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1	''Rplegacy'' is a [[PlayByPostGames role-playing]] website started by [[Tropers/EmperorOshron Oshron]] in response to the shutdown of the general RPG section of Jurassic Park Legacy, where the core membership of the site originally met. Even after general {{RPG}}s were brought back to JPL, RPL persisted as a dedicated RPG site. Oshron even made a database site for anything and everything posted on RPL. Unfortunately, RPL is prone to dry spells due to real-life concerns of its low continuing membership, but almost all of its larger {{RPG}}s remain open.
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3	Currently, RPL hosts a Series/PrehistoricPark RPG; ''Dark Clouds Gathering'', a fantasy crossover RPG; ''The Dark Tide'' a ''Franchise/StarWars'' RPG; ''Animorphs: The Resistance'' based on the book series; and a select few smaller {{RPG}}s. Some planned {{RPG}}s for the future include ''Titan Rampage'' (based on ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology''), science-fiction RPG ''Endwar'', and AlternateHistory ''Atlas: The March Towards The End''.
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8	!!''Rplegacy'' contains examples of:
9	* AprilFoolsDay: once, Oshron claimed that he had been in talks with HBO to make a television series based on ''Dark Clouds Gathering''; come April 1st of that year…
10	* AuthorFilibuster: occasionally, participation in the role-playing games is “broken” by out-of-character comments enclosed in ((double brackets)) to clarify something that just happened or to answer a legitimate question even though there are dedicated OOC threads for every RPG; Oshron is perfectly okay with this
11	* SelfDeprecation: some of the "Spoof an [=RPG=]" jokes involve this, particularly a red-light green-light post about the long periods of inactivity that the board experiences
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14	[[folder:Prehistoric Park]]
15	''Prehistoric Park'', based on [[Series/PrehistoricPark the television series]], follows the staff of the eponymous park as they not only travel into prehistory via time portal but also care for the animals in the present-day setting. In addition to the hazards of caring for dinosaurs, the park has occasionally come under threat by [[EvilPoacher wildlife smugglers]]. ''Prehistoric Park'' was originally started on Jurassic Park Legacy but eventually moved to/was restarted on Rplegacy. It is currently in its fifth iteration.
16	!!''Prehistoric Park'' contains examples of:
17	* BigDamnHeroes: Nigel saves Jason with what amounts to a sound gun when the latter is attacked by some smugglers
18	* EvilPoacher: some animal smugglers have tried to attack the park to steal the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals to sell on the black market
19	* CoolCar: The expedition team employs the use of a Marauder, an armored-personnel vehicle.
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22	[[folder:Animorphs: The Resistance]]
23	''Animorphs: The Resistance'' is based on the books by K. A. Applegate, with participants inserting [[AuthorAvatar versions of themselves]] in the place of the characters from the original series. It is also explicitly set in Orange County, California.
24	!!''Animorphs: The Resistance'' contains examples of:
25	* AuthorAvatar: most of the Animorphs are based on the participants themselves
26	* LaResistance: the Animorphs
27	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: in the original version of the game, [[TheLeader Travis]] leaps at [[BigBad Visser Three]] in snow leopard morph, planning to bring him down right then and there. Visser Three easily stops him with his tail-blade and injures him as well, and then morphs into a fire-breathing monster.
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31	[[folder:Dark Clouds Gathering]]
32	''Dark Clouds Gathering'', better known as just "The Fantasy RP" is a crossover between almost any fantasy setting conceivable, but mostly sword-and-sorcery and high-fantasy. It focuses on a war of good and evil between the Legion of Light, comprised of heroic characters from various media, and the Army of Shadow, made up of the dark lords and villains from those same series and then some. There’s a third faction, called the Seekers of Balance, who are trying to prevent either side from becoming too powerful and wiping out the other, as this would throw the entire balance of the universe out of whack and destroy everything. The Fantasy RP was started on Jurassic Park Legacy, then restarted twice on Rplegacy. Currently, it is in its third iteration.
