Thread: Lucid Roleplaying? :0 (Insane/Silly)

That sounds awesome, and I like the term you used there, "Game Master".

That is a brilliant idea and I want to steal it, but, it appears to require someone very, very experienced in lucid dreaming.

This is true.

Indeed... Seeing as how long it can take to get an enviroment into ones head like with Paradiso, this would be very hard. And also remembering how other peoples characters are etc.

But it would really be cool if someone tried it!

That would be freaking awesome.
It's like a giant dream-sharing orgy
I know I wouldn't be able to do that sort of thing just yet, but I'd love to join in in a few months and be a noob to all you guys hahahaha
Wow... LaBerge has got nothing on us

It be British bedtime now =] Night everyone! May all your WILDest dreams come true!
p.s. Wow... what a great pun

Well, here's a thread that is sorta what you explained. I found this a while ago but didn't (still don't ) have the skills to do it.

Lucid Rage

...I should try this again...

Well, it would be hard if you planned it all, but it'd be easy if you only thought up the main enemy, yourself of course, and whatever starts the story, like getting sucked through a time portal or something. Then just take whatever the dream throws at you, good or bad. To make this more fun, you shouldn't end the story. He "just barely gets away" every time

It would make a good skeliton to writing a book. Nice proof reading your story to determine whether it's realistic or not.

Originally Posted by maniakalBycikle

Well, here's a thread that is sorta what you explained. I found this a while ago but didn't (still don't ) have the skills to do it.

Lucid Rage

...I should try this again...

Nice, thanks for that link! That thing sounds interesting.

Originally Posted by Mini Man56

Well, it would be hard if you planned it all, but it'd be easy if you only thought up the main enemy, yourself of course, and whatever starts the story, like getting sucked through a time portal or something. Then just take whatever the dream throws at you, good or bad. To make this more fun, you shouldn't end the story. He "just barely gets away" every time

Aye, I imagine that in a thread, people would just put up their character. Then in the dream someone would meet that character and the dream would go by the dreamers memories of the description of that character.

Someone else already had this brilliant idea but I don't know where his thread disappeared to.

We were in the midst of trying to figure out who the GM would be. I'd suggested I'd do it but then realized I might not have the time to dedicate to such an important role and I suggested someone else. When I went back to check the thread to see if there were any new responses I couldn't find it.

And then the idea just drifted away, I guess. I still think a LD RP could be fun and interesting. All it needs is an excellent GM.

Yes.. I'm not sure I got (and knows) what it takes to be a GM for such a project, so I certainly think someone else should take it.

About the time needed to dedicate one self to the project, I don't think it's that much of a pressure, it probably wont be more than one entry per day, or less - Because it would be difficult. I understand that the GM would have to decide what is legit for the RP and what is not, who wins & loses etc.

I really don't know, but I think if you think any of you got the time and want to do it, please do!
I just looked up gamemaster at wikipedia, it looks like a hard job, but fun nonetheless.
I think I'm willing to try, if no-body else steps up. It would be my first time to be a GM of any RP, so it would be better if someone more experienced would do it. Otherwise I'll be willing to try.

xP

I'll join in if you guys are setting it up.
I have about 1 lucid a week with the occasional WILD thrown in there.

Yeah I remember a lot of discussion in the Lucid Rage RPG thread that is posted above. He was going to setup a website with pictures and maps, which I think would be cool.

If you guys want to give this another shot though I'd be happy to help out; I wouldn't mind creating some maps and collecting images to use as inspiration for scenery and such. I'm sure we can find a nice free host somewhere to put everything.

I'd like to join, but I don't think I'm that experienced at dream control to keep things straight in my dreams.

Why not just start right ahead by making up characters?
You could just write it down like this:

"Name:
Age:

Description (Looks): <Description in details of how your character looks, a picture or drawing could do aswell>

Description (Powers): <Description about the characters powers goes here, like if (s)he's strong or not, if (s)he's fast or not etc.> I think it would be too much to use points and things like that.

