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I thought we could use a thread where people could introduce themselves and we could keep a running tally on who is in the RPG. We could also use this thread to discuss things that would be hard to convey In character (OOC meaning out of character) such as what our aims and intensions are and such. For example I personally feel we are spending a bit to much time killing each other (not that that's a bad thing) before we are even out of the starting area. We can't kill off all of our characters in a Tyranid RPG without first killing a few Tyranids now can we?

Players in game.

Ahzek
The PowerfulWIll
Nevie
BrotherHaraldus
ALEXisAWESOME

Firstly I would like to apologies to Nevie, I did kind of take control of your character when I dragged him into the Chimera and put you at knife point, not even metaphorically either. Secondly I would like to say that Ahzek isn't god moding in my opinion, no one wants there characters to die in the first two pages and he hasn't done anything utterly unbelievable. If anything my Archon realistically should of died by the first Rail Rifle shot, knowing my luck on table top with shadowfields the first strength 6 shot I take I will ALWAYS fail

Yeah, I just flat out ignored Ahzek's godmode and assumed he attacked someone else. ^^' I do not know how everyone else does it, but I always assume that one can only say what our characters do and their intentions, not what others' characters do and how they are affected by anything.

It feels pretty sad to just have your character ripped out of your hand and torn apart.

In my opinion when doing an action packed assault scene it would be very slowed if neither player could not, in a minor way, take some control of the enemy for short time. Otheriwse the entire thread would a string of one liners approaching ''He aimed a Kick for the chest'' only for the next player to say ''Which he was coming, and attempted to block the attack''. Would it not make more sense for one player to say ''He delivered a crushing kick to the ribs'' for the other player to say ''But he bit back the pain and lashed back out at the enemy''.

In my opinion as long as it is nothing utterly game changing then you can use someone else's character to 'set the flow'. Then leave it to the other player of where to go from there. For example when You came up and began firing upon my Eldar it would be unreasonable for everyone to get out scot free, so instead you blew open one of my warriors. Was it not god moding saying you began firing at me? No, you where setting the flow with character interaction. God moding is what I accidently did by dragging Nevie with me to the Chimera.

Can we agree on the general idea that 'setting the flow' is OK but god modding is frowned upon?

I agree completely, thanks for making this thread btw, The actual reason I gave us all some troops is to have some expendable characters that others could kill with less impact/rage then if it was a full player character that they attacked. and I also thought that the survival of the rail rifle shot was perfectly fine.

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
In my opinion when doing an action packed assault scene it would be very slowed if neither player could not, in a minor way, take some control of the enemy for short time. Otheriwse the entire thread would a string of one liners approaching ''He aimed a Kick for the chest'' only for the next player to say ''Which he was coming, and attempted to block the attack''. Would it not make more sense for one player to say ''He delivered a crushing kick to the ribs'' for the other player to say ''But he bit back the pain and lashed back out at the enemy''.

In my opinion as long as it is nothing utterly game changing then you can use someone else's character to 'set the flow'. Then leave it to the other player of where to go from there. For example when You came up and began firing upon my Eldar it would be unreasonable for everyone to get out scot free, so instead you blew open one of my warriors. Was it not god moding saying you began firing at me? No, you where setting the flow with character interaction. God moding is what I accidently did by dragging Nevie with me to the Chimera.

Can we agree on the general idea that 'setting the flow' is OK but god modding is frowned upon?

You don't have to do it like that. You can do it something like this.

'With a snarl, the Chaos Marine charges his loyalist brother. He draws his knife and starts stabbing and chopping wildly, regardless of result, he then tries to pull out of the melee and, if successful, opens fire with his bolter.'

As for my guys shooting, that was OK I felt since I only dictated what my guys did, not what actually happened to yours.

Also, @ thepowerfulwill's Tau chopping in melee:



Tau melee!

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:
In my opinion when doing an action packed assault scene it would be very slowed if neither player could not, in a minor way, take some control of the enemy for short time. Otheriwse the entire thread would a string of one liners approaching ''He aimed a Kick for the chest'' only for the next player to say ''Which he was coming, and attempted to block the attack''. Would it not make more sense for one player to say ''He delivered a crushing kick to the ribs'' for the other player to say ''But he bit back the pain and lashed back out at the enemy''.

In my opinion as long as it is nothing utterly game changing then you can use someone else's character to 'set the flow'. Then leave it to the other player of where to go from there. For example when You came up and began firing upon my Eldar it would be unreasonable for everyone to get out scot free, so instead you blew open one of my warriors. Was it not god moding saying you began firing at me? No, you where setting the flow with character interaction. God moding is what I accidently did by dragging Nevie with me to the Chimera.

Can we agree on the general idea that 'setting the flow' is OK but god modding is frowned upon?

You don't have to do it like that. You can do it something like this.

'With a snarl, the Chaos Marine charges his loyalist brother. He draws his knife and starts stabbing and chopping wildly, regardless of result, he then tries to pull out of the melee and, if successful, opens fire with his bolter.'

As for my guys shooting, that was OK I felt since I only dictated what my guys did, not what actually happened to yours.

Also, @ thepowerfulwill's Tau chopping in melee:

Spoiler:

Tau melee!

Khornate Tau melee. Almost kinda not as sucky!

