#our tag for all of the members of this RPG posts.

[manilafm]

I'm still going to be in school for this school year until Friday, June 16th, 2023, and I am still living with my parents, and my two younger sisters. But I was just wondering if it would be okay if I reserved Buttercup Utonium from The Powerpuff Girls? My name's Danielle in this RPG. Thank you!

Sure thing, and we completely understand that, Danielle !! I am still living with my mother too. Due to me not having a job, and not having the money to purchase a home of my own, or even an apartment. And Buttercup Utonium from The Powerpuff Girls is now reserved for you for the next twenty-four hours !! You're welcome, Danielle !!

Notices : Buttercup Utonium from The Powerpuff Girls is now reserved for Danielle for the next twenty-four hours ( until April 21st, 2023, at 6:23 P.M. in the P.S.T. Time Zone ) !!

[hungrydolphin91]

ok I had to go make my own post about Eugene Cassette Beasts, it's not fair for me to fill up everyone else's tags w how much I love this guy. I wanted to speculate a little about his backstory here cause it honestly fascinates me and I feel like I havent seen this happen much in other media, much less turn based monster collecting RPGs.

So Eugene is from a future world (seemingly the only party member who is except maybe Barkley but he's a dog so.) It sounds like he's from the turn of the century, maybe 2100 or so, and mentions in his rank 3 friendship that in his world, there was a massive reformation when society as a while realized they couldn't keep fucking each other over and destroying the planet, so everyone worked hard to abolish the kinds of structures that unilaterally hurt people (for instance, capitalism). Sounds like a utopia right?

Eugene only says good things about his world really, how much people value acts of goodness and kindness. But he says it all with such a sad tone, like something he's missing out on, because he thinks he is, he didn't fit in. He says that he wasn't great at being helpful all the time, which is why he wants to do better in New Wirral, a world removed from his own where he can be a better person than he was in his own world.

But the thing is, he IS a nice person. Maybe that's by design, everything he does in New Wirral is about him playing the hero, but it's also oh so clear that he brought his own expectations of goodness from his own timeline and they're just as much of a burden here. Even when hes succeeding, he won't cut himself slack, he says he needs to have a cause to rally behind, or what that archangel said to him would be proven true: he IS empty. Or at least, useless, which is probably the same thing to him.

What really grabs me about all of this though (besides the usual love of angst and guilt complexes and hero complexes and whatnot) is this future of moral reformation. Those are a pretty common historical phenomenon, often involving moral panics and an emphasis on presentation--- what matters is that you LOOK pure compared to others. And poor Eugene just felt like he couldn't keep up just because he has some small selfish impulses, or something in that nature I'd imagine--- I think he'd rather throw himself off a bridge than admit whatever the reason was that he didn't fit in in his own world.

It's easy to see his world being our future, in a way. I'd be delighted if terrible oppressive governments and economic systems were torn down in favor of ones that promote equality and universal well being, but currently moral purity is just as much of a trend as ever--- look at any discussion of book banning, not to mention transphobic legislature, fandom antis and so much more. So this hypothetical future is one where even though the 'right' thing has been done, there's still a subtle form of policing going on to enforce it. Maybe that is successful at keeping cruel practices from coming back. Or maybe it's just traumatizing people like Eugene who feel judged by their every action and pressured to be a saint every single moment of their lives.

One last thing I thought was interesting--- as part of his level 4 friendship rank, Eugene mentions how his parents' generation still seem scarred by the cruelties they endured before this reformation. But Eugene is too young to have lived through it himself so you know what that means?? Generational trauma babyyyyy. He's inherited guilt about a time he wasn't even alive for, along with a pressure to make sure it never ever happens again, so no unkindness is tolerated. It's no wonder this boy has so many issues.

So that's my late night rambles about this guy, probably like 50% of this is just me projecting but it's also fun to dissect what's happening here. Like I said before, it's unusual to see a unique concept like character like Eugene and his world in what appears to be a fun little indie game about turning into monsters with cassettes.

[thebmatt]

RPG character creation challenge?? 👀 tell me about number 77 please!

Number 77 is from July! The sub-challenge for the month of July was an idea my beloved spouse gave me. I was to create a character for each member of our immediate family for a theoretical D&D game we would play, taking into account that person's interests/personality/etc. For the previous two weeks, I made characters for each of our offspring, and this week was devoted to her character.

Kiara Stormdreamer is a Leonin Bard, using TheArenaGuy's College of Linguistics subclass (linked below).

Kiara seeks to understand the truth of the world through its written words, specifically from the teachings of the Gods. She believes there is a hidden truth at the story of the gods teaching and seeks to study them in their original languages and in the times they were written, believing she can uncover truths lost to time in doing so. Her words often put her at odds with clerics of various faiths, yet she will not be cowed or silenced in her quest.

I had to pick Leonin for this character, since Lions are my spouse's favorite animal. The admittedly very-"fantasty sterotypical" last name came from her love of thunderstorms and enjoyment of peacefully enjoying the sounds of them as they happen. She's also currently pursuing her second masters related to the field of biblical studies, because like Kiara she believes the bible has been twisted and misconstrued by the passage of time and the agendas of people, and she's not afraid to speak up on what she has learned.

As her field of study involves, by necessity, the study of languages, I felt the College of Linguistics was the best means to embody this idea as an adventuring character. This link to the subclass takes you to a post on reddit, as TAG does not make his work freely available anywhere outside of that. Thank you for asking, @blackestnight!! Hope you enjoyed, and if you wanna do another one, by all means, toss me another number!

[pawseds]

"Staying on the case again? Let me get you some tea..."

This art blog mostly revolves around Delta Green, a cosmic horror and investigative conspiracy TTRPG. Specifically, it revolves around the 3 campaigns I'm involved in that take place in the same universe! I also throw in art of other campaigns I've been in. Posts will be tagged based on which campaign they came out of. I'll also reblog game stuff from my other players/party members!

EN/ID/中文 Writing project: @sparrow-flight | Game projects: @studiosleepytime Art tag | Comic tag | Writing tag For other art stuff and ramblings: Instagram | BlueSky Keep reading for tag/campaign organisation details!

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[Delta Green] Bones of the Earth universe

M-EPIC

An M-EPIC campaign called 'Bones of the Earth'. Set in various parts of 2008-9 Canada, it follows Task Force 7's 5 operations. It ran from 2021-2022. This is the game that started it all. Here's all the art and comics made per session. And here's a cool World Andvil my Handler/GM @gorillastraylight made for M-EPIC/the campaign!