33	!!Contains crossovers of:
34	* Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad
35	* Franchise/AssassinsCreed
36	* Manga/AttackOnTitan
37	* Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia
38	* VideoGame/ChronoTrigger
39	* VideoGame/DarkSiders
40	* VideoGame/DarkSouls
41	* Franchise/TheDarkTower
42	* Franchise/DragonAge
43	* Literature/{{Dragonlance}}
44	* Literature/TheDresdenFiles
45	* VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim
46	* VideoGame/FinalFantasyI
47	* Franchise/FireEmblem: ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragon Shadow Dragon]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]''
48	* TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms
49	* VideoGame/GodOfWar
50	* VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic
51	* Literature/TheHobbit
52	* Homer's [[Literature/TheIliad Illiad]] and [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]]
53	* [[Literature/InheritanceCycle The Inheritance Cycle]]
54	* VideoGame/KidIcarus
55	* Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda
56	* Literature/TheLordOfTheRings
57	* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse
58	* Film/PetesDragon1977
59	* Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean
60	* VideoGame/PrimalRage
61	* Literature/{{Redwall}}
62	* Myth/RobinHood
63	* Literature/TheSilmarillion
64	* VideoGame/SoulCalibur
65	* Manga/SoulEater
66	* VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft
67	* Original settings by participants
68	** The Ominiverse (Ivan Dragunov, Zane Anderson, Doom)
69	** "Beginnings" (Prince Roy II, Amelia Nemeu, Chernabog)
70	** "Salton" (Dirk, Redclaw)
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72	!!''Dark Clouds Gathering'' contains examples of:
73	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: several of the named characters have these, though they are all either magically-reinforced or made of fantastical metals; the exception is the swords of the Scouting Legion, which were brought from a more technologically-advanced world but as a result are irreplaceable
74	* TheAce: many named characters are this, but special mention goes to Link
75	* ActorAllusion: a planned interaction between [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]] and [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]] is Jack commenting that Legolas [[Creator/OrlandoBloom seems very familiar]].
76	* TheAgeless: all of the [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Numenoreans]] average a few centuries at maximum age but rarely look older than forty or fifty, while the Elves of Arda also age very slowly if at all after a certain point, with many of them being thousands of years old and still looking very youthful
77	* AGodAmI: many of the named characters in the Army of Shadow have this in their goals, but particularly Morgoth and Ganon; Jack Sparrow of the Legion of Light wants to become immortal, and the promise of being able to achieve it in Caranom was the whole reason he agreed to join the war
78	* TheAlliance: the Legion of Light
79	* AnotherDimension: Caranom is explicitly a “source world” in a whole multiverse; in another sense, most of the RPG settings could be considered different dimensions
80	* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: many members of both the Legion of Light and the Army of Shadow got to positions of authority by beating their enemies or allies; some of them had this in their homeworlds and it carried over
81	* TheAtoner: Oshron’s original character Amelia Nemeu in the Fantasy RP forced her role as servant on his other OC, Prince Roy of South Kingdom, to make up for the fact that her son killed Roy’s father
82	* AuraVision: [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Altair’s eagle vision]] lets him see the intent of those around him, even if they’re invisible, and track their movements through solid objects after centering his line of sight on them
83	* BagOfHolding: Link has one, and it's lampshaded by other characters
84	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: averted with Ylaya, but played straight with several members of the Legion of Light; Sauron counts as an aversion when disguised as Annatar the Lord of Gifts [[note]]That's the same form he used to trick the Elves, Men, and Dwarves into accepting the Rings of Power, for the uninitiated.[[/note]]
85	* BerserkButton: Roy flips out whenever he sees Chernabog, the man who killed his parents; Elendil lost his cool when Hath Shadowfang brought up the destruction of Numenor during a diplomatic meeting; [[Film/PetesDragon1977 Elliott]] loses his goofy demeanor whenever children are at risk
86	* BewareTheSillyOnes: [[Film/PetesDragon1977 Elliott]] in the Fantasy RP is a good-natured goofball most of the time; mess with any kids when he can see you doing it, though...
87	%%* BigBad: Grogna
88	* BigBadEnsemble: the Army of Shadow’s commanding officers, many of them being the BigBad of their respective setting
89	* BigDamnHeroes: a group of centaurs save Roy and [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Frog]] from the Balrog of Moria in ''Dark Clouds Gathering''
90	* CoolSword: most characters who use swords have one: [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda the Master Sword]], [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight the Falchion]], [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Xianghua’s sword No-Name]], [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Anduril]], and many others
91	* CurbStompBattle:
92	** Altair gets cornered by a bunch of Shadowers in the laketop city of Erielhonan while escaping from the [[spoiler: unsuccessful]] assassination of Lord Soth. Then he pulls out the Apple of Eden and forces them all to kill themselves. Just prior, he fought his way out of the scene of the assassination without taking a single scratch.