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:

Firstly I would like to apologies to Nevie, I did kind of take control of your character when I dragged him into the Chimera and put you at knife point, not even metaphorically either. Secondly I would like to say that Ahzek isn't god moding in my opinion, no one wants there characters to die in the first two pages and he hasn't done anything utterly unbelievable. If anything my Archon realistically should of died by the first Rail Rifle shot, knowing my luck on table top with shadowfields the first strength 6 shot I take I will ALWAYS fail

No apologizes necessary, I'm big on the fluff, and I challenge anyone to say that a dark eldar wouldn't hurry up a guardsman that wasn't moving fast enough with a knife. Lol.

Also Khornate tau, quite possibly the most amusing I've read in a while.

Nevie wrote:

 ALEXisAWESOME wrote:

Firstly I would like to apologies to Nevie, I did kind of take control of your character when I dragged him into the Chimera and put you at knife point, not even metaphorically either. Secondly I would like to say that Ahzek isn't god moding in my opinion, no one wants there characters to die in the first two pages and he hasn't done anything utterly unbelievable. If anything my Archon realistically should of died by the first Rail Rifle shot, knowing my luck on table top with shadowfields the first strength 6 shot I take I will ALWAYS fail

No apologizes necessary, I'm big on the fluff, and I challenge anyone to say that a dark eldar wouldn't hurry up a guardsman that wasn't moving fast enough with a knife. Lol.

Also Khornate tau, quite possibly the most amusing I've read in a while.

Thanks. I really liked your writing style.

Hey just polling everyone before I do this, how would everyone feel about me, being the OP, bringing in some (unsynapsed) tyranids? I just want to know if I should do it, are we wait for someone else to start bringing them in.

There was no god mode intended, it made sense if the orks were assaulting that someone would be smashed aside by the orks.
I said the ceramite cracked and the marine was knocked over, not that the marine was killed

I felt that was a suitable extension of my control over my characters, I wouldn't push any further

I like the idea of unsynasped Nids

ahzek wrote:
I felt that was a suitable extension of my control over my characters, I wouldn't push any further

You still dictated what happened to others, as opposed to simply what your own characters tried to do.

For all you know, your Orks might have been spotted and filled with Bolter shells the moment they broke cover. Not saying that they would have. But you alienate a lot of possibilities and remove control from your opponent by doing it, and I am personally no fan of that.

No offense intended, just keep that in mind if you get your guys into a fight with mine.

Well to me, when an RPG is finished ad you read back over what has happened, it should read something Akin to a book. A book made up of lots of sections sure, but a book all the same. If it where to happen where you had absolutely no control of what the other characters did or where they went then it would read more separate stories with interlocking characters, where one player might say ''The Orks charged straight into the Space Marines'' the Other could then say ''But the Space Marines turned and bolted away from the charging Green Skins''. This way no one can dictate what is happening in the story at any time and each set of characters will progress at a different pace then the others.

While as opposed to saying ''The Orks charged amongst the Astartes and began laying punishing blows upon them'' this is more the kind of thing that a book would say, giving perpose, intent and action while your way could at best only put intent into a post. this makes considerably more sense me ere with each post that person is dictating the story and giving the direction he wants the next writer to go, much like a 1 word story, only with paragraphs.

This is simply how I prefer my RPG's, but everyone is of different opinions.

The issue is when it is taken not only to the point of the Orks successfully charging, but the player behind the Orks dictating that the Orks inflicted X damage on the Marines, and the Marine player can't have a say in the matter.

And are the orks still attacking me? I have been playing as if they broke off.

I guess i should say hi.

Im the Kreigsman who just joined.

Hi Archie.

Ok for my peace of mind, I need to list where I am gathering everyone is.

Kreigsmen( there are three of them now?), Tau, Dark Eldar are in the Chimera transport bay. I'm Driving said Chimera. Plague Marines are Facing down the Mawlock. And Orks were Krumping something but are currently off doing their own thing.

Yeah, that sounds right. Its me and 3 other men, ones a Engineer, ones a Quartermaster and another is a retired Death rider.

Ok Archie, by group do you mean your Kriegsman? And how did you go from the Chimera to a cathedral?

Apologies, i missed this thread.

I was asking if i can join?

You could, not sure if it will restart or not, but Im hoping

I wouldn't mind restarting if someone got the ball rolling, i quite enjoyed this,

and done!

http://youtu.be/1GLaV9aXQ7Y?t=6s

Karnus, perhaps unsurprisingly, matches this gentleman very well in appearance and voice alike- though his armour is differently coloured!

Will, could you give us a destination or an objective (such as finding an energy source for your battle suit) that can shape where we take this? I am a bit lost for ideas.

Sure! No problem!

Let's see... The main goal is to get off world, in my case the suit being a means to an end, I really should make some sort of mock-up of the city, but anyways as Dark Eldar you could be working for a homunculi who wants tyranid parts for some unholy experiment, trying to re-capture or kill an escaped slave, make your way back to whatever ship you came on to recover something before you go, or just be trying to take as many prisoners as possible.

any of those sound good? And I will spent some information about the city in my next post on the main board.

I think he meant more of a general player goal, not just for only the DE.

Thanks Will, my main intention was to get off world. Maybe your Tau would like to participate in a 'cultural exchange' aha.

Brother was right though, as we are all working together now setting an objective we must reach would make things go smother.

*Edit* mock up not working, Ill just say it.

The city contains the following, all at different (not set, players have control over the general layout of the city) locations, An armory (Containing a large amount of PDF hold-outs) A vehicle Depo (Contains a nest of gene-stealers) A Gene-stealer cult base in the sewers, A space port with two functions ships, one much smaller than the other (NOT RECOMMENDED TO GO ALONE, MAIN NEST OF THE TYRANIDS) A chapel (Containing a Slowly maddening space marine) and a few other "Mystery" locations, make them whatever you want.