— TV Tropes Forum RPG Guide —
The TV Tropes Forum RPG zone is divided into 3 different zones, normal RPs usually have a thread in each of these.
- Role Playing Singups: The first place to go in order to join a game or start your own. In this place the GMs post the basic settings, story and rules of the RPs and the players post their own characters and wait for approval to start posting in the game proper.
- Role Playing Discussion: Where all the OC talk goes, like discussing character actions and a place to ask questions.
- Role Playing: This zone is where the actual Role Playing takes place.
Please do refer to the Role Playing Rules
for the guidelines on which this section of the Forum operates. Different R Ps have their own rules, though the ones outlined in the Role Playing Rules thread cover the basics of what is enforced here.
edited 11th Jan '13 12:18:11 AM by daltar
Fate/Corruption
is active and closed. Please add it to the list.
Berlin, 1945. As one war draws to a close, another roars to life. Three ancient families and three outsiders converge on the city to participate in the third Holy Grail War. A bit more distinctive than the standard Fate Stay Night RP.
Im thinking of making an Rp, called The War in Heaven. IT is a science fiction with no humans. There is a massive war that is spreading through each galaxy and threatening to enter other universes. The two sides are both fighting with no end in sight while two inter-dimensional organizations (they actually can move in all 10 or 11 dimensions, not just using techno-babble) are trying to figure out how to prevent the war from ever having have happened and stopping it in the present if that fails at the same time. The problem is wibbly wobbly timey wimey balls and it's spreading like a wildfire too fast for them to control without twisting up the timeline. Plus time itself is blinking in and out of existence in Lok'ixo, which was removed from the first 4 dimensions by a massive ultranova, and then returned. But the paradoxical time travel is making it blink in and out of existence. This effect is also spreading. Basically it's trying to stop a crapsack world from becoming even crappier with people on the opposing side as well. Note the Species actually fighting are unaware of the inter-dimensionals' problems.
I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum.I have an idea for an RP that I wanted to get opinions about here. Basically, there's pretty close to standard magic for some people, and everyone in the main cast can use a special item to transform into a humanoid creature with elemental powers (Lightning, void, fire, wind, water, and lots more, not just the classical four). They have to seal a portal that's letting demons into the world, but they'll also have some sidequests as well.
It's set in the modern day, starting at an academy devoted to teaching people how to use their elemental powers.
But yeah, that's pretty much as far as I've gotten. What do you think?
edited 31st May '12 12:17:30 AM by Speedchesser
Should have made this request a while ago. Oh well.
Please add The Gate of Lords
to the list. It is active and open.
Long ago, the Gate of Lords opened and let demons into our world. Centuries after their first attempt to wipe out mankind, they are trying again, and it is up to heroes armed with the powers of the elements to drive them back.
Hey everyone... I've made a new RP... my 1st one actually.... it's called Band Humor RP. It's basically slice-of-life, except the characters are going to personify the various stereotypes and ideas associated with various musical instruments and the people who play them. It's still new, no one else has yet signed up.
edited 11th Jul '12 11:44:52 AM by ArgentumUranium
I've had a thought. A interesting one.
Pretty much, something akin to Corpse Party. (ya. Horror survival RP.)
Bunch of R Pers's characters (Generic high school seems to work well, might as well stick with what works) get stuck in a nightmarish realm of version of their school (or whereever), trying to figure out how to live and get the hell out of this nightmarish realm. (I'm not sure what they'd need to collect to escape, but I did I had thoughts of them having to deal with their own personal demons for each "key", or that they have to get these keys from (or prevent) the bosses.)
Anyone Can Die would be in full effect and so would be a mild case of Killer GM (think Dragons Lair. I'd give the rpers what's needed to surivive, and give help when needed, but I'm not going to make this game So Easy It Sucks or So Hard It Sucks. Poor choices will get them killed and make you lose ) ( and incase everyone Bad Ends, we start over after the prolouge), and it'd be up to a bunch of very Genre Savvy tropers to lead their characters to not dying in a nightmarish place.
edited 25th Jul '12 3:54:40 PM by Nicktendonick
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.After a suggestion from a player, I've decided to come here to advertise my RP I guess.
Bandits!
is a magical-western setting focusing on the bandits, Daddy's Sons, as they regroup after having their leader die and return from the dead. Also focused on are the antagonists of this RP, the Devils of Chance, who have had an easy life of crime with Daddy out of the way and are now ready to stomp out the fire, so to speak.