ITItE

The story of my EPIC PC, Finan Syahputra, and his fiance-now-wife Claretta Tedyono. Has all pre-game (2004-8), in-game (2008-9), and post-game shenanigans (2009+) (the brainrot is so big, it needs its own category). Bigger slice of life/cope with the job feel; Home scenes if you will

Melati/Grief Rice

My homebrew campaign 'Where Red Blooms' set in 2010-2011 Indonesia, with the organisation Melati Merah Nusanara (specifically the Bulan Anggrek Nusantara 'research and security' branch). It ran from 2022-2024 and had 10 operations. Here's a fun summary of it by @katastrofish, one of my players (and my homie!).

Birdfam

The birdfam consist of the 3 siblings Hrodwyn, Merethel, and Hygd, and their father Hrothgar. Originally from the GAWE campaign, I've ported these sparrows into other systems twice because 2 months with them was not enough. This tag contains all posts that includes them across the different games (GAWE, Helvetia, Dream in Drive).

Helvetia

A globetrotting homebrew campaign set in 2017-2019 based in Helvetia Ltd, the G20's secret hounds who are currently set on eliminating PISCES, GRU-SV8, M-EPIC, and Delta Green. @theroyalzealot is our Handler/GM and Gavrill "Hrothgar" Vorobyev is my PC (ported from GAWE, a Westmarches that happened before Helvetia). I'm currently writing stories and making comics about the Vorobyevs at @sparrow-flight!

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Other TTRPG campaigns

GAWE // D&D4e Westmarches, Sept-Nov 2023

Hrodwyn, who left their flock of sparrow hengeyokai, joins a group of people across the solar system to find a solution to the cancerous spread of Starblight/Stellaron. It kills and mutates organisms ranging from Hrodwyn's siblings and mother, to all 5 planets in this universe. This is where the Birdfam (the Vorobyevs) originated from!

SKSD // D&D5e Westmarches, Jan-Mar 2024

Scholarly Keepers of Sorcery in Dragonheart is a no-death, magic school campaign set in 2023/4 where technology is trying to wipe out magic. All races are just magic humans. I'm playing Dani, @katastrofish's NPC from Melati who I've often roleplayed as, and Fish is playing as their Melati PC, Simon!

MECH // Lancer RPG Westmarches, May-Jun 2024

Livia Post-Scott is one of the Marvellous Entrants in the Colosseum of Homados. A streamer who's trying to make it as a journalist,she joins the colosseum not to win it with her team of other players, but to get a good story for a journalism contest! This is my first Lancer campaign, and it went from LL2-LL8.

Dream in Drive // Lancer RPG, hiatus

A short campaign with 2 groups ran by @theroyalzealot. We start as flashclones whose originals were killed in a terrorist bombing at a mall. Now, we're hunting the terrorists down so it won't happen again. I've once again ported Hrothgar in as my PC because I really want him on a Swallowtail. This time he's 22, happily married to Merlin, and cares for newborn Hrodwyn!

Ad Animus Per Aspera // Lancer RPG, ongoing

Livia's back in a new Lancer campaign! The planet Lethe recently uncovered xenoarchelogical remains. The last time this happened on another planet, pirates erradicated an entire species just to put their remains on the black market. Livia travels 5 years in cyrosleep to Lethe to defend Lethe from this, even if it means fighting a war.

Brave New World // Mothership RPG Westmarches, ongoing

Sloane Mallory Croix is one of 200 individuals chosen for Project MORPHO: the third part of project to terraform the newly found planet Hestia and its solar system. However, MORPHO arrives 300 years late. Its crew is left to navigate this brave new world and its dark secrets while pursuing their original task.

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"Don't forget to roll SAN on your way out."

[coloradohq]

Good day, members! There are a few things that the admin team would like to go over, so please bear with us as this post might be a bit long.

First off, our pause on accepting white fcs is now lifted. We appreciate everyone's patience and cooperation while we had it in place. In that same vein, we do want to remind everyone of our rules. Every second character must be a fc of color. In total, at least 50% of your muses must use a fcoc. You must also fill at least one wanted connection with subsequent muses if your first hasn't filled one already. Not every new muse has to fill a wc, though we highly encourage filling as many as possible.

Speaking of wanted connections, we've tagged all wcs by age now as well to make it a bit easier to navigate. We highly encourage everyone to check out the wanted connections blog and consider applying for any of the wonderful open connections we have waiting to be filled.

In that same vein, we will be implementing a new rule that any 5th muse must be a character that is 40+, with a faceclaim that is 40+. Any current writers with over 5 muses are exempt from this rule for their current muses, but will need to use an older fc for their next muse (if they have not already done so.)

If anyone has any questions, concerns, etc, please either message the main or use the ticket option on our discord so that both admins can discuss and address anything that comes up. Please do not message an admin individually regarding rpg related things (individual messages are for chatting and plotting.) The ticket function on discord opens a private thread with both admins, and as always, messaging on the main or discord is always available for any questions or concerns. All conversations both on tumblr and discord are confidential.

[bornagainhq]

The following is an optional task that we would love to see some work on.

Who is your muse? What is the first impression that people have of your muse when they click on your blog? Does everyone know who your character is? We've all posted intros and talked to one another, but how many characters in the rpg know who your muse is as a person?

For this task, I want everyone to write an ooc introduction, to be pinned on your blogs if you want, for everyone to truly learn who your character is.

Our characters all live, work, or spend time in the same facility day in and day out, so these introductions should make it so that people can interact easier in character and feel like everyone knows one another already.

These have no set due date, but the sooner you finish them the sooner they can start being used in game. They should be tagged as bahq;task, and those of you who do complete this task will recieve a special reward in a future event.

Click the jump for more information on what I'm looking for.

We've all made bio pages, plot pages, etc in the past. Think of this task as a way to do that in our own style. I want you to come up with a post that represents your muse to the best of your ability. Examples of information to include in your post includes:

A photo or banner that represents who your muse is in their down time, what they look like when they're seen in the hallways of the hotel, or who they are as a person.

Your muses basic information (name, age, sexuality, birthday, etc)

Your muses relationship information, children, pets, etc.

Close friends that your muse is likely to be seen with

Where is your muse likely to be seen around the hotel? (If they're likely to be seen in businesses that we don't have on the locations page, please feel free to include that and we'll work on updating that as these tasks come in)

What is your muse's personality like?

Wanted plots, connections, etc.

The other members of this RPG are your character's neighbors, we want to make sure that people feel like they're interacting with characters that they actually know. So while this is a base guideline of things to include, please feel free to include as much or as little information as you want.

I can't wait to get to know everyone's muse a little deeper. Have fun!

[theofficersacademy]

Welcome to the first day of 2022′s Arena (Winter)!

Your teams and Bronze Round opponents have been arranged on the sheet here.

