[RPG] New York Wars

[Bloodshot]

In this RPG you will play either Irish or Italian mob affiliates, or a cop, during the early 1900's. We are dealing with a conflict of immense proportions in New York. The Irish and Italians are having large battles in the streets and are spreading blood through the town. The differant mob groups are: Irish:Seven Gang is sort of dignified, Winter Hill Gang is a bit less dignified, and the rabbit skins are complete savages that carry around dead rabbits on poles. Italian: Corleone family(i am serious, there real) Franchetti family, and Buscetta family all very dignified.

Character Sheet:

Name:
Race: (Italian or Irish)
Affliation: (mob or cop)
Appearence:
Weapons: (stay to the period, please)
Group: (cop. or, for Irish, the seven gang, the winter hill gang, both more dignified than the rabbit skins. Italian, Corleone, Franchetti, and Buscetta)
Bio:

here is some Irish slang if you wish to look over it:http://www.beer-bytch.com/irishslang.htm

and some Italian: http://www.uta.fi/FAST/GC/mobspeak.html

Here is a map:

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh200/Rabbi106/NewYorkMap.jpg

please enjoy! here is my character sheet:

Name: Scáthach Argyle
Race: Irish
Affiliation: mob
Appearence: short dark hair, pale skin, piercing green eyes, naturally distressed dark leather vest laced shut, white old fashioned shirt, period middle class shoes, plaid socks, black cloth breeches
Weapons: small iron dagger, pole as a staff, flintlock pistol
Group: Rabbitskins
Bio: He lived out a normal life in Ireland. He migrated with some of his family and got thrown into the mob wars. His brother had gone a year earlier and had been accepted into the rabbitskins. Scathach escaped the hands of the Italian mob, and immediately started fighting for Ireland.

EDIT: forgot to get approved...but i will

[Tyemdi]

(A bit biased. Has this been approved by a mod?)

[theone!]

I maybe join when am coming home from Norway.

[Bloodshot]

(A bit biased. Has this been approved by a mod?)

How is it biased?

[Victory]

Rabbit skins... Really? You know, there's a difference between being extreme and pretentious and preposterous.

[Bloodshot]

Actually, all the groups and/or families I've included are completely real.

[Victory]

Okay fine, whatever, I don't get paid enough to care, what's the plot of this game?

[Aval]

It's been a while since a new RPG has been started. I'm semi interested.

[demonickilla]

This text rpg seems kinda....... weird...... But what ever it seems okay I guess.

[XdbX]

(So This RP has a lot to give. And i myself think that the story has a lot missing.
I will sign up once a mod has give his okay)

[Bloodshot]

OK, could someone please approve this?

[cokeman]

Whatever happened to our DQ entertainment zone moderator...?

[Bloodshot]

I have no idea...

[Victory]

I hate repeating myself... What's the plot? I ain't giving this the thumbs up until you get off your fat ass and give this story some direction.

[Bloodshot]

You are in New York. You have migrated from Italy, or Ireland, and you are either a mobster or a cop. We have fights and do espionage missions. Now is there a thumbs up?:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Aval]

You need an overarching plot for the players to work through otherwise it is just a pointless, shapeless exercise in futility.

[Bloodshot]

You need an overarching plot for the players to work through otherwise it is just a pointless, shapeless exercise in futility.

But RPG's shouldn't be like that. Missions are told to players as they progress through the story. If thats how it has to be, my game doesn't have a fully established plot. If what I said is not a plot, I don't know how to make one.

[Aval]

http://forums.deletionquality.net/showthread.php?t=5395

read thoroughly.

[Bloodshot]

I am currently working on a map of the city.

[demonickilla]

A map would be nice good job.

[Tyemdi]

(OK. How should we start off after that? What would be the missions? Who are our gang members?)

[demonickilla]

(Maybe you should name the gang leaders.)

[Thunder]

(You do know I am Irish, right?)

[Bloodshot]

(Gang leaders are Father Cathcart((Irish, Rabbitskins)), Don Corleone((Italian, Corleone Family)), Don Buscetti((Italian, Buscetti Family)), Don Franchetti((Italian, Franchetti Family)), Father O'reily((Irish, Seven Gang)), and Father Burr((Irish,Winter Hill Gang)))

Edit: (Why do we need to know that? I'm mostly Irish.)

EDIT: here is map, sorry about huge size

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh200/Rabbi106/NewYorkMap-1.jpg

(done)

[Thunder]

(How can you be MOSTLY IRISH? And I might be interested in this.)

[demonickilla]

(This looks like it's coming together preety well. The story and the map looks interesting. But where is the gangs. I mean you said that there was three gangs for both the irish and italians all three gangs can't live together can they? Also where is the italian hideout?)

[XdbX]

(Sorry but this looks to much like a RPG and a RP)

[Bloodshot]

(This looks like it's coming together preety well. The story and the map looks interesting. But where is the gangs. I mean you said that there was three gangs for both the irish and italians all three gangs can't live together can they? Also where is the italian hideout?)
(i forgot about that, ill edit the pic then edit the post).

EDIT: (Thunder, you can be part something, and I'm MOSTLY Irish)

[Killervirus]

You have to do something that will catch the interest of players. If it's all just running around doing shit, people will sooner or later be bored of it. that's what everyone's being trying to tell you.

Gosh, even Andrehydra's RPG that featured giganitc armies just beating the snot out of eachother (a largescale clone of your RP) was beggining to have a general event stuff going on showing that things were happening before it died because the members weren't active enough.

You're giving us a sandbox, and you know children get bored of them someday.

I'd be happy to join if you sort these things out.

[Tyemdi]

(Like what Killervirus said, the story's rather plain. We're just gonna buy weapons and kill each other with poor people in the crossfire; RIGHT in front of the police?

And what will happen after a certain mafia wins the game?)

[XdbX]

You have to do something that will catch the interest of players. If it's all just running around doing shit, people will sooner or later be bored of it. that's what everyone's being trying to tell you.

Gosh, even Andrehydra's RPG that featured giganitc armies just beating the snot out of eachother (a largescale clone of your RP) was beggining to have a general event stuff going on showing that things were happening before it died because the members weren't active enough.

You're giving us a sandbox, and you know children get bored of them someday.

I'd be happy to join if you sort these things out.
(That was sort of fun. but to think what would happen if this turns out to be the same style of game play. Lets see we would have armys of coppers.
and some one would rush in with a knife and slit ever one of their arms and they would die. Ya basically we godmodd in it.but we did with style so it was okay.


wait i am thinking of some other RP. um i think it was call time crysis.)

[Varthonai]

This seems overly complex to me, Bloodshot; you'd need several threads to keep it organized. You'd need to keep track of a lot of statistics. I don't think it will work.

If you can get some eager members and prove me wrong, go ahead, but I'm eager to close this if it stagnates.