History: <History of character goes here>"

Wow this sounds really interesting, I'm pretty excited about this. I play alot of video games, a few RPG, but video games dont really have a game master. I'm guessing the game master would describe the environment and world to the other 'players' right? So I could be a player and a game master (if I decide to try for Gamemaster). Also, there could be more than one, but not too many orelse everyone will be creating the world,then you don't get to explore something thats created completely by other people.

Maybe 3 GameMasters max? I don't know how I would do, but I would be willing to give it a try.

For my character...

Name: Ceonsamea

Info: some guy that focuses on technique rather than speed or strength. Good at climbing, jumping obstacles and getting from place to place, so he wouldn't use any heavy weapons. In combat more of defensive counter attack sort of style. My name can just be Ceonsamea.

Looks: I really have no idea. if this gets far enough and someone meets me in the world, my looks can be whatever they were to the first person who sees me, should be interesting
I will update this post with my characters looks if that ever happens.

This sounds really interesting, I hope this goes far, I will definately be willing to contribute.

EDIT:

Weapons: Dagers, a shortsword or free hand. Prefers close up combat instead of ranged.

Personality: Competative, but in a friendly/joking way. Practices alot to perfect his skills.Loves learning new things and teaching others, although he still travels alone, as most people can't keep up with his agility, travelling with others would in most cases slow him down. He also wouldn't want to drag people into danger or be responsable for looking after someone else.

I'll join, but only when I start having lucid dreams! >_<

Originally Posted by Ceonsamea

Wow this sounds really interesting, I'm pretty excited about this. I play alot of video games, a few RPG, but video games dont really have a game master. I'm guessing the game master would describe the environment and world to the other 'players' right? So I could be a player and a game master (if I decide to try for Gamemaster). Also, there could be more than one, but not too many orelse everyone will be creating the world,then you don't get to explore something thats created completely by other people.

Maybe 3 GameMasters max? I don't know how I would do, but I would be willing to give it a try.

For my character...

Name: Ceonsamea

Info: some guy that focuses on technique rather than speed or strength. Good at climbing, jumping obstacles and getting from place to place, so he wouldn't use any heavy weapons. In combat more of defensive counter attack sort of style. My name can just be Ceonsamea.

Looks: I really have no idea. if this gets far enough and someone meets me in the world, my looks can be whatever they were to the first person who sees me, should be interesting
I will update this post with my characters looks if that ever happens.

This sounds really interesting, I hope this goes far, I will definately be willing to contribute.

I'm not sure about multiple gamemasters, I read on wikipedia about Gamemaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamemaster) it says that the gamemasters job is to weave the stories people make together. Which could be many things. I'm just not sure about wether it will make it harder or easier with multiple.

With your character, cool! Although I would like to see some description of the looks, so people have a chance to visualize you while in-dream.

Maybe we should also put up which kind of weapons they have?

I think I'll put up my character later, while I cannot act out anything to affect the story with my own dreams, the character can still be there in you peoples dreams, aye?

EDIT:
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Name: Maeni
Age: 15-18ish

Description(Looks): What you will first notice when looking at this character is the strong contrasts in colors. His hair is strong green, his skin looks almost like bronze. He wears a black coat, there are some abstract red patterns around it. The edges around the coat is also red. He has a red cloth belt.His pants are bright, compared to the rest, it's not white, but not dark. There are no special patterns or other decoration on these. His ears are special, they are the length of your average WoW elf, but what you will also notice, is that by the middle of the ear, it splits, turning into two ears. The bottom one looks more like a small, stiff antenna.
He's eyes are bright blue, saphire blue. (colors <3)
His hair is pretty long, it goes down to his back. Around both his ears, the hair is stiff. The stiffness goes down to where his shoulder starts. But it is only in these spots it is stiff, in all other parts, it's pretty smooth hair.
Ps. When I say stiff, I mean stiff, not dragon-ball gravity defying color changing-stiff.

Drawing!