If you’ve participated in our lore events, you’re already aware of how structured TOA battles work. If not, don’t worry! Under the Read More below, we’ve laid out how the flow of combat goes (if you read this last Arena, read it again! We’ve added some new things). If you have any questions, ask them! These events are intended to teach combat through small, contained battles, and also work out general kinks in weapons and combat flow.

Your rolls must be done with the Dice Maiden bot in our server, and you must roll in your team’s thread. You will also be rolling for your enemies’ attacks, following a set of rules designated in the doc itself. We encourage every team to set up their own combat tracker doc as well. This serves both as a cross-check to the mod-curated combat doc, as well as a way to learn how combat calculations are done. Of course, the mods will be available for skill clarifications and any other help you may need.

The schedule for the rounds will be as follows (each round ends around noon on the final day, and the new one will begin the day after):

Bronze Round: December 3rd - 6th Iron Round: 7th - 10th Steel Round: 11th - 14th Silver Round: 15th - 18th Gold Round: 19th - 22nd

A team will automatically progress to the next round if all enemies are defeated. If the round ends before your team manages to defeat their opponents, the mod team will assess damage dealt and contribution from the individuals of the team. If the enemy team’s collective HP is less than 50%, the player team will advance to the next round. If there are instances when one teammate seems to be holding an entire team back without asking for appropriate skips for their turns, the team may pass with the member in question disqualified. Teams should not have to wait more than 24 hours for a teammate to post, and the expected speed for each member is roughly 1 post a day, although this is dependent on teammates.

Remember to tag all posts with #toaarena2022winter

If you need any help, please reach out to the mods! Thank you!

- The House Leaders

Battles in TOA are turn-based, similar to an RPG.

First is the player phase, where each muse on the team has a chance to make their move. They can attack or use a support skill (heal, rally, etc), and that will be their turn. Turn order historically has been decided in the first turn, but that may change if a teammate asks to skip a turn or if the team decides to shift around turn order. The turn order does not have to remain the same across all rounds and should prioritize both IC motivations and mun availability.

If a character attacks an enemy, they will be counterattacked unless activating a skill that prevents counterattacks.

After a team has finished their phase, the battle moves on to the enemy phase. The enemy phase follows the same rules as player phase, except the enemy attacks first and the target can counterattack.

After every enemy takes a turn, the battle returns to player phase and the process repeats again until all of one side is defeated or otherwise unable to continue.

In this event, muses do not die if they are brought to 0HP and are able to continue into the next round if their team wins. HP is retained between battles, but if a character is KO’d, they will be automatically revived with 50% HP at the start of the next battle.

The rolls you make in the server when you take your action are written out as a reply in your battle thread. The nat20 you rolled for your attack becomes your muse getting fired up, as you write out just exactly how they landed that super-cool crit (or you write about how your muse sees sunset colors through fluttering eyelashes after the enemy runs a critical hit through their gut). This is also a great time to bond with your allies and forge relationships you might not otherwise have had to chance to create, and thread replies don’t have to JUST contain combat.

Actions must be announced when a roll is made, not after. RNG may not always be in your favor, but that’s the fun of it. Please do not get upset by or try to bend bad rolls. This also applies to combat arts, which must be announced before a roll just like an ordinary attack.

[thatswhyweplay]

WELCOME TO THAT'S WHY WE PLAY

first and foremost this is a stranger things role play server with strong dungeons and dragons formatting. this will always be a safe space for anyone who enters; knights of the round beware.

SERVER BASICS

✑┇ This server is 18+ with a rating of 3 - 1 - 3 [ THIS IS A RPG RATING ] || Stranger Things is a show about kids dealing with incredibly traumatic situations, we will be continuing that trend and not stopping at the kids. The adults and teenagers are getting it too. There are several instances of internalized and external homophobia that we touch on as it is the 80s. Please be aware of these heavy AND dark topics when applying!

✑┇ There will be no sexual content in this server. Mentions of it are perfectly fine and sometimes critical moments for characters, all implied scenes must fade to black.

✑┇ This is a semi-literate / literate server and we expect all the fixings on this one. We try for [2-3] paragraphs // 200-300 words // [15] sentences. But we also know mobile is a prison, the brain cell isn't always juicy, and the muse is fickle.

✑┇ We expect basic role play etiquette and grammar, but also understand, again, writing on mobile is true prison.

✑┇ One liners are allowed in [SHORT COMMUNICATIONS] and [CRACK]. Crack being non canon and wiped every 24hrs [roughly].

✑┇ We run on a three strike policy, which you will be aware of. If you are deemed unfit by the admin team however, they can bypass these three strikes.

✑┇ Abuse of tone tags is an INSTANT ban for us, 100 percent non-negotiable to the staff to use tools like that maliciously. Some of our members and admins need help clarifying tone and may approach you.

✑┇ If you have issues with anyone in the server please approach and Admin to handle it. If it is an admin you are having issues with, please approach an admin you're comfortable with but know it will be brought to the group table to be handled. We implore you to talk about things yourself but we are a community and we will deal with things together. If you cannot approach an admin about this, then I think leaving the server is the only way to go. This is OUR space and if the issue is with us, then we'll kindly ask you to find somewhere else.

✑┇ We will never prioritize a NEW member over an EXISTING member. If you have an issue with a person coming in please let us know. We will handle the situation as we see fit.

admins have the right to remove anyone from the server for any given reason at anytime.

ACTIVITY

✑┇ We treat role play like a hobby like DND, not a job, but please remember that hobbies do take time and energy much like a DND group. You will be subjected to [72]hr timers during any event. Personal threads are self paced but we rotate Vols every [3] months with [2] Vols active at a time. So you have [6] months for any given thread to be completed.

✑┇ Be considerate of your fellow writers. All of us here want to write and enjoy this hobby with you but if this hobby is too taxing to do on a regular basis this is not the server for you. Activity is incredibly important to balanced storytelling.

✑┇ Activity Checks are every month; they will be posted a week before they're due so they may loom over you for a week [ and give you a chance to post! ].

✑┇ CANON CHARACTERS will be required to have [3] posts per month or [6] completed short communications.

✑┇ ORIGINAL CHARACTERS will be required to have [2] posts per month or [4] completed short communications.

✑┇ HIATUSES are the only thing that can protect you from an Activity check, and you must be gone more than HALF the month [usually 15 total days] to receive a pass unless discussed with an admin. You get [1] pass every [3] months. Hiatuses must be posted in #✑┇hiatuses to alert the admins.

✑┇ During a hiatuses a we will be skipping you during an event. Being on hiatus will result in your character missing out on interaction during an event but allows the rest of the party to continue on without consequence to any.