93	** [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Durin’s Bane, the Balrog of Moria]], is only “defeated” by Roy and [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Frog]] using their combined powers to slow him down while other members of the Legion of Light escape, and ''they'' only get out because a bunch of centaurs show up and cover them. And even then, they take high casualties and the balrog is virtually unscathed.
94	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Altair is haunted by the deaths of his friend Malik, his son Sef, and his wife Maria on the orders of fellow Assassin Abbas back in his homeworld
95	* DarkestHour: the Legion of Light was going through this before the bulk of their recruits from other dimensions were summoned to their world
96	* DinosaursAreDragons: before they are specifically identified as such, most of the characters refer to dinosaurs as dragons because they come from worlds where either A) dinosaurs do not/no longer exist, or B) the word "dinosaur" has not yet been coined since it's from before 1842
97	* TheDragon: several: Dark Link to Ganon, Sauron to Morgoth, Odahviing to Alduin and several others; [[BigBad Grogna]] has ''seven'' Dragons—his six captains as well as [[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Ylaya]]
98	** There’s even ''sub''-Dragons: the Witch King to Sauron, Morgomir to the Witch King
99	* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Link inspires the rest of the Legion to keep fighting when he forced Ganon to retreat. It helps that he has the one weapon that can actually hurt Ganon, while before he had always been attacked with more mundane weapons.
100	* ElaborateUndergroundBase / Underground City: the subterranean home of the serpent-men, particularly because it’s a labyrinth; much of Grogna’s Fortress is also underground
101	* EldritchAbomination: this is what [[VideoGame/DarkSiders the Corruption]] turns things into
102	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: this will happen if ''either'' side completely destroys the other
103	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: WordOfGod is that many members of the Army of Shadow are native conscripts who were taken from their families and forcibly enlisted
104	* EvilCounterpart: [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Dark Link to Link]], and Chernabog to Roy
105	* EvilIsBigger: many members of the Army of Shadow are imposing [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Uruk-hai]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Darknuts, Moblins]], and the like. Also, many of the Army’s commanders and other named characters are huge, like Ganon (even in human form), Sauron, [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Alduin]], Lord Soth, and every single one of [[BigBad Grogna]]’s captains, as well as many of the more unique monsters that are in their service.
106	* EvilIsBurningHot: the balrogs
107	* EvilOverlord: most of the Army of Shadow’s High Command, but especially [[BigBad Grogna]]
108	* EyeScream: the minotaur Jalhund briefly stuns Ivan Dragunov by stabbing his horn into Dragunov’s eye (luckily, that eye is pure energy, so it hurts but isn’t permanent)
109	* FaceDeathWithDignity: Roy and [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Frog]] are prepared to fight the Balrog of Moria to their deaths when they start running out of energy in holding him off. Luckily, they’re rescued by centaurs.
110	* FanonDiscontinuity: sort of; part of the official timeline of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' as described in ''Hyrule Historia'' is ignored and set in the Child Timeline instead, with ''Zelda II'' at the very end of that; [[WordOfDante Oshron]] has stated that he feels the ''Oracle'' games take place after ''Zelda II'' since Ganon is dead during that time but is brought back to life in the secret ending, and Link's introduction in the [=RPG=] explicitly says that Ganon has been brought back to life after his death at the end of ''The Legend of Zelda''; however, the actual content of each official game is still considered canon
111	* FantasyPantheon: the Guardians of Caranom, though only Kirth, Grogna, and Serena are still present on the physical plane; there are also a number of primordial deities from before the Guardians appeared, such as the Gregoria, the angelic caretaker of Diamond Seal
112	* FromBadToWorse: the ambush of a group from the Legion of Light goes even further south for them when a balrog shows up
113	* GentleGiant: [[Film/PetesDragon1977 Elliott]]
114	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Dark Link
115	* GodOfEvil: Grogna
116	* GreyAndGrayMorality: most of the [=RPG=]s that have {{Designated Hero}}es and {{Designated Villain}}s have this, as both sides can be played.