Description(Powers): He's really good at jumping. He does not run that fast, but by jumping he can get forward pretty quick.
It does take on his powers alot, so for the average journey, he's going by normal transport.
He's a natural hunter, he's good at throwing and at hand to hand combat if he dosn't have a weapon handy. His extra ear makes it hard to sneak up on him because
it doesn't use the sense of hearing, but acts like an extra, very weak eye. It can see things behind him, but only two small spots behind him can be seen.
It is perfectly possible to stay behind him hidden, but it will be close to impossible to pass behind him, as you will pass through his sight.


History: <None, due to no theme of the world yet D

Weapons: On his back, he has 4 bright wooden boomerangs. On his side hangs a silvery blade. Very smooth, except for the blade itself, it has close to no sharp edges at all. Although it has a few small, smooth rubys around the handle.

Something I felt needed to be added;
Personality: He's generally a peacefull one, happy to help people.
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I felt that Weapons and Personality were needed too.

As for the world, I think the whole tropical island was pretty cool. Should we have it be present time, past or future?
This character was made for something else to begin with, I took him from a world based on the back in the horse, knight, sword, shield, torch, dark dungeon-time.
In a present time and future themed world, I just imagine him comming from far away from the city. From an island, probably.

Now join in, yo' Lucid Jedi's!

Ah I see what you mean Maeni. I don't think I would like to be a GM in that case, I'm not sure wheather I would be any good at it, whoever takes the position of GM really determines how good this world/story will be, its quite a big part, I wouldn't want to mess it up. But then again, I suppose people would give advice if anything was really bad.

Next time i get a LD, I will try to teleport to some Roleplaying style place, just see where I end up, it could get some ideas started, if everyone did the same, then whoever takes the role of GM can pick out pieces that they like, and create the world

so for now everyone's just sort of on their own, 'single player', to get some inspiration well other things are going on, like finding a GM.

Sounds like a plan?

(If i think of any looks for my character I will add it, although I would be very interested to see what my character would look like if someone else met him with no given description.)

Originally Posted by Ceonsamea

Ah I see what you mean Maeni. I don't think I would like to be a GM in that case, I'm not sure wheather I would be any good at it, whoever takes the position of GM really determines how good this world/story will be, its quite a big part, I wouldn't want to mess it up. But then again, I suppose people would give advice if anything was really bad.

Next time i get a LD, I will try to teleport to some Roleplaying style place, just see where I end up, it could get some ideas started, if everyone did the same, then whoever takes the role of GM can pick out pieces that they like, and create the world

so for now everyone's just sort of on their own, 'single player', to get some inspiration well other things are going on, like finding a GM.

Sounds like a plan?

(If i think of any looks for my character I will add it, although I would be very interested to see what my character would look like if someone else met him with no given description.)

Yes, that sounds like a very good idea! Once we find something cool, we'll use that for the official enviroment. I think just by the idea of that, you already made it have a quest-like feeling to it. Like it's actually a quest for us all to do, haha. Looking for the enviroment. I'll begin to describe my enviroments in my DJ more detailed.

I can't wait to do this. I probably won't be able to get lucid soon, let alone remembering a character, but I'll make one anyways.

this character is basically myself, but more awesome

Name: Sahak Avedis Muggerditchian, aka: El Segretezza
Age: 26

Description/history: He was born in Armenia, raised in Italy. He used his skills to live in Armenia durind the 1915 geoncide. Fairly short, but not tiny, about 5' 8", and an average build. His hair is black, curly, and short. He has a strange mark on his left shoulder blade and his eyes are dark blue with white streaks around the pupil. Usually wears dark clothing, or whatever is needed to blend in. He is an ex-bounty hunter, but was trained by a con-man. He helped this con-man steal stuff and escape the law. He likes to play poker and has a very nice car (no 2 cars... a Pagani Zonda and a Bentley ).

Spoiler for pic of sign on left shoulder blade and eye:

Skills/Powers: A modern day expert of stealth. He can blend into any crowd and is fluent in multiple languages. He usually carries conceallable or stealthy weapons, but can use any objects around him as well as hand to hand combat (like in the Bourne Identity series). His fighting style is "effecient." (He might accidently use other powers in dream, but I'll say that he doesn't know he can....yet )

Personality: Quiet and thoughtfull. Pretty intelligent, but no genious. (again, sorta like Jason Bourne)

Weapons: He mainly uses daggers and either a sniper rifle or a bow (if he happens to be in a medieval setting).