✑┇ You are responsible for plotting out and making sure your character is active. If we notice you are only posting right toward the end of the activity check we may consult you about your activity. If we notice you struggling with a character and keeping them active we will approach you. Our first goal will be to open a dialogue to seek a solution, but we will not hesitate to recommend dropping a character.

COMMUNICATION

✑┇ You are more than welcome to stay and be part of our community and take an Observer role. Observers are only pinged when characters become available, community events, and any major announcements.

✑┇ Our server is heavily based on clear communication. So please ask ✑┇questions , please challenge your DM in events, there is no such thing as over communication. Share your secrets with other party members at your own discretion. Plan, plot, foil, and talk to each other!

✑┇ No Ghosting: if you do not respond to an admin's pulse check, you will be removed from the server, this is no longer an acceptable offense. If you cannot take the time out of your day to communicate this is not the server for you.

✑┇ Getting Skipped: if you do not ask for a extension on an event you will be given a strike. Event threads require posts once tagged within 72 hours. Three skips and we will take your character from you.

CHARACTER INFORMATION

✑┇ The server takes place AFTER season 4 of Stranger Things. Currently 2 months after the original earthquake. Hawkins, Indiana has been destroyed in a molten lava phenomenon and the current setting is a Bunker in Indianapolis, Indiana.

✑┇ ✑┇story-so-far is a summary of events that have PASSED.

✑┇ Everyone starts with TWO character slots. You can buy character slots in our shop to gain more slots. Your first character MUST complete at least one thread before picking up a second.

✑┇ Character restrictions include: Hawkins 18 members cannot be in the first slot. You cannot have a member of a similar group. [Young Adults, The Party, Adults, etc]. OCs are exempt to this.

✑┇ It is required when making an OC to first pass the character idea by the ADMINS in ✎┇character-creation . We have to make sure that the character fits into the world and the circumstances of being run away, supernatural fighters hiding from the U.S government!

✑┇ We love OCs! But please make sure to think about how they’ll fit in the world and how they would find their way in the Stranger Things world. [ What did they do when everything was normal? How did they react to things when everything changed? Where were they when the Earthquake hit? What are they doing after? ]

✑┇ OCs cannot be relatives of the canon cast and cannot be connected to them. That’s not to say they can’t make friends and connections once you’ve joined. OCs must stand on their own.

✑┇ MASTERLIST and ✎┇character-overview will give you a quick look at the current characters we have on the server!

✑┇ If you have issue with ships, shipping, or ship related drama and cannot co-exist among others we will be asking you to leave. This server is not at all focused on shipping but the story telling and development of characters. This does not mean shipping is not allowed but we will not tolerate any drama caused by it. We've had the most problems with HellCheer and Steddie, so if these ships make you uncomfortable we ask you to leave now. All ships are welcome here and are up to the writers to decide who their characters end up with.

✑┇ Please submit a google doc for your application in the form of our server template. This is specifically catered to our current setting! ✎┇character-sheets has all the information you’re gonna need to make your app! Please don’t be intimidated by it, you don’t need to know about dungeons and dragons to write here and everyone here can help you!

✑┇ All characters must have a model/celebrity face claim. We do not accept art / pic-crews as face claims, ai art, or duplicate face claims.

✑┇ We also do not accept characters of other horror or any other re-skinned genre media to be played as regular characters in the STU. [ex. The IT cast / Nancy Drew / Dead by Daylight. ]

✑┇ For the sake of my own sanity, [16] is the youngest a character can be. All canon characters are aged up to [16]. Erica being the only exception to which we will let her be [14] and the YOUNGEST character that can be played on this server. EVERYTHING IS THE SAME, they’re just sixteen going on seventeen now.

✑┇Posting your app in ✎┇submissions and we will be in contact with you soon!

updated 7/01/2024

[thykingdomrp7]

Applications and Reservations

You may only reserve a character for 24 hours if you send a message using a current Tumblr account. No anonymous reserves will be acknowledged.

Please contact the main first before sending in your application for an original character. This is to avoid any duplication of characters in the game.

OC slots are limited. We will only allow four OCs in the first wave of applications and we will then determine how many OCs we will accept during the game. If your first character is an Original Character and you wish to take up a second character, they cannot be another Original Character; you must pick up a Canon Character. However it does not apply to the vice versa.

If accepted, please create and send in your separate character account within 24 hours. DO NOT MAKE A SIDE BLOG FOR YOUR FIRST CHARACTER. After five days without hearing from you, the character will be re-opened.

Enable your Ask and Submit features as soon as you create your new account.

We will not be posting para samples to protect privacy of our applicants. As admins, we reserve the right not to accept an application we do not deem fit for the rpg. We also reserve the right to not accept a face claim we feel doesn’t fit the rpg as well. An explanation will be given to the applicant in this occasion. 

General RPG Rules

Characters

We are a canon and original character roleplaying group. If we do not have a canon character with an FC you would like to use, please feel free to apply for your own, or ask us for help to do so. If you join with an OC, and leave, your character will be deleted and will not be reposted. We as admins of this group reserve the right to re-use the face claim if we choose to in the future. 

For the first few weeks after the game opens we will only accept canon applications. We will start accepting OC applications once at least 10 of our canon characters are taken.

Multiple Characters

You may take on a second character after two weeks of activity with your first, and two more weeks before you can take your next. We have a limit of 3 characters per person, with the very rare exception. 

Face Claim

Check the Face Claim Page before applying for an original character. FC change is possible however it must be made on the application or within the first week in the game. We created these characters with these specific face claims in mind so please understand why we must have this rule. We also have a Non-Playable Characters Page. Send in your NPCs if you have any so we can add them there.

Activity

We will do an activity check every Sunday. After a week of inactivity a public warning will be posted. Two weeks of inactivity without notice from you will result to removal from the group. The character will be re-opened and if it is your original character, will be deleted. If you have a big exam coming up or need to be away from the RPG for an extended amount of time, just send in a message to let us know and your role will be waiting for you when you return. If you plan to leave the group, please let us know. We would appreciate it, thank you!

As of the 20th of May 2015 we encourage every member to post a starter at least once a week. We also encourage everyone to reply to starters or check the tag tkstarter to reply to any recent starters that have been posted. This would hopefully create more interaction between players and will allow us to write with characters we haven’t written with before. This is also a great way to show our new members we are a welcoming and friendly group.