117	* GrimUpNorth: the Army of Shadow’s base of power is in the northern half of Caranom
118	* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: for the most part, both sides of the war feel like this towards the other
119	* HalfHumanHybrid: Chernabog, who is half human and half fire-folk; Altair also qualifies, having distant genetic heritage from the First Civilization
120	* HolyIsNotSafe: Gregoria. Just because she’s an angel doesn’t mean she’s immune to injury. [[OnlyAFleshWound It ''does'' keep her from bleeding out when her throat is slashed, though.]]
121	%%* HotBlooded: Roy
122	* IAmAHumanitarian: [[VideoGame/PrimalRage Sauron]], though only out of necessity, being the God of Hunger, after all
123	* IntergenerationalFriendship: many members of both sides are incredibly young compared to some others, though it’s hard to consider most members of the Army of Shadow actual friends. Examples include nearly middle-aged Amelia Nemeu being friends with young adult [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Chai Xianghua]] on the average end of the spectrum, Frodo and Aragorn—the former being 50, young for a hobbit, and the latter being over 200—in the middle, and at the extreme end, Link and Zelda. This is Zelda from somewhere between ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', while Link is from [[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureofLink the very end of the ''Zelda'' timeline]], potentially making her several thousand years old compared to the young adult Link.
124	%%* IronLady: [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Princess Zelda]]
125	%%* LeParkour: [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Altair]], of course
126	* LightningBruiser: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Marth]], borrowing his speed from the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' version
127	* MassOhCrap: the reaction of every member of the Legion of Light on the scene when they were attacked by the Balrog of Moria
128	* MeaningfulName: aside from the actual crossover characters, numerous characters native to Caranom have some kind of significance behind their names
129	* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: despite the setting being geographically based on South America and home to South American animals, its peoples are culturally European for the most part
130	%%* TheMole: [[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Ylaya]]
131	* MonsterProgenitor: [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Glaurung to all of Middle-earth’s dragons]], and arguably [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganon to the Moblins]]
132	* MysticalPlague: [[VideoGame/DarkSiders the Corruption]]; at one point, [[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Ylaya]] poisoned the Legion of Light’s water supplies, causing them to suffer nausea and diarrhea that even Hyrule’s cure-all Red Potion can’t fix
133	* NoBodyLeftBehind: the Nazgul are essentially incorporeal undead who only take on a physical form while wearing the characteristic garb of the Black Riders; the best way to “kill” them is to set their clothes on fire, which prevents their spirits from staying together in one place and will make their clothes crumple in on themselves as if nothing was ever there
134	* NonstandardCharacterDesign: WordOfGod is that, if ''Dark Clouds Gathering'' were rendered in live action, characters explicitly from or based on cartoons would be done entirely in CGI (particularly [[Literature/TheHobbit Bilbo Baggins]])
135	* OmnicidalManiac: several members of the Army of Shadow’s high command, though most of then want to ''conquer'' the multiverse rather than destroy it
136	%%* OneManArmy: many of the named characters
137	* OnlyThePureOfHeart: only the pure and just can lay their hands on the Master Sword—everyone else gets zapped by it, and even then only Link can really ''use'' it. A planned future scene will involve Roy trying to get the sword back to a disarmed Link, only for it to electrocute him, [[RuleOfFunny and then he realizes exactly why]].
138	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Caranom’s native werewolves aren’t shapeshifters, but literal a case of a HalfHumanHybrid resulting from the union of Caranom’s sentient wolves and almost any of Caranom’s other native peoples, and quite simply look like the other race but with wolf-like features (including fur) and have a habit of going on all fours; [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] can also transform into one of Middle-earth's werewolves [[note]]in fact, it was his original form in Arda[[/note]], which is simply a huge, ferocious wolf rather than a wolfman.
139	* OutsideContextProblem: the entire premise is that a war breaks out in the land of Caranom between the [[DesignatedVillain Army of Shadow]] and [[DesignatedHero Legion of Light]]. Then the BigBad summons his equals from other dimensions and catches everyone off-guard. It’s then turned around on the Army when the leader of the Legion summons the heroes who fought those villains in their own worlds.
