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Team Creation Thread

Unread postby AntiNaba » May 13th, 2009, 2:09 am

Here, little minions, you shall discuss and plan and come up with the ideas for who will be on which team with who. Plan as much as you like, but when you finally decide on a team setup, make it very, VERY bold in your post so I can record it on this first post of sexy.

Currently, Kojira and Itsuki are working together. Maybe.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 2:33 am

So, it looks like, if Shiki/MEKristian can convince Shikari/Psalm to let the genin search the Root remains we may have a nice little RP path for the genin. Which, brings into question our latest genin, the sadistic punk Kenta/Random_fan. Will he be joining us? Shikari has no authority over him, so I guess we'll see how it RPs out.

Otherwise, this looks like something MEKristian is itching to do, so I'm game so long as he can make it plausible in the RP. There's a challenge for ya!

Concerning combat, I do not believe we have that figured out yet. For the better DMs one could simply call out what they are attempting and then the DM tells of the attempts effectiveness and the reaction of the baddies. But, this requires three major things I can think of off the bat: 1)a fair sense of timing (seeing as we need a chance to do something mid-attack), 2) understanding that, though you may have an awesome weakpoint for the boss, you cannot expect players to see and jump through any complex series of hoops (one must keep fun in the forefront of the mind at all times, though what qualifies as that is going to vary upon who you are DMing), and 3) the willingness and ability to write descriptively, at least on some level. It doesn't have to be poetry, but we've got to know what's around us and what's going on.

I personally don't want to fall back on using a complex dice system, this is far too whimsical for that. If a DM wants to use some dice rolling to make their decisions, I'm okay with that, but otherwise I just don't see the need for such a system.

Also, if there is a chance a player is killed (beyond what amazing Konoha medic nins can repair) I believe the DM should have to ask for that players consent before having one of their baddies perform such an attack. You know, like the waver signed before the Chuunin Exams.

What do you all think?
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby AntiNaba » May 13th, 2009, 2:39 am

A DM? This isn't a chance thing, we're using this as a narative practice.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 2:45 am

I'm sorry, what? Maybe I'm not using DM in the correct sense, I'm pretty new to RPing myself.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby AntiNaba » May 13th, 2009, 2:48 am

Heh, it's between you and your RP partner to decide the narrative. No Dming from outside parties.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 2:53 am

Still confused. When you say "partner", if we take a look at the possible path for the genin there are 4 people involved: Myself, MEKristian, Serbii, Faux, and possibly Random_fan. I trying to suggest that MEKristian run the narrative, so perhaps DM is the incorrect term. Anyway, am I missing anything; was this what you were suggesting?
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Phht » May 13th, 2009, 3:01 am

So right now we have 4 genin, 1 chunin, 3-4 special jounin, a jounin, and 1-2 wandering nin-types? I have no issues with possibly having a 4 genin team at least temporarily (call it a clerical error where two genin were assigned - by different clerical types - to the same squad). Then the genin team can brave the perils of shinobi bureaucracy trying to figure out how to fix the error (possibly with some of the upper level ninjas trying to prolong the problem to keep themselves amused?).

The upper level people could easily form 1-2 groups as missions dictate.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Wittgen » May 13th, 2009, 3:05 am

I don't see what's wrong with saying DM here. DM, GM, Narrator, whatever you want to call it, roleplaying almost always eventually needs an arbiter to make sure things make sense and that disagreements between parties are settled in manner that ends with everybody having fun. I don't know what definition of DM Anti is using, but chance really has nothing to do with it. It's about creating guidelines.

Also, I want to get involved but the character relations thread is long and I can't keep track of who everyone is and what is going on. Is falling in from the sky and then going from there acceptable? I'm up for being on any team, but having an apprentice might fit my character better. If any genin want to develop into ninja item specialists, we may want to roleplay into that, eh?
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 3:24 am

@Phht: I agree, things are working out pretty well, especially if we break off into groups for sections and then reconverge later.