Hiatus

Please fill out this form if you are going on a temporary hiatus. As of 25th October 2015, we are only allowing a two week hiatus per character. We require a return date to be added to the form and if you need an extension, you must contact the main before your supposed return date. *Hiatus List

OOC Posts

All OOC post must be posted on our OOC blog. If you do not wish to join the OOC blog, please communicate with other players by utilizing Ask or Messaging or share usernames for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc. OOC replies to a post should be sent to the inbox of the player. We will have special days to do OOC posts on the days including “Mun Day” or “Game Night” where we post ask memes on the main and everyone can participate. Any questions regarding this, please don’t hesitate to contact us. [*There will be changes to this rule as it still has to be finalized by Admins.]

Playing in Character

Aside from the rules and guidelines we set up for our players, we also have a set of rules for our characters that we must abide to at all times. Be mindful of your characters’ actions on the dash. Any actions that violates any of The Queen’s rules will have the appropriate punishment. No exceptions. So unless you wish for your character to be sold in auction and serve a commoner, do not break The Queen’s rules. Any plots that call for your character to be sent to town for the auction, please run it by with the admins. Thanks!

Mature Content

We ask that you be at least 18 years of age, as there will be mature subjects on the dash [Sex, drugs, violence.] We do no require a read more for anything, we do ask that you tag anything that might be triggering [suicide, rape, etc.], and any photographs and gifs of mature nature be tagged ‘nsfw’. Here are some list of possible triggers that you can find in this rpg. This is the password: Clark Kent is Superman.

Since this is a mature RPG, we expect to see posts with nsfw contents. However, we will stress out that each character is only allowed 3 nsfw posts [gifs and pics] a day. This is to avoid clogging the dash with such gifs and images.

Posts

Please make sure not to reblog any post as a ‘LINK’. Reblogging a picture is fine, but the original poster should transfer the conversation to another post [this makes it so the OP doesn’t have to see your conversation on their dash.]

Replies

This is, first and foremost, a multi paragraph-style role play. Gif/Conversation posts are fine in moderation, but paragraph roleplaying is required of all members. Paras need to be in third person, past tense. No present tense, please! Gif/Conversations need to be cut down to four posts and paras down to two.

We love seeing replies to our post but we will not tolerate players who will harass other players for them. A reminder is always good but understand that we all have things to deal with in real life. 

Plots

Any major plots concerning your character such as death, marriage, pregnancy, change in location [e.g. moving to town for punishment] must go through the admins first. There is NO EXCEPTION.

Grammar

The proper use of grammar and spelling is a must and will need to be used unless your character is ‘texting’ someone else. That will be the only exception for using shorthand or ‘texting’ lingo.

OOC Drama

No OOC drama. This will not be tolerated and you will be removed from the group immediately. If you are having issues or problems with a co-player, you can come to us and we will try to resolve the issue.

Godmodding

Absolutely NO GODMODDING. You only have control over the character you play and is expected to play the character according to their bio and personality.

Shipping

We understand that the characters in the game are paired up but this does not mean the characters are endgame. Romantic plots are welcome but to be developed in time. You must understand the plot of this game and understand your character’s motivation. This will help with development in the game. Do no push any players to be in a relationship with your character. We do not encourage pressuring fellow characters into plots they don’t want to play. Please be mindful of this.

And last but not least -

PLEASE SEND US A MESSAGE If you have any questions, queries or concerns. We are here to help you!

HAVE FUN. We hope you enjoy your time playing with us!

[manilafm]

I am still trying to decide on which character that I will apply for, but in the meantime, can I please reserve Adyson Sweetwater from Phineas And Ferb, and Isabella García-Shapiro from Phineas And Ferb? For me, Alexa. Thank you!

Sure thing, Alexa !! Adyson Sweetwater from Phineas And Ferb, and Isabella García-Shapiro from Phineas And Ferb are now reserved for you for the next twenty-four hours !! You're welcome, Alexa !!

Notices : Adyson Sweetwater from Phineas And Ferb, and Isabella García-Shapiro from Phineas And Ferb are now reserved for Alexa for the next twenty-four hours ( until April 18th, 2023, at 6:58 P.M. in the P.S.T. Time Zone, and April 19th, 2023, at 9:58 A.M. in the G.M.T. +8 Time Zone ) !!

[strange-destinations]

You mentioned transcripts of your Doctor Who RPG games. Any chance you might be willing to share them? (only if you want)

Of course! Here's The Big Masterpost of all our transcripts and audio files, updated as often as we play. Feel free to read and/or listen to as many as you want - I like to think I keep it pretty organized. Some things to note:

We pass around the GM crown from person to person, so we can all have a swing at running the game and also all get to play. So that's why our characters sometimes keep getting knocked out at the start of the arc and dragged offscreen, and why the GMing isn't consistent.

The sound editing can be a little hit-and-miss since I'm often speedrunning the editing/transcribing thing, so I apologize in advance if it ever gets funky or unlistenable. That's what the transcripts are for, I guess.

As of posting this, we've just wrapped up our fourth 'serial' and are probably going to kick off a new one next week! So now's a pretty good time to catch up with the story if you're curious.

Other links and content under the cut:

@trailmixtime's Thieves and TARDISes tag has most of our memery, art, and writing-related bonus content saved. (I have a tag for it too, but sometimes I'm a bit hit-and-miss when it comes to saving it all, so!)

I compose music for the campaign and edit it into the audio (along with sound effects and such) when the fancy strikes me. A playlist of all that original music can be found here!

The song used for the 'previously on' recap (and also the Doctor's theme) is this one. It's a banger, lads.

If you ever hear us reference a companion or some events that you are 100% sure are not canonical or even semi-canonical in the DWEU (for example, Millie or Roman) - that may be because we accidentally sort of ended up setting our game post-the Game of Rassilon, that one RPG podcast that I never stop talking about. It's very good, but you really don't need to listen to it to understand what's going on. We're just massive nerds who couldn't help ourselves.

Also, I'm extremely aware that we don't introduce our characters in very much detail in that first adventure, so I have prepared a handy little guide to the party down below (with bonus pictures!):

The Doctor (played by me!) - well, it's the Doctor. She's at a amorphous point in the future, far past anywhere we've seen in the TV series, and is very newly regenerated. In my head played by a Puerto Rican actress (a lot of planets have a Puerto Rico!). Fond of cats cradle, colors, plants. Not fond of eating.

Leela (played by @trailmixtime) - yes, that Leela. Plucked from the start of Gallifrey season one, Leela still has no idea what's happened to her husband. Working for President Romanadvoratrelundar (of course), rarely without a knife or janis thorn or two. K9's with her, also. (Good boy, K9!) Big ol' sweet tooth.

Unit-17, otherwise known as Dissent (played by @liria10) - a hospitality robot from the future gone rogue, Dissent is on a quest to reach the top of the most-wanted list. That's right, it's crime time. Eternally cheerful, just here for fun and chaos and thievery.