140	* PhysicalGods: the Guardians of Caranom, the primordial deities that predate them, and a few characters from other worlds, such as [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Morgoth]] and characters from VideoGame/PrimalRage
141	* PlayingWithFire: several characters can control fire, but especially Amelia Nemeu, whose entire race has that power
142	* TheQuisling: King Alberich of Erielhonan is a forced member of the Army of Shadow thanks to a bomb hidden in his city’s largest public bath
143	* Really700YearsOld: most of the Numenoreans are older than they look, as are the Elves of Middle-earth and Caranom’s native Yngvi; special mention goes to Zelda, who is an average human by Hylian standards, but was put in suspended animation for potentially several thousand years, making her millennia old but looking no older than Link, who is a young adult
144	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: any named characters who are also royalty, except for Alberich of Erielhonan
145	* RuleOfCool: why else would [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Altair]], who comes from a historical science-fiction setting, qualify for inclusion in the Fantasy RP?
146	* SchizoTech: mostly the result of new technologies being introduced from other dimensions: [[Franchise/TheDarkTower Roland Deschain]] is the first one to introduce firearms to Caranom, followed closely by [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]] and the crew of the ''Black Pearl'', the [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Survey Corps]] brings along their own gunpowder as well as their 3D Maneuver Gear and steel swords, the [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Royal Army of Hyrule]] brings bombs with them, and so on. The Army of Shadow is no less limited, what with master engineers [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Morgoth, Sauron, and Saruman]] on their side. [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Altair]] also has knowledge of futuristic technology (relevant to him) via the Apple of Eden that he can spread around if he so wishes.
147	* ShapeshifterModeLock: most of the [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Ainur]] in Caranom cannot change their forms anymore, but averted with Morgoth and Sauron, who have regained their shapeshifting abilities
148	* TalkingAnimal: many, with Articia being the best example
149	* WarriorPrince: played straight with [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Marth]], [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Legolas]], and some others, but subverted with Roy ([[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade no, not ''that'' Roy]]), who is actually the King of South Castle but continues using the title of Prince because he skipped out on his own coronation to chase his archenemy
150	* XanatosGambit: Grogna’s attitude towards the Legion of Light’s deployment to a temple in the Perlemmian Mountains to try and stop a dragon from escaping
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153	[[folder:Titan Rampage]]
154	''Titan Rampage'', initially inspired by ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'', is a slightly less conventional RPG: unlike others, its setting is flexible to allow new countries to appear, though the general geography, environment, and the antagonistic Titans are predefined. The story follows original characters by the participants as the Titans are released from Hell and wreak havoc across the world, prompting the heroes to band together to stop them. ''Titan Rampage'' was originally started on Jurassic Park Legacy but quickly died, and involved Titans based on those appearing the ''Age of Mythology'' and in Disney's ''Hercules'' as well as some uncreative original ones. The second and current iteration features ''Age of Mythology'' and ''Hercules'' Titans as well as many more based on enemies from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', [[WhatCouldHaveBeen including ones that never made it to the final game]].
155	!!''Titan Rampage'' contains examples of:
156	* CoolSword: Mineus' sword can redirect lightning bolts
157	* CultureChopSuey / FantasyCounterpartCulture: encouraged by design: participants are allowed to add new countries and peoples to the setting and one element of national profiles is to note real-world nations that they are based on in order to help other participants visualize cutural aesthetics:
158	** the Aurorans are basically Plato's Atlanteans with the appearances of Islamic Berbers, even carrying prayer mats, but they also possess some Ancient Greek aesthetics, particularly their weapons and armor
159	** despite being dinosaurs, the Karkathians are culturally similar to the Ancient Greeks
160	** the Northmen are Vikings, just without access to the sea, but they are disunited clans which occasionally join forces under a Warlord and hold honor to such a degree that they committ suicide if shamed, much like samurai who lived under the various Shogunates
161	** The Seeokari are a combination of Native Americans (particularly members of the Iroquois Confederacy) and Eurasian steppe tribes such as the Mongols
162	* HalfHumanHybrid: the Seeokari are descended from Humans and Elves, and the Ujerta tribe among them have some descent from Minotaurs as well
163	** Mineus is partly descended from a deity
164	* HorseofADifferentColor: [[RuleOfCool the Karkathians are raptors that ride tyrannosaurs]]
165	* SchizoTech: ''encouraged'' by design: the entire setting is essentially Iron Age or earlier, and yet analog computers and primitive firearms exist
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