I like Narrator.
Also, I want to get involved but the character relations thread is long and I can't keep track of who everyone is and what is going on. Is falling in from the sky and then going from there acceptable?
Entirely so. Make sure it's suitibly epic :mrgreen: .
I'm up for being on any team, but having an apprentice might fit my character better. If any genin want to develop into ninja item specialists, we may want to roleplay into that, eh?
Well, Kontan isn't, family jutsus and medical interests, all that. Serbii/Ushio and I have a certain synergy as well, so I'm going to go out on a limb here and say she probably wont be interested. Perhaps Random_fan would be? He's yet to find his niche, so maybe?

Hmm, concerning threads for where the discussions are held, what if we had a "Konoha" thread (the "Character Relations" thread could just be renamed), and then threads for the individual missions we break off to? And, if any other significant location appears, we could simply start another thread with the locations name. Almost like role playing lounges, hmm?

Let's talk about my poor brain. It can't even handle remembering all the characters given names and which person they belong to, so please, don't make me learn the Japanese version of your jutsu! If you really like the Japanese, that's fine, use, it, but post a translation in [] every time you use the Japanese name.

EDIT: Also, if you put your characters name in you sig, as well as age and rank, this would go a long way to making this a more user friendly experience.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Flux_Blade » May 13th, 2009, 3:31 am

Fine, sensei, I'll make sure to do that. That way when I miss translate, someone can catch me. :D

I second the different threads ideas.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Phht » May 13th, 2009, 3:33 am

I would say that just wandering in would be perfectly fine. At the moment a few people are at the mission office and everyone else is at training ground 12. Plus, I've lost track of who's who already and just kinda run with the flow.

Oh, and you forgot the most well used title for that guy leading the campaign: "That !@*)_#%(&^$." ;)

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Anti's probably thinking pen-and-paper DMing, where an out-of-game person handles the NPCs and keeps the plot moving and so forth while the other people in the group just play their characters in reaction to events. Or something.

I think for the most part here, the people involved in a mission/quest/epic-fail/whatever kinda decide what'll happen beforehand, then just let things roll. Plus, we all know how to PM, etc others in case we think something might be an issue. It's not like we'd accidentally drop something through a sky light and take out a mob boss's mistress or anything.

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Haha. Fair enough Psalm!

I might at times go "<japanese jutsu name goes here> [Die a Horrible Death Technique!]" without bothering to actually figure out the japanese jutsu name. Because then I'd end up spending half an hour figuring out what romaji sounds good and thus what the english name would be.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 3:36 am

@ Faux: He he he, thanks, I appreciate it. As for the Japanese, I use this conversion (always convert the Japanese you use back to English to see their other meanings.) I don't know if it's any better or not than this or that one, it's just the one I've become familiar with. Maybe if you use it to cross reference with the translator you're using...? Though perhaps insanity lies down that path.

Well, when I said "Konoha" that kind of covers the missions office too, yes?
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Phht » May 13th, 2009, 3:41 am

I use a two step process of insanity. Step one it translating my English into kanji (via yahoo babelfish). Step two translates the kanji into romaji (via some other website I can't remember right now. googling "kanji romaji converter" should put it in the top 5 results). If it comes out as too many words or some such, I rephrase or otherwise alter the original English and repeat the process until I like the result (and English version). :panic:

That's pretty much why all my jutsu/bloodline stuff in the recycling bin has notes to point out if I messed up on the JP side of things.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 3:48 am

Eh, I feel a headache coming on at the thought of doing that. Yes, I like my way better, straight to romanji. (For those who don't know romanji is the English spelling of the Japanese words, like, say, instead of using kanji, those crazy characters the Japanese actually use. It is called romanji because it's using a roman/roman based alphabet.)
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Phht » May 13th, 2009, 4:06 am

Sure, but my way means I can toss in "Touch of Heaven" and end up with "Ten no Sesshoku" or get "Kankaku no Sou Hakudatsu" from "Total Deprivation of Senses" without needing to figure out grammar structure on my own. ;)
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 4:11 am

Hmm, the only grammar structure I'd use is as such:
English: This + That Japanese: ThatThis
English: This of That Japanese: That no This

Is there more to it with such short names?