Caryophyllene, although we just call them Caryo for short (played by @bird-of-paradox), is a member of a a race of arachnoid psychic warrior spiders who use a scent-based language (the TARDIS is working overtime to translate, but we're managing). They're a semi-professional thief and very good at being sneaky and disruptive. We all love Caryo.

Verity Brown (played by @raindropsonwhiskers) hails from 1840s New York, where the Doctor and the rest of Team TARDIS picked her up. She was a weaver at the Ballston Mill Company until she got swept up in a bit of an adventure, and now she is having a very weird day. Down to fight, especially if said fighting involves asshole Time Lords.

Also, she might be a bit traumatized at this point. But that's all right! We're all traumatized here on the TARDIS! Ha ha haaa. We need therapy.

[fenmere]

Writer Chat Tag game

Tagged by @shadesofmauve. Thank you!!!

We can't think of names or blogs right now, so if you're a writer reading this, and you haven't done it, feel free to consider yourself tagged, and leave a comment on this post for others to follow.

What is your total posted wordcount on ao3?

Zero (0), none. We just haven't broken into putting stuff up there yet, and actually really haven't written any significant fanfic at all. However, one moment... We have written 360,888 words of our original fiction series, the Sunspot Chronicles, most of them in the past half a year. We have no idea how many words if you include non-fiction writing, and little vignettes in journals and blogs here and there. Our shoddy autobiography is just over 98,000 words.

Do you have a routine for writing?

We think about a story for a couple hours to a couple decades, and then we sit down to write it. We hyperfocus on that story for a week or two, and then it's a book.

Sometimes we take a break, which may last a day to another two decades, and then when we figure it all out in our subconscious, we find ourselves writing again.

What it feels like is, when we are in writing mode, at any given moment of consciousness there will be thee to four system members shouting in our head, "WE WANT TO PLAY OUR GAME!" So, then, it just becomes a matter of managing food, sleep, showering, and other supposedly important things around the Biological Drive To Write.

Editing is done on the fly. Proof reading is done forever afterward, as we continually reread our work, over and over, for years to come. We prefer digital publication for this reason, but we've put a couple books up for print.

Your fic with the most kudos?

We don't know. We don't get much feedback at all. And we don't have anything keeping track of it all in one place. And since we're not on AO3, we assume "kudos" is an AO3 term, in which case it's actually technically none.

Anything you don’t like about your writing?

Sometimes The Drive causes us to continue writing when we're dissociated, sleepy, hungry, triggered, or any other number of bad states of consciousness, and it turns out hard for even us to read. We try to rewrite those sections, but can't always pick them out.

Also, sometimes we delve into topics that we're not equipped to write about, and then it gets harrowing and we start getting down on each other for not being cautious about it. But those instances are kind of like puzzles. They can feel really awful, but working to solve them is a learning experience and ultimately rewarding. We have abandoned some projects as unsolvable, though, like our webcomics.

Now something you do like?

It is, essentially, a table top RPG for us, and as a system full of people who live most of our lives inworld and not fronting, it's a way for some of us to intensely live consciously for a period of time and then hopefully feel seen by the rest of the world as for what we actually are. There's a lot of euphoria involved.

Like, we're writing fiction, but it's basically like historical fiction. The people and places are real and pretty close to how we actually are, but the events are totally a romp and us having fun.

[sepdet]

i go to bmc and happening upon your reblog about using the bi-co's VAX for fanfiction/rp was a hilarious surprise

Hello my dear! Yes, I tagged that hoping to amuse some sister Mawrtyrs across the miles.

The delightful thing is that back then, since fandom often formed in small local groups much like regional bitnets and usenet groups, many homegrown, unique forms of proto-fanfic-before-we-had-a-term-for-it could develop.

In our case, since of course the nerds of Bryn Mawr would be the ones keeping the VAX running, someone had set up a BBS on the VAX's system called Starbucket. As you can guess from the name, it was somewhat tongue in cheek. Individual posts were individual chapters of stories — one had to seek membership to be allowed to post — and then members could comment.

Your main character of your own stories was a self-insert OC Time Lord from Doctor Who. Your traveling companions could be any character who had died in their own timeline, so that if you took them away they wouldn't be missed. (This rule was sometimes bent, because the members of Queen were beloved.) And then, since you had a time machine, you could travel to any multiverse— crossovers ahoy! And a lot of parodies. Companions ranged from Kerr Avon of Blake's 7 to Wolfriders from Elfquest to Roy Fokker from Robotech. Mine were Cally from Blake's 7 and Kassandra of Troy.

You were allowed to write other people's characters, since BBS members mostly knew each other, and it was kind of like gift fic to give each other's characters adventures. (Or killed them off in dramatic ways, because screw continuity. The best story ever was Phantom of the Starbucket, in which the Phantom — this was when the broadway musical first hit — was bumping off everyone's characters, each in a poetically appropriate/hilarious way. I assume Freddie Mercury was the angel of music, although I can't remember now.)

I realized later that Starbucket had originally been set up as a text version of the 80s Doctor Who tabletop rpg in which everyone plays a member of the Celestial Intervention Agency. (In universe, Starbucket was a CIA space station home base where all our TARDISes docked.) But by the time I joined the bbs, the original mission had largely been forgotten, and a lot of stories were crossover contrivances to bring about various characters "boinking" one another. Ah, the quaint days of euphemism-rated fanfic.

Yeah. Anyway. Typical college humor. Good times. Sorry to go off in Anecdote Mode, except not sorry. I hope you're having a wonderful time and finding great nerd friends to offset the stress of academics and *waves had at current events.* Drink deep of Bryn Mawr, because it's marvelous, but you don't need ME to tell you that. Dapper cosplay, by the way!

And if you should happen down that staircase descending into the Dungeon basement of Pembroke East (it's not that exciting, it's just that groups of friends used to be able to bid on undesirable blocks of rooms), the little plaque on the windowsill halfway down proclaiming it the domain of the "Rampaging Anarchist Horde, Renaissance Faire, and Floating Tea Party" commemorates my merry band. Rumors of a sex dungeon or satanic cult were greatly exaggerated. The only naughty thing we were doing down there, apart from the inevitable shacking up after a couple of us figured out we were queer, was keeping a flagrant violation of the housing code. His name was Vasdru, and he was a very sweet cat.

[rpgadverts]

INDEX - SPECIES - FACE CLAIM - REQUESTS - PLOTS - DISCORD 

  Forgotten by Time (FBT) is an original modern supernatural rpg that follows the stories and lives of the residents of Blackrest. Blackrest is a fictional city located in Ontario, Canada that acts as a sanctuary city for supernatural beings. Like every city, it has its problems and its conflicts, but it is a place where supernatural beings can feel safe and free to be themselves. From the light and fluffy to the dark and gritty, members can explore the stories of their characters as they navigate life in the city (for better or worse).