Guns and magic clash fairly evenly, with a loose magic system based on "shadows" affecting the outcome of spells, potions, alchemy, etc. Other fictional elements will come into play later, but for now it's human driven with the conflict centered on the clashing bands.
We only have about five or six people, and I was hoping to get a bit more interest before I get things rolling. Come on by and write up a character. I know people have been looking for a western RP for awhile, with some attempts, so I hope this can be the one.
I'm pretty sure the concept of Law having limits was a translation error. -WanderlustwarriorI'm thinking of either joining a random RPG or making one because I'm sort of getting bored and I want to be a bit more involved in these forums. Mind you I'm a member of two other forums so I still have a bit of experience in RP Gs, it's just that how much of the rules in those forums would apply here is somewhat of a concern for me. But I digress.
I'm thinking joining an RPG first before making one is a good place to start. I'm only posting here to see any suggestions and so forth. So anyways.
Might as well put up my RP here, if nobody minds. It's actually a reboot of an RP I was running before that ended up dead: Bounty hunters of the apocalypse.
Basically think Urban Fantasy in an apocalypse setting, where (almost) all the fantasy stuff wants to kill you.
We've just started, but I'm still accepting new players.
edited 21st Oct '12 6:17:09 PM by FirockFinion
You are reading this.Still looking for an RPG to join or make. Here's an idea I've been having for a while now: a Wild Arms based one!
The basic idea is that this would be an original setting, but alternate versions of the characters from any of the games can appear, as PCs or NPCs. Original characters are welcome too of course, as long as they fit the setting. which must include the following facts:
- The planet's name is Filgaia.
- It is turning desertic, for some reason. (may or may not be a plot hook.)
- The local culture resembles that of the American Wild West... with Fantasy and Sci-Fi elements added.
- The term ARMS must exist, though exactly what it means can vary (usually it refers to high-tech weapons.)
Other stuff from the series (The Elw, the Guardians, the Golems etc.) is optional, but likely to appear.
So, anybody interested...?
edited 2nd Nov '12 8:43:26 AM by Sijo
Doing a new Survival Horror-based RP called Survival.
It's still open and anyone interested is welcome to join in.
Elba needs you! Join the battle for the Islands Control!
My new RP, in which players battle between Goblins and Humans for the fate of Elba.
Posting to draw attention to two things.
First, the list of open RPs has been erased since keeping it up and updated posed a lot more work than benefit. This thread will remain open to discuss any issues or matter pertaining the RP forum as well as to discuss possible Signup ideas and general RP conversation.
The second thing I wish to draw attention to is a new Role Playing Rule
to be put into effect in the Forum. This concerns the right of the GMs to accept players into their RP and incorporating acceptance criteria into Signups. I would strongly advise all players and GMs to check this new rule.
edited 14th Dec '12 4:03:18 PM by daltar
Actually, I do have some ideas if that's what you're asking. Three, in fact.
- Anything Goes: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Basically, a nonsensical RPG where everything and anything can happen, so long as it's kept under the general rules that Tropes employs. This also applies to characters, so it doesn't matter if your characters are canon, OC or even SI.
- Switch On: The main characters are a group of students who partake in an experimental system that makes classic video games into virtual realities, though something glitches up and now they are stuck in the VR realm, with the games changing every now and then. Their goal would be, obviously, to try and find a way out, be it by winning the games or by something else, though a computer program will try to stop them.
- Life is Showtime!: This RPG toys with the concept of Black and White Magic and adding a third called Grey Magic which doesn't hurt or heal, but rather tricks the eyes, and that all three magics were discovered around the times of the Exodus, with Grey Magic being what is used to turn the rods into snakes, and Black Magic being what is used for the plagues. Not sure where White Magic will fit though. But for a long time, these magics were soon regarded as Acts of God and the three magics were almost plunged into obscurity... that is until some world-changing event happens and suddenly, the magics return and... not sure where to go from here... Black Magic using Big Bad who wants to blow up the world is generic, though. Maybe Grey Magic using Big Bad wants to create Lotus-Eater Machine...
There's no telling if I actually will write these up, but I'm just throwing them out there.
edited 14th Dec '12 4:30:03 PM by Psyga315

ok i've ditched my previous idea (
)and i've made a differenf RP. could it please be added to the list? the name is here. Alternate Zombie Apocalypse Survival RP signup/intrest check
edited 12th Apr '12 7:08:16 PM by gbrngfol
I think there's no point in signatures.