddenly trapped a hidden cage, you could take a stress point to say "my character had prepared bolt cutters for this very incident." If this were to implemented here, I'd probably call them Resource Points, and have it be that your House can "spend" them in order to account for other peoples' actions. This would hopefully make it so that nobody gets completely bogged down by everyone else, while simultaneously rewarding foresight; however, it has the nasty little risk of "this might inevitably become a FGaRS." Just summat to think about.

Like I said in the PM, I'm pretty sure it'll be chaotic for a few days before most people drop out. A lot of the inerest are from folks who aren't super mcduper active, so I imagine that after awhile it'll become a lot more easy to follow.

What this means is that secret alliances will be EPIC