Who would join a RPG that goes back to 1776 where the United States has just declared it's independence. No electronics, young marriage, muskets instead of MP44's and M16's, and the time of every boy wanting to become a soldier. Who would join this kind of RPG?

That does seem interesting.

I would join if everything was carefully plotted out. When you're doing something like this, every nook and cranny needs to be covered. No electronics and no heavy weaponry, it will be incentive for players to get creative and work on their writing, story, and character development.

This does look like a good premise. But, everything has to be carefully plotted out. My history professor told me that he prefers living in the present. When he gave his explanation, I had to fully agree with him. There are plenty of people that do fantasize about living in the past. But, they only see the sugar coated part of the past.

They didn't stop to think about plumbing, diseases, and so forth. Back then, there wasn't the concept of antibiotics. Today, people die of chronic illnesses. In the past such as 1776, people would die of acute and infectious illnesses.

Overall, it does open a world of possibilities. But yeah, I would probably join a board like that.

Summary of Xing's post: You will need to do the research. A lot of it.

I love American history! I would be interested in joining such an RP. That time period is fascinating.

I'd love to join. It sounds like it would be fun and extremely interesting. But it needs to be well researched and thought out, but that would be my only caution.

do I get to be a "witch"?

PS. I have no clue about American History.

^ Vanity: Unless this is in Salem, I really doubt it. </two cents>

*raises hand* count me in! I'm a BIG BIG BIG fan of American History! I also read the Dreamer Comic (click here), and that has made me even a bigger fan (if that's possible). So yes, please let me know when you make it, because I will happily join! ;D

It's really a great idea. Remember, the more research you put into it, the more plot and RP devices you'll have available.

I love the RevWar period, so yes, I would join. Hell I'd be willing to help out with research and all. If you're serious about it, let me know.

I am extremely serious about this, I love American History and actually plan on becoming a Social Studies teacher. I am glad to see you all like the idea. It will happen and I will plan everything out. Keijukainen, if you know a good amount about RPG's I am looking for someone to take the Manager spot. Drop me a PM about how I could contact you. I do have MSN.

Lucicren@hotmail.com

Edit: Also, in the announcements box, along with date, time, etc, we will have RPG world news as in Disease sweeping through the town and Red coats coming to attack. I will allow no such thing as heavy weaponry and things like that, it will be strictly kept to this time period.

Another Edit: Requiem, I see you viewing my topic a lot, are you Requiem from Skin Panel? Get on MSN :angry:

I'd go earlier; go before the war or during the war. That way you could set it in a town or something and have a division between the Tories and the Patriots and all that jazz.

I will be going to sleep soon, please keep the replies going, I am listening to all suggestions and taking them all to mind. I will write the actual plot and setting tomorrow and I will let you guys know when it's written.

I've added you on MSN. I'll wait before doing anything research-like until I get a better idea as to the board plot and all, since it will help to know the setting and time first.

Here is the Setting. It is still a work in progress though.

I would be very interested in joining an RP like this. If you get it off the ground, send me a PM.

I would also add that make sure that you don't just have reliable staff to help. Make sure they're both reliable and do have a firm knowledge of the American Revolution. Since the American Revolution is a war, there is bound to be combat. If you need combat tips, I'll happily give you advice should you need it.

Messaged. By the way guys I am open to all suggestions, I want this board to turn out the way you guys want it :).

As long as you provide a good story, you should be fine. Good stories attract many people.

One major thing that would need to be covered would have to be a few history lessons, basicly stating what has happened in United States so far and whats is different now becasue of this new independence. Being English, I've only learned a little on USA's history, so I and I'm guessing a lot of other people wouldn't know to much about the subject. Part from that would be intrested I must say :D

That is true. You're going to have to provide a few history lessons. But, you can have these history lessons in the form of special events. That way, you allow players to take part in such historical events and so forth. At the same time, it should cut down on godding and metagaming.

I love this idea. Historical RPGS usually aren't my thing (I'm a techno-geek, XD) but this idea seems really interesting. When you get the site up, PM me too please? ^^

EDIT: Jacky Faber from Bloody Jack just came to mind. Would you be allowing characters like young pirates, or rebellious girls or orphans creating their own gangs? Just an idea... :p

For my part, if you could write such a character well, both in application and in threads, I would allow it.