  What we offer:

➔ Premium Jcink Hosted Website [3/3/3]

➔ 18+ Community with all kinds of threads (from fluffy slice of life to dark & gritty!)

➔ 10 Species and 32 sub-species to choose from (including but not limited to Angels, Demons, Shifters,

Mages, Sirens, Fae, Brownies, Dragons, Cambions, and even some snazzy Humans!)

➔ Site-wide sub plots that are  customized to your character

➔ Customized forum code and hover profiles 

➔ Plus a detailed trigger warning [tw] system  

➔ Custom tagging systems & custom thread coding  

➔ Userway Accessibility menu to help with things like light sensitivity, eyesight, 

dyslexia, and various other day to day struggles   

➔ Discord Site Embed so guests can see our common chat

➔ No welcome bot, so newbies don't feel pressured to chat till they're ready!

➔ Rule agreement feature in discord to prevent spam/unwelcome bots

➔ Engaging and active members and staff alike (15+ posts weekly!)  

➔ Over 10,300 words of set-dressing for the lore junkies out there

➔ Friendly posting competitions, games, and ic-message boards

➔ Easy profile setup & activity check integration within profile

➔ 100+ purchasable items in store to make your character even more creative 

(or perhaps buy a business forum section or even skip an activity check!)  

➔ Canonical and Custom Groups/Factions to choose from (with even more fun plots!)  

➔ Badges to make your accomplishments on site recognized and appreciated

➔ Special bonds/pacts for characters (such as but not limited to Dragonheart, Imprinting,

Soulmate, Sorcery, and HelTouched, Phylactery, and so much more!

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh Season Zero: The Yo-yo Crimes of Jounouchi Pt 2

OK, last we left off, we were in a different Youtube video. This one I grabbed off of 2 different videos (you’ll see their watermark in the corner change) and it makes me appreciate the quality that our other episodes have been, honestly. A little bit of compression going on in these, just to give you even more of that nostalgic feel of watching a bootleg anime from the 90′s your brother got from his weird high school friend’s Napster account.

Because this is done with subtitles on, it takes more caps to cover it. Part of why I rewrite the dialogue in these recaps is to help abridge stuff, and so consider yourself warned...there’s a lot of caps in this one. For most of you, that’s probably not much of a problem. But I’m just letting you know because...I sure wasn’t expecting it to be over 40 caps for half an episode, and I’ll probably just type less to make up for that. (Tumblr keeps Erasing All My Words anyway, so this is for the best, but that’s a tech issue I already went into in another post.)

(read more under the cut)

So, to start off, Yugioh and co. walk up to a bar like a really weird version of a bar joke and are like “do you know where we can find the yo-yo gang?” And, much like a video game npc, the bartender was like “I know EXACTLY what you’re talking about, and I heard every part of their intimate conversation. Let me give you all the details, children.”

Hey, PS, there’s an entire Wikipedia entry about the bar joke. And that is wild. Apparently the first bar joke was from Ancient Sumeria, and Wikipedia was like “Here is the Sumerian joke, but we Do Not Get it. Please don’t try to get it.”

The joke being: "A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'."

Damn. I can’t believe the Sumerians were onto meme humor before we ever invented memes. They were in the Galaxy brain over there in the land before time, holy crap. Depositing their memes knowing that 7,000 years later mankind would look at the world’s first joke and be like “I don’t get it!” while all the millennials and zoomers with our MB of nonsense memes on our phones are like “No. I get it.” Good on you Sumerians, that is freakin the best joke ever made. 7000 years to get to the punch line of confusing the hell out of all us. Bless.

They promptly tell Miho that everything was resolved and that she should go to bed and she was like “Cool!” and exited stage left. Bye, I guess. Anzu also went home, but she didn’t have to be tricked into doing it, she just went the hell to bed.

(PS, I just realized that if I want to write less...I should probably not look up Wikipedia articles about the world’s first ever bar joke. But y’all, habits die so freakin hard, and I just feel like it’s very pertinent to this Yugioh recap, although I know it’s really not.)

Yuugi and Honda decide to visit the warehouse and harass Jounouchi. In the context of the show, they’re going out of their way to pull their best friend out of society’s systemic downward pull of a life of crime and most likely turning into exactly like his Father. But, the way that it’s storyboarded makes it look a lot like these kids just show up out of the corner and this gang was like “Damn it, again? OMG small children, please leave us alone!”

Honda hands over the symbolism sash, to which Jounouchi symbolically says “Nyeh.”

And Honda didn’t take it very well.

After tending to his kidneys for a little while, Honda decided to go back at it again at the Krispy Cream and do some sort of insane parkour over this completely ordinary fence.

Ah, the very first instance of real duel law where you duel over a relationship. In later seasons duel law is invoked for things like Mai’s marriage and the right to date Tea (and then just kind of forgetting you ever won the right to date Tea twice). But to think the very first time was Honda dueling for the right of Jounouchi to be part of nerd gang because Jounouchi had fallen to the dark side yo-yo gang across the street run by some 40 year old man with blue hair.

How many times is Honda gonna fight with a broom? Like are they just magnetized to his location? where are they even coming from?

Freakin janitor powers over here, put him in a Final Fantasy style RPG. I want to see what his limit break would be.

Not like it matters, because Hirotani very quickly explains why these yo-yo’s are at all a threat.

Which honestly shouldn’t be...so lethal? Seems like the weight is all you need, not really the spikes. But it’s at least stronger than Honda’s janitor stuff.

Unfortunate for Honda that he just destroyed an antique.

So with lightning reflexes, Yuugi does what he does most:

The death yo-yo ricochets back and does this little itty bitty scrape to this guy’s face and he’s real bothered by it. Although it’s like...well dude, you’re a 50 year old high schooler, I don’t think people will notice the scrape compared to everything else falling apart in your life.

And so then the Yugioh Season Zero team was like “oh shoot is it time to torture Yuugi???” and they got hella excited.

Like I thought it was just Yuugi’s class that were a bunch of disturbing criminal disasters, but I guess it’s the whole city. Like...was Yuugi’s class the good school?

I mean, it can’t be, there’s no way...

but like...is there a good school in this universe? How does anyone survive till graduation? If you so much as disgrace a yo-yo, you will get the torture treatment that I sure did expect in Yakuza games, but not so much in Yugioh, tbh.

Just a reminder: This is the third time we’ve beat up Yuugi this episode. Within the first meeting of Yuugi and Hirotani, he beat the tar out of Yuugi within eye shot of Jounouchi. So like...Jounouchi was reallllllllllllllllly lax on that deal, right? Like...he took his toot sweet time to realize “yeah this just ain’t ever gonna happen.”