I really hope I get lucid for this, it took me a long time to make this character.

That's cool! Thanks for putting up yours.
I think with these characters, a city like enviroment will work much better.
The time dosn't really affect my character.


Just a note, I realize that having my character being described with a drawing can make it hard to get it into a dream, but I hope it's still possible

Nice characters people. I added some details about my character to. and I was thinking about this a little.

My first question is, what happens when someone dies? Should they respawn at some set starting location or something? I know that when some people die they wake up, so this way we would know where their char is. That sounds like the best idea to me, but I haven't thought about many alternatives.

And also, this might be what you already mean, but for keeping everything together we will eventually ofcourse have a map. Then, when people enter the world (maybe at some set starting location?) they do whatever. Wherever the dream ends should be remembered and marked, so whoever is next in the world knows where this person is. If you see a character in a different place to where they are supposed to be, ask them what they did, how they got there etc, so the gap can be filled in.

If you meet someone else in the world, whatever they do in your dream happens to their char. So if someone met me in the world and I travelled a little, they would say where I last was in their dream, then this would be updated, I would read it, and enter the world at my new location, also remembering the events that happened in the other persons dream and pretending I did everything that my character did in the other persons dream.

The only exception to this would be if someone's character was acting out of character. Because dreams can be random, I wouldn't want my character to have jumped off a cliff because he got bored. Basically, if the characters go a bit crazy and out of character, then whatever they do didn't happen.

And if this system was used, what about if 2 people had a dream on the same night, but with different events involving the same character? I guess it would be first posted or the best of the 2 or something that counts.

I hope that made sense. Trying to do something like this is going to need a lot of planning, but I'm really keen to see how this could go. Let me know if anything doesn't sound like a good idea, or if you have anything to add or suggestions. I think we need aot of input for this to work.

Originally Posted by Ceonsamea

Nice characters people. I added some details about my character to. and I was thinking about this a little.

My first question is, what happens when someone dies? Should they respawn at some set starting location or something? I know that when some people die they wake up, so this way we would know where their char is. That sounds like the best idea to me, but I haven't thought about many alternatives.

And also, this might be what you already mean, but for keeping everything together we will eventually ofcourse have a map. Then, when people enter the world (maybe at some set starting location?) they do whatever. Wherever the dream ends should be remembered and marked, so whoever is next in the world knows where this person is. If you see a character in a different place to where they are supposed to be, ask them what they did, how they got there etc, so the gap can be filled in.

If you meet someone else in the world, whatever they do in your dream happens to their char. So if someone met me in the world and I travelled a little, they would say where I last was in their dream, then this would be updated, I would read it, and enter the world at my new location, also remembering the events that happened in the other persons dream and pretending I did everything that my character did in the other persons dream.

The only exception to this would be if someone's character was acting out of character. Because dreams can be random, I wouldn't want my character to have jumped off a cliff because he got bored. Basically, if the characters go a bit crazy and out of character, then whatever they do didn't happen.

And if this system was used, what about if 2 people had a dream on the same night, but with different events involving the same character? I guess it would be first posted or the best of the 2 or something that counts.

I hope that made sense. Trying to do something like this is going to need a lot of planning, but I'm really keen to see how this could go. Let me know if anything doesn't sound like a good idea, or if you have anything to add or suggestions. I think we need aot of input for this to work.

hmm. I think when you die you should make a new character, or maybe just go to a new area (we could have multiple "maps" if people are dying a lot ) Also you shouldn't die from something really stupid. For example, dying from food poisoning is pretty lame, but if you fight a dragon and get charred to a crisp, then you are really dead. And the game master could settle any disputes.

And when you see someone else while dreaming I don't think it should count at all, unless that person wants it to count. ...but then we wouldn't be able to do things with each other...idk

wow, this is going to be one kick ass game.