History lessons... not sure where I stand on that. They would have to be carefully set up, so as to avoid seeming like course-work. Perhaps a dedicated Q&A section, perhaps with a place for short articles/documentation, would serve better. I'd be more comfortable giving out information as the players need it instead of providing broad-brush pieces. Unless that's what is called for.

We have a forum called "The Information Desk." It has your usual plot, setting, and rules inside, but we will also include a brief history of the Colonial time period and on. It probably will be rather lengthy but you do not need to read all of it to understand the time period that we are in.

Something I always do with my RPGs is name all my forums along the lines of the RPG. For example, I am making a 1950's Hollywood RPG. I named my forums along the lines of that, for example, like you did the "Information Desk", I did "Movie Guide". Instead of something like "Announcements", I did "Newsreel". Instead of calling one of the categories "OOC" for all the chat areas, I called it "Cartoon Reels". See? You should do this same with this - find some phrases or words that fit with the forum but bring your RPG more to life, you know? Like, instead of "The Information Desk" (because that seems really buisness-like to me), you could call it "The American Soldier's Handbook". And instead of calling your announcements section, well, Announcements, you could call it, "Secret Messages". I dunno, I'm just saying that would really add to your forum ;)

There is a danger with this approach. I styled my out of character forums around a newspaper. I called the advertising section 'classifieds'. I figured people would see it and think adverts right away, because you know you find adverts in the classifieds section. Also, if someone just does a control-f and types in 'adverts'- bing, it'll find the text in the forum description.

But no.

You would not believe how often people post in the chatbox asking where the ad forum is. Even worse, plenty of people have been all 'rar! You have no advertising forum! We spam your chatbox with adverts and delete your ad on our site'.

Never underestimate the human capacity for stupidity. It's truly breathtaking.

But yeah, despite that, I like doing it that way and no matter how many stupids show up, I'm not changing it.

Sometimes you have to make your advertising section look like a Las Vegas sign, though. I've had that happen to me, although I clearly labeled it Advertisements. You have to bold the words in it, make sure it's near the top, yada yada yat.

I didn't mean the advertisements section, however you could still do that. I saw one forum (I think it was "It was a trick of the light she says") who used lyrics for the forum titles, and in the forum descriptions, right above the description itself, they bolded the real title. Like, if it was named "I'll win your heart", underneath, it read News & Announcements, and then they put the actual description. I like that approach to it, so you don't confuse people.

So when do you think this board will be up? I'm really looking forward to what it's going to turn out as.

Eerm, I will add one other thing (sorry, kids) - the skin doesn't seem...colonial-ish to me. At first, when I looked Evan's sig, I thought it was a site for making skins. I didn't know it was this one that's being discussed here :/ I think you need to add more colonial elements to it, or even the banner. </two cents>
Sorry, I'm just so excited to join it :)

I know what you mean. I totally agree with the skin style. It just looks so... not old, but then again maybe we're just jumping the gun. Maybe .Evan hasn't done the skin for it yet.

On a completely different note, I'm so excited about this RP that a character has already come to me that I want to play... how rediculous is that? I don't even a good portion of the plot and whether there are going to be canons or not and I'm already designing a guy in my head.

Anyways; it seems like you've got a good amount of hype going on about this... let's hope it doesn't disappoint.

I'm afraid I know next to zilch about the American Revolution, but as someone interested in 18th/19th century history, I will certainly cheer you on. And will add you to StC's affiliates just as soon as I can. (And when I can figure out the proper coding, I'll give you our button too!)

All the best with it, .Evan! There aren't enough quality period RPGs out there.

The skin and pictures for the board are some of the things being worked on at the moment.

Another question worth putting forward is, are people who have expressed interest still interested? The board is slated to open on 1 August.

I would still definately give it a looking at.

I don't know what happened to the board's owner, but sadly for the moment it doesn't appear that ANR will be opening just yet.

sadness and I'm looking for a new historical board to join...