And then the yo-yo wars begin.

Just like Solid Snake crawling through the radiation chamber.

Hirotani throws his Fyper-yoyo, Jounouchi intercepts with his Eireboy, and Hirotani’s completely terrible yo-yo just flies off the string again because Hirotani should have just sticked to using his fists. No wonder they wanted to recruit Jounouchi so badly, their yo-yo game is so off.

We never get a door to darkness in this episode, dipping our enemies into mind horrors. Instead, we get home-alone style traps. But, this makes sense. Not only do the show makers have to make Yuugi avoid solving problems with magic in front of Jounouchi, they also have to make it Jounouchi’s choice to leave Hirotani behind. If Yuugi did it for him in like...some sort of duel law situation...then that sort of leaves out Jounouchi’s choice in the equation.

Not like this ever really comes up in later seasons, since who even follows through with duel law and marries Mai? But like, it does feel like Season Zero calls out the later Seasons a bit in this regard. Honda got beat up because he tried to win Jounouchi back by force (or game, I guess.) That was just another form of coercion on the heels of Hirotani’s. What Jounouchi actually needed was to make his own decision to leave.

...most other anime I’d be like “I’m sure that’s just a translation error” but not this one.

So Yuugi runs to the roof where Jounouchi will never see this.

My audible sigh reading this line about fight club roof.

These stupid gang members went into Yuugi’s native territory, not just a fight club roof, but on a warehouse? They were dead before they arrived.

This was like maybe 3 frames of animation in just rapid succession, it was pretty silly and good.

Reminder that like 4 minutes ago, Yuugi was about to get like executed on a meat hook.

Speaking of getting executed on a meathook:

Hope you like the idea of glass in your eyes, because this anime’s got it.

They chase Yuugi around, in a sequence that was done mostly to conserve frames, so you rarely saw the ground until this shot:

Lots of falling down this episode, but unlike Tea, who fell from a warehouse ceiling once and just kind of rubbed her ass after and was like “ah damn it.” these guys won’t come out of it virtually unscathed.

Also, Honda is here now:

Jumping off of his symbolic sash trapeze, he decides to do in Hirotani for good.

Hey so like...walk the dog is a fairly gentle walk that a yo-yo does slowly on the ground right?

Just pointing out how sensitive Hirotani’s fingies are.

And he...didn’t appear to be dead, so I don’t have to add to the bodycount...but it’s gonna be a real long road for recovery.

And now, with the gang back together Jounouchi is back at school knee deep in make up assignments he’ll probably completely ignore since we know that in a years time, these fools are going to be trapped on Pegasus’ island, and at that point school will be just that place you talk about when you try to remember why you’re friends with Bakura.

---hey aren’t those chairs attached to the desks?

Because...holy crap, Anzu.

Honestly this is what you see before you die, but I guess Jounouchi died off screen after the episode ended, so I don’t have to add him to the deathcount (again). RIP.

Alright! That took like...8 tries to get Tumblr to save this one, but it managed! (well...I guess “managed” isn’t the word you’d use for a typing program that takes 8 tries to save)

Next time, we’ll be back to S5, for an arc I’ve heard is kind of boring. We’ll see. If it truly is, I can condense episodes into fewer posts. Or maybe it’s a secret gem? I guess we shall see.

And if you just got here this is a link to read all the Season Zero recaps from the start:

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yuugi-muto/chrono

(there’s also a link to read all the Yugioh posts we wrote from the start in chrono order but straight up, this file won’t freakin save, and I just can’t even will myself to look up that link again. It’s on the home page of this blog on the right.)

[theofficersacademy]

Welcome to the first day of 2022′s Arena Rerun!

Your teams and Bronze Round opponents have been arranged on the sheet here. [Enemy teams are still being filled in]

If you’ve participated in our lore events, you’re already aware of how structured TOA battles work. If not, don’t worry! Under the Read More below, we’ve laid out how the flow of combat goes. If you have any questions, ask them!

Your rolls must be done with the Dice Maiden bot in our server, and you must roll in your team’s thread. You will also be rolling for your enemies’ attacks, following a set of rules designated in the doc itself. We encourage every team to set up their own combat tracker doc as well. This serves both as a cross-check to the mod-curated combat doc, as well as a way to learn how combat calculations are done. Of course, the mods will be available for skill clarifications and any other help you may need.

The schedule for the rounds will be as follows (each round ends around noon on the final day, and the new one will begin shortly after):

Bronze Round: June 18th - 21st Iron Round: 21st - 24th Steel Round: 24th - 27th Silver Round: 27th - 30th Gold Round: 30th - July 2nd

A team will automatically progress to the next round if all enemies are defeated. If the round ends before your team manages to defeat their opponents, the mod team will assess damage dealt and contribution from the individuals of the team. If the enemy team’s collective HP is less than 50%, the team will advance to the next round. If there are instances when one teammate seems to be holding an entire team back without asking for appropriate skips for their turns, the team may pass with the member in question disqualified. Teams should not have to wait more than 24 hours for a teammate to post, and the expected speed for each member is roughly 1 post a day, although this is dependent on teammates.

Remember to tag all posts with #toaarena2022

If you need any help, please reach out to the mods! Thank you!

- The House Leaders

Battles in TOA are turn-based, similar to an RPG.

First is the player phase, where each muse on the team has a chance to make their move. They can attack or use a support skill (heal, rally, etc), and that will be their turn. Turn order historically has been decided in the first turn, but that may change if a teammate asks to skip a turn or if the team decides to shift around turn order.

If a character attacks an enemy, they will be counterattacked unless activating a skill that prevents them from doing so.

After a team has finished their phase, the battle moves on to the enemy phase. The enemy phase follows the same rules as player phase, except the enemy attacks first and the target can counterattack.

After every enemy takes a turn, the battle returns to player phase and the process repeats again until all of one side is defeated or otherwise unable to continue.

Muses do not die if they are brought to 0HP and are able to continue into the next round if their team wins. However, HP is retained between battles, so being knocked to 0 in one battle means that the muse must wait for an ally to heal them during the next battle before being allowed to participate again.

The rolls you make in the server when you make your action are written out as a reply on your battle thread. The nat20 you rolled for your attack becomes your muse getting fired up, as you write out just exactly how they landed that super-cool crit (or you write about how your muse sees sunset colors through fluttering eyelashes after the enemy runs a critical hit through their gut).

Actions must be announced when a roll is made, not after. RNG may not always be in your favor, but that’s the fun of it. Please do not get upset by or try to bend bad rolls.