EDIT: I suppose "Total Deprivation of Senses" is a wee bit more complicated than my formula allows. Well, that's it for me, I'm hitting the sack! Hopefully I'll be on sooner tomorrow (today?). Did get some awesome writing done today though... :D
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby serbii » May 13th, 2009, 5:51 am

I'm up for being on any team, but having an apprentice might fit my character better. If any genin want to develop into ninja item specialists, we may want to roleplay into that, eh?
Well, Kontan isn't, family jutsus and medical interests, all that. Serbii/Ushio and I have a certain synergy as well, so I'm going to go out on a limb here and say she probably wont be interested. Perhaps Random_fan would be? He's yet to find his niche, so maybe?
*nod nod* You're right. I'm having a lot of fun on team [we need a number/name!] and I think Ushio and Kontan are clicking pretty well together. I'd rather stay where I am.

Meh to Japanese jutsus. Aside from the common ones I'm never going to remember them, so you can yell an attack name and I'll just give up trying to figure out what it was and keep reading. Plus all the ones I make up are going to be simple little things as I'm playing a genin, I won't bother translating them

Honestly I think I'd do a bad job as a DM. I'd rather avoid it if I can.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 12:17 pm

I'm having a lot of fun on team [we need a number/name!] and I think Ushio and Kontan are clicking pretty well together.
We are, indeed.

Okay, as far as names go, canon team names were based off of their number or Jounin sensei. In Japan the letter 4 is associated with death (because it sounds so much like the word for death) and I've heard that some people were so paranoid or superstitious concerning it that there are towers and apartment complexes who's elevators floor numbers read "1, 2, 3, 5, 6,7...". So basically it's considered really bad luck. So... wanna' be Team 4?

Ha ha ha, okay, if we don't do that we could be Team Shikari, but I don't see Kontan has a big fan of that, so if we are it will be despite him. Other than that I guess we could be Team Solemn, though it would be outdated at this point, considering Hotaru has left the team and Ushio certainly does not qualify.
Honestly I think I'd do a bad job as a DM. I'd rather avoid it if I can.
That's no big deal. If you come up with a cool idea though you could just suggest it on one of these forums and then one of those who wants to can Narrate/DM.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Tempest Kitsune » May 13th, 2009, 12:18 pm

But what we're doing here isn't exactly a conventional RP. It's what's known as a PbP RPing, or Play-by-Post Role Playing. There's no real DM or GM or overall Narrator involved, merely the people interacting in the posts collaborating about how they want something to go and who they want to interact with.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 12:25 pm

So then, Sean, who decides upon the terrain?

EDIT: Let me expand upon what I mean. When running through the tunnels of Root do we take a vote to see if there is a dead end around the next corner? How frequently do we take this vote?

Does each person just make up what ever loot fits their fancy?

If baddies attack, who chooses their actions, their combatants?

I'm not suggesting we have a single Narrator, just one specified for certain encounters.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Tempest Kitsune » May 13th, 2009, 12:43 pm

That's between the peope involved in that particular post. Usually you're going to have to end up compromising. And there's not really a "set loot list" for this either, so you'd be making up whatever stuff you found on the spot anyway.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Psalm Of Fire » May 13th, 2009, 12:54 pm

So what your saying is that, when dealing with a particular encounter, a Narrator/DM is permitted? So, what we've all been suggesting?

I agree though, an overall DM or Narrator would be very bad.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby serbii » May 13th, 2009, 11:11 pm

Ha ha, team 4 it is.

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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Wittgen » May 14th, 2009, 4:15 am

Note to self: invent hookshot.
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Re: Viridian Dreams' Team Creation Thread

Unread postby Darkandus » May 14th, 2009, 11:21 am

Da na na na! Your face found an explosive note, OH